Technical Manager Contracts in the East of England

Technical Manager
England > East of England

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the East of England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 98 108
Rank change year-on-year +28 +10 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 12 14 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.28% 0.73% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.45% 0.82% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 11 7
10th Percentile £400 £250 £635
25th Percentile £419 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -19.23% +30.00%
75th Percentile £709 £544 £744
90th Percentile £816 £550 £824
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - -0.05% -6.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £34.21 £70.00
% change year-on-year +97.31% -51.13% +35.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 829 1,710 1,891
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.38% 89.58% 91.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 773 1,156
10th Percentile £200 £206 £185
25th Percentile £379 £313 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 591 294
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.61 £16.30 £15.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £43.00 £35.40
Median % change year-on-year +16.28% +21.47% +128.39%
75th Percentile £72.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.00 £75.25 £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Technical Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the East of England

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the East of England

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the East of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the East of England

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the East of England

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the East of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +15 6 £400 +14.29% 3
Hertfordshire +31 5 £650 +18.18% 6
Cambridgeshire +10 1 £450 +111.76% 6
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 4 (33.33%) Java
3 4 (33.33%) Python
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) System Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (16.67%) Yocto
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) STB
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) SaaS
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (16.67%) FMCG
5 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (16.67%) Linux

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) GCP
2 1 (8.33%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (8.33%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Digital TV
1 2 (16.67%) Embedded Systems
1 2 (16.67%) FMCG
1 2 (16.67%) STB
2 1 (8.33%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Agile
1 6 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (41.67%) Project Management
3 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 4 (33.33%) System Testing
3 4 (33.33%) Task Automation
4 3 (25.00%) Data Governance
5 2 (16.67%) Agile Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) ETL
5 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
5 2 (16.67%) Open Source
5 2 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 2 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Java
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C
2 1 (8.33%) C++
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) PMI Certification
2 1 (8.33%) PMP
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Anaplan
1 1 (8.33%) Databricks
1 1 (8.33%) Spotify
1 1 (8.33%) Tagetik