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 £700, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 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
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 89 100
Rank change year-on-year +9 +11 +15
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 15 7 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 1.18% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.38% 0.52% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
10th Percentile £415 £291 £522
25th Percentile £444 £419 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £450 £638
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% -29.41% +39.34%
75th Percentile £856 £538 £656
90th Percentile £900 £560 £679
England median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £55.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £71.90
% change year-on-year +20.93% -25.24% +16.64%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,088 1,355 1,703
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 85.67% 87.42% 90.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 567 1,025
10th Percentile £186 £200 £200
25th Percentile £350 £300 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £442 £478
Median % change year-on-year +13.12% -7.43% +0.53%
75th Percentile £580 £566 £600
90th Percentile £686 £625 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 255 405 249
10th Percentile £14.84 £14.44 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £41.50 £45.00 £30.48
Median % change year-on-year -7.78% +47.66% +53.84%
75th Percentile £65.88 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.04 £70.00 £80.87
England median hourly rate £25.15 £44.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -42.84% +0.32% +68.69%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies 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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the East of England

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Technical Manager
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +6 6 £400 -11.11% 2
Hertfordshire +7 5 £700 +45.45% 6
Cambridgeshire +7 4 £850 +300.00% 13
Technical Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 28 August 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 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Python
1 5 (33.33%) System Testing
1 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Governance
3 3 (20.00%) Tech Ops
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Culture Change
4 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
4 2 (13.33%) GitOps
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Artificial Intelligence
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (13.33%) Data Centre

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 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) GCP
1 1 (6.67%) OCI
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle Database
General
1 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (6.67%) Finance
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Culture of Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Digital TV
2 1 (6.67%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) PMI
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
1 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 5 (33.33%) System Testing
1 5 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 3 (20.00%) DevOps
3 3 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Governance
3 3 (20.00%) Programme Management
3 3 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (20.00%) Tech Ops
4 2 (13.33%) GitOps
4 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Automation
4 2 (13.33%) Observability
4 2 (13.33%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) Java
1 5 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Databricks
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle
1 1 (6.67%) Spotify