Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Technical Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

As of 20 September 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Technical Manager daily rate in Edinburgh.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 99
Rank change year-on-year +9 +28 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 5 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 0.94% 0.60% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 0.63% 0.099%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Scotland median daily rate £481 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -3.75% +3.90% -2.78%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Edinburgh

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Edinburgh. 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 Edinburgh with a recognized job title 577 788 1,009
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.72% 94.60% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 413 630
10th Percentile £272 £200 £230
25th Percentile £413 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £540 £538 £538
90th Percentile £600 £619 £600
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +2.78% -5.26% +0.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 37 13
10th Percentile - £13.58 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.37 £17.70
Median hourly rate £42.51 £18.27 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +132.66% +3.10% -5.87%
75th Percentile £64.06 £23.89 £43.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £36.51 £53.74
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.27 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.47% +3.10% -5.87%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in Edinburgh

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in Edinburgh

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 20 September 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 Edinburgh region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) GitHub
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Subversion
1 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Retail Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Measurement
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Atlassian