Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Technical Manager
Scotland > Edinburgh

The median Technical Manager daily rate in Edinburgh is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 67 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +16 +39
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.98% 0.44% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.08% 0.46% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £448
25th Percentile £469 - £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 - £575
Median % change year-on-year - - -17.86%
75th Percentile £506 - £606
90th Percentile - - £625
Scotland median daily rate £513 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +2.50% -2.44% +14.53%

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 556 652 888
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.70% 94.77% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 326 532
10th Percentile £228 £192 £212
25th Percentile £412 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +8.06% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £650 £613
Scotland median daily rate £454 £450 £480
% change year-on-year +0.89% -6.25% +1.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 31 18
10th Percentile £23.60 £16.37 £13.24
25th Percentile £30.50 £18.19 £17.72
Median hourly rate £60.00 £23.00 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +160.87% -20.51% +49.34%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile - - £62.50
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £19.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year +28.38% +0.46% +10.05%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Technical Manager job vacancy trend 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 & Capabilities in Edinburgh

For the 6 months to 27 November 2025, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Edinburgh region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 2 (33.33%) C++
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%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Microservices
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Subversion
3 2 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) AWS
4 1 (16.67%) Business Intelligence

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

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 2 (33.33%) Banking
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
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 2 (33.33%) Linux
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
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%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) SOA
3 2 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 1 (16.67%) Data Science
4 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C++
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
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