Contracts Manager Contracts in England

Contract Manager
UK > England

The median Contract Manager daily rate in England is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 June 2024.

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

6 months to
21 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 455 515 640
Rank change year-on-year +60 +125 -44
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 95 121 147
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.25% 0.26% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.27% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 88 109
10th Percentile £315 £350 £377
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £745 £650 £613
90th Percentile - £758 £688
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,808 44,443 66,953
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.80% 94.49% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,757 31,614 47,944
10th Percentile £288 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,654 1,321 1,753
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.36 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.90
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £77.50 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contracts Manager in England over the 6 months to 21 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contracts Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 21 June 2024. 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
London +87 63 £675 +20.00% 18
South West -2 11 £375 -36.17% 3
North of England +6 7 £494 -14.13% 9
East of England +8 6 £388 - 6
South East +5 6 £450 -1.64% 13
Yorkshire +15 3 £538 -12.24% 2
North West +2 3 £406 -29.35% 6
North East - 1 - - 2
Contracts Manager
UK

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 21 June 2024, Contracts 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 England region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 32 (33.68%) Public Sector
2 30 (31.58%) PRINCE2
3 23 (24.21%) Project Management
3 23 (24.21%) Agile
3 23 (24.21%) Collaborative Working
4 22 (23.16%) Supplier Management
5 21 (22.11%) Finance
6 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
7 11 (11.58%) Contract Management
8 9 (9.47%) NHS
8 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (9.47%) Degree
9 8 (8.42%) Programme Management
9 8 (8.42%) Change Management
10 7 (7.37%) Banking
10 7 (7.37%) Contract Negotiation
11 6 (6.32%) Static Application Security Testing
11 6 (6.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
11 6 (6.32%) Retail
11 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
11 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
11 6 (6.32%) Vulnerability Management
11 6 (6.32%) Risk Management
12 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
12 5 (5.26%) Project Delivery
12 5 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (5.26%) Due Diligence
13 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
13 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (4.21%) Business Analysis

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.05%) CMS
1 1 (1.05%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.05%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.21%) AWS
2 3 (3.16%) Azure
3 2 (2.11%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.05%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.05%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.05%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.05%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.05%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.05%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.05%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.05%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.05%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.05%) JIRA
General
1 32 (33.68%) Public Sector
2 21 (22.11%) Finance
3 18 (18.95%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.37%) Banking
5 6 (6.32%) Retail
6 4 (4.21%) Legal
6 4 (4.21%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.21%) Marketing
6 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
7 3 (3.16%) Billing
7 3 (3.16%) Electronics
7 3 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.11%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.11%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Law
9 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.05%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.21%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (3.16%) .NET
3 1 (1.05%) CSS
3 1 (1.05%) HTML
3 1 (1.05%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.47%) NHS
2 4 (4.21%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.16%) PMI
4 2 (2.11%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.05%) Linux
1 1 (1.05%) Unix
1 1 (1.05%) Windows
1 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (31.58%) PRINCE2
2 23 (24.21%) Agile
2 23 (24.21%) Collaborative Working
2 23 (24.21%) Project Management
3 22 (23.16%) Supplier Management
4 11 (11.58%) Contract Management
5 9 (9.47%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.42%) Change Management
6 8 (8.42%) Programme Management
7 7 (7.37%) Contract Negotiation
8 6 (6.32%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 6 (6.32%) Risk Management
8 6 (6.32%) Static Application Security Testing
8 6 (6.32%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (5.26%) Due Diligence
9 5 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.26%) Project Delivery
10 4 (4.21%) Business Analysis
10 4 (4.21%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (4.21%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.21%) SQL
2 1 (1.05%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.05%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.47%) Degree
2 6 (6.32%) SC Cleared
2 6 (6.32%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.16%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.05%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.05%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.16%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.16%) PMO
1 3 (3.16%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.21%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.05%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.21%) BT
2 4 (4.21%) SAP
3 3 (3.16%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.11%) Cadence
5 1 (1.05%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.05%) Informatica
5 1 (1.05%) NEC
5 1 (1.05%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.05%) Salesforce