Contracts Manager Contracts in England

Contract Manager
UK > England

The median Contract Manager daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 442 530 644
Rank change year-on-year +88 +114 -69
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 113 115 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.31% 0.23% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% 0.25% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 79 102
10th Percentile £322 £355 £400
25th Percentile £422 £457 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +15.00% -1.48%
75th Percentile £745 £700 £611
90th Percentile - £754 £656
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 34,147 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,648 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.65 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.56% +88.21% +6.27%

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 8 May 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 8 May 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 +107 68 £675 +14.89% 17
North of England +26 13 £506 -3.57% 9
South West +19 12 £413 -28.26% 8
South East +5 9 £475 -4.04% 17
North West +18 7 £406 -22.62% 5
Yorkshire +30 6 £575 -6.12% 4
East of England +10 6 £350 - 10
Midlands +21 2 £513 +10.81% 9
West Midlands +17 2 £513 +1.23% 6
Contracts Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 40 (35.40%) Finance
2 35 (30.97%) Agile
3 33 (29.20%) Public Sector
4 31 (27.43%) Project Management
5 30 (26.55%) PRINCE2
6 22 (19.47%) Collaborative Working
7 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
7 21 (18.58%) Supplier Management
8 19 (16.81%) Banking
9 18 (15.93%) Contract Management
10 11 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.73%) Billing
11 10 (8.85%) SLA
11 10 (8.85%) Decision-Making
12 9 (7.96%) Static Application Security Testing
12 9 (7.96%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
12 9 (7.96%) Change Control
12 9 (7.96%) Vulnerability Management
12 9 (7.96%) Public Cloud
13 8 (7.08%) Degree
13 8 (7.08%) Programme Management
13 8 (7.08%) Change Management
14 6 (5.31%) Risk Management
14 6 (5.31%) Telecoms
14 6 (5.31%) NHS
14 6 (5.31%) Retail
14 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
14 6 (5.31%) Contract Negotiation
14 6 (5.31%) Project Delivery
15 5 (4.42%) Problem-Solving

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 (0.88%) CMS
1 1 (0.88%) EPiServer
Applications
1 2 (1.77%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.88%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (3.54%) Magento
2 1 (0.88%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.54%) AWS
1 4 (3.54%) Azure
2 2 (1.77%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.88%) Azure AKS
3 1 (0.88%) Azure App Service
3 1 (0.88%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.88%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.77%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.77%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.88%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.88%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.88%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.88%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.88%) JIRA
General
1 40 (35.40%) Finance
2 33 (29.20%) Public Sector
3 21 (18.58%) Social Skills
4 19 (16.81%) Banking
5 11 (9.73%) Billing
6 6 (5.31%) Retail
6 6 (5.31%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.42%) Manufacturing
7 5 (4.42%) Marketing
8 4 (3.54%) Electronics
8 4 (3.54%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (3.54%) Legal
9 2 (1.77%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.77%) Back Office
9 2 (1.77%) Front Office
10 1 (0.88%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.88%) Law
10 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.88%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.42%) .NET
2 4 (3.54%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (0.88%) CSS
3 1 (0.88%) HTML
3 1 (0.88%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (7.96%) Public Cloud
2 6 (5.31%) NHS
3 4 (3.54%) Management Information System
3 4 (3.54%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 3 (2.65%) PMI
5 2 (1.77%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 1 (0.88%) Algorithms
6 1 (0.88%) Data Centre
6 1 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.88%) Derivative
6 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.88%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Linux
1 1 (0.88%) Unix
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
1 1 (0.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (30.97%) Agile
2 31 (27.43%) Project Management
3 30 (26.55%) PRINCE2
4 22 (19.47%) Collaborative Working
5 21 (18.58%) Supplier Management
6 18 (15.93%) Contract Management
7 11 (9.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (8.85%) Decision-Making
9 9 (7.96%) Change Control
9 9 (7.96%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
9 9 (7.96%) Static Application Security Testing
9 9 (7.96%) Vulnerability Management
10 8 (7.08%) Change Management
10 8 (7.08%) Programme Management
11 6 (5.31%) Contract Negotiation
11 6 (5.31%) Project Delivery
11 6 (5.31%) Risk Management
12 5 (4.42%) Business Intelligence
12 5 (4.42%) DevOps
12 5 (4.42%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.65%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.08%) Degree
2 6 (5.31%) Security Cleared
3 5 (4.42%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.54%) PMI Certification
4 4 (3.54%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.77%) CCIE
6 2 (1.77%) CCIE Security
6 2 (1.77%) CCIE Service Provider
6 2 (1.77%) CCNA
6 2 (1.77%) CCNP
6 2 (1.77%) CCSP
6 2 (1.77%) CISA
6 2 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.77%) CISM
6 2 (1.77%) CISSP
6 2 (1.77%) CSSLP
6 2 (1.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.88%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.85%) SLA
2 3 (2.65%) PMO
3 2 (1.77%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.77%) QA
4 1 (0.88%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.88%) EMIR
4 1 (0.88%) MiFID
System Software
1 4 (3.54%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.88%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.77%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (3.54%) BT
1 4 (3.54%) Microsoft
1 4 (3.54%) SAP
2 2 (1.77%) Cisco
2 2 (1.77%) Salesforce
3 1 (0.88%) Blue Prism
3 1 (0.88%) Informatica
3 1 (0.88%) ION Trading
3 1 (0.88%) Optimizely
3 1 (0.88%) ServiceNow