Technical Manager Contracts in England

Technical Manager
UK > England

The median Technical Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 341 352 320
Rank change year-on-year +11 -32 +36
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 213 338 583
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.67% 0.82%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.71% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 229 398
10th Percentile £356 £403 £421
25th Percentile £453 £463 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -8.70% +16.16%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £642
90th Percentile £800 £723 £716
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £28.25 - £33.00
25th Percentile £29.25 - £41.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £70.00 £42.00
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% +66.67% +52.73%
75th Percentile - - £62.50
90th Percentile £43.53 - £64.50
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £42.00
% change year-on-year -49.32% +60.71% +52.73%

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 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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 +23 119 £575 +4.55% 95
North of England +23 32 £500 - 44
South East +23 26 £525 +16.67% 71
North West +24 20 £500 - 30
East of England +11 14 £525 -19.23% 41
Yorkshire +13 12 £588 +30.56% 12
West Midlands +29 11 £475 -17.39% 33
Midlands +18 11 £475 -9.52% 47
South West +14 6 £500 -2.49% 33
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, 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 England region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 90 (42.25%) Project Management
2 67 (31.46%) Agile
3 58 (27.23%) Finance
4 45 (21.13%) Social Skills
5 42 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
6 35 (16.43%) Project Delivery
7 25 (11.74%) Change Management
8 22 (10.33%) Roadmaps
8 22 (10.33%) Programme Management
8 22 (10.33%) Migration
8 22 (10.33%) Banking
9 21 (9.86%) Azure
10 20 (9.39%) Scrum
10 20 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (8.45%) Risk Management
12 17 (7.98%) Security Cleared
13 16 (7.51%) PMP
13 16 (7.51%) PMI Certification
14 15 (7.04%) SAP
14 15 (7.04%) Public Sector
14 15 (7.04%) Waterfall
15 14 (6.57%) Budget Management
15 14 (6.57%) PRINCE2
15 14 (6.57%) ERP
15 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
15 14 (6.57%) Degree
16 13 (6.10%) Product Management
16 13 (6.10%) SQL
16 13 (6.10%) Decision-Making
16 13 (6.10%) SaaS

Technical 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 5 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.41%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (0.94%) Confluence
4 1 (0.47%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.47%) CICS
4 1 (0.47%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.47%) CMS
4 1 (0.47%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.47%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
1 8 (3.76%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.47%) Maya
4 1 (0.47%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.35%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.94%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.47%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.47%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.47%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.47%) SAP Hybris
3 1 (0.47%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 21 (9.86%) Azure
2 13 (6.10%) SaaS
3 10 (4.69%) AWS
4 9 (4.23%) GCP
5 4 (1.88%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (1.41%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.94%) Asana
7 2 (0.94%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.94%) iPaaS
7 2 (0.94%) Miro
7 2 (0.94%) PaaS
7 2 (0.94%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.47%) GitHub
8 1 (0.47%) IaaS
8 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.47%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.47%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.76%) WAN
2 7 (3.29%) Firewall
2 7 (3.29%) LAN
3 6 (2.82%) VPN
3 6 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (2.35%) Wireless
5 3 (1.41%) Network Security
6 2 (0.94%) Broadband
6 2 (0.94%) DHCP
6 2 (0.94%) SAN
6 2 (0.94%) SD-WAN
6 2 (0.94%) Skype
6 2 (0.94%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.94%) VoIP
7 1 (0.47%) DNS
7 1 (0.47%) MPLS
7 1 (0.47%) NAS
7 1 (0.47%) RTP
7 1 (0.47%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (0.47%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.88%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.41%) SAP HANA
2 3 (1.41%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.94%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (0.94%) Metadata
4 1 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.47%) DB2
4 1 (0.47%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.47%) IDMS
4 1 (0.47%) Power BI
4 1 (0.47%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 9 (4.23%) JIRA
General
1 58 (27.23%) Finance
2 45 (21.13%) Social Skills
3 22 (10.33%) Banking
4 15 (7.04%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.10%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (3.29%) Back Office
6 7 (3.29%) Retail
6 7 (3.29%) Telecoms
7 6 (2.82%) Front Office
7 6 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.35%) Legal
9 4 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.41%) Automotive
10 3 (1.41%) Games
10 3 (1.41%) Law
10 3 (1.41%) Police
11 2 (0.94%) French Language
11 2 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.94%) ADO
1 2 (0.94%) OpenID
1 2 (0.94%) SAML
2 1 (0.47%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.47%) SAP PI
2 1 (0.47%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.16%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.76%) NHS
2 8 (3.76%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.82%) Digital Media
3 6 (2.82%) Management Information System
4 5 (2.35%) Onboarding
4 5 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (1.88%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.41%) FMCG
6 3 (1.41%) Hedge funds
6 3 (1.41%) PMI
6 3 (1.41%) Taxonomies
6 3 (1.41%) Virtual Team
7 2 (0.94%) CMDB
7 2 (0.94%) Derivative
7 2 (0.94%) Digital TV
7 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.94%) Social Media
7 2 (0.94%) STB
7 2 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.35%) Windows
2 4 (1.88%) Linux
3 2 (0.94%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.47%) AIX
4 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (42.25%) Project Management
2 67 (31.46%) Agile
3 42 (19.72%) Stakeholder Management
4 35 (16.43%) Project Delivery
5 25 (11.74%) Change Management
6 22 (10.33%) Migration
6 22 (10.33%) Programme Management
6 22 (10.33%) Roadmaps
7 20 (9.39%) Problem-Solving
7 20 (9.39%) Scrum
8 18 (8.45%) Risk Management
9 15 (7.04%) Waterfall
10 14 (6.57%) Budget Management
10 14 (6.57%) ERP
10 14 (6.57%) PRINCE2
11 13 (6.10%) Decision-Making
11 13 (6.10%) Product Management
12 12 (5.63%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.16%) Project Planning
14 9 (4.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.10%) SQL
2 8 (3.76%) Python
3 3 (1.41%) C#
4 2 (0.94%) Java
5 1 (0.47%) Assembly Language
5 1 (0.47%) C
5 1 (0.47%) COBOL
5 1 (0.47%) JCL
Qualifications
1 17 (7.98%) Security Cleared
2 16 (7.51%) PMI Certification
2 16 (7.51%) PMP
3 14 (6.57%) Degree
4 9 (4.23%) SC Cleared
5 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
6 4 (1.88%) PgMP
7 3 (1.41%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.41%) HNC
7 3 (1.41%) NVQ Level 4
8 2 (0.94%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.94%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.47%) APMG
9 1 (0.47%) APMP
9 1 (0.47%) CCNA
9 1 (0.47%) CCNP
9 1 (0.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (0.47%) FFIEC
9 1 (0.47%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.47%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.63%) QA
2 6 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 6 (2.82%) ISO17020
3 5 (2.35%) SLA
4 3 (1.41%) GDPR
4 3 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.41%) PMO
5 2 (0.94%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.47%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.47%) FedRAMP
6 1 (0.47%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.47%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.47%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.47%) NIST
6 1 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) RMADS
6 1 (0.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
1 3 (1.41%) TrustSec
2 1 (0.47%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.47%) Nessus
2 1 (0.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (7.04%) SAP
2 14 (6.57%) Microsoft
3 9 (4.23%) Cisco
4 8 (3.76%) Splunk
5 7 (3.29%) Google
6 4 (1.88%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.41%) Juniper
7 3 (1.41%) Salesforce
8 2 (0.94%) AlgoSec
8 2 (0.94%) CheckPoint
8 2 (0.94%) Guidewire
8 2 (0.94%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.94%) Oracle
8 2 (0.94%) Temenos
8 2 (0.94%) VMware
9 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.47%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.47%) Genesys
9 1 (0.47%) IBM
9 1 (0.47%) Red Hat