Technical Manager Contracts in England

Technical Manager
UK > England

The median Technical Manager daily rate in England is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 August 2025.

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

6 months to
22 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 328 360 324
Rank change year-on-year +32 -36 +29
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 191 176 304
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.53% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.57% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 128 216
10th Percentile £387 £375 £400
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £618 £650
90th Percentile £786 £775 £725
UK median daily rate £523 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -0.48% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 1
10th Percentile £48.25 £51.38 -
25th Percentile £48.75 £51.56 -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £71.90
Median % change year-on-year +20.93% -25.24% +22.38%
75th Percentile £68.75 £56.56 -
90th Percentile £74.50 £57.13 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £53.75 £68.45
% change year-on-year +20.93% -21.48% +16.51%

All DemandTrendContract 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 25,261 30,872 41,287
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 92.96% 94.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,305 20,072 29,090
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.69% -1.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,365 1,728 1,321
10th Percentile £13.67 £14.16 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.48 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% +5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.25 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.35
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.55% +64.89%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in England

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 22 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
DemandTrendContract 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 22 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +15 82 £550 -4.35% 140
North of England -10 30 £450 -16.28% 55
Midlands +6 22 £481 -10.51% 22
North West 0 18 £450 -8.63% 28
East of England +15 16 £588 +30.56% 24
South East 0 16 £500 - 104
West Midlands -1 16 £450 -21.74% 10
South West +25 14 £506 +12.50% 30
Yorkshire -6 12 £477 -17.80% 25
East Midlands +5 6 £609 +94.88% 12
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 August 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 England region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 73 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 71 (37.17%) Finance
3 70 (36.65%) Agile
4 67 (35.08%) Project Management
5 62 (32.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
7 33 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 32 (16.75%) Scrum
8 32 (16.75%) Project Delivery
9 31 (16.23%) Migration
10 29 (15.18%) Microsoft
11 27 (14.14%) JIRA
12 26 (13.61%) Banking
13 24 (12.57%) AWS
13 24 (12.57%) DevOps
14 20 (10.47%) Azure
15 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
15 18 (9.42%) Degree
15 18 (9.42%) Programme Management
16 17 (8.90%) Roadmaps
17 16 (8.38%) Change Management
18 15 (7.85%) Risk Management
18 15 (7.85%) PMP
18 15 (7.85%) PMI Certification
18 15 (7.85%) Confluence
18 15 (7.85%) Time Management
18 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
19 14 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
19 14 (7.33%) SDLC
20 13 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement

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 15 (7.85%) Confluence
2 3 (1.57%) CMS
3 2 (1.05%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) Apache
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 10 (5.24%) Microsoft Project
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.05%) Trello
5 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 8 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.05%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 2 (1.05%) Shopify
3 1 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 24 (12.57%) AWS
2 20 (10.47%) Azure
3 10 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
4 9 (4.71%) SaaS
5 6 (3.14%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.62%) GCP
7 4 (2.09%) AWS CloudFormation
7 4 (2.09%) IaaS
7 4 (2.09%) PaaS
7 4 (2.09%) Serverless
8 2 (1.05%) GitHub
8 2 (1.05%) Google Sheets
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
8 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.05%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.52%) Datadog
9 1 (0.52%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.52%) OCI
9 1 (0.52%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.24%) Firewall
2 4 (2.09%) VPN
3 3 (1.57%) Wireless
4 2 (1.05%) 5G
4 2 (1.05%) Network Security
5 1 (0.52%) 2G
5 1 (0.52%) ATM
5 1 (0.52%) GSM
5 1 (0.52%) Internet
5 1 (0.52%) Intranet
5 1 (0.52%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (0.52%) Packet Switching
5 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.14%) Data Lake
1 6 (3.14%) Power BI
2 2 (1.05%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.52%) Metadata
3 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.52%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 27 (14.14%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Git
2 2 (1.05%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.52%) Hudson
3 1 (0.52%) MLflow
3 1 (0.52%) Subversion
General
1 73 (38.22%) Social Skills
2 71 (37.17%) Finance
3 26 (13.61%) Banking
4 18 (9.42%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.71%) Marketing
5 9 (4.71%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (3.66%) Legal
6 7 (3.66%) Public Sector
7 6 (3.14%) Retail
8 5 (2.62%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (2.09%) Front Office
9 4 (2.09%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.57%) Back Office
10 3 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.05%) Financial Institution
11 2 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.05%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.05%) Law
11 2 (1.05%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.05%) ADO
1 2 (1.05%) Yocto
2 1 (0.52%) .NET
2 1 (0.52%) ARM Templates
2 1 (0.52%) Middleware
2 1 (0.52%) SAP Fiori
2 1 (0.52%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.33%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (4.19%) Virtual Team
3 7 (3.66%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.62%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.09%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (1.57%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.57%) Product Ownership
6 3 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (1.05%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.05%) Digital TV
7 2 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.05%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.05%) Life Science
7 2 (1.05%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.05%) PMI
7 2 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
7 2 (1.05%) STB
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.57%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Unix
3 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (36.65%) Agile
2 67 (35.08%) Project Management
3 62 (32.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (19.90%) Problem-Solving
5 33 (17.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 32 (16.75%) Project Delivery
6 32 (16.75%) Scrum
7 31 (16.23%) Migration
8 24 (12.57%) DevOps
9 18 (9.42%) Programme Management
10 17 (8.90%) Roadmaps
11 16 (8.38%) Change Management
12 15 (7.85%) Risk Management
12 15 (7.85%) Time Management
13 14 (7.33%) SDLC
14 13 (6.81%) Analytics
14 13 (6.81%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (6.81%) Decision-Making
14 13 (6.81%) Requirements Gathering
15 12 (6.28%) Project Governance
Programming Languages
1 8 (4.19%) Java
2 5 (2.62%) Bicep
2 5 (2.62%) Python
3 4 (2.09%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) C
4 1 (0.52%) C++
4 1 (0.52%) Data Analysis Expressions
4 1 (0.52%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 18 (9.42%) Degree
2 15 (7.85%) PMI Certification
2 15 (7.85%) PMP
2 15 (7.85%) Security Cleared
3 12 (6.28%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.24%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (3.14%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.05%) APMP
6 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.05%) CISSP
6 2 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.52%) A+ Certification
7 1 (0.52%) CISM
7 1 (0.52%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.52%) GCIH
7 1 (0.52%) GIAC
7 1 (0.52%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.52%) MCSE
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.52%) NCSIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.66%) QA
2 3 (1.57%) PMO
3 2 (1.05%) GDPR
3 2 (1.05%) GRC
3 2 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.05%) PMBOK
4 1 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.52%) Dodd-Frank
4 1 (0.52%) EMIR
4 1 (0.52%) MiFID
4 1 (0.52%) NIST
4 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (2.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (3.14%) Terraform
2 4 (2.09%) Kubernetes
2 4 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.05%) Ansible
3 2 (1.05%) FortiGate
4 1 (0.52%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (0.52%) QRadar
Vendors
1 29 (15.18%) Microsoft
2 10 (5.24%) SAP
3 8 (4.19%) Cisco
4 6 (3.14%) Google
4 6 (3.14%) Salesforce
5 4 (2.09%) Oracle
6 3 (1.57%) CheckPoint
6 3 (1.57%) Databricks
7 2 (1.05%) AlgoSec
7 2 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 2 (1.05%) Infor
7 2 (1.05%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.52%) Adobe
8 1 (0.52%) Avaloq
8 1 (0.52%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.52%) Citrix
8 1 (0.52%) NetApp
8 1 (0.52%) Planview
8 1 (0.52%) Proofpoint
8 1 (0.52%) Sitecore