Contracts Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Contract Manager
England > London

The median Contract Manager daily rate in London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 355 346 348
Rank change year-on-year -9 +2 +156
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 26 31 61
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.18% 0.20% 0.31%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.21% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 18 48
10th Percentile £400 £368 £400
25th Percentile £411 £544 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £625 £613
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +2.00% +10.16%
75th Percentile £625 £675 £675
90th Percentile £674 £754 £750
England median daily rate £525 £540 £594
% change year-on-year -2.78% -9.05% +3.26%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 13,179 14,595 18,242
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.19% 93.55% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,760 9,478 13,182
10th Percentile £338 £338 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £688
90th Percentile £763 £799 £788
England median daily rate £507 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -3.38% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 230 152 214
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.25 £18.05
25th Percentile £21.12 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £27.61 £36.65 £36.14
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% +1.41% +3.26%
75th Percentile £53.59 £54.06 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.16 £80.75 £73.31
England median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.48% -17.22% +36.36%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Contracts Manager job vacancy trend in London

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in London

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contracts Manager in London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in London

Contracts Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Contracts Manager job vacancies in London

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
West London - 4 - -
Central London +4 3 £548 -
East London - 1 £613 -
Contracts Manager
England

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Contracts 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 London region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (19.23%) Change Control
2 5 (19.23%) SaaS
2 5 (19.23%) Salesforce
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) AWS
3 4 (15.38%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 4 (15.38%) Contract Management
3 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
3 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 4 (15.38%) Order Management
3 4 (15.38%) Quote-to-Cash
3 4 (15.38%) SAP
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
4 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
5 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.69%) DataOps
5 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 2 (7.69%) Power BI
5 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 2 (7.69%) REST
6 1 (3.85%) AI
6 1 (3.85%) Asset Management
6 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
6 1 (3.85%) Budget Control

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 (3.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (19.23%) SaaS
2 4 (15.38%) AWS
2 4 (15.38%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (7.69%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) Power BI
2 1 (3.85%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Gradle
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
1 1 (3.85%) JUnit
1 1 (3.85%) Mockito
General
1 10 (38.46%) Finance
2 7 (26.92%) Legal
3 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
4 5 (19.23%) Billing
5 3 (11.54%) Banking
5 3 (11.54%) Retail
6 2 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (7.69%) Marketing
6 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.85%) Japanese Language
7 1 (3.85%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (3.85%) GraphQL
2 1 (3.85%) Kafka
2 1 (3.85%) Micronaut
2 1 (3.85%) OpenTelemetry
2 1 (3.85%) Spring
2 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
1 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (3.85%) Smart Meter
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (19.23%) Change Control
3 4 (15.38%) Agile
3 4 (15.38%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
3 4 (15.38%) Contract Management
3 4 (15.38%) Order Management
3 4 (15.38%) Quote-to-Cash
4 3 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (11.54%) Migration
4 3 (11.54%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Roadmaps
5 2 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (7.69%) Data Migration
5 2 (7.69%) DataOps
5 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
6 1 (3.85%) Contract Negotiation
6 1 (3.85%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (3.85%) Design Thinking
6 1 (3.85%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (3.85%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (11.54%) SC Cleared
1 3 (11.54%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.85%) Degree
2 1 (3.85%) FFIEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.85%) NIST
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (19.23%) Salesforce
2 4 (15.38%) SAP
3 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.85%) Dynatrace
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.85%) Refinitiv
3 1 (3.85%) ServiceNow