Implementation Manager Contracts in London

Implementation Manager
England > London

The median Implementation Manager daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 323 367 440
Rank change year-on-year +44 +73 +82
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Manager 30 24 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.24% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 30
10th Percentile £453 £488 £448
25th Percentile £500 £550 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £625
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% - +4.17%
75th Percentile £634 £688 £700
90th Percentile £720 £703 £732
England median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £52.00 £68.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -23.53% - -
England median hourly rate £75.00 £68.00 £75.00
% change year-on-year +10.29% -9.33% -

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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Implementation Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Manager in London

Implementation Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Implementation Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Implementation Manager in London

Implementation Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Implementation Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Manager in London

Implementation Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Implementation Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Manager in London

Implementation 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 Implementation Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +6 4 £638 +10.87%
West London +11 1 - -
North London - 1 £405 -
South London - 1 £730 -
Implementation Manager
England

Implementation Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Implementation 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 London region featuring Implementation Manager in the job title.

1 17 (56.67%) Project Management
2 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
3 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (33.33%) Finance
4 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Agile
6 7 (23.33%) Change Management
6 7 (23.33%) ITIL
6 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
7 6 (20.00%) PMP
7 6 (20.00%) PMI Certification
7 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
8 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
8 5 (16.67%) Scrum
8 5 (16.67%) Service Management
8 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 4 (13.33%) User Experience
9 4 (13.33%) AI Agents
9 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
9 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 4 (13.33%) Oracle
9 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
9 4 (13.33%) ITSM
9 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (13.33%) Marketing
10 3 (10.00%) JIRA
10 3 (10.00%) Azure
10 3 (10.00%) SDLC
10 3 (10.00%) Legal

Implementation Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (6.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.33%) SAP ERP
2 1 (3.33%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
2 2 (6.67%) AWS
2 2 (6.67%) GCP
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (3.33%) OneDrive
3 1 (3.33%) Power Automate
3 1 (3.33%) SaaS
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.33%) LAN
1 1 (3.33%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) JIRA
2 2 (6.67%) Git
2 2 (6.67%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (33.33%) Finance
3 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Marketing
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (6.67%) Banking
6 2 (6.67%) Retail
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Billing
7 1 (3.33%) Electronics
7 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (3.33%) Local Government
7 1 (3.33%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) AI Agents
2 2 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (3.33%) CCTV
3 1 (3.33%) Data Fabric
3 1 (3.33%) Learning Management System
3 1 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (3.33%) Reinsurance
3 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.67%) Linux
1 2 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Project Management
2 13 (43.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (30.00%) Agile
5 7 (23.33%) Change Management
5 7 (23.33%) ITIL
5 7 (23.33%) PRINCE2
6 6 (20.00%) Artificial Intelligence
7 5 (16.67%) Scrum
7 5 (16.67%) Service Management
8 4 (13.33%) ITSM
8 4 (13.33%) Programme Management
8 4 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
8 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 4 (13.33%) User Experience
9 3 (10.00%) Business Case
9 3 (10.00%) CRM
9 3 (10.00%) Migration
9 3 (10.00%) SDLC
10 2 (6.67%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.67%) PL/SQL
1 2 (6.67%) Shell Script
1 2 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 6 (20.00%) PMP
2 2 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CISSP
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) GDPR
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
2 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 4 (13.33%) Oracle
3 3 (10.00%) SAP
4 2 (6.67%) Avaloq
4 2 (6.67%) Databricks
4 2 (6.67%) HubSpot
5 1 (3.33%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.33%) Planview
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (3.33%) Tagetik