IT Manager Contracts in London

IT Manager
England > London

The median IT 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 223 210 229
Rank change year-on-year -13 +19 -9
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 130 189 307
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.04% 1.06% 1.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.11% 1.14% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 136 238
10th Percentile £413 £363 £410
25th Percentile £488 £455 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £556
Median % change year-on-year -4.30% +3.37% +1.14%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £694 £725 £707
England median daily rate £539 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.62% - +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 4
10th Percentile £28.28 £30.81 £57.75
25th Percentile - £31.84 £60.00
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.55 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.32% -46.32% +81.42%
75th Percentile £35.89 £34.21 £68.44
90th Percentile £52.16 £34.61 £76.88
England median hourly rate £62.00 £30.12 £62.50
% change year-on-year +105.84% -51.81% +79.47%

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%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in London

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in London

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in London

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in London

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in London

IT 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 IT 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 +2 28 £600 -2.04% 31
South London +8 4 £509 +7.11% 2
West London +9 3 - - 8
East London +12 1 £500 -1.48% 4
IT Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 IT Manager in the job title.

1 59 (45.38%) Finance
2 48 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 43 (33.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (29.23%) Risk Management
4 38 (29.23%) Project Management
5 24 (18.46%) Agile
6 21 (16.15%) Windows
6 21 (16.15%) Azure
7 20 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 17 (13.08%) Banking
9 16 (12.31%) Budget Management
10 15 (11.54%) Migration
11 14 (10.77%) ITIL
11 14 (10.77%) CISA
11 14 (10.77%) Degree
11 14 (10.77%) Project Delivery
12 13 (10.00%) Change Management
13 12 (9.23%) Legal
13 12 (9.23%) PRINCE2
13 12 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
13 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (7.69%) CRISC
14 10 (7.69%) SaaS
14 10 (7.69%) SAP
15 9 (6.92%) CISSP
15 9 (6.92%) SharePoint
15 9 (6.92%) CISM
15 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (6.92%) JIRA

IT 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 9 (6.92%) SharePoint
2 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (2.31%) CMS
4 2 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (5.38%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (4.62%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.54%) Adobe Illustrator
3 2 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.54%) Photoshop
3 2 (1.54%) Trello
4 1 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.77%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.31%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.54%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.77%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.77%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.77%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 21 (16.15%) Azure
2 10 (7.69%) SaaS
3 8 (6.15%) AWS
3 8 (6.15%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.85%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.85%) Slack
5 3 (2.31%) Asana
5 3 (2.31%) Azure Synapse Analytics
5 3 (2.31%) Google Workspace
5 3 (2.31%) OneDrive
5 3 (2.31%) Power Platform
5 3 (2.31%) Smartsheet
5 3 (2.31%) Veeva
6 2 (1.54%) Yammer
7 1 (0.77%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.77%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.62%) Firewall
2 3 (2.31%) DNS
3 2 (1.54%) LAN
3 2 (1.54%) WAN
4 1 (0.77%) Intranet
4 1 (0.77%) Remote Desktop
4 1 (0.77%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.77%) VoIP
4 1 (0.77%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.31%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.31%) Power BI
2 2 (1.54%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (6.92%) JIRA
General
1 59 (45.38%) Finance
2 48 (36.92%) Social Skills
3 17 (13.08%) Banking
4 12 (9.23%) Legal
5 9 (6.92%) Public Sector
6 8 (6.15%) Marketing
6 8 (6.15%) Pharmaceutical
7 7 (5.38%) Analytical Skills
7 7 (5.38%) Local Government
7 7 (5.38%) Retail
8 4 (3.08%) Financial Institution
8 4 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.08%) Retail Banking
9 3 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.31%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.54%) Law
10 2 (1.54%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.15%) Data Centre
1 8 (6.15%) Management Information System
2 5 (3.85%) Onboarding
3 4 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
3 4 (3.08%) Housing Association
4 3 (2.31%) FMCG
5 2 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.54%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.54%) PMI
5 2 (1.54%) Replication
5 2 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.54%) Social Media
6 1 (0.77%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (0.77%) IoT
6 1 (0.77%) LIMS
6 1 (0.77%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.77%) NHS
6 1 (0.77%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 21 (16.15%) Windows
2 4 (3.08%) Apple iOS
3 3 (2.31%) Android
3 3 (2.31%) Linux
3 3 (2.31%) Mac OS
3 3 (2.31%) Unix
4 2 (1.54%) Windows 10
4 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (33.08%) Stakeholder Management
2 38 (29.23%) Project Management
2 38 (29.23%) Risk Management
3 24 (18.46%) Agile
4 20 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 16 (12.31%) Budget Management
6 15 (11.54%) Migration
7 14 (10.77%) ITIL
7 14 (10.77%) Project Delivery
8 13 (10.00%) Change Management
9 12 (9.23%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (9.23%) PRINCE2
9 12 (9.23%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (6.15%) Service Management
11 7 (5.38%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (5.38%) Service Delivery
12 6 (4.62%) Business Case
12 6 (4.62%) Decision-Making
12 6 (4.62%) Digital Transformation Programme
12 6 (4.62%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.54%) Python
1 2 (1.54%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (10.77%) CISA
1 14 (10.77%) Degree
2 10 (7.69%) CRISC
3 9 (6.92%) CISM
3 9 (6.92%) CISSP
4 5 (3.85%) PMI Certification
4 5 (3.85%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.08%) PMP
5 4 (3.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 4 (3.08%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.77%) APMP
6 1 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.77%) ISEB
6 1 (0.77%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.77%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (0.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.62%) NIST
2 5 (3.85%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (3.08%) COBIT
3 4 (3.08%) GDPR
4 3 (2.31%) COSO
4 3 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.31%) GRC
4 3 (2.31%) PMO
5 2 (1.54%) GxP
5 2 (1.54%) ITGC
5 2 (1.54%) QA
5 2 (1.54%) SOX 404
6 1 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (6.15%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.54%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.77%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.85%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.69%) SAP
3 7 (5.38%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.31%) Cisco
4 3 (2.31%) Google
4 3 (2.31%) Planview
4 3 (2.31%) Siemens
5 2 (1.54%) Aareon
5 2 (1.54%) Adobe
5 2 (1.54%) Arista
5 2 (1.54%) Citrix
5 2 (1.54%) Civica
5 2 (1.54%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.54%) Northgate
5 2 (1.54%) Oracle
5 2 (1.54%) VMware
6 1 (0.77%) LabVantage
6 1 (0.77%) LabWare
6 1 (0.77%) Salesforce
6 1 (0.77%) Workday