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 22 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
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 220 222 223
Rank change year-on-year +2 +1 -8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 133 178 305
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.09% 1.02% 1.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.16% 1.09% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 97 126 241
10th Percentile £400 £363 £413
25th Percentile £475 £452 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £693 £725 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £535
% change year-on-year - -1.87% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 5
10th Percentile £28.28 £31.15 £58.25
25th Percentile - £32.69 £61.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £33.90 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.24% -45.76% +81.42%
75th Percentile £35.89 £42.41 £82.50
90th Percentile £52.16 £55.96 £85.50
England median hourly rate £62.50 £30.12 £62.50
% change year-on-year +107.50% -51.81% +131.48%

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 11,428 16,300 24,521
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.37% 93.48% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,790 11,781 17,832
10th Percentile £349 £325 £363
25th Percentile £430 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.39% +0.04%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 315 279
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.02 £22.50
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.93% -22.86% -
75th Percentile £50.50 £44.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.35 £65.61 £82.30
England median hourly rate £30.00 £36.65 £44.77
% change year-on-year -18.14% -18.13% +94.40%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +7 26 £550 -8.33% 20
South London +10 4 £509 +7.11% 4
West London +6 4 £525 +5.00% 16
East London +13 1 £500 -7.41% 2
IT Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 22 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 55 (41.35%) Finance
2 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 42 (31.58%) Project Management
4 40 (30.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 36 (27.07%) Risk Management
6 23 (17.29%) Agile
7 22 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 19 (14.29%) Azure
8 19 (14.29%) Windows
9 18 (13.53%) Degree
10 17 (12.78%) Change Management
11 16 (12.03%) ITIL
11 16 (12.03%) Banking
12 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
12 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
12 15 (11.28%) Budget Management
13 14 (10.53%) CISA
13 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (9.77%) Legal
14 13 (9.77%) Migration
15 12 (9.02%) PRINCE2
16 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
17 10 (7.52%) SAP
17 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
17 10 (7.52%) CRISC
17 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
17 10 (7.52%) SaaS
18 9 (6.77%) JIRA
18 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
18 9 (6.77%) Service Delivery

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 7 (5.26%) SharePoint
2 6 (4.51%) CMS
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (1.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (3.01%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.50%) Adobe Illustrator
4 2 (1.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (1.50%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.50%) Trello
5 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.26%) Teamcenter
2 2 (1.50%) SAP PLM
3 1 (0.75%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.75%) Infor LN
3 1 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.75%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 19 (14.29%) Azure
2 10 (7.52%) SaaS
3 8 (6.02%) AWS
4 6 (4.51%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (3.76%) Entra ID
5 5 (3.76%) Slack
6 3 (2.26%) Asana
6 3 (2.26%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 3 (2.26%) Google Workspace
6 3 (2.26%) OneDrive
6 3 (2.26%) Power Platform
6 3 (2.26%) Smartsheet
6 3 (2.26%) Veeva
7 2 (1.50%) Yammer
8 1 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.75%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 9 (6.77%) Firewall
2 4 (3.01%) VPN
3 3 (2.26%) DNS
4 2 (1.50%) LAN
4 2 (1.50%) WAN
5 1 (0.75%) Intranet
5 1 (0.75%) Remote Desktop
5 1 (0.75%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.75%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.26%) Data Lake
1 3 (2.26%) Power BI
2 1 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 9 (6.77%) JIRA
General
1 55 (41.35%) Finance
2 49 (36.84%) Social Skills
3 16 (12.03%) Banking
4 13 (9.77%) Legal
5 8 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (6.02%) Marketing
5 8 (6.02%) Pharmaceutical
5 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
6 7 (5.26%) Local Government
6 7 (5.26%) Retail
7 4 (3.01%) Financial Institution
7 4 (3.01%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.01%) Retail Banking
8 3 (2.26%) Law
8 3 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (2.26%) Telecoms
9 2 (1.50%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (1.50%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (1.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.52%) Management Information System
2 8 (6.02%) Data Centre
3 5 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 4 (3.01%) Analytical Mindset
4 4 (3.01%) Housing Association
4 4 (3.01%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (2.26%) FMCG
5 3 (2.26%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (1.50%) Replication
6 2 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.50%) Social Media
7 1 (0.75%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.75%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.75%) Fixed Income
7 1 (0.75%) LIMS
7 1 (0.75%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.75%) NHS
7 1 (0.75%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 19 (14.29%) Windows
2 4 (3.01%) Apple iOS
2 4 (3.01%) Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Android
3 3 (2.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.50%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (31.58%) Project Management
2 40 (30.08%) Stakeholder Management
3 36 (27.07%) Risk Management
4 23 (17.29%) Agile
5 22 (16.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 17 (12.78%) Change Management
7 16 (12.03%) ITIL
8 15 (11.28%) Budget Management
8 15 (11.28%) Project Delivery
9 14 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (9.77%) Migration
11 12 (9.02%) PRINCE2
12 11 (8.27%) Problem-Solving
13 10 (7.52%) Cybersecurity
14 9 (6.77%) Service Delivery
14 9 (6.77%) Service Management
15 7 (5.26%) Asset Management
15 7 (5.26%) Data Analysis
15 7 (5.26%) Information Security
16 6 (4.51%) Supplier Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.50%) Python
1 2 (1.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (13.53%) Degree
2 14 (10.53%) CISA
3 10 (7.52%) CRISC
4 9 (6.77%) CISM
4 9 (6.77%) CISSP
5 5 (3.76%) PMI Certification
5 5 (3.76%) PMP
6 4 (3.01%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (2.26%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (2.26%) Security Cleared
8 2 (1.50%) SC Cleared
9 1 (0.75%) APMP
9 1 (0.75%) ISEB
9 1 (0.75%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (3.76%) Accessibility
1 5 (3.76%) NIST
1 5 (3.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 4 (3.01%) GDPR
2 4 (3.01%) PMO
3 3 (2.26%) COBIT
3 3 (2.26%) COSO
4 2 (1.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.50%) GRC
4 2 (1.50%) GxP
4 2 (1.50%) ITGC
4 2 (1.50%) QA
4 2 (1.50%) SLA
4 2 (1.50%) SOX 404
5 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (4.51%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.50%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.75%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (6.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (3.76%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (11.28%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.52%) SAP
3 8 (6.02%) ServiceNow
4 3 (2.26%) Cisco
4 3 (2.26%) Google
4 3 (2.26%) Siemens
5 2 (1.50%) Aareon
5 2 (1.50%) Adobe
5 2 (1.50%) Arista
5 2 (1.50%) Civica
5 2 (1.50%) CyberArk
5 2 (1.50%) Northgate
5 2 (1.50%) Oracle
5 2 (1.50%) VMware
5 2 (1.50%) Workday
6 1 (0.75%) Infor
6 1 (0.75%) LabVantage
6 1 (0.75%) LabWare
6 1 (0.75%) Planview
6 1 (0.75%) Veeam