Research Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Research Manager
England > London

The median Research Manager daily rate in London is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 September 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
21 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 361 383 449
Rank change year-on-year +22 +66 +149
Contract jobs requiring a Research Manager 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.022% 0.012% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.024% 0.013% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - £196 £336
25th Percentile £625 £266 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £388 £400
Median % change year-on-year +67.74% -3.13% -15.79%
75th Percentile £675 £516 £441
90th Percentile - £589 £454
England median daily rate £650 £388 £338
% change year-on-year +67.74% +14.81% -28.95%

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 12,392 15,300 20,765
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.71% 93.99% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,286 10,210 15,153
10th Percentile £331 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 179 226
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.45 £18.08
25th Percentile £22.98 £23.80 £22.06
Median hourly rate £29.54 £35.00 £36.27
Median % change year-on-year -15.61% -3.50% +12.47%
75th Percentile £50.00 £56.75 £62.31
90th Percentile £65.40 £75.00 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Research Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Research Manager in London

Research Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Research Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Research Manager Skill Set
Top 15 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 21 September 2025, Research 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 Research Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) InfiniBand
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Biomedicine
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics

Research 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) InfiniBand
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Biomedicine
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) DataOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Programme Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) GPFS
1 2 (66.67%) Slurm Workload Manager