Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in London

Technical Manager
England > London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 303 308 270
Rank change year-on-year +5 -38 +55
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 78 73 135
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.55% 0.48% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.51% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 38 93
10th Percentile £400 £393 £367
25th Percentile £463 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £565
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -7.08% -1.74%
75th Percentile £663 £600 £664
90th Percentile £813 £741 £745
England median daily rate £575 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £52.00 £52.50
Median hourly rate - £54.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year - -1.82% -32.52%
75th Percentile - £56.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £53.25 £66.00
% change year-on-year -6.10% -19.32% +10.92%

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 13,157 14,282 17,864
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.24% 93.50% 93.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 9,248 12,923
10th Percentile £340 £338 £330
25th Percentile £425 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -2.22% -3.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £684
90th Percentile £763 £800 £788
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 231 154 209
10th Percentile £17.50 £17.65 £17.95
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £21.50
Median hourly rate £27.71 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% - -
75th Percentile £56.63 £53.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.75 £72.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in London over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London +6 14 £600 +33.33% 5
Technical Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 27 (34.62%) Project Management
2 25 (32.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (26.92%) Agile
4 15 (19.23%) Scrum
5 14 (17.95%) Azure
5 14 (17.95%) Programme Management
5 14 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 11 (14.10%) Migration
8 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.82%) Degree
9 10 (12.82%) PMP
9 10 (12.82%) Project Delivery
10 9 (11.54%) AWS
10 9 (11.54%) PMI Certification
10 9 (11.54%) Project Governance
11 8 (10.26%) JIRA
11 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
12 7 (8.97%) Change Management
12 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
12 7 (8.97%) Decision-Making
12 7 (8.97%) DevOps
12 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
13 6 (7.69%) Analytics
13 6 (7.69%) Budgeting
13 6 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
13 6 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
13 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared

Technical 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 4 (5.13%) Confluence
2 1 (1.28%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.28%) CMS
2 1 (1.28%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.28%) Chatbot
3 1 (1.28%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.28%) Notion
3 1 (1.28%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Loan IQ
1 2 (2.56%) Shopify
2 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (17.95%) Azure
2 9 (11.54%) AWS
3 3 (3.85%) Power Platform
3 3 (3.85%) SaaS
4 2 (2.56%) PaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Asana
5 1 (1.28%) Azure AKS
5 1 (1.28%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.28%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.28%) Azure Functions
5 1 (1.28%) BigCommerce
5 1 (1.28%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.28%) GCP
5 1 (1.28%) GitHub
5 1 (1.28%) IaaS
5 1 (1.28%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.28%) Miro
5 1 (1.28%) Serverless
5 1 (1.28%) Slack
5 1 (1.28%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.56%) Firewall
2 1 (1.28%) Internet
2 1 (1.28%) LAN
2 1 (1.28%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.28%) WAN
2 1 (1.28%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.28%) Wireless
2 1 (1.28%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.85%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (3.85%) Power BI
2 2 (2.56%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 8 (10.26%) JIRA
2 1 (1.28%) Git
2 1 (1.28%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.28%) Subversion
General
1 36 (46.15%) Finance
2 33 (42.31%) Social Skills
3 10 (12.82%) Banking
4 7 (8.97%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (7.69%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.69%) Retail
6 5 (6.41%) Back Office
6 5 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.85%) Financial Institution
8 3 (3.85%) Front Office
8 3 (3.85%) Marketing
9 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.56%) Legal
9 2 (2.56%) Retail Banking
10 1 (1.28%) Electronics
10 1 (1.28%) Local Government
10 1 (1.28%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.56%) .NET
1 2 (2.56%) RESTful
2 1 (1.28%) JSON
2 1 (1.28%) Middleware
2 1 (1.28%) PySpark
2 1 (1.28%) PyTorch
2 1 (1.28%) React
2 1 (1.28%) Semantic Kernel
2 1 (1.28%) TensorFlow
2 1 (1.28%) VML
2 1 (1.28%) Web Services
2 1 (1.28%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.85%) Digital Media
1 3 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
1 3 (3.85%) Onboarding
1 3 (3.85%) PMI
2 2 (2.56%) Algorithms
2 2 (2.56%) Cloud Native
2 2 (2.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (2.56%) IPTV
2 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (2.56%) New Media
2 2 (2.56%) Product Ownership
2 2 (2.56%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.28%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.28%) Data Structures
3 1 (1.28%) Derivative
3 1 (1.28%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.28%) Media Streaming
3 1 (1.28%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.28%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
2 1 (1.28%) Linux
2 1 (1.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (34.62%) Project Management
2 25 (32.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (26.92%) Agile
4 15 (19.23%) Scrum
5 14 (17.95%) Programme Management
5 14 (17.95%) Requirements Gathering
6 13 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 13 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 12 (15.38%) Roadmaps
8 11 (14.10%) Migration
8 11 (14.10%) Problem-Solving
9 10 (12.82%) Project Delivery
10 9 (11.54%) Project Governance
11 7 (8.97%) Change Management
11 7 (8.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 7 (8.97%) Decision-Making
11 7 (8.97%) DevOps
12 6 (7.69%) Budgeting
12 6 (7.69%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (7.69%) Resource Allocation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.85%) SQL
2 2 (2.56%) Python
3 1 (1.28%) C#
3 1 (1.28%) Java
3 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 10 (12.82%) Degree
1 10 (12.82%) PMP
2 9 (11.54%) PMI Certification
3 7 (8.97%) Security Cleared
4 6 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 4 (5.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.28%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.28%) MBA
6 1 (1.28%) MCP
6 1 (1.28%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.85%) PMO
1 3 (3.85%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (1.28%) Dodd-Frank
2 1 (1.28%) EMIR
2 1 (1.28%) EU AI Act
2 1 (1.28%) GRC
2 1 (1.28%) MiFID
2 1 (1.28%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (7.69%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 8 (10.26%) Microsoft
2 5 (6.41%) Citrix
2 5 (6.41%) SAP
3 3 (3.85%) Cisco
4 1 (1.28%) Adobe
4 1 (1.28%) Aruba
4 1 (1.28%) CheckPoint
4 1 (1.28%) Concur
4 1 (1.28%) CyberArk
4 1 (1.28%) Databricks
4 1 (1.28%) Foundry
4 1 (1.28%) Meraki
4 1 (1.28%) Monzo
4 1 (1.28%) Oracle
4 1 (1.28%) Red Hat
4 1 (1.28%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.28%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.28%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.28%) Zopa
4 1 (1.28%) Zscaler