Technical Manager Contracts 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 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 281 282 290
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 77 103 205
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.62% 0.59% 0.79%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.63% 0.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 75 142
10th Percentile £404 £333 £404
25th Percentile £457 £495 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +5.50% -9.17%
75th Percentile £706 £718 £684
90th Percentile £825 £825 £750
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.57% - -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £49.95 - -
25th Percentile £51.75 £30.25 -
Median hourly rate £59.75 £31.50 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +89.68% -55.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £32.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £34.21 £70.00
% change year-on-year +90.00% -51.13% +19.15%

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 11,570 16,310 24,682
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.28% 93.40% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,922 11,789 17,932
10th Percentile £343 £325 £363
25th Percentile £427 £445 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £676 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £524 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.26% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 317 280
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.50 £35.25
Median % change year-on-year +23.64% -21.99% +0.71%
75th Percentile £50.75 £44.75 £62.95
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.01 £80.23
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.31% -17.38% +95.65%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in London

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager 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 16 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 -11 5 £450 -22.58% 12
South London +2 2 £424 - 1
West London - 1 - - 6
Technical Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 41 (53.25%) Agile
2 39 (50.65%) Project Management
3 30 (38.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 29 (37.66%) Finance
5 27 (35.06%) Scrum
6 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
7 19 (24.68%) Project Delivery
8 18 (23.38%) DevOps
9 13 (16.88%) Azure
9 13 (16.88%) Banking
9 13 (16.88%) Migration
9 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
10 12 (15.58%) JIRA
11 10 (12.99%) Programme Management
11 10 (12.99%) AWS
11 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
12 9 (11.69%) SaaS
12 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
12 9 (11.69%) Degree
12 9 (11.69%) Marketing
12 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
13 8 (10.39%) Change Management
13 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
13 8 (10.39%) SDLC
13 8 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (10.39%) Confluence
13 8 (10.39%) Analytics
14 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
14 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
14 7 (9.09%) Validation

Technical 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 8 (10.39%) Confluence
2 2 (2.60%) CMS
3 1 (1.30%) Apache
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.30%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.30%) Camunda
3 1 (1.30%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.30%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (2.60%) Shopify
2 1 (1.30%) Actimize
2 1 (1.30%) Finacle
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.88%) Azure
2 10 (12.99%) AWS
3 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (11.69%) SaaS
4 6 (7.79%) PaaS
5 5 (6.49%) GCP
5 5 (6.49%) IaaS
5 5 (6.49%) Serverless
6 4 (5.19%) AWS CloudFormation
7 2 (2.60%) BigCommerce
7 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (2.60%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.60%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.30%) Asana
8 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (1.30%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.30%) dbt
8 1 (1.30%) GitHub
8 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Einstein
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) Firewall
1 5 (6.49%) VPN
2 1 (1.30%) 2G
2 1 (1.30%) 5G
2 1 (1.30%) GSM
2 1 (1.30%) Intranet
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) Packet Switching
2 1 (1.30%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.30%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (1.30%) Unified Communications
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
2 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.09%) Data Lake
2 2 (2.60%) Big Data
2 2 (2.60%) Delta Lake
2 2 (2.60%) Power BI
3 1 (1.30%) Metadata
3 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.30%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 12 (15.58%) JIRA
2 4 (5.19%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) Bitbucket
3 2 (2.60%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) MLflow
General
1 29 (37.66%) Finance
2 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
3 13 (16.88%) Banking
4 9 (11.69%) Marketing
5 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (9.09%) Retail
7 4 (5.19%) Front Office
7 4 (5.19%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.19%) Investment Banking
7 4 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Law
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Police
8 2 (2.60%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.30%) Billing
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Military
9 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.60%) ADO
1 2 (2.60%) VML
2 1 (1.30%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.30%) JSON
2 1 (1.30%) Middleware
2 1 (1.30%) MIDP
2 1 (1.30%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.49%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.19%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.60%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.60%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.30%) CSOC
5 1 (1.30%) Data Fabric
5 1 (1.30%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.30%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.30%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.30%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.30%) IoT
5 1 (1.30%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) NHS
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.90%) Linux
2 2 (2.60%) Unix
3 1 (1.30%) Windows
3 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (53.25%) Agile
2 39 (50.65%) Project Management
3 30 (38.96%) Stakeholder Management
4 27 (35.06%) Scrum
5 19 (24.68%) Project Delivery
6 18 (23.38%) DevOps
7 13 (16.88%) Migration
7 13 (16.88%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.99%) Programme Management
8 10 (12.99%) Roadmaps
9 8 (10.39%) Analytics
9 8 (10.39%) Change Management
9 8 (10.39%) SDLC
9 8 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 7 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (9.09%) Cost Optimisation
10 7 (9.09%) ETL
10 7 (9.09%) Validation
11 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure as Code
11 6 (7.79%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.49%) Bicep
1 5 (6.49%) SQL
2 2 (2.60%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.60%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.30%) C#
3 1 (1.30%) Data Analysis Expressions
Qualifications
1 9 (11.69%) Degree
2 7 (9.09%) PMI Certification
2 7 (9.09%) PMP
3 6 (7.79%) Security Cleared
4 5 (6.49%) Azure Certification
5 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.30%) A+ Certification
7 1 (1.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.30%) MCSE
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.30%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.19%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) GRC
3 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (5.19%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.49%) Kubernetes
1 5 (6.49%) Terraform
2 4 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
Vendors
1 9 (11.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Google
2 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
2 4 (5.19%) SAP
3 3 (3.90%) Oracle
3 3 (3.90%) Planview
3 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.60%) Adobe
4 2 (2.60%) Avaloq
4 2 (2.60%) Databricks
4 2 (2.60%) Sitecore
4 2 (2.60%) Splunk
5 1 (1.30%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.30%) Temenos
5 1 (1.30%) Workday