IT Manager Contracts in Manchester

IT Manager
North West > Manchester

The median IT Manager daily rate in Manchester is £438, 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 61 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +25 -7 +19
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 18 10 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.94% 0.66% 2.06%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.08% 0.69% 2.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 8 35
10th Percentile £219 £326 £340
25th Percentile £322 £422 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.41% -11.90% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £581
90th Percentile £593 £600 £639
North West median daily rate £525 £488 £469
% change year-on-year +7.69% +4.00% -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £73.00 - -
25th Percentile £73.75 - -
Median hourly rate £75.00 - -
75th Percentile £78.13 - -
90th Percentile £78.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £75.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Manchester

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in Manchester

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in Manchester

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in Manchester

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester 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
Bolton -6 3 - - 12
Salford - 3 £550 -
IT Manager
North West

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

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 Manchester region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 3 (16.67%) LLM
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Supplier Management
3 3 (16.67%) JIRA
3 3 (16.67%) Kanban
3 3 (16.67%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (16.67%) Confluence
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
4 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Management
4 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
4 2 (11.11%) Windows

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (16.67%) Confluence
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) DNS
1 1 (5.56%) Firewall
1 1 (5.56%) VLAN
1 1 (5.56%) VPN
1 1 (5.56%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Aerospace
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Virtual Team
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Project Management
2 4 (22.22%) Risk Management
2 4 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Agile
3 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (16.67%) Generative AI
3 3 (16.67%) IT Strategy
3 3 (16.67%) Kanban
3 3 (16.67%) LLM
3 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
3 3 (16.67%) Microservices
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Supplier Management
4 2 (11.11%) Contract Negotiation
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Management
4 2 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 22301
1 2 (11.11%) ISO 31000
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.11%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco
3 1 (5.56%) Meraki