Support Manager Contracts in the North of England

Support Manager
England > North of England

The median Support Manager daily rate in the North of England is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 150 167 198
Rank change year-on-year +17 +31 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Support Manager 33 2 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.83% 0.048% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.052% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 2 1
10th Percentile £363 £414 -
25th Percentile £375 £417 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £431 £650
Median % change year-on-year -7.25% -33.65% +100.00%
75th Percentile £575 £442 -
90th Percentile £588 £443 -
England median daily rate £500 £394 £525
% change year-on-year +26.98% -25.00% +5.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 3,674 3,824 5,003
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.37% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,369 2,338 3,390
10th Percentile £251 £273 £263
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £582 £600
90th Percentile £639 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 237 278 204
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.38 £15.39
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.84% +15.09% +32.07%
75th Percentile £47.12 £51.90 £45.88
90th Percentile £76.75 £70.00 £58.73
England median hourly rate £25.32 £45.00 £41.90
% change year-on-year -43.73% +7.40% +63.16%

Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Manager in the North of England

Support Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Support Manager in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Support Manager in the North of England

Support Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Manager in the North of England

Support Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Support Manager in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Support Manager in the North of England

Support Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Manager within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
Yorkshire +18 33 £400 -7.25% 7
Support Manager
England

Support Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Support 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 North of England region featuring Support Manager in the job title.

1 32 (96.97%) ServiceNow
2 30 (90.91%) Social Skills
3 29 (87.88%) Entra ID
3 29 (87.88%) Jamf Pro
3 29 (87.88%) Microsoft
3 29 (87.88%) Active Directory
3 29 (87.88%) Apple
3 29 (87.88%) Mac OS
4 28 (84.85%) Customer Service
5 20 (60.61%) ITIL
6 19 (57.58%) Microsoft Office
6 19 (57.58%) Service Management
6 19 (57.58%) ITSM
6 19 (57.58%) Retail
6 19 (57.58%) iPhone
6 19 (57.58%) Microsoft 365
6 19 (57.58%) Smartphone
6 19 (57.58%) Incident Management
6 19 (57.58%) Mobile Device Management
7 18 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (33.33%) ACSP
8 11 (33.33%) ACTC
9 10 (30.30%) Security Patching
10 9 (27.27%) Service Desk Management
10 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
11 4 (12.12%) Windows
12 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
12 3 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
13 2 (6.06%) Banking
14 1 (3.03%) Mule

Support Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (3.03%) Mule
Applications
1 19 (57.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 29 (87.88%) Entra ID
2 19 (57.58%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.03%) GCP
3 1 (3.03%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (3.03%) Jenkins
1 1 (3.03%) JIRA
1 1 (3.03%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 19 (57.58%) Retail
3 18 (54.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (6.06%) Banking
5 1 (3.03%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 19 (57.58%) iPhone
1 19 (57.58%) Smartphone
2 1 (3.03%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (3.03%) Mobile App
2 1 (3.03%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 29 (87.88%) Mac OS
2 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (84.85%) Customer Service
2 20 (60.61%) ITIL
3 19 (57.58%) Incident Management
3 19 (57.58%) ITSM
3 19 (57.58%) Mobile Device Management
3 19 (57.58%) Service Management
4 10 (30.30%) Security Patching
5 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
5 9 (27.27%) Service Desk Management
6 3 (9.09%) Digital Transformation Programme
6 3 (9.09%) Mentoring
7 1 (3.03%) Availability Management
7 1 (3.03%) Change Management
7 1 (3.03%) CI/CD
7 1 (3.03%) DevOps
7 1 (3.03%) Microservices
Qualifications
1 11 (33.33%) ACSP
1 11 (33.33%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.03%) QA
System Software
1 29 (87.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 29 (87.88%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (3.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 32 (96.97%) ServiceNow
2 29 (87.88%) Apple
2 29 (87.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.03%) Google