IT Manager Contracts in Scotland

IT Manager
UK > Scotland

The median IT Manager daily rate in Scotland is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 July 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
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 76 92
Rank change year-on-year -27 +16 +40
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 13 43 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.76% 2.08% 2.75%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 2.19% 2.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 31 60
10th Percentile £402 £281 £351
25th Percentile £420 £363 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -2.91%
75th Percentile £520 £556 £541
90th Percentile £529 £626 £614
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £82.50
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.50 £27.70 £63.06
% change year-on-year +154.54% -56.07% +32.33%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 1,609 1,960 2,584
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.60% 94.78% 94.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 909 1,205 1,765
10th Percentile £237 £200 £245
25th Percentile £360 £341 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £553 £548
90th Percentile £600 £638 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 114 60
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.32 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £14.80 £13.98
Median hourly rate £19.71 £18.32 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +7.57% +3.40% -52.66%
75th Percentile £25.42 £51.88 £43.75
90th Percentile £59.25 £62.50 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £26.39 £38.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year -31.47% -10.47% +70.13%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in Scotland

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in Scotland

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in Scotland over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in Scotland

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in Scotland

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Edinburgh 0 8 £419 +48.90% 8
Glasgow -25 5 £506 -13.83% 9
IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 5 July 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 Scotland region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 6 (46.15%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
4 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
5 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
5 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
5 3 (23.08%) SIAM
5 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (23.08%) Service Management
5 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
5 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 3 (23.08%) ITIL
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Degree
6 2 (15.38%) Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
6 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Identification
6 2 (15.38%) Splunk
6 2 (15.38%) SIEM
7 1 (7.69%) Project Governance
7 1 (7.69%) Change Control
7 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (7.69%) Agile Project Management

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) AWS
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) IaaS
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.69%) DHCP
1 1 (7.69%) DNS
1 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 7 (53.85%) Public Sector
2 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Retail Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
2 5 (38.46%) Waterfall
3 4 (30.77%) Collaborative Working
4 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
4 3 (23.08%) ITIL
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
4 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
4 3 (23.08%) Service Management
4 3 (23.08%) SIAM
4 3 (23.08%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (15.38%) Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
5 2 (15.38%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
5 2 (15.38%) SIEM
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Identification
6 1 (7.69%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Splunk
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft