IT Manager Contracts in Scotland

IT Manager
UK > Scotland

The median IT Manager daily rate in Scotland is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 107 104
Rank change year-on-year +9 -3 +5
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 35 58 71
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.58% 2.03% 2.01%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.67% 2.14% 2.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 47 59
10th Percentile £363 £364 £398
25th Percentile £463 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £591 £550 £559
90th Percentile £619 £628 £595
UK median daily rate £525 £514 £513
% change year-on-year +2.19% +0.24% +13.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 2,101 2,715 3,400
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 95.16% 96.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,287 1,945 2,410
10th Percentile £200 £250 £212
25th Percentile £375 £403 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £460
Median % change year-on-year - +3.26% +8.24%
75th Percentile £588 £550 £545
90th Percentile £667 £650 £623
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 46 55
10th Percentile £12.50 £12.94 £12.35
25th Percentile £16.25 £17.34 £17.50
Median hourly rate £33.25 £23.18 £25.82
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -10.21% -35.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.17 £47.98
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.50 £54.09
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -21.11% +95.65% +1.41%

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 24 April 2024.

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 24 April 2024. 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
Glasgow -6 13 £525 +5.00% 8
Edinburgh +21 5 £545 +11.79% 7
Lanarkshire +3 1 £588 +11.90% 3
West Lothian -4 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 £475 -
IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 17 (48.57%) Project Management
1 17 (48.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 13 (37.14%) Waterfall
3 13 (37.14%) Change Management
3 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
4 8 (22.86%) Degree
4 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
4 8 (22.86%) Digital Strategy
5 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (17.14%) Canva
6 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (17.14%) Cyber Resilience
6 6 (17.14%) Wireframes
6 6 (17.14%) Slack
6 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
6 6 (17.14%) Video Editing
6 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
6 6 (17.14%) Copywriting
6 6 (17.14%) Intranet
6 6 (17.14%) Oracle
6 6 (17.14%) Photoshop
6 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
7 5 (14.29%) Legal
7 5 (14.29%) People Management
7 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
7 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Map
8 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy

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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (17.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (17.14%) Photoshop
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Canva
1 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
1 6 (17.14%) Slack
2 1 (2.86%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.14%) Intranet
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
3 1 (2.86%) LAN
3 1 (2.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Lake
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (22.86%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Influencing Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Legal
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Finance
6 2 (5.71%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) Video Editing
2 5 (14.29%) Product Ownership
3 3 (8.57%) e-Learning
4 2 (5.71%) Data Centre
5 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.86%) FMCG
5 1 (2.86%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
5 1 (2.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.86%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Project Management
1 17 (48.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 16 (45.71%) Agile
3 13 (37.14%) Change Management
3 13 (37.14%) Waterfall
4 8 (22.86%) Digital Strategy
5 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
6 6 (17.14%) Collaborative Working
6 6 (17.14%) Copywriting
6 6 (17.14%) Cyber Resilience
6 6 (17.14%) Wireframes
7 5 (14.29%) People Management
7 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Map
8 4 (11.43%) Impact Assessments
8 4 (11.43%) IT Strategy
8 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
8 4 (11.43%) Supply Chain Management
9 3 (8.57%) Data Management
9 3 (8.57%) ERP
9 3 (8.57%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 8 (22.86%) Degree
2 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
2 1 (2.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.57%) PMO
2 1 (2.86%) COBIT
2 1 (2.86%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.86%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (17.14%) Oracle
2 1 (2.86%) Autodesk
2 1 (2.86%) Cisco
2 1 (2.86%) Concur
2 1 (2.86%) IFS
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.86%) Workday