Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in South London

Technical Manager
London > South London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in South London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 41 36 42
Rank change year-on-year -5 +6 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 2.20% 0.47% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.26% 0.48% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £513 £613 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £625 -
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% - -
75th Percentile £538 £638 -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South 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 South London with a recognized job title 266 209 269
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.44% 97.21% 96.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 137 186
10th Percentile £344 £200 £185
25th Percentile £450 £400 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £599
90th Percentile £660 £747 £667
London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 3 22
10th Percentile £54.44 £23.77 £17.00
25th Percentile £54.55 £27.61 £17.75
Median hourly rate £67.70 £34.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +99.12% +44.68% -46.11%
75th Percentile £76.58 £56.20 £49.13
90th Percentile - £69.52 £83.75
London median hourly rate £34.75 £36.75 £28.75
% change year-on-year -5.45% +27.83% -17.27%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South London.

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in South London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in South London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in South London

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 16 February 2026. 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
Croydon -3 6 £525 -16.00% 2
Technical Manager
London

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London

For the 6 months to 16 February 2026, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South London region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
2 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
3 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) Confluence
3 4 (66.67%) Git
3 4 (66.67%) JIRA
3 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow
4 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
5 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
5 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (100.00%) Amazon S3
1 6 (100.00%) AWS
1 6 (100.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon ELB
2 4 (66.67%) Amazon Glacier
2 4 (66.67%) AWS KMS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon ECS
3 2 (33.33%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (33.33%) AWS CodePipeline
3 2 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub
3 2 (33.33%) GitHub Actions
3 2 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Git
1 4 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (33.33%) Bitbucket
2 2 (33.33%) GitLab
2 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (83.33%) Presentation Skills
2 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) AWS CDK
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Project Delivery
2 5 (83.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 4 (66.67%) Change Management
4 3 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 2 (33.33%) DevOps
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (33.33%) Project Management
5 2 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 1 (16.67%) Cloud Operations
6 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Culture
6 1 (16.67%) Containerisation
6 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
1 2 (33.33%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) SC Cleared
1 5 (83.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) ServiceNow