IT Manager Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

IT Manager
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The median IT Manager daily rate in South Yorkshire is £448, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 50 48
Rank change year-on-year -15 -2 +8
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 6 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 0.94% 1.79% 1.96%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.04% 2.07% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 6
10th Percentile £304 £355 £325
25th Percentile £343 £409 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £500 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.50% -6.98% +14.48%
75th Percentile £538 - £575
90th Percentile £560 - -
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £500 £550
% change year-on-year - -9.09% +11.79%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Yorkshire. 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 Yorkshire with a recognized job title 577 386 434
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.44% 86.16% 94.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 218 287
10th Percentile £284 £243 £291
25th Percentile £367 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -10.67% -8.70% +15.00%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £657
90th Percentile £608 £638 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 7
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.88 £11.77
25th Percentile £18.10 £20.13 £15.27
Median hourly rate £18.21 £21.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.31% +5.00% +11.89%
75th Percentile £18.50 £21.88 £27.00
90th Percentile £18.51 £22.00 £38.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £22.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year +0.64% +7.32% +7.89%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in South Yorkshire

IT Manager
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in South Yorkshire

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for IT Manager job vacancies in South Yorkshire

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 17 September 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
Sheffield -20 4 £370 -26.00% 8
Barnsley - 2 £550 - 2
IT Manager
Yorkshire

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

For the 6 months to 17 September 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 South Yorkshire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) ERP
3 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Availability Management
4 1 (16.67%) Microservices
4 1 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
4 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
4 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
4 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (16.67%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (16.67%) PMO
4 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
4 1 (16.67%) GitHub

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 (16.67%) Mule
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Banking
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 1 (16.67%) Distributed Applications
2 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Agile
1 3 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (50.00%) Project Governance
1 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (33.33%) Change Management
2 2 (33.33%) Decision-Making
2 2 (33.33%) DevOps
2 2 (33.33%) ERP
2 2 (33.33%) Waterfall
3 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (16.67%) Availability Management
3 1 (16.67%) Backlog Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budget Management
3 1 (16.67%) Budgeting
3 1 (16.67%) Business Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 1 (16.67%) Microservices
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Register
3 1 (16.67%) Software Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) PMO
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) XenApp
1 1 (16.67%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Citrix
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Veeam