IT Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

IT Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median IT Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 116 99
Rank change year-on-year +35 -17 +6
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 21 29 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.39% 1.08% 1.77%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 1.16% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 26 45
10th Percentile £413 £413 £401
25th Percentile £438 £454 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £510
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% +5.39% +2.00%
75th Percentile £538 £589 £575
90th Percentile £560 £641 £675
South East median daily rate £540 £525 £510
% change year-on-year +2.86% +2.94% +3.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £27.00 -
South East median hourly rate - £43.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,405 2,505 2,767
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.98% 93.26% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 864 1,430 1,916
10th Percentile £300 £206 £313
25th Percentile £409 £370 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 189 76
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.78 £17.31
25th Percentile £16.94 £19.25 £20.75
Median hourly rate £45.65 £45.00 £46.70
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -3.64% +166.86%
75th Percentile £65.62 £62.50 £66.21
90th Percentile £77.47 £84.57 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £32.50 £47.50 £48.40
% change year-on-year -31.58% -1.86% +130.48%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the Thames Valley

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the Thames Valley

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the Thames Valley

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the Thames Valley

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Berkshire +35 18 £475 -13.71% 24
Buckinghamshire +7 2 £500 +7.53% 17
Oxfordshire +2 1 - - 15
IT Manager
South East

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 14 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 14 (66.67%) Retail
1 14 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 11 (52.38%) Splunk
3 8 (38.10%) Dynatrace
3 8 (38.10%) Data Analysis
3 8 (38.10%) Actionable Insight
3 8 (38.10%) DataOps
4 6 (28.57%) Finance
5 5 (23.81%) Quality Management
5 5 (23.81%) Balanced Scorecard
5 5 (23.81%) Billing
5 5 (23.81%) Customer Experience
5 5 (23.81%) Scorecard
6 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (19.05%) Project Management
7 3 (14.29%) ITIL
7 3 (14.29%) Performance Management
7 3 (14.29%) QA
8 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
8 2 (9.52%) Self-Awareness
8 2 (9.52%) Degree
8 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
8 2 (9.52%) Analytics
8 2 (9.52%) SLA
8 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
8 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
9 1 (4.76%) Network Planning

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Smartsheet
1 1 (4.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (4.76%) LAN
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
General
1 14 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 14 (66.67%) Retail
1 14 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Billing
4 2 (9.52%) Manufacturing
4 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) AS400
1 1 (4.76%) FMCG
1 1 (4.76%) iSeries
1 1 (4.76%) Life Science
1 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
1 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (38.10%) Actionable Insight
1 8 (38.10%) Data Analysis
1 8 (38.10%) DataOps
2 5 (23.81%) Balanced Scorecard
2 5 (23.81%) Customer Experience
2 5 (23.81%) Quality Management
2 5 (23.81%) Scorecard
3 4 (19.05%) Project Management
3 4 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 3 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Data Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (9.52%) Self-Awareness
5 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.76%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (4.76%) Problem-Solving
6 1 (4.76%) Project Delivery
6 1 (4.76%) Server Management
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
2 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
3 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) Splunk
2 8 (38.10%) Dynatrace
3 1 (4.76%) BMC
3 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Infor
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Remedy