Contracts Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Contract Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Contract Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £463, 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 311 352 407
Rank change year-on-year +41 +55 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 25 47 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.23% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.24% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 36
10th Percentile £394 £290 £332
25th Percentile £425 £334 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -14.29% +7.69%
75th Percentile £543 £502 £588
90th Percentile £560 £564 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -9.09% -4.35% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £60.13
25th Percentile - - £60.31
Median hourly rate - - £61.25
75th Percentile - - £62.81
90th Percentile - - £63.38
UK median hourly rate - - £61.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Contracts Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contracts Manager within the UK excluding London 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
North of England +12 7 £425 -15.00% 5
Yorkshire +7 6 £425 -22.73% 2
South East +41 5 £540 +13.68% 7
South West +39 5 £391 -5.33% 3
Midlands +24 4 £475 -7.32% 3
Scotland +14 4 £525 -
West Midlands +15 3 £463 -9.76% 3
North West +11 1 £475 +16.92% 3
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
Contracts Manager
UK

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Contracts 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 UK excluding London region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
3 6 (24.00%) ITIL
4 5 (20.00%) Service Management
4 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 5 (20.00%) SIAM
4 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
5 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (16.00%) Contract Negotiation
6 3 (12.00%) Contract Management
6 3 (12.00%) Agile
6 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (12.00%) Oracle
6 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (8.00%) Legal
7 2 (8.00%) Security Management
7 2 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
7 2 (8.00%) CISSP
7 2 (8.00%) Project Management
7 2 (8.00%) CISA
7 2 (8.00%) CISM
7 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
7 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
7 2 (8.00%) Azure

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (4.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.00%) Azure
2 1 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) 5G
General
1 8 (32.00%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Public Sector
2 7 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 6 (24.00%) Finance
4 2 (8.00%) Legal
5 1 (4.00%) Advertising
5 1 (4.00%) Automotive
5 1 (4.00%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.00%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 6 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 6 (24.00%) ITIL
3 5 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 5 (20.00%) Service Management
3 5 (20.00%) SIAM
4 4 (16.00%) Contract Negotiation
4 4 (16.00%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (12.00%) Agile
5 3 (12.00%) Contract Management
5 3 (12.00%) Risk Management
6 2 (8.00%) Customer Engagement
6 2 (8.00%) Demand Generation
6 2 (8.00%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.00%) Project Management
6 2 (8.00%) Risk Assessment
6 2 (8.00%) Security Management
6 2 (8.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 1 (4.00%) Predictive Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (8.00%) CISA
3 2 (8.00%) CISM
3 2 (8.00%) CISSP
3 2 (8.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.00%) CRISC
4 1 (4.00%) ISACA
4 1 (4.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
System Software
1 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (12.00%) Oracle
3 1 (4.00%) SAP