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 £438, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 367 422
Rank change year-on-year -4 +55 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 30 63 82
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.14% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.29% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 43 53
10th Percentile £319 £345 £384
25th Percentile £334 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% +16.62%
75th Percentile £486 £588 £613
90th Percentile £541 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.50 -

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 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

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 22 June 2024.

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 22 June 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
South West -2 11 £375 -36.17% 3
North of England +6 7 £494 -14.13% 9
East of England +8 6 £388 - 6
South East +5 6 £450 -1.64% 13
Yorkshire +15 3 £538 -12.24% 2
North West +2 3 £406 -29.35% 6
North East - 1 - - 2
Contracts Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 June 2024, 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 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 8 (26.67%) Project Management
4 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (23.33%) Agile
4 7 (23.33%) Contract Management
5 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
6 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (16.67%) Change Management
6 5 (16.67%) Finance
6 5 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
6 5 (16.67%) Due Diligence
7 4 (13.33%) Contract Negotiation
7 4 (13.33%) Retail
8 3 (10.00%) Marketing
8 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
8 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
8 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
8 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (10.00%) .NET
8 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
8 3 (10.00%) SAP
8 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
8 3 (10.00%) Magento
8 3 (10.00%) Degree
9 2 (6.67%) Data Governance
9 2 (6.67%) Demand Management
9 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365

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 (3.33%) CMS
1 1 (3.33%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (3.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.67%) AWS
1 2 (6.67%) Azure
1 2 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 11 (36.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Public Sector
3 5 (16.67%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Retail
5 3 (10.00%) Marketing
6 2 (6.67%) Aerospace
6 2 (6.67%) Electronics
6 2 (6.67%) Manufacturing
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (3.33%) CSS
2 1 (3.33%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (6.67%) Credit Risk
3 1 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.33%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Windows
1 1 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Project Management
2 7 (23.33%) Agile
2 7 (23.33%) Contract Management
2 7 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 5 (16.67%) Change Management
4 5 (16.67%) Due Diligence
4 5 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 4 (13.33%) Contract Negotiation
6 3 (10.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (10.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (10.00%) Risk Management
7 2 (6.67%) Data Modelling
7 2 (6.67%) ITSM
7 2 (6.67%) Project Delivery
7 2 (6.67%) Project Planning
7 2 (6.67%) Scrum
7 2 (6.67%) Service Delivery
7 2 (6.67%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Degree
3 2 (6.67%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) PMO
1 2 (6.67%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (3.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (10.00%) SAP
3 2 (6.67%) Cadence
3 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (3.33%) NEC
4 1 (3.33%) Optimizely