Senior IT Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Senior IT Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £548 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 21 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
21 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 386 418 448
Rank change year-on-year +32 +30 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Senior IT Manager 9 19 58
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.044% 0.083% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.088% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 50
10th Percentile £484 £415 £411
25th Percentile £506 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £548 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -2.22% +9.22%
75th Percentile £579 £688 £622
90th Percentile £598 £865 £663
UK median daily rate £545 £650 £575
% change year-on-year -16.15% +13.04% +7.98%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 18,731 21,611 29,386
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.29% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,452 15,051 20,618
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,272 1,106 1,459
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.74 £18.04 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +87.50% +6.67%

Senior IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior IT Manager in the UK excluding London

Senior IT 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 Senior IT Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 May 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 +11 4 £550 - 1
Midlands +21 3 £525 -14.29% 4
West Midlands +13 2 £535 -12.65% 3
North of England +26 1 £593 +0.92% 5
North West +25 1 £593 +0.92% 5
South East +11 1 £525 -2.33% 6
East Midlands - 1 £500 - 1
Senior IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 21 May 2024, Senior 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 UK excluding London region featuring Senior IT Manager in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
3 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) VLE
5 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
5 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
5 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
5 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
5 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
5 1 (11.11%) Coaching
5 1 (11.11%) People Management
5 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
5 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
5 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
5 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
5 1 (11.11%) Publishing
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (11.11%) Change Management
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) CRM

Senior IT 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 (11.11%) Moodle
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
General
1 5 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) FMCG
1 1 (11.11%) VLE
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 3 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Technology Transformation
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting
4 1 (11.11%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Change Management
4 1 (11.11%) Coaching
4 1 (11.11%) Conflict Resolution
4 1 (11.11%) CRM
4 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 1 (11.11%) Generative AI
4 1 (11.11%) Identity Access Management
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) People Management
4 1 (11.11%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
4 1 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 1 (11.11%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft