Software Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Software Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 April 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
16 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 380 402 456
Rank change year-on-year +22 +54 -47
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 26 61 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.25% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.26% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 27 43
10th Percentile £325 £340 £400
25th Percentile £400 £414 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% +11.76%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £544
90th Percentile £575 £693 £648
UK median daily rate £700 £525 £634
% change year-on-year +33.33% -17.16% +40.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 30 3
10th Percentile - £61.25 £30.79
25th Percentile - £65.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate - £65.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year - +90.55% -22.75%
75th Percentile - £65.75 £36.16
90th Percentile - £69.53 £36.51
UK median hourly rate - £65.50 £34.38
% change year-on-year - +90.55% -20.06%

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 19,305 23,198 30,087
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.63% 94.06% 95.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,917 16,250 21,111
10th Percentile £213 £223 £200
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £599 £594 £570
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,172 1,224 1,504
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.58 £12.01
25th Percentile £15.50 £18.09 £14.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £42.37 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.38% +117.26% +2.63%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £40.17
90th Percentile £72.86 £73.75 £58.95
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Manager in the UK excluding London

Software 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 Software Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 April 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
North of England +44 12 £500 -16.67% 13
North West +41 9 £488 -15.22% 10
East of England +1 6 £350 - 3
South West +16 4 £525 - 6
Midlands +31 2 £538 +17.49% 7
West Midlands +26 2 £538 +17.49% 3
Yorkshire +22 2 £516 -22.08% 3
South East +12 2 £563 +9.22% 12
North East - 1 - -
Software Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 April 2024, Software 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 Software Manager in the job title.

1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 10 (38.46%) .NET
3 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
3 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
4 7 (26.92%) Scrum
5 6 (23.08%) Retail
5 6 (23.08%) Agile
5 6 (23.08%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
6 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (19.23%) Virtual Team Management
6 5 (19.23%) Virtual Team
6 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
6 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
6 5 (19.23%) Magento
6 5 (19.23%) Statistics
6 5 (19.23%) CMDB
6 5 (19.23%) Service Management
6 5 (19.23%) Quality Management
6 5 (19.23%) C#
6 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
7 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
7 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
7 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) Internal Audit
7 4 (15.38%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (15.38%) Coaching
7 4 (15.38%) Software Architecture

Software 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (19.23%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (3.85%) SaaS
General
1 16 (61.54%) Social Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Retail
3 5 (19.23%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (11.54%) Finance
5 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.85%) Banking
6 1 (3.85%) Electronics
6 1 (3.85%) French Language
6 1 (3.85%) Law
6 1 (3.85%) Legal
6 1 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.85%) Marketing
6 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (38.46%) .NET
2 1 (3.85%) Laravel
2 1 (3.85%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 5 (19.23%) CMDB
1 5 (19.23%) Virtual Team
2 4 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.85%) Data Centre
3 1 (3.85%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.85%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (26.92%) Scrum
3 6 (23.08%) Agile
3 6 (23.08%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
4 5 (19.23%) Asset Management
4 5 (19.23%) Business Analysis
4 5 (19.23%) E-Commerce
4 5 (19.23%) Mentoring
4 5 (19.23%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (19.23%) Quality Management
4 5 (19.23%) Service Management
4 5 (19.23%) Statistics
4 5 (19.23%) Virtual Team Management
5 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
5 4 (15.38%) Coaching
5 4 (15.38%) Internal Audit
5 4 (15.38%) IT Asset Management
5 4 (15.38%) Software Architecture
5 4 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 3 (11.54%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (19.23%) C#
2 4 (15.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (3.85%) C
3 1 (3.85%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) Java
3 1 (3.85%) PHP
3 1 (3.85%) PL/SQL
3 1 (3.85%) Python
3 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 8 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 3 (11.54%) Degree
3 1 (3.85%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.85%) MCP
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (15.38%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 2 (7.69%) ServiceNow
1 2 (7.69%) VMware
2 1 (3.85%) IBM
2 1 (3.85%) Oracle