Support Manager Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Support Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 318 355 409
Rank change year-on-year +37 +54 +82
Contract jobs requiring a Support Manager 62 10 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.057% 0.055%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.061% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 9 8
10th Percentile £355 £352 £413
25th Percentile £375 - £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £375 £570
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -34.21% +25.27%
75th Percentile £575 £376 £588
90th Percentile £593 £439 £643
UK median daily rate £500 £394 £525
% change year-on-year +26.98% -25.00% +7.69%

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 13,712 16,275 20,396
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 92.25% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,420 9,402 13,621
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £663 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,267 1,386 1,212
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.52 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Support Manager in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Support Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Support Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Support Manager in the UK excluding London

Support Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Support Manager job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Support 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 Support Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Yorkshire +25 45 £500 +15.94% 6
North of England +18 45 £500 +15.94% 10
East of England - 7 £350 - 12
Midlands - 5 £500 - 10
West Midlands - 5 £500 - 7
South East +21 2 £500 - 17
Scotland -2 2 £275 -13.39%
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Support Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Support 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 Support Manager in the job title.

1 45 (72.58%) ServiceNow
2 39 (62.90%) Microsoft
3 38 (61.29%) Active Directory
3 38 (61.29%) Social Skills
4 37 (59.68%) Entra ID
5 35 (56.45%) Jamf Pro
5 35 (56.45%) Apple
5 35 (56.45%) Mac OS
6 31 (50.00%) Customer Service
7 24 (38.71%) ITIL
8 23 (37.10%) ITSM
9 21 (33.87%) Microsoft 365
9 21 (33.87%) Mobile Device Management
10 19 (30.65%) iPhone
10 19 (30.65%) Retail
10 19 (30.65%) Smartphone
10 19 (30.65%) Incident Management
10 19 (30.65%) Service Management
10 19 (30.65%) Microsoft Office
11 18 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (27.42%) ACSP
12 17 (27.42%) ACTC
13 16 (25.81%) Windows
14 13 (20.97%) Finance
15 11 (17.74%) Service Delivery
16 10 (16.13%) Security Patching
17 9 (14.52%) Service Desk Management
18 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
19 6 (9.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
19 6 (9.68%) Mentoring

Support 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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) Mule
Applications
1 19 (30.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.61%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (59.68%) Entra ID
2 21 (33.87%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (4.84%) Azure
4 2 (3.23%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.61%) GCP
5 1 (1.61%) GitHub
5 1 (1.61%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.23%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Jenkins
1 1 (1.61%) JIRA
1 1 (1.61%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 38 (61.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (30.65%) Retail
3 18 (29.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (20.97%) Finance
5 4 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Banking
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.61%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.65%) iPhone
1 19 (30.65%) Smartphone
2 4 (6.45%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.61%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (1.61%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.61%) Freedom of Information
4 1 (1.61%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 35 (56.45%) Mac OS
2 16 (25.81%) Windows
3 1 (1.61%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 24 (38.71%) ITIL
3 23 (37.10%) ITSM
4 21 (33.87%) Mobile Device Management
5 19 (30.65%) Incident Management
5 19 (30.65%) Service Management
6 11 (17.74%) Service Delivery
7 10 (16.13%) Security Patching
8 9 (14.52%) Service Desk Management
9 7 (11.29%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (9.68%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 6 (9.68%) Mentoring
11 5 (8.06%) Computer Science
11 5 (8.06%) Software Engineering
11 5 (8.06%) System Testing
11 5 (8.06%) Task Automation
12 4 (6.45%) Agile
12 4 (6.45%) Change Management
12 4 (6.45%) User Stories
12 4 (6.45%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.06%) Java
1 5 (8.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (27.42%) ACSP
1 17 (27.42%) ACTC
2 5 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
2 5 (8.06%) Degree
3 1 (1.61%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.61%) GDPR
1 1 (1.61%) QA
1 1 (1.61%) SLA
System Software
1 38 (61.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 35 (56.45%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 45 (72.58%) ServiceNow
2 39 (62.90%) Microsoft
3 35 (56.45%) Apple
4 1 (1.61%) Adobe
4 1 (1.61%) Google