Technical Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £494, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 16 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 296 330
Rank change year-on-year +45 +34 -11
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 93 94 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.72% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.50% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 66 78
10th Percentile £374 £364 £413
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.47% +1.25% -4.76%
75th Percentile £619 £572 £575
90th Percentile £724 £631 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
10th Percentile £67.60 £28.25 -
25th Percentile £67.74 £29.74 -
Median hourly rate £73.23 £34.21 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.05% -47.37% -7.14%
75th Percentile £77.98 - -
90th Percentile £78.27 £45.86 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £34.21 £67.50
% change year-on-year +90.00% -49.32% +14.89%

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 11,837 18,742 21,756
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.97% 92.49% 94.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,537 11,429 15,189
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 842 2,251 1,113
10th Percentile £13.85 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £27.24 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.91% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.60 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £74.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.79% -18.89% +87.50%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the UK excluding London

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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 +18 30 £450 -10.00% 29
North West +7 16 £500 - 13
South East +43 14 £481 -8.33% 77
East of England +24 14 £550 +4.76% 34
Midlands +15 13 £475 -2.56% 24
Yorkshire +14 13 £450 -11.11% 14
Scotland +9 12 £562 +3.74% 5
South West +43 8 £494 -1.25% 20
West Midlands +5 6 £441 -9.57% 17
East Midlands - 6 £500 - 7
Northern Ireland - 2 £625 - 6
Wales +2 1 £575 +15.00% 2
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2025, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 42 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 41 (44.09%) Agile
3 35 (37.63%) Finance
4 34 (36.56%) Project Management
5 25 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
6 23 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (18.28%) JIRA
8 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 14 (15.05%) Risk Management
10 13 (13.98%) Migration
10 13 (13.98%) Confluence
10 13 (13.98%) Project Delivery
11 12 (12.90%) Banking
12 11 (11.83%) Roadmaps
13 10 (10.75%) Change Management
13 10 (10.75%) Strategic Thinking
14 9 (9.68%) Waterfall
14 9 (9.68%) AWS
14 9 (9.68%) Programme Management
14 9 (9.68%) Java
14 9 (9.68%) PRINCE2
14 9 (9.68%) Degree
15 8 (8.60%) Time Management
15 8 (8.60%) Supplier Management
15 8 (8.60%) Scrum
15 8 (8.60%) APMP
15 8 (8.60%) Decision-Making
15 8 (8.60%) Budget Management
16 7 (7.53%) Sprint Planning
17 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation

Technical 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 13 (13.98%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.08%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.38%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.15%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (1.08%) SAP BPC
Cloud Services
1 9 (9.68%) AWS
2 4 (4.30%) Azure
3 3 (3.23%) SaaS
4 2 (2.15%) OCI
5 1 (1.08%) Asana
5 1 (1.08%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.08%) GCP
5 1 (1.08%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 1 (1.08%) Slack
5 1 (1.08%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.45%) Firewall
2 1 (1.08%) Internet
2 1 (1.08%) LAN
2 1 (1.08%) Network Security
2 1 (1.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.08%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.15%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.15%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (2.15%) Oracle Database
1 2 (2.15%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (18.28%) JIRA
General
1 42 (45.16%) Social Skills
2 35 (37.63%) Finance
3 12 (12.90%) Banking
4 6 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.38%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (4.30%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.30%) Public Sector
6 4 (4.30%) Retail Banking
7 3 (3.23%) Financial Institution
7 3 (3.23%) Marketing
7 3 (3.23%) Retail
8 2 (2.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.15%) Law
8 2 (2.15%) Military
9 1 (1.08%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.08%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.08%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.15%) VML
1 2 (2.15%) XML
1 2 (2.15%) Yocto
2 1 (1.08%) J2EE
2 1 (1.08%) Middleware
2 1 (1.08%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.45%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (5.38%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.30%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.30%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.23%) Driving Licence
5 2 (2.15%) Digital TV
5 2 (2.15%) Embedded Systems
5 2 (2.15%) FMCG
5 2 (2.15%) Life Science
5 2 (2.15%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.15%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.15%) STB
5 2 (2.15%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.08%) Culture of Ownership
6 1 (1.08%) Digital Media
6 1 (1.08%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.08%) Housing Association
6 1 (1.08%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.08%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.08%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.15%) Linux
1 2 (2.15%) Unix
1 2 (2.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (44.09%) Agile
2 34 (36.56%) Project Management
3 25 (26.88%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (24.73%) Problem-Solving
5 15 (16.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 14 (15.05%) Risk Management
7 13 (13.98%) Migration
7 13 (13.98%) Project Delivery
8 11 (11.83%) Roadmaps
9 10 (10.75%) Change Management
9 10 (10.75%) Strategic Thinking
10 9 (9.68%) PRINCE2
10 9 (9.68%) Programme Management
10 9 (9.68%) Waterfall
11 8 (8.60%) Budget Management
11 8 (8.60%) Decision-Making
11 8 (8.60%) Scrum
11 8 (8.60%) Supplier Management
11 8 (8.60%) Time Management
12 7 (7.53%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (9.68%) Java
2 5 (5.38%) Python
3 2 (2.15%) SQL
4 1 (1.08%) C
4 1 (1.08%) C++
Qualifications
1 9 (9.68%) Degree
2 8 (8.60%) APMP
3 6 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.38%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.30%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.23%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.08%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.08%) DBS Check
7 1 (1.08%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.15%) ISO 20022
1 2 (2.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.15%) PMBOK
1 2 (2.15%) QA
2 1 (1.08%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (1.08%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.30%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.15%) Terraform
3 1 (1.08%) Ansible
3 1 (1.08%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 6 (6.45%) Oracle
1 6 (6.45%) SAP
2 5 (5.38%) Cisco
3 4 (4.30%) CheckPoint
3 4 (4.30%) Fortinet
4 3 (3.23%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.23%) Pega
5 2 (2.15%) Splunk
6 1 (1.08%) AlgoSec
6 1 (1.08%) Anaplan
6 1 (1.08%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.08%) Databricks
6 1 (1.08%) Infor
6 1 (1.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.08%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.08%) Spotify
6 1 (1.08%) Tagetik
6 1 (1.08%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.08%) VMware