Cutover Manager Contracts

Cutover Manager
UK

The median Cutover Manager daily rate in the UK is £674, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 507 539 688
Rank change year-on-year +32 +149 +136
Contract jobs requiring a Cutover Manager 13 43 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.099% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.11% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 21 18
10th Percentile £481 £438 £512
25th Percentile £542 £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +28.29% -8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £638
90th Percentile £723 £725 £723
UK excluding London median daily rate £635 £525 £550
% change year-on-year +21.00% -4.55% +3.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 27,084 40,415 56,464
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,692 26,309 39,470
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £492 £500
% change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 2,664 1,570
10th Percentile £14.07 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%

Cutover Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cutover Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cutover Manager in the UK

Cutover Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cutover Manager.

Daily rate trend for Cutover Manager in the UK

Cutover Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cutover Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cutover Manager in the UK

Cutover Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cutover Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +32 13 £674 +28.29% 6
UK excluding London +41 7 £635 +21.00% 3
London +35 6 £674 -3.79% 3
South East +48 4 £547 -0.64% 1
Work from Home +28 3 £574 -6.37% 3
North of England -4 2 £700 +47.37%
Midlands +22 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -

Cutover Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cutover 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 featuring Cutover Manager in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 8 (61.54%) SAP
3 7 (53.85%) Finance
4 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (38.46%) Migration
5 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (38.46%) Data Migration
5 5 (38.46%) Project Management
5 5 (38.46%) ERP
6 4 (30.77%) Cutover Planning
6 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Workday
7 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
7 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
8 2 (15.38%) Validation
8 2 (15.38%) ETL
8 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
8 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
8 2 (15.38%) Oracle
8 2 (15.38%) Ariba
8 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
8 2 (15.38%) Agile
8 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (15.38%) Contingency Planning
8 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
8 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP

Cutover Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 3 (23.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.69%) NetSuite
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (7.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (7.69%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.69%) OCI
General
1 9 (69.23%) Social Skills
2 7 (53.85%) Finance
3 3 (23.08%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Law
4 1 (7.69%) Manufacturing
4 1 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.69%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.69%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (38.46%) Data Migration
2 5 (38.46%) ERP
2 5 (38.46%) Migration
2 5 (38.46%) Project Management
3 4 (30.77%) Cutover Planning
3 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (23.08%) Risk Management
5 2 (15.38%) Agile
5 2 (15.38%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (15.38%) Contingency Planning
5 2 (15.38%) Data Extraction
5 2 (15.38%) Decision-Making
5 2 (15.38%) End-to-End Testing
5 2 (15.38%) ETL
5 2 (15.38%) PRINCE2
5 2 (15.38%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (15.38%) Validation
6 1 (7.69%) Digital Transformation Programme
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.69%) PMP
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) SAP
2 3 (23.08%) Workday
3 2 (15.38%) Ariba
3 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Oracle