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 28 July 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
28 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 534 543 635
Rank change year-on-year +9 +92 +191
Contract jobs requiring a Cutover Manager 14 29 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.043% 0.072% 0.079%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.047% 0.078% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 14 33
10th Percentile £583 £456 £420
25th Percentile £622 £500 £515
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £674 £513 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.41% -10.87% -
75th Percentile £700 £616 £688
90th Percentile £723 £685 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £700 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +40.00% -9.09% +4.76%

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 30,026 37,336 51,168
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.53% 93.01% 94.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,074 24,182 35,390
10th Percentile £285 £300 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.47%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,465 2,247 1,536
10th Percentile £13.71 £13.86 £14.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.32 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.03 £43.32
Median % change year-on-year -40.16% -2.97% +68.67%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £39.60
% change year-on-year -41.51% +8.59% +85.92%

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 28 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cutover Manager in the UK

Cutover Manager
Top 6 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 28 July 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 +26 14 £674 +31.41% 1
London +8 9 £672 +3.38%
UK excluding London +15 5 £700 +40.00% 1
Work from Home +14 5 £625 +25.00% 1
South East +26 3 £525 - 1
North of England -13 2 £700 +40.00%

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

For the 6 months to 28 July 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 (64.29%) Cutover Planning
2 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Migration
2 8 (57.14%) Data Migration
3 7 (50.00%) SAP
4 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 5 (35.71%) Project Management
5 5 (35.71%) ERP
5 5 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
5 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (28.57%) Finance
7 3 (21.43%) Retail
7 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
7 3 (21.43%) Workday
7 3 (21.43%) Contingency Planning
7 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
8 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
8 2 (14.29%) Release Automation
8 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
8 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
8 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
8 2 (14.29%) Agile
8 2 (14.29%) Release Management
8 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
8 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
8 2 (14.29%) Data Extraction

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 5 (35.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (7.14%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 3 (21.43%) Retail
4 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (7.14%) Law
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Cutover Planning
2 8 (57.14%) Data Migration
2 8 (57.14%) Migration
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (35.71%) ERP
4 5 (35.71%) Project Management
5 3 (21.43%) Business Continuity
5 3 (21.43%) Contingency Planning
5 3 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
6 2 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (14.29%) Decision-Making
6 2 (14.29%) Dependency Management
6 2 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Process Improvement
6 2 (14.29%) Release Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
6 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) PMI Certification
1 1 (7.14%) PMP
Vendors
1 7 (50.00%) SAP
2 3 (21.43%) Workday
3 2 (14.29%) Ariba
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft