Implementation Manager Contracts

Implementation Manager
UK

The median Implementation Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 30 April 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
30 Apr 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 447 543 593
Rank change year-on-year +96 +50 +74
Contract jobs requiring an Implementation Manager 72 57 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.25% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.14% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 46 77
10th Percentile £404 £394 £400
25th Percentile £459 £491 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £605 £647 £650
90th Percentile £687 £700 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £511 £525
% change year-on-year -2.20% -2.62% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 5
10th Percentile £49.98 - £60.75
25th Percentile £60.00 £66.50 £67.50
Median hourly rate £75.00 £68.00 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.29% -9.33% -
75th Percentile - £69.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 - £75.00

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 27,050 40,453 56,471
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.52% 92.79% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,687 26,352 39,474
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £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 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 2,658 1,569
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.86 £14.29
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £19.50
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -20.00% +91.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.75 £38.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.32% -9.41% +117.95%

Implementation Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Implementation Manager in the UK

Implementation Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Implementation Manager in the UK

Implementation Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Implementation Manager over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Implementation Manager in the UK

Implementation Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Implementation Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Implementation Manager in the UK

Implementation Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Implementation Manager over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Implementation Manager in the UK

Implementation Manager
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Implementation Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +76 63 £550 - 26
UK excluding London +65 37 £500 -2.20% 15
London +41 30 £550 -12.00% 12
Work from Home +37 17 £500 -6.76% 14
South East +57 16 £500 -9.09% 7
North of England +25 9 £425 +3.03% 2
North West +7 7 £413 - 1
East of England +36 4 - - 1
South West +45 2 £589 -1.83%
Midlands +19 2 £588 +17.50% 3
Yorkshire +16 2 £500 -
West Midlands +11 2 £588 +17.50% 2
Scotland +9 2 £640 +22.44% 2
Wales - 2 £525 -

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

For the 6 months to 30 April 2025, Implementation 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 Implementation Manager in the job title.

1 39 (54.17%) Project Management
2 31 (43.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
4 23 (31.94%) Finance
5 20 (27.78%) Agile
6 16 (22.22%) Change Management
6 16 (22.22%) PRINCE2
6 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (19.44%) ERP
7 14 (19.44%) PMP
7 14 (19.44%) Degree
8 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
9 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
10 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
10 8 (11.11%) Time Management
10 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (11.11%) Migration
11 7 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence
11 7 (9.72%) PMI Certification
11 7 (9.72%) ITIL
11 7 (9.72%) SAP
11 7 (9.72%) Legal
11 7 (9.72%) Project Governance
11 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
11 7 (9.72%) Coaching
11 7 (9.72%) Impact Analysis
12 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
12 6 (8.33%) People Management
12 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
12 6 (8.33%) Scrum

Implementation 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (5.56%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.78%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.39%) Adobe Campaign
2 1 (1.39%) Primavera
2 1 (1.39%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (4.17%) Azure
2 2 (2.78%) AWS
2 2 (2.78%) GCP
2 2 (2.78%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (2.78%) SaaS
3 1 (1.39%) Adobe Analytics
3 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
3 1 (1.39%) OCI
3 1 (1.39%) OneDrive
3 1 (1.39%) Power Automate
3 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
3 1 (1.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.78%) LAN
2 1 (1.39%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.39%) WAN
2 1 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.39%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (6.94%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Git
2 2 (2.78%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.94%) Finance
3 10 (13.89%) Public Sector
4 8 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.72%) Legal
6 6 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 6 (8.33%) Marketing
7 4 (5.56%) Telecoms
8 3 (4.17%) Banking
8 3 (4.17%) Local Government
8 3 (4.17%) Retail
9 2 (2.78%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.78%) Aviation
9 2 (2.78%) Billing
9 2 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.39%) Agriculture
10 1 (1.39%) Electronics
10 1 (1.39%) Financial Institution
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) ADO
1 1 (1.39%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.56%) AI Agents
2 2 (2.78%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.78%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.39%) CCTV
3 1 (1.39%) Data Fabric
3 1 (1.39%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.39%) EPoS
3 1 (1.39%) Learning Management System
3 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.39%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.39%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 1 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.78%) Linux
1 2 (2.78%) Unix
2 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (54.17%) Project Management
2 31 (43.06%) Stakeholder Management
3 20 (27.78%) Agile
4 16 (22.22%) Change Management
4 16 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 16 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (19.44%) ERP
6 8 (11.11%) Migration
6 8 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 8 (11.11%) Time Management
7 7 (9.72%) Artificial Intelligence
7 7 (9.72%) Coaching
7 7 (9.72%) Impact Analysis
7 7 (9.72%) ITIL
7 7 (9.72%) Project Governance
8 6 (8.33%) People Management
8 6 (8.33%) Project Planning
8 6 (8.33%) Scrum
9 5 (6.94%) Process Improvement
9 5 (6.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) Java
1 3 (4.17%) Python
2 2 (2.78%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.78%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (19.44%) Degree
1 14 (19.44%) PMP
2 7 (9.72%) PMI Certification
2 7 (9.72%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.78%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.78%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) APMP
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.94%) PMO
2 4 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.39%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.39%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (1.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 11 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 7 (9.72%) SAP
3 6 (8.33%) Oracle
3 6 (8.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.78%) Adobe
4 2 (2.78%) Avaloq
4 2 (2.78%) Databricks
4 2 (2.78%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.78%) Workday
5 1 (1.39%) Ariba
5 1 (1.39%) Cisco
5 1 (1.39%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.39%) Dynatrace
5 1 (1.39%) Ericsson
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Planview
5 1 (1.39%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.39%) Tagetik
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