IT Manager Contracts

The median contractor rate for an IT Manager was £450 per day in advertised job vacancies during the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

IT Manager UK
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	208	169	179
Rank change year-on-year	-39	+10
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager	556	802	768
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	1.19%	1.49%	1.37%
As % of the Job Titles category	1.25%	1.57%	1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted	389	577	499
Median daily rate	£450	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£320	£322	£300
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£650	£600	£605
UK excluding London median daily rate	£413	£428	£415
% change year-on-year	-3.50%	+3.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted	10	9	11
Median hourly rate	£41.50	£38.00	£34.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+9.21%	+11.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£22.48	£20.40	£17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£55.00	£64.60	£57.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£41.50	£39.00	£32.26
% change year-on-year	+6.41%	+20.89%

The next table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all job roles in contract job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title. As such, the figures in the first row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract IT Job Roles UK
Contract job vacancies with a job title containing a recognized job role	44357	51050	53273
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	94.75%	94.87%	94.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	28704	33277	33414
Median daily rate	£438	£425	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.94%	+6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£260	£248
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£600	£570
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£400	£370
% change year-on-year	-	+8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted	1368	1510	2064
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£17.50	£16.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.85%	+6.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.50	£11.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£44.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£17.45	£16.14
% change year-on-year	+0.28%	+8.11%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised that featured IT Manager in the job title.

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing IT Manager.

Contractor daily rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing IT Manager over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager.

Contractor hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing IT Manager over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-30	523	£450	-	188
London	-44	228	£525	+5.00%	60
South East	-24	112	£410	-4.70%	37
East of England	+9	62	£400	-8.57%	17
City of London	-24	40	£575	+4.54%	16
South West	-12	30	£405	+1.25%	12
North West	-13	27	£388	-11.93%	18
West Midlands	+1	26	£415	-7.88%	18
Cambridgeshire	+11	24	£395	-9.81%	5
Scotland	+9	23	£450	+5.88%	6
Hampshire	+10	21	£375	-18.47%	9
Yorkshire	+3	21	£438	-2.77%	15
Berkshire	-3	20	£438	+9.37%	8
Surrey	+9	19	£400	-8.83%	8
Buckinghamshire	-29	19	£400	-5.88%	4
West Yorkshire	+3	17	£438	-2.77%	12
Edinburgh	-5	17	£444	+1.42%	2
Cambridge	+8	16	£395	-9.81%	2
East Midlands	-9	16	£406	+1.56%	11
Milton Keynes	-23	16	£404	-5.05%	3
Bedfordshire	+4	13	£421	-19.76%	1
Leeds	+4	12	£438	-6.66%	6
Manchester	-7	12	£350	-20.45%	7
Hertfordshire	-6	11	£300	-25.00%	9
West Sussex	+8	10	£460	+2.22%	3
Bristol	-4	9	£411	+5.59%	8
Northamptonshire	+1	7	£413	+3.12%	2
Slough	+11	6	£356	-10.93%
Kingston Upon Thames	-2	6	£500	-	1
Devon	-3	6	£320	-	1

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT Manager contract jobs required the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1	430 (37.85%)	Project Management
2	369 (32.48%)	Finance
3	262 (23.06%)	Stakeholder Management
4	242 (21.30%)	PRINCE2
5	166 (14.61%)	Agile Software Development
6	158 (13.91%)	ITIL
7	125 (11.00%)	Banking
8	101 (8.89%)	Retail
9	96 (8.45%)	Change Management
10	89 (7.83%)	Microsoft
11	88 (7.75%)	Migration
12	80 (7.04%)	Supplier Management
13	77 (6.78%)	Risk Management
14	73 (6.43%)	Service Management
15	66 (5.81%)	Service Delivery

16	64 (5.63%)	PMI Certification
17	61 (5.37%)	Programme Management
18	60 (5.28%)	Windows
18	60 (5.28%)	Security Cleared
18	60 (5.28%)	SDLC
19	58 (5.11%)	Degree
20	57 (5.02%)	Data Centre
20	57 (5.02%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
21	56 (4.93%)	Microsoft Project
22	55 (4.84%)	Telecoms
23	53 (4.67%)	QA
24	51 (4.49%)	PMP
24	51 (4.49%)	Matrix Organization
24	51 (4.49%)	PMO
25	50 (4.40%)	Microsoft Office

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	21 (1.85%)	SharePoint
2	6 (0.53%)	Skype for Business
3	5 (0.44%)	CMS
4	4 (0.35%)	Documentum
4	4 (0.35%)	MS Exchange
4	4 (0.35%)	Oracle Workflow
5	3 (0.26%)	Confluence
5	3 (0.26%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	3 (0.26%)	IIS
5	3 (0.26%)	MS Project Server
6	2 (0.18%)	Apache
6	2 (0.18%)	Exchange Server 2010
6	2 (0.18%)	FileNet
6	2 (0.18%)	SAS
7	1 (0.088%)	BizTalk Server
7	1 (0.088%)	IBM Notes
7	1 (0.088%)	OpenStack
7	1 (0.088%)	SharePoint 2013
7	1 (0.088%)	Smallworld
7	1 (0.088%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	56 (4.93%)	Microsoft Project
2	50 (4.40%)	Microsoft Office
3	29 (2.55%)	Microsoft Excel
4	19 (1.67%)	MS Visio
5	13 (1.14%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	3 (0.26%)	Spreadsheet
7	2 (0.18%)	Windchill
8	1 (0.088%)	S-PLUS

Business Applications
1	11 (0.97%)	Actimize
2	8 (0.70%)	Oracle EBS
2	8 (0.70%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	6 (0.53%)	SAP APO
4	5 (0.44%)	Dynamics CRM
4	5 (0.44%)	Maximo
4	5 (0.44%)	SAP ERP
5	4 (0.35%)	SAP SCM
6	3 (0.26%)	Oracle ERP
6	3 (0.26%)	Teamcenter
6	3 (0.26%)	Temenos T24
6	3 (0.26%)	Unit4 Business World
7	2 (0.18%)	Bloomberg AIM
7	2 (0.18%)	Dynamics NAV
7	2 (0.18%)	NetSuite
7	2 (0.18%)	thinkFolio
7	2 (0.18%)	TrackWise
8	1 (0.088%)	Cognos TM1
8	1 (0.088%)	SAP PM
8	1 (0.088%)	Workfront

Cloud Services
1	37 (3.26%)	Office 365
2	24 (2.11%)	Microsoft Azure
3	16 (1.41%)	SaaS
4	11 (0.97%)	Amazon AWS
5	9 (0.79%)	Cloud Computing
6	8 (0.70%)	IaaS
7	4 (0.35%)	PaaS
8	3 (0.26%)	Mimecast
9	2 (0.18%)	Dynamics 365
9	2 (0.18%)	G Suite
10	1 (0.088%)	Adobe Creative Cloud
10	1 (0.088%)	Azure Active Directory
10	1 (0.088%)	GitHub
10	1 (0.088%)	OneDrive
10	1 (0.088%)	SuccessFactors
10	1 (0.088%)	Yammer
10	1 (0.088%)	Zapier

Communications & Networking
1	23 (2.02%)	WAN
2	21 (1.85%)	Firewall
3	20 (1.76%)	LAN
4	19 (1.67%)	Wi-Fi
5	13 (1.14%)	SAN
6	12 (1.06%)	Network Security
7	10 (0.88%)	Internet
7	10 (0.88%)	VPN
8	9 (0.79%)	Skype
9	8 (0.70%)	MPLS
9	8 (0.70%)	VoIP
10	7 (0.62%)	DNS
11	6 (0.53%)	Intranet
11	6 (0.53%)	TCP/IP
11	6 (0.53%)	Unified Communications
11	6 (0.53%)	VLAN
12	3 (0.26%)	DHCP
12	3 (0.26%)	IP Telephony
12	3 (0.26%)	NAS
12	3 (0.26%)	Software-Defined Networking

Database & Business Intelligence
1	17 (1.50%)	SQL Server
2	6 (0.53%)	Data Warehouse
2	6 (0.53%)	GIS
3	4 (0.35%)	Big Data
4	3 (0.26%)	Electronic Patient Records
4	3 (0.26%)	Oracle Reports
5	2 (0.18%)	Data Lake
5	2 (0.18%)	MySQL
5	2 (0.18%)	Oracle BI EE
5	2 (0.18%)	PostgreSQL
5	2 (0.18%)	SQL Server Integration Services
5	2 (0.18%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
6	1 (0.088%)	Hadoop
6	1 (0.088%)	MongoDB
6	1 (0.088%)	Oracle Database
6	1 (0.088%)	Pentaho
6	1 (0.088%)	SAP HANA
6	1 (0.088%)	SQL Server 2014
6	1 (0.088%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
6	1 (0.088%)	Tick Data

Development Applications
1	9 (0.79%)	JIRA
2	2 (0.18%)	Dreamweaver
2	2 (0.18%)	Gradle
2	2 (0.18%)	Maven
3	1 (0.088%)	Artifactory
3	1 (0.088%)	Git (software)
3	1 (0.088%)	GoCD
3	1 (0.088%)	Hudson
3	1 (0.088%)	Jenkins
3	1 (0.088%)	Selenium
3	1 (0.088%)	SonarQube
3	1 (0.088%)	Subversion
3	1 (0.088%)	Visual Studio Team System

General
1	369 (32.48%)	Finance
2	125 (11.00%)	Banking
3	101 (8.89%)	Retail
4	55 (4.84%)	Telecoms
5	48 (4.23%)	Legal
6	44 (3.87%)	Manufacturing
7	43 (3.79%)	Investment Banking
8	33 (2.90%)	Front Office
9	31 (2.73%)	Marketing
10	27 (2.38%)	Pharmaceutical
11	25 (2.20%)	Law
12	19 (1.67%)	Back Office
13	18 (1.58%)	Retail Banking
14	12 (1.06%)	Billing
15	10 (0.88%)	Local Government
16	8 (0.70%)	Electronics
17	7 (0.62%)	Advertising
17	7 (0.62%)	Financial Institution
18	5 (0.44%)	French Language
19	4 (0.35%)	Games

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	7 (0.62%)	.NET
2	4 (0.35%)	HTML
2	4 (0.35%)	Middleware
3	3 (0.26%)	XML
4	2 (0.18%)	CSS
4	2 (0.18%)	Web Services
5	1 (0.088%)	Ajax
5	1 (0.088%)	AngularJS
5	1 (0.088%)	EDI
5	1 (0.088%)	Flash
5	1 (0.088%)	FpML
5	1 (0.088%)	HTML5
5	1 (0.088%)	PySpark
5	1 (0.088%)	SailPoint

Miscellaneous
1	57 (5.02%)	Data Centre
2	47 (4.14%)	Analytical Skills
3	44 (3.87%)	Management Information System
4	31 (2.73%)	PMI
5	23 (2.02%)	NHS
5	23 (2.02%)	Virtual Team
6	17 (1.50%)	FMCG
7	12 (1.06%)	User Experience
8	11 (0.97%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
9	10 (0.88%)	Derivative
10	9 (0.79%)	CMDB
11	8 (0.70%)	Data Protection Act
12	6 (0.53%)	CCTV
12	6 (0.53%)	EPoS
13	5 (0.44%)	Computer Science
13	5 (0.44%)	Equities
13	5 (0.44%)	Fixed Income
13	5 (0.44%)	Hybrid Cloud
13	5 (0.44%)	Private Cloud
13	5 (0.44%)	Public Cloud

Operating Systems
1	60 (5.28%)	Windows
2	23 (2.02%)	Windows Server
3	20 (1.76%)	Windows 10
4	14 (1.23%)	Windows 7
5	10 (0.88%)	Linux
5	10 (0.88%)	Windows Server 2012
6	8 (0.70%)	Unix
7	7 (0.62%)	Windows Server 2008
8	3 (0.26%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	2 (0.18%)	VMS
9	2 (0.18%)	Windows Server 2003
10	1 (0.088%)	Android
10	1 (0.088%)	Mac OS
10	1 (0.088%)	Windows 2000 Server
10	1 (0.088%)	Windows 8

Processes & Methodologies
1	430 (37.85%)	Project Management
2	262 (23.06%)	Stakeholder Management
3	242 (21.30%)	PRINCE2
4	166 (14.61%)	Agile Software Development
5	158 (13.91%)	ITIL
6	96 (8.45%)	Change Management
7	88 (7.75%)	Migration
8	80 (7.04%)	Supplier Management
9	77 (6.78%)	Risk Management
10	73 (6.43%)	Service Management
11	66 (5.81%)	Service Delivery
12	61 (5.37%)	Programme Management
13	60 (5.28%)	SDLC
14	51 (4.49%)	Matrix Organization
15	49 (4.31%)	ERP
16	48 (4.23%)	Business Analysis
17	47 (4.14%)	Information Security
18	44 (3.87%)	Stakeholder Engagement
19	43 (3.79%)	IT Strategy
19	43 (3.79%)	ITSM

Programming Languages
1	28 (2.46%)	SQL
2	14 (1.23%)	C
3	9 (0.79%)	Java
4	2 (0.18%)	C#
4	2 (0.18%)	Groovy
4	2 (0.18%)	JavaScript
4	2 (0.18%)	PowerShell
4	2 (0.18%)	Python
4	2 (0.18%)	Ruby
4	2 (0.18%)	VBA
5	1 (0.088%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	64 (5.63%)	PMI Certification
2	60 (5.28%)	Security Cleared
3	58 (5.11%)	Degree
4	57 (5.02%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
5	51 (4.49%)	PMP
6	49 (4.31%)	SC Cleared
7	47 (4.14%)	PRINCE2 Certification
8	27 (2.38%)	CISSP
9	23 (2.02%)	ITIL Certification
10	22 (1.94%)	CISM
11	18 (1.58%)	CISA
12	16 (1.41%)	APMP
13	11 (0.97%)	Microsoft Certification
14	10 (0.88%)	MCSE
15	7 (0.62%)	ISEB
16	6 (0.53%)	Cisco Certification
16	6 (0.53%)	DV Cleared
17	5 (0.44%)	CGEIT
18	4 (0.35%)	BPSS Clearance
18	4 (0.35%)	PgMP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	53 (4.67%)	QA
2	51 (4.49%)	PMO
3	39 (3.43%)	SLA
4	26 (2.29%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	18 (1.58%)	MiFID
6	13 (1.14%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
7	10 (0.88%)	COBIT
7	10 (0.88%)	GxP
8	8 (0.70%)	PCI DSS
9	7 (0.62%)	EMIR
9	7 (0.62%)	GDPR
9	7 (0.62%)	SEPA
10	5 (0.44%)	Disclosure Scotland
10	5 (0.44%)	ISO 22301
11	4 (0.35%)	Dodd-Frank
12	3 (0.26%)	GCP
12	3 (0.26%)	IFRS
12	3 (0.26%)	IFRS 9
12	3 (0.26%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13	2 (0.18%)	Cyber Essentials

System Software
1	35 (3.08%)	Active Directory
2	8 (0.70%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	3 (0.26%)	Hyper-V
4	2 (0.18%)	Virtual Machines
4	2 (0.18%)	Virtual Servers
5	1 (0.088%)	Firmware
5	1 (0.088%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
5	1 (0.088%)	VMware Workstation
5	1 (0.088%)	XenApp
5	1 (0.088%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	7 (0.62%)	SCCM
2	4 (0.35%)	AirWatch
3	2 (0.18%)	SCOM
3	2 (0.18%)	vRealize
4	1 (0.088%)	FortiGate
4	1 (0.088%)	Host Intrusion Detection System
4	1 (0.088%)	HP Quality Center
4	1 (0.088%)	Microsoft Clustering
4	1 (0.088%)	Microsoft Intune
4	1 (0.088%)	MOM
4	1 (0.088%)	Nessus
4	1 (0.088%)	Opscode Chef
4	1 (0.088%)	Systems Management Server (SMS)
4	1 (0.088%)	vCenter Server
4	1 (0.088%)	XenMobile

Vendors
1	89 (7.83%)	Microsoft
2	48 (4.23%)	SAP
3	42 (3.70%)	Oracle
4	28 (2.46%)	VMware
5	19 (1.67%)	Cisco
6	16 (1.41%)	HP
7	14 (1.23%)	Citrix
8	12 (1.06%)	ServiceNow
9	9 (0.79%)	Salesforce.com
10	8 (0.70%)	IBM
11	7 (0.62%)	NetApp
12	6 (0.53%)	Remedy
13	4 (0.35%)	Bloomberg
13	4 (0.35%)	Charles River
13	4 (0.35%)	OpenText
13	4 (0.35%)	PeopleSoft
14	3 (0.26%)	Apple
14	3 (0.26%)	Avaya
14	3 (0.26%)	CheckPoint
14	3 (0.26%)	Pegasus