IT Support Manager Contracts

IT Support Manager
UK

The median IT Support Manager daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 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
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 530 - 648
Rank change year-on-year - - +214
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Manager 21 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% - 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% - 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 5
10th Percentile £328 - -
25th Percentile £378 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 - £200
Median % change year-on-year - - -38.46%
75th Percentile £447 - £750
90th Percentile £606 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £350 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £35.89 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 30,132 36,077 49,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.88% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,016 23,240 33,998
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
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% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,536 2,025 1,461
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.21 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +20.00% +75.32%

IT Support Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Manager in the UK

IT Support Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Support Manager in the UK

IT Support Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Manager over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Manager in the UK

IT Support Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Manager in the UK

IT Support Manager
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 15 August 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 - 20 £400 - 11
UK excluding London - 15 £350 - 7
North of England - 13 £314 - 3
Yorkshire - 13 £314 - 2
London - 6 £400 - 5
Work from Home - 5 £400 - 3
Northern Ireland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £475 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £475 -

IT Support Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, IT Support 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 IT Support Manager in the job title.

1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 15 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 14 (66.67%) ITIL
4 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
5 12 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 12 (57.14%) Customer Service
5 12 (57.14%) Apple
5 12 (57.14%) Retail
5 12 (57.14%) Service Management
5 12 (57.14%) ITSM
5 12 (57.14%) Mobile Device Management
5 12 (57.14%) ServiceNow
5 12 (57.14%) Jamf Pro
5 12 (57.14%) Smartphone
5 12 (57.14%) Incident Management
5 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
5 12 (57.14%) iPhone
5 12 (57.14%) Mac OS
6 4 (19.05%) Finance
6 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
6 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
6 4 (19.05%) OneDrive
7 3 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
7 3 (14.29%) Slack
7 3 (14.29%) Asana
7 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (14.29%) Windows
7 3 (14.29%) Asset Management

IT Support 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 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (4.76%) Mule
Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.76%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 16 (76.19%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (71.43%) Entra ID
3 4 (19.05%) OneDrive
4 3 (14.29%) Asana
4 3 (14.29%) Azure
4 3 (14.29%) SaaS
4 3 (14.29%) Slack
5 1 (4.76%) GCP
5 1 (4.76%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Jenkins
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
1 1 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (61.90%) Social Skills
2 12 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 12 (57.14%) Retail
3 4 (19.05%) Finance
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
5 1 (4.76%) Pharmaceutical
Miscellaneous
1 12 (57.14%) iPhone
1 12 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 4 (19.05%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Distributed Applications
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.76%) FMCG
3 1 (4.76%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 12 (57.14%) Mac OS
2 3 (14.29%) Android
2 3 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 3 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) ITIL
2 12 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 12 (57.14%) Incident Management
2 12 (57.14%) ITSM
2 12 (57.14%) Mobile Device Management
2 12 (57.14%) Service Management
3 3 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 3 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (14.29%) Identity Management
3 3 (14.29%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (14.29%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 2 (9.52%) People Management
5 1 (4.76%) Availability Management
5 1 (4.76%) CI/CD
5 1 (4.76%) DevOps
5 1 (4.76%) Microservices
5 1 (4.76%) Process Improvement
5 1 (4.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (4.76%) Statistical Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (57.14%) Jamf Pro
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (57.14%) Apple
2 12 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.76%) Adobe
3 1 (4.76%) Google