Payroll Manager Contracts

Payroll Manager
UK

The median Payroll Manager daily rate in the UK is £528, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 564 671 797
Rank change year-on-year +107 +126 -83
Contract jobs requiring a Payroll Manager 20 26 51
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.047% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% 0.050% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 29
10th Percentile £510 £415 £460
25th Percentile £513 £438 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% -5.45% +12.82%
75th Percentile £562 £588 £675
90th Percentile £608 £724 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £438 £650
% change year-on-year +20.00% -32.69% +62.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £70.00 -
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 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Payroll Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Payroll Manager in the UK

Payroll Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Payroll Manager in the UK

Payroll Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Payroll Manager over the 6 months to 20 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Payroll Manager in the UK

Payroll Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Payroll Manager in the UK

Payroll Manager
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Payroll Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 20 June 2024. 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 +77 14 £525 +0.96% 17
UK excluding London +35 12 £525 +20.00% 6
London +73 5 £525 +0.96% 11
Work from Home +110 4 £543 -10.52% 8
Midlands +17 3 £525 +16.67% 1
South West - 3 - -
Wales - 3 £530 -
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 1
North of England +17 2 £600 +50.00% 1
North East +9 1 £600 +50.00%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Scotland - 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2024, Payroll 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 Payroll Manager in the job title.

1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (55.00%) Change Management
3 9 (45.00%) Project Management
4 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 7 (35.00%) SAP
6 6 (30.00%) SAP Payroll
6 6 (30.00%) iTrent
7 5 (25.00%) CIPD
7 5 (25.00%) SAP ERP
7 5 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
7 5 (25.00%) Local Government
7 5 (25.00%) ERP
8 4 (20.00%) Migration
9 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
10 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
10 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
10 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
10 2 (10.00%) Time Management
10 2 (10.00%) Agile
10 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
10 2 (10.00%) Finance
10 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
10 2 (10.00%) Oracle
10 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
11 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
11 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 1 (5.00%) PMP
11 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
11 1 (5.00%) Ariba

Payroll 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:

Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 6 (30.00%) iTrent
1 6 (30.00%) SAP Payroll
2 5 (25.00%) SAP ERP
3 1 (5.00%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (5.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (5.00%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 12 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Local Government
3 3 (15.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (10.00%) Finance
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Change Management
2 9 (45.00%) Project Management
3 8 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (25.00%) ERP
5 4 (20.00%) Migration
6 2 (10.00%) Agile
6 2 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Project Delivery
6 2 (10.00%) Project Planning
6 2 (10.00%) Time Management
7 1 (5.00%) Computer Science
7 1 (5.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (5.00%) Data Cleansing
7 1 (5.00%) Data Extraction
7 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
7 1 (5.00%) Process Improvement
7 1 (5.00%) Test Strategy
7 1 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 5 (25.00%) CIPD
2 1 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) Master's Degree
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) SAP
2 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (5.00%) Ariba
3 1 (5.00%) Civica
3 1 (5.00%) Workday