Senior Technical Manager Contracts

Senior Technical Manager
UK

The median Senior Technical Manager daily rate in the UK is £395 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

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

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 576 707 796
Rank change year-on-year +131 +89 -135
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Technical Manager 10 15 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.025% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.026% 0.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 16
10th Percentile - £381 £446
25th Percentile £285 £425 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £525 £569
Median % change year-on-year -24.76% -7.69% +26.39%
75th Percentile £516 £673 £673
90th Percentile £545 £712 £786
UK excluding London median daily rate £521 £463 £513
% change year-on-year +12.70% -9.76% -6.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Technical Manager over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Technical Manager in the UK

Senior Technical Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Technical Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +115 9 £395 -16.84% 19
London +104 6 £290 -44.76% 8
Work from Home +126 4 - - 10
UK excluding London +68 3 £521 +12.70% 12
North of England +32 1 £543 +20.56% 3
South East +12 1 £500 +5.26% 3
North West - 1 £543 - 3
Scotland - 1 - - 1

Senior Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior Technical 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 Senior Technical Manager in the job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
1 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
2 3 (30.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (30.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) B2B
2 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (30.00%) FMCG
3 2 (20.00%) NHS
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (20.00%) French Language
3 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (10.00%) NFC
4 1 (10.00%) User Stories
4 1 (10.00%) SDLC
4 1 (10.00%) Escalation Management
4 1 (10.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (10.00%) PMO
4 1 (10.00%) Workshop Facilitation
4 1 (10.00%) Burndown Charts
4 1 (10.00%) Epics
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Emotional Intelligence
4 1 (10.00%) Conflict Resolution

Senior Technical 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 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (30.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) NFC
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (20.00%) French Language
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) FMCG
2 2 (20.00%) NHS
3 1 (10.00%) EMV
3 1 (10.00%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Agile
1 4 (40.00%) Budgeting
1 4 (40.00%) Project Management
2 3 (30.00%) B2B
2 3 (30.00%) Business Transformation
2 3 (30.00%) ERP
2 3 (30.00%) Multithreading
2 3 (30.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (10.00%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Control
3 1 (10.00%) CRM
3 1 (10.00%) ITIL
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (10.00%) Programme Management
3 1 (10.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (10.00%) Scrum
3 1 (10.00%) SDLC
3 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (10.00%) PMO
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) SAP