Software Manager Contracts

Software Manager
UK

The median Software Manager daily rate in the UK is £681 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 May 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
1 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 519 621 686
Rank change year-on-year +102 +65 -68
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 79 91 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.18% 0.15% 0.19%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 57 120
10th Percentile £413 £392 £400
25th Percentile £490 £438 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £681 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +31.01% -9.57% +27.78%
75th Percentile £775 £669 £728
90th Percentile £800 £700 £813
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £475
% change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 22 3
10th Percentile - £61.63 £30.79
25th Percentile £46.25 £65.00 £31.69
Median hourly rate £47.50 £65.50 £34.38
Median % change year-on-year -27.48% +90.55% -20.06%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £36.16
90th Percentile - £85.55 £36.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £65.50 £34.38
% change year-on-year -27.48% +90.55% -22.75%

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 40,362 56,304 84,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.61% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,261 39,350 59,476
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £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 £735
UK excluding London median daily rate £492 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.60% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,668 1,565 2,099
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.40 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.02 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.95% +91.49% +3.14%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.75 £48.88
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.75 £63.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.50 £42.43 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.91% +117.60% +2.63%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Manager over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Manager in the UK

Software Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Manager in the UK

Software 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 Software Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 May 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 +127 75 £700 +33.33% 97
London +111 41 £700 +27.27% 34
UK excluding London +28 33 £500 -3.85% 67
Work from Home +94 25 £525 - 59
North of England +40 14 £493 -17.83% 15
North West +38 12 £490 -14.74% 8
South West +9 6 £513 - 7
East of England +3 6 £350 -46.15% 6
Wales - 3 £503 - 5
West Midlands +24 2 £538 +40.52% 8
Midlands +22 2 £538 +23.56% 15
South East +9 2 £563 +3.21% 15
Yorkshire +25 1 £525 -20.75% 7
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2024, Software 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 Software Manager in the job title.

1 42 (53.16%) Agile
2 38 (48.10%) Finance
3 37 (46.84%) Asset Management
4 34 (43.04%) AWS
4 34 (43.04%) .NET
5 33 (41.77%) Software Engineering
6 32 (40.51%) DevOps
6 32 (40.51%) C#
7 31 (39.24%) JavaScript
8 29 (36.71%) Azure
8 29 (36.71%) Fintech
9 27 (34.18%) React
9 27 (34.18%) TypeScript
10 26 (32.91%) QA
11 25 (31.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 25 (31.65%) Front Office
11 25 (31.65%) Fixed Income
11 25 (31.65%) Equities
11 25 (31.65%) Investment Management
11 25 (31.65%) Derivative
11 25 (31.65%) TDD
11 25 (31.65%) Hedge funds
11 25 (31.65%) GCP
11 25 (31.65%) Redux
11 25 (31.65%) Full Stack Development
12 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
13 15 (18.99%) .NET Core
14 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
15 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
16 12 (15.19%) AngularJS

Software 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 (1.27%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Magento
2 1 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 34 (43.04%) AWS
2 29 (36.71%) Azure
3 25 (31.65%) GCP
4 3 (3.80%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.27%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 3 (3.80%) JIRA
General
1 38 (48.10%) Finance
2 25 (31.65%) Front Office
3 19 (24.05%) Social Skills
4 7 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.59%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (6.33%) Manufacturing
6 5 (6.33%) Retail
7 4 (5.06%) Electronics
7 4 (5.06%) Marketing
7 4 (5.06%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.53%) Banking
8 2 (2.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.53%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Law
9 1 (1.27%) Legal
9 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.27%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (43.04%) .NET
2 27 (34.18%) React
3 25 (31.65%) Redux
4 15 (18.99%) .NET Core
5 12 (15.19%) AngularJS
6 10 (12.66%) ASP.NET
6 10 (12.66%) ASP.NET Core
6 10 (12.66%) Vue
7 2 (2.53%) React Native
8 1 (1.27%) ADO
8 1 (1.27%) Laravel
Miscellaneous
1 25 (31.65%) Derivative
1 25 (31.65%) Equities
1 25 (31.65%) Fixed Income
1 25 (31.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 25 (31.65%) Hedge funds
2 8 (10.13%) CMDB
2 8 (10.13%) Virtual Team
3 7 (8.86%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 2 (2.53%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (2.53%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.53%) Social Media
6 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (53.16%) Agile
2 37 (46.84%) Asset Management
3 33 (41.77%) Software Engineering
4 32 (40.51%) DevOps
5 29 (36.71%) Fintech
6 25 (31.65%) Full Stack Development
6 25 (31.65%) Investment Management
6 25 (31.65%) TDD
7 10 (12.66%) Mentoring
7 10 (12.66%) Software Asset Management
8 9 (11.39%) Project Management
8 9 (11.39%) Scrum
8 9 (11.39%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
8 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (10.13%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (10.13%) Quality Management
9 8 (10.13%) Software Delivery
9 8 (10.13%) Virtual Team Management
10 7 (8.86%) Service Management
10 7 (8.86%) Statistics
Programming Languages
1 32 (40.51%) C#
2 31 (39.24%) JavaScript
3 27 (34.18%) TypeScript
4 4 (5.06%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) Python
5 2 (2.53%) Go
5 2 (2.53%) Kotlin
5 2 (2.53%) Ruby
5 2 (2.53%) SQL
6 1 (1.27%) C
6 1 (1.27%) C++
6 1 (1.27%) PHP
6 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.72%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.86%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) MCP
4 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (32.91%) QA
2 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.27%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 7 (8.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.80%) Atlassian
2 3 (3.80%) SAP
3 2 (2.53%) Progress
3 2 (2.53%) ServiceNow
3 2 (2.53%) VMware
4 1 (1.27%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.27%) Cadence
4 1 (1.27%) IBM
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle
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