Sustainability Manager Contracts

Sustainability Manager
UK

The median Sustainability Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 May 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
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 517 - 708
Rank change year-on-year - - +154
Contract jobs requiring a Sustainability Manager 7 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% - 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.026% - 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £241 - -
25th Percentile £303 - £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £750
75th Percentile £700 - £775
90th Percentile £723 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £29.65 - -
25th Percentile £29.88 - -
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £45.00
75th Percentile £34.13 - -
90th Percentile £34.35 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.00 - £45.00

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 27,127 40,034 55,895
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 92.76% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,721 26,064 39,048
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,053 2,665 1,566
10th Percentile £14.14 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.11
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +90.68%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -30.00% -4.76% +115.16%

Sustainability Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Sustainability Manager in the UK

Sustainability Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Sustainability Manager in the UK

Sustainability Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Sustainability Manager over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Sustainability Manager in the UK

Sustainability Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Sustainability Manager in the UK

Sustainability Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sustainability Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 6 May 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 - 7 £525 - 12
London - 6 £525 - 8
Work from Home - 4 £675 - 8
UK excluding London - 1 - - 5
North of England - 1 - - 2
North West - 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Sustainability 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 Sustainability Manager in the job title.

1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) FMCG
2 2 (28.57%) Confluence
2 2 (28.57%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Programme Management
3 1 (14.29%) ISO 14001
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Artificial Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Supply Chain Management
3 1 (14.29%) Strategic Planning
3 1 (14.29%) Google
3 1 (14.29%) Use Case
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
3 1 (14.29%) Power Platform

Sustainability 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Google Docs
1 1 (14.29%) Google Sheets
1 1 (14.29%) Google Workspace
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
1 1 (14.29%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) FMCG
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (28.57%) Agile
2 2 (28.57%) Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (28.57%) Contingency Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
2 2 (28.57%) Data Engineering
2 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Decarbonisation
3 1 (14.29%) Due Diligence
3 1 (14.29%) Internal Audit
3 1 (14.29%) Product Backlog
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) User Research
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO 14001
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google