Technology Manager Contracts

Technology Manager
UK

The median Technology Manager daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 23 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
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 - 678
Rank change year-on-year - - +164
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Manager 3 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.010% - 0.007%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% - 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £476 - £498
25th Percentile £508 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +69.49%
75th Percentile £694 - £697
90th Percentile £758 - £781
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £500

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 26,451 39,382 53,564
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.28% 92.83% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,196 25,664 37,382
10th Percentile £289 £280 £313
25th Percentile £405 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -2.82% +2.90%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 2,685 1,500
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.81 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £16.30 £19.39
Median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +88.21%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.03
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.42 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -33.96% -5.88% +112.50%

Technology Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Manager in the UK

Technology Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technology Manager in the UK

Technology Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Manager over the 6 months to 23 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Manager in the UK

Technology Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Technology Manager in the UK

Technology Manager
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 - 3 £575 - 53
UK excluding London - 3 £575 - 50
South East - 2 £515 - 11
Work from Home - 1 £575 - 9
East of England - 1 £800 - 5

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

For the 6 months to 23 May 2025, Technology 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 Technology Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
1 2 (66.67%) Workday
2 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Measurement
2 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Data Pipeline
2 1 (33.33%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Service Catalogue
2 1 (33.33%) Budgeting
2 1 (33.33%) Service Design
2 1 (33.33%) Data Acquisition
2 1 (33.33%) Innovation Management
2 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Resource Allocation
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Management
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
2 1 (33.33%) Data Stewardship
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Master Data Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Continuity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM

Technology 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Data Pipeline
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
1 1 (33.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
1 1 (33.33%) Data Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Data Modelling
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) IT Governance
1 1 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Strategic Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) Data Quality
2 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Workday