Contracts Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Contract Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Contract Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 June 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
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 - 117
Rank change year-on-year - - +44
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 3 0 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.20% - 0.36%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.22% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 7
10th Percentile £418 - £317
25th Percentile £425 - £332
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.74%
75th Percentile £475 - £531
90th Percentile £483 - £588
England median daily rate £500 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -12.66% +4.09% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,336 1,872 2,094
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.95% 91.23% 94.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,259 1,451
10th Percentile £200 £250 £263
25th Percentile £363 £363 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.15%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £638 £700 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 143 58
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.96 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.71 £15.06
Median hourly rate £24.34 £19.00 £20.84
Median % change year-on-year +28.11% -8.82% +19.07%
75th Percentile £33.91 £39.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.00 £54.88
England median hourly rate £28.17 £39.78 £43.32
% change year-on-year -29.19% -8.17% +73.26%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in the West Midlands

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in the West Midlands

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in the West Midlands

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contracts Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 June 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
Birmingham - 2 £475 - 2
Warwickshire - 1 £425 -
Contracts Manager
England

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 26 June 2025, Contracts 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Intelligent Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Document Management
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
3 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (33.33%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Change Control
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 1 (33.33%) Swim Lanes
3 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (33.33%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Agile
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Change Control
1 1 (33.33%) Change Management
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Document Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
1 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (33.33%) Supplier Management
1 1 (33.33%) Swim Lanes