Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 98 110
Rank change year-on-year -28 +12 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 15 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.67% 0.42% 0.32%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% 0.45% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 2 5
10th Percentile £374 £423 £435
25th Percentile £569 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +26.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £731 £513 -
90th Percentile £825 £528 £635
England median daily rate £575 £525 £533
% change year-on-year +9.52% -1.41% -3.18%

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 1,978 1,570 1,733
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.98% 93.34% 93.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,265 1,006 1,189
10th Percentile £258 £208 £220
25th Percentile £400 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £706 £688
England median daily rate £510 £525 £534
% change year-on-year -2.86% -1.69% -2.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 59 60
10th Percentile £12.92 £13.66 £15.25
25th Percentile £14.12 £16.88 £17.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.82 £22.20
Median % change year-on-year +5.58% +7.32% +25.25%
75th Percentile £31.00 £32.27 £38.69
90th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £26.50 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.38% -17.78% +38.46%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the West Midlands

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Warwickshire 0 9 £600 +41.18% 4
Birmingham -3 4 £500 - 8
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 14 December 2025, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 5 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Budget Management
6 1 (6.67%) Business Continuity
6 1 (6.67%) Business Strategy
6 1 (6.67%) Change Control
6 1 (6.67%) CI/CD
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP
6 1 (6.67%) Conflict Management
6 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (6.67%) CRM
6 1 (6.67%) Data Migration
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (6.67%) Document Management
6 1 (6.67%) DWDM

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (6.67%) SAP PM
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) DWDM
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (6.67%) LAN
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications
1 1 (6.67%) WAN
General
1 6 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (13.33%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Fiori
1 1 (6.67%) WebCenter
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team
3 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (6.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 5 (33.33%) Customer Engagement
2 5 (33.33%) DevOps
2 5 (33.33%) Privileged Access Management
2 5 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Agile
3 4 (26.67%) Project Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) ERP
5 2 (13.33%) Project Management
5 2 (13.33%) Project Planning
5 2 (13.33%) Resource Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Delivery
5 2 (13.33%) Virtual Team Management
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) FinOps
6 1 (6.67%) Major Incident Management
6 1 (6.67%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (6.67%) Security Operations
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) CISSP
1 1 (6.67%) GCIH
1 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
1 1 (6.67%) PMP
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ITGC
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) CyberArk
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
2 1 (6.67%) SAP