IT Manager Contracts in West Yorkshire

IT Manager
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The median IT Manager daily rate in West Yorkshire is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 66 68
Rank change year-on-year +18 +2 +19
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 14 11 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 2.55% 1.10% 2.39%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.66% 1.19% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 24
10th Percentile £331 - £450
25th Percentile £381 £425 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £534 £538 £606
90th Percentile £553 £575 £634
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +5.56% -18.18% +10.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in West Yorkshire. 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 West Yorkshire with a recognized job title 526 928 1,593
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.99% 92.89% 97.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 347 561 1,105
10th Percentile £255 £275 £327
25th Percentile £357 £400 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -6.67% +6.60%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £641 £656 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £469 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -1.26% -9.52% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 15
10th Percentile £19.61 £11.75 £12.46
25th Percentile £22.14 £12.25 £14.46
Median hourly rate £24.82 £14.34 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +73.14% -55.89% +92.88%
75th Percentile £55.29 £29.25 £66.88
90th Percentile £100.28 £53.75 £70.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate £21.24 £14.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +51.71% -36.36% +25.71%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in West Yorkshire

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in West Yorkshire.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in West Yorkshire

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in West Yorkshire

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in West Yorkshire

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Manager within the West Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 1 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
Leeds +4 12 £438 -2.78% 10
IT Manager
Yorkshire

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT 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 Yorkshire region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
1 9 (64.29%) Service Management
1 9 (64.29%) Retail
1 9 (64.29%) Incident Management
1 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 8 (57.14%) Mobile Device Management
2 8 (57.14%) ServiceNow
2 8 (57.14%) iPhone
2 8 (57.14%) Mac OS
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 8 (57.14%) ITSM
2 8 (57.14%) Apple
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 8 (57.14%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) NHS
5 2 (14.29%) Local Government
5 2 (14.29%) Azure
5 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
5 2 (14.29%) Liquidlogic
6 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.14%) SOC 2

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (57.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (64.29%) Entra ID
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (14.29%) Azure
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.14%) DNS
1 1 (7.14%) Firewall
1 1 (7.14%) VLAN
1 1 (7.14%) VPN
1 1 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
General
1 9 (64.29%) Retail
1 9 (64.29%) Social Skills
2 8 (57.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) iPhone
1 8 (57.14%) Smartphone
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 8 (57.14%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Incident Management
1 9 (64.29%) Service Management
2 8 (57.14%) Customer Service
2 8 (57.14%) ITIL
2 8 (57.14%) ITSM
2 8 (57.14%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
4 3 (21.43%) Risk Management
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (7.14%) Agile
6 1 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (7.14%) Escalation Management
6 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
6 1 (7.14%) Project Governance
6 1 (7.14%) SIEM
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) CISM
1 1 (7.14%) CISSP
1 1 (7.14%) Degree
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
1 1 (7.14%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) GDPR
1 1 (7.14%) GRC
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (7.14%) NIST
1 1 (7.14%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (64.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (57.14%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (7.14%) Nessus
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (57.14%) Apple
2 8 (57.14%) ServiceNow
3 2 (14.29%) Liquidlogic
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Qualys