Contracts Manager Contracts in England

Contract Manager
UK > England

The median Contract Manager daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 528 626
Rank change year-on-year +104 +98 -56
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 107 118 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.29% 0.24% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.32% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 86 80 114
10th Percentile £315 £355 £383
25th Percentile £406 £455 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +12.50% +3.63%
75th Percentile £745 £691 £613
90th Percentile - £749 £688
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £500
% change year-on-year - +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £61.25 -
UK median hourly rate - £61.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 33,767 45,838 67,777
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.60% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,422 32,556 48,342
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,340 1,860
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.63
Median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.05 £64.78
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Contracts Manager in England over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in England

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. 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
London +104 65 £675 +14.89% 19
South West +10 13 £375 -34.78% 4
North of England +25 11 £525 -8.70% 19
South East +12 7 £450 -1.64% 17
East of England +15 6 £388 - 10
Yorkshire +22 5 £550 -10.20% 11
North West +7 5 £406 -29.35% 8
West Midlands +12 2 £513 +1.23% 6
Midlands +8 2 £513 +10.81% 9
North East - 1 - - 2
Contracts Manager
UK

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, 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 England region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 34 (31.78%) Public Sector
2 31 (28.97%) PRINCE2
3 30 (28.04%) Finance
4 28 (26.17%) Agile
5 27 (25.23%) Project Management
6 22 (20.56%) Collaborative Working
7 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
7 21 (19.63%) Supplier Management
8 15 (14.02%) Contract Management
9 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
9 12 (11.21%) Banking
10 10 (9.35%) Change Management
11 9 (8.41%) Programme Management
12 8 (7.48%) Degree
12 8 (7.48%) NHS
12 8 (7.48%) Vulnerability Management
12 8 (7.48%) Static Application Security Testing
12 8 (7.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
13 7 (6.54%) Contract Negotiation
13 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
14 6 (5.61%) Billing
14 6 (5.61%) SLA
14 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
14 6 (5.61%) Risk Management
14 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
15 5 (4.67%) DevOps
15 5 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
15 5 (4.67%) Due Diligence
15 5 (4.67%) Project Delivery
15 5 (4.67%) Legal

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (0.93%) CMS
1 1 (0.93%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.93%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.80%) Magento
2 1 (0.93%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 4 (3.74%) AWS
1 4 (3.74%) Azure
2 2 (1.87%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (0.93%) Azure AKS
3 1 (0.93%) Azure App Service
3 1 (0.93%) Azure Data Factory
3 1 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (0.93%) Azure Event Grid
3 1 (0.93%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.87%) Radio Access Network
1 2 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (0.93%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (0.93%) NoSQL
1 1 (0.93%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.93%) JIRA
General
1 34 (31.78%) Public Sector
2 30 (28.04%) Finance
3 21 (19.63%) Social Skills
4 12 (11.21%) Banking
5 6 (5.61%) Billing
5 6 (5.61%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.67%) Legal
6 5 (4.67%) Manufacturing
6 5 (4.67%) Marketing
6 5 (4.67%) Retail
7 4 (3.74%) Electronics
8 3 (2.80%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.87%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (1.87%) Front Office
10 1 (0.93%) Back Office
10 1 (0.93%) Law
10 1 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.93%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (3.74%) .NET
1 4 (3.74%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (0.93%) CSS
2 1 (0.93%) HTML
2 1 (0.93%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.48%) NHS
2 4 (3.74%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (2.80%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.80%) Onboarding
3 3 (2.80%) PMI
3 3 (2.80%) Public Cloud
4 2 (1.87%) Credit Risk
5 1 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.93%) Linux
1 1 (0.93%) Unix
1 1 (0.93%) Windows
1 1 (0.93%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (28.97%) PRINCE2
2 28 (26.17%) Agile
3 27 (25.23%) Project Management
4 22 (20.56%) Collaborative Working
5 21 (19.63%) Supplier Management
6 15 (14.02%) Contract Management
7 12 (11.21%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (9.35%) Change Management
9 9 (8.41%) Programme Management
10 8 (7.48%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 8 (7.48%) Static Application Security Testing
10 8 (7.48%) Vulnerability Management
11 7 (6.54%) Contract Negotiation
12 6 (5.61%) Risk Management
13 5 (4.67%) Business Intelligence
13 5 (4.67%) Due Diligence
13 5 (4.67%) Kanban
13 5 (4.67%) Problem-Solving
13 5 (4.67%) Project Delivery
13 5 (4.67%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.74%) SQL
2 1 (0.93%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.93%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 8 (7.48%) Degree
2 7 (6.54%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.61%) SC Cleared
4 4 (3.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.80%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.87%) CCIE
6 2 (1.87%) CCIE Security
6 2 (1.87%) CCIE Service Provider
6 2 (1.87%) CCNA
6 2 (1.87%) CCNP
6 2 (1.87%) CCSP
6 2 (1.87%) CISA
6 2 (1.87%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.87%) CISM
6 2 (1.87%) CISSP
6 2 (1.87%) CSSLP
6 2 (1.87%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.93%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (0.93%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.61%) SLA
2 3 (2.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (2.80%) PMO
3 2 (1.87%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.74%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.93%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (1.87%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (4.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (4.67%) SAP
2 4 (3.74%) BT
3 3 (2.80%) ServiceNow
4 2 (1.87%) Cadence
4 2 (1.87%) Cisco
4 2 (1.87%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.93%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.93%) Informatica
5 1 (0.93%) ION Trading
5 1 (0.93%) NEC
5 1 (0.93%) Optimizely