Technical Manager Contracts in England

Technical Manager
UK > England

The median Technical Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 343 323
Rank change year-on-year +1 -20 +34
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 192 323 582
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.53% 0.67% 0.83%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.71% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 226 386
10th Percentile £356 £405 £425
25th Percentile £450 £459 £496
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -6.67% +12.50%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £638
90th Percentile £800 £721 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 9
10th Percentile £28.25 - £33.00
25th Percentile £29.25 - £41.00
Median hourly rate £34.21 £70.00 £58.75
Median % change year-on-year -51.13% +19.15% +113.64%
75th Percentile - - £69.16
90th Percentile £43.53 - £70.50
UK median hourly rate £34.21 £67.50 £58.75
% change year-on-year -49.32% +14.89% +113.64%

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 33,787 45,579 67,163
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.59% 95.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,417 32,381 47,891
10th Percentile £284 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.36%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £544 £525
% change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,440 1,334 1,845
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.92 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.54% +94.63% +6.38%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in England

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Technical Manager in England over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Technical Manager in England

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 18 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 +4 103 £575 +4.55% 93
North of England +25 30 £496 -0.75% 52
South East +22 22 £525 +5.00% 78
North West +18 18 £496 -0.75% 25
East of England +9 14 £525 -19.23% 34
West Midlands +20 12 £488 -11.36% 26
Midlands +16 12 £488 -11.36% 49
Yorkshire +11 12 £506 +12.50% 19
South West -2 6 £500 -5.88% 43
Technical Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 80 (41.67%) Project Management
2 60 (31.25%) Agile
3 50 (26.04%) Finance
4 43 (22.40%) Social Skills
5 36 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (15.63%) Project Delivery
7 23 (11.98%) Change Management
8 21 (10.94%) Azure
9 20 (10.42%) Programme Management
10 19 (9.90%) Scrum
11 17 (8.85%) Migration
11 17 (8.85%) Banking
11 17 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
11 17 (8.85%) Roadmaps
12 16 (8.33%) Risk Management
13 15 (7.81%) PMP
13 15 (7.81%) PMI Certification
13 15 (7.81%) SAP
14 14 (7.29%) Waterfall
14 14 (7.29%) Security Cleared
14 14 (7.29%) Degree
14 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
15 13 (6.77%) SQL
15 13 (6.77%) PRINCE2
15 13 (6.77%) ERP
15 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
16 12 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
16 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
17 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
17 11 (5.73%) QA

Technical 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 7 (3.65%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.08%) SharePoint 2013
3 2 (1.04%) CMS
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.52%) Cloud Foundry
4 1 (0.52%) ColdFusion
4 1 (0.52%) Confluence
4 1 (0.52%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 8 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.52%) Maya
5 1 (0.52%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (2.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Temenos T24
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.52%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.52%) SAP Hybris
Cloud Services
1 21 (10.94%) Azure
2 11 (5.73%) SaaS
3 10 (5.21%) AWS
4 9 (4.69%) GCP
5 6 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.60%) Power Platform
7 3 (1.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.04%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.04%) iPaaS
8 2 (1.04%) PaaS
8 2 (1.04%) PowerApps
9 1 (0.52%) Asana
9 1 (0.52%) Contentful
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub
9 1 (0.52%) IaaS
9 1 (0.52%) Miro
9 1 (0.52%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.52%) Power Automate
9 1 (0.52%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (0.52%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.65%) WAN
2 6 (3.13%) LAN
2 6 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (2.08%) VPN
3 4 (2.08%) Wireless
4 3 (1.56%) Firewall
5 2 (1.04%) Broadband
5 2 (1.04%) SAN
5 2 (1.04%) Skype
6 1 (0.52%) DHCP
6 1 (0.52%) DNS
6 1 (0.52%) MPLS
6 1 (0.52%) NAS
6 1 (0.52%) NFC
6 1 (0.52%) RTP
6 1 (0.52%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.52%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (0.52%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.52%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.52%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.08%) Data Lake
2 3 (1.56%) Power BI
2 3 (1.56%) SAP HANA
3 2 (1.04%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (1.04%) Metadata
4 1 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.52%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.52%) SAP BW
4 1 (0.52%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 50 (26.04%) Finance
2 43 (22.40%) Social Skills
3 17 (8.85%) Banking
4 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (4.17%) Retail
7 7 (3.65%) Back Office
8 6 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.60%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.08%) Front Office
10 4 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.56%) Automotive
11 3 (1.56%) Games
11 3 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.56%) Legal
11 3 (1.56%) Police
11 3 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (1.04%) French Language
12 2 (1.04%) Investment Banking
12 2 (1.04%) Public Speaking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) ADO
1 1 (0.52%) Hugging Face
1 1 (0.52%) OpenID
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.52%) SAML
1 1 (0.52%) SAP PI
1 1 (0.52%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
2 8 (4.17%) NHS
3 7 (3.65%) Product Ownership
4 6 (3.13%) Digital Media
5 5 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.08%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.08%) FMCG
6 4 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
7 3 (1.56%) Hedge funds
7 3 (1.56%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.56%) PMI
7 3 (1.56%) Taxonomies
7 3 (1.56%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.04%) Derivative
8 2 (1.04%) Digital TV
8 2 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.04%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.04%) Social Media
8 2 (1.04%) STB
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.08%) Linux
2 3 (1.56%) Windows
3 1 (0.52%) AIX
3 1 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (41.67%) Project Management
2 60 (31.25%) Agile
3 36 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 30 (15.63%) Project Delivery
5 23 (11.98%) Change Management
6 20 (10.42%) Programme Management
7 19 (9.90%) Scrum
8 17 (8.85%) Migration
8 17 (8.85%) Problem-Solving
8 17 (8.85%) Roadmaps
9 16 (8.33%) Risk Management
10 14 (7.29%) Waterfall
11 13 (6.77%) ERP
11 13 (6.77%) PRINCE2
12 12 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
13 11 (5.73%) Product Management
13 11 (5.73%) Project Planning
14 10 (5.21%) Decision-Making
15 9 (4.69%) Budget Management
15 9 (4.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 13 (6.77%) SQL
2 9 (4.69%) Python
3 3 (1.56%) C#
4 2 (1.04%) Java
5 1 (0.52%) C
5 1 (0.52%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (7.81%) PMI Certification
1 15 (7.81%) PMP
2 14 (7.29%) Degree
2 14 (7.29%) Security Cleared
3 9 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 5 (2.60%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.08%) DV Cleared
5 4 (2.08%) PgMP
6 3 (1.56%) HNC
6 3 (1.56%) NVQ Level 4
7 2 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.52%) APMG
8 1 (0.52%) APMP
8 1 (0.52%) CCNA
8 1 (0.52%) CCNP
8 1 (0.52%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.52%) FFIEC
8 1 (0.52%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (5.73%) QA
2 6 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 6 (3.13%) ISO17020
3 5 (2.60%) SLA
4 3 (1.56%) GDPR
4 3 (1.56%) PMO
5 2 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 14001
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.52%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.52%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.52%) NIST
6 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.52%) RMADS
System Software
1 3 (1.56%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.04%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (1.56%) TrustSec
2 2 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.52%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.52%) Nessus
3 1 (0.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (7.81%) SAP
2 13 (6.77%) Microsoft
3 8 (4.17%) Google
4 6 (3.13%) Cisco
4 6 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (1.04%) Guidewire
5 2 (1.04%) MuleSoft
5 2 (1.04%) Oracle
5 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.04%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.04%) Temenos
5 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.52%) Genesys
6 1 (0.52%) Red Hat
6 1 (0.52%) Zscaler