Technical Manager Contracts in the North West

Technical Manager
England > North West

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the North West is £496 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 22 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
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 133 154
Rank change year-on-year +18 +21 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 18 20 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.68% 0.65% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.69% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 17
10th Percentile £408 £429 £345
25th Percentile £445 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.75% - -
75th Percentile £500 £550 £538
90th Percentile £521 £638 £629
England median daily rate £525 £525 £563
% change year-on-year - -6.67% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £34.21 - -
England median hourly rate £34.21 £70.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -51.13% +19.15% +113.64%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North West. 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 North West with a recognized job title 2,507 2,907 3,868
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.60% 95.00% 96.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,625 2,055 2,813
10th Percentile £274 £304 £213
25th Percentile £388 £407 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 276 125 176
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.59 £11.75
25th Percentile £13.88 £18.50 £15.19
Median hourly rate £29.50 £30.54 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +31.51% +29.37%
75th Percentile £46.91 £47.00 £50.01
90th Percentile £69.89 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -17.38% +95.65% +5.80%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager in the North West

Technical Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Technical Manager in the North West

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the North West over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the North West

Technical Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Technical Manager in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Technical Manager in the North West

Technical Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 22 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
Manchester +15 9 £500 - 7
Cheshire +3 4 £475 -13.64% 7
Merseyside +12 3 - - 2
Cumbria - 1 - - 2
Lancashire - 1 £400 - 4
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 22 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 North West region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 17025
2 5 (27.78%) ISO17020
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 5 (27.78%) Digital Media
2 5 (27.78%) Digital Forensics
2 5 (27.78%) Data Collection
3 3 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 3 (16.67%) QA
3 3 (16.67%) HNC
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 3 (16.67%) Police
3 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 3 (16.67%) GDPR
4 2 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Internal Audit
4 2 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.56%) Open Source
5 1 (5.56%) Change Management
5 1 (5.56%) NFC
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Management
5 1 (5.56%) Agile
5 1 (5.56%) Artificial Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Software Engineering

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) NFC
General
1 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Police
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Digital Media
2 3 (16.67%) Driving Licence
3 1 (5.56%) Blockchain
3 1 (5.56%) EMV
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Project Management
2 5 (27.78%) Data Collection
2 5 (27.78%) Digital Forensics
3 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Internal Audit
4 2 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 2 (11.11%) Validation
4 2 (11.11%) Verification and Validation
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.56%) Creative Thinking
5 1 (5.56%) Customer Experience
5 1 (5.56%) Emotional Intelligence
5 1 (5.56%) Generative AI
5 1 (5.56%) Impact Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) LLM
5 1 (5.56%) Open Source
5 1 (5.56%) Programme Governance
5 1 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Map
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) HNC
1 3 (16.67%) NVQ Level 4
1 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) ISO/IEC 17025
1 5 (27.78%) ISO17020
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (5.56%) Disclosure Scotland
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Zscaler