Contracts Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Contract Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Contract Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £450 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 354 389 415
Rank change year-on-year +35 +26 0
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 40 57 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.20% 0.25% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.26% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 37 56
10th Percentile £325 £334 £390
25th Percentile £338 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £503 £588 £596
90th Percentile £568 £615 £624
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,742 21,812 29,390
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.48% 94.30% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,456 15,203 20,621
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,269 1,109 1,458
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.36
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.03 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +4.19%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
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 the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK excluding London

Contracts Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
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
Scotland +39 1 - - 3
North East - 1 - - 2
Contracts Manager
UK

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Agile
2 12 (30.00%) Contract Management
3 11 (27.50%) Finance
4 9 (22.50%) Project Management
4 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
5 7 (17.50%) Change Management
5 7 (17.50%) PRINCE2
6 6 (15.00%) SLA
7 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
7 5 (12.50%) Programme Management
7 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
7 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
7 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
7 5 (12.50%) Due Diligence
8 4 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
8 4 (10.00%) Banking
8 4 (10.00%) Retail
8 4 (10.00%) Billing
8 4 (10.00%) Change Control
8 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
8 4 (10.00%) .NET
9 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (7.50%) SAP
9 3 (7.50%) E-Commerce
9 3 (7.50%) Scrum
9 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
9 3 (7.50%) Telecoms

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (2.50%) CMS
1 1 (2.50%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (7.50%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.50%) Azure
2 2 (5.00%) AWS
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (2.50%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (2.50%) Radio Access Network
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 11 (27.50%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 4 (10.00%) Banking
4 4 (10.00%) Billing
4 4 (10.00%) Retail
5 3 (7.50%) Marketing
5 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 2 (5.00%) Aerospace
6 2 (5.00%) Electronics
6 2 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (2.50%) CSS
2 1 (2.50%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.00%) Public Cloud
2 3 (7.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.00%) Credit Risk
3 2 (5.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Windows
1 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (30.00%) Agile
1 12 (30.00%) Contract Management
2 9 (22.50%) Project Management
2 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 7 (17.50%) Change Management
3 7 (17.50%) PRINCE2
4 5 (12.50%) Decision-Making
4 5 (12.50%) Due Diligence
4 5 (12.50%) Programme Management
5 4 (10.00%) Change Control
5 4 (10.00%) Contract Negotiation
6 3 (7.50%) Business Analysis
6 3 (7.50%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (7.50%) E-Commerce
6 3 (7.50%) Kanban
6 3 (7.50%) Risk Management
6 3 (7.50%) Scrum
7 2 (5.00%) Data Modelling
7 2 (5.00%) ITSM
7 2 (5.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.50%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.50%) Degree
3 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (5.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE Security
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE Service Provider
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) CCNP
4 1 (2.50%) CCSP
4 1 (2.50%) CISA
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.50%) CISM
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
4 1 (2.50%) CSSLP
4 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.00%) SLA
2 2 (5.00%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (2.50%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (7.50%) SAP
3 2 (5.00%) Cadence
3 2 (5.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Cisco
4 1 (2.50%) NEC
4 1 (2.50%) Optimizely
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce