IT Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £506 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 17 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
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 163 134 114
Rank change year-on-year -29 -20 +69
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 254 445 675
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.25% 1.94% 2.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.35% 2.05% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 348 523
10th Percentile £363 £358 £370
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.25% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £575
90th Percentile £626 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 11
10th Percentile £23.18 - £17.50
25th Percentile £23.63 £35.00 £20.59
Median hourly rate £25.28 £50.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +85.19% -17.20%
75th Percentile £36.75 £70.63 £37.73
90th Percentile £51.60 £80.75 £65.30
UK median hourly rate £31.84 £62.50 £30.73
% change year-on-year -49.06% +103.42% -3.40%

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 18,796 21,663 29,128
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 94.29% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,463 15,116 20,427
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £393 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.82% +2.90% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,267 1,107 1,446
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.73 £18.02 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.92
90th Percentile £73.85 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT 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 IT Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 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
Midlands +4 58 £523 +4.50% 57
South East -18 57 £525 +2.94% 68
South West +9 53 £513 +5.13% 24
West Midlands +5 48 £523 +4.50% 39
North of England -42 42 £450 -10.00% 80
Scotland +20 35 £475 -5.00% 18
North West -26 22 £475 +2.70% 37
Yorkshire -30 14 £450 -18.18% 39
East Midlands +7 9 £500 - 18
North East +19 5 £525 +16.67% 9
East of England -16 5 £450 -5.26% 15
Wales +22 4 £500 +53.85% 14
IT Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 17 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 87 (34.25%) Project Management
2 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
3 58 (22.83%) Finance
4 53 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
5 50 (19.69%) Agile
6 41 (16.14%) ITIL
7 39 (15.35%) PRINCE2
7 39 (15.35%) Change Management
8 36 (14.17%) Project Delivery
9 34 (13.39%) Service Management
10 33 (12.99%) Service Delivery
11 28 (11.02%) Waterfall
11 28 (11.02%) Public Sector
12 26 (10.24%) Legal
12 26 (10.24%) ITSM
13 25 (9.84%) Decision-Making
14 23 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (9.06%) Security Cleared
15 22 (8.66%) Microsoft
15 22 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
16 21 (8.27%) Migration
17 19 (7.48%) SC Cleared
17 19 (7.48%) People Management
18 18 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
19 17 (6.69%) Budget Management
20 16 (6.30%) Degree
21 15 (5.91%) IT Governance
21 15 (5.91%) Azure
21 15 (5.91%) SaaS
21 15 (5.91%) Risk Management

IT 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 12 (4.72%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.97%) Confluence
3 1 (0.39%) Moodle
Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Photoshop
2 5 (1.97%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.09%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (5.91%) Azure
2 15 (5.91%) SaaS
3 9 (3.54%) AWS
4 7 (2.76%) Slack
5 6 (2.36%) Canva
6 3 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.18%) WhatsApp
7 2 (0.79%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.94%) Intranet
2 3 (1.18%) WAN
3 2 (0.79%) LAN
4 1 (0.39%) Firewall
4 1 (0.39%) Internet
4 1 (0.39%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.39%) SNMP
4 1 (0.39%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.79%) Power BI
2 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (2.76%) JIRA
2 3 (1.18%) Hudson
General
1 68 (26.77%) Social Skills
2 58 (22.83%) Finance
3 28 (11.02%) Public Sector
4 26 (10.24%) Legal
5 12 (4.72%) Manufacturing
6 11 (4.33%) Influencing Skills
7 10 (3.94%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.54%) Law
8 9 (3.54%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Analytical Skills
9 8 (3.15%) Retail
10 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.76%) Local Government
10 7 (2.76%) Telecoms
11 5 (1.97%) Automotive
12 3 (1.18%) Billing
12 3 (1.18%) Publishing
13 2 (0.79%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.79%) Back Office
13 2 (0.79%) Military
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.39%) Middleware
1 1 (0.39%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.15%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.36%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.36%) Video Editing
4 5 (1.97%) FMCG
5 4 (1.57%) NHS
6 3 (1.18%) e-Learning
6 3 (1.18%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.18%) PMI
7 2 (0.79%) CMDB
8 1 (0.39%) Contactless
8 1 (0.39%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.39%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.39%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.39%) Housing Association
8 1 (0.39%) Life Science
8 1 (0.39%) LIMS
8 1 (0.39%) Mainframe
8 1 (0.39%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.54%) Windows
2 8 (3.15%) Apple iOS
3 3 (1.18%) Windows 10
4 2 (0.79%) Unix
4 2 (0.79%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (34.25%) Project Management
2 53 (20.87%) Stakeholder Management
3 50 (19.69%) Agile
4 41 (16.14%) ITIL
5 39 (15.35%) Change Management
5 39 (15.35%) PRINCE2
6 36 (14.17%) Project Delivery
7 34 (13.39%) Service Management
8 33 (12.99%) Service Delivery
9 28 (11.02%) Waterfall
10 26 (10.24%) ITSM
11 25 (9.84%) Decision-Making
12 23 (9.06%) Continuous Improvement
13 22 (8.66%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (8.27%) Migration
15 19 (7.48%) People Management
16 17 (6.69%) Budget Management
17 15 (5.91%) IT Governance
17 15 (5.91%) Risk Management
18 14 (5.51%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (3.15%) Swift
2 1 (0.39%) Java
2 1 (0.39%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (9.06%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.48%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.30%) Degree
4 12 (4.72%) PMI Certification
5 10 (3.94%) PMP
6 9 (3.54%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 7 (2.76%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 4 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.79%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.79%) ISEB
11 1 (0.39%) CAPM
11 1 (0.39%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.39%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.33%) PMO
2 5 (1.97%) GDPR
3 4 (1.57%) COBIT
4 3 (1.18%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.18%) QA
4 3 (1.18%) SLA
5 2 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.39%) GAMP
6 1 (0.39%) GMP
6 1 (0.39%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) P3O
6 1 (0.39%) PMBOK
System Software
1 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.39%) SafeCom
Vendors
1 22 (8.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (3.94%) Oracle
3 9 (3.54%) SAP
4 8 (3.15%) Okta
5 5 (1.97%) Remedy
6 3 (1.18%) BMC
6 3 (1.18%) Citrix
6 3 (1.18%) Siemens
7 2 (0.79%) Cadence
7 2 (0.79%) Cisco
7 2 (0.79%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) Autodesk
8 1 (0.39%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.39%) IFS
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat
8 1 (0.39%) Splunk
8 1 (0.39%) VMware