IT Manager Contracts

IT Manager
UK

The median IT Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 201 178 171
Rank change year-on-year -23 -7 +84
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 499 822 1,416
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.16% 1.47% 1.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 1.55% 1.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 634 1,042
10th Percentile £363 £363 £375
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.24%
75th Percentile £613 £622 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £520 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 8 16
10th Percentile £21.58 £35.00 £20.59
25th Percentile £23.63 £50.94 £24.20
Median hourly rate £28.56 £62.50 £30.73
Median % change year-on-year -54.30% +103.42% -5.78%
75th Percentile £43.22 £69.38 £54.19
90th Percentile £58.13 £84.00 £65.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.28 £50.00 £27.00
% change year-on-year -49.45% +85.19% -17.20%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK

IT Manager
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 June 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
England -29 429 £525 -0.94% 329
UK excluding London -26 282 £520 +4.00% 264
Work from Home +5 194 £525 +2.44% 137
London +5 181 £550 -4.35% 87
Midlands +15 65 £520 +4.00% 60
South East -17 65 £525 +2.94% 64
South West +16 55 £550 +11.39% 15
West Midlands +4 52 £523 +4.50% 39
North of England -41 48 £475 -5.38% 81
Scotland +7 38 £475 -4.76% 24
North West -17 24 £525 +12.00% 31
Yorkshire -24 17 £450 -18.18% 44
East Midlands +9 12 £450 -10.00% 21
North East +17 6 £525 +16.67% 10
East of England -22 5 £475 -5.00% 28
Wales +19 4 £500 +53.85% 4
Northern Ireland 0 2 - -

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 June 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 featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 167 (33.47%) Project Management
2 154 (30.86%) Finance
3 123 (24.65%) Social Skills
4 108 (21.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 102 (20.44%) Agile
6 72 (14.43%) Change Management
7 65 (13.03%) Project Delivery
8 63 (12.63%) PRINCE2
9 57 (11.42%) ITIL
10 44 (8.82%) Banking
10 44 (8.82%) Microsoft
10 44 (8.82%) Azure
11 43 (8.62%) Waterfall
11 43 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
12 42 (8.42%) Service Delivery
13 41 (8.22%) Service Management
13 41 (8.22%) Migration
14 40 (8.02%) Public Sector
15 38 (7.62%) Degree
16 37 (7.41%) Risk Management
17 36 (7.21%) Security Cleared
17 36 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
18 33 (6.61%) Legal
18 33 (6.61%) Decision-Making
19 32 (6.41%) ITSM
19 32 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
20 31 (6.21%) SC Cleared
21 30 (6.01%) PMP
22 28 (5.61%) PMI Certification
22 28 (5.61%) ERP

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 23 (4.61%) SharePoint
2 10 (2.00%) Confluence
3 7 (1.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.40%) CMS
5 1 (0.20%) Appian
5 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 12 (2.40%) Microsoft Project
2 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.20%) Photoshop
4 3 (0.60%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.20%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 6 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.00%) Remedy ITSM
3 2 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics AX
4 1 (0.20%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.20%) JDE EnterpriseOne
4 1 (0.20%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.20%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.20%) SAP EWM
4 1 (0.20%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 44 (8.82%) Azure
2 36 (7.21%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (4.41%) SaaS
4 15 (3.01%) AWS
5 7 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
5 7 (1.40%) Power Platform
5 7 (1.40%) Slack
5 7 (1.40%) WhatsApp
6 6 (1.20%) Canva
7 3 (0.60%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.60%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.40%) PowerApps
8 2 (0.40%) SuccessFactors
9 1 (0.20%) Entra ID
9 1 (0.20%) IaaS
9 1 (0.20%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.20%) PaaS
9 1 (0.20%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.20%) Intranet
2 7 (1.40%) WAN
3 6 (1.20%) LAN
4 4 (0.80%) Firewall
5 3 (0.60%) SAN
5 3 (0.60%) Wireless
6 2 (0.40%) Broadband
7 1 (0.20%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.20%) DHCP
7 1 (0.20%) DNS
7 1 (0.20%) Internet
7 1 (0.20%) Network Security
7 1 (0.20%) SNMP
7 1 (0.20%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.20%) VLAN
7 1 (0.20%) VoIP
7 1 (0.20%) VPN
7 1 (0.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.60%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (1.20%) Power BI
3 4 (0.80%) SQL Server
4 3 (0.60%) Tableau
5 2 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.20%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.20%) Mixpanel
6 1 (0.20%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 22 (4.41%) JIRA
2 3 (0.60%) Hudson
General
1 154 (30.86%) Finance
2 123 (24.65%) Social Skills
3 44 (8.82%) Banking
4 40 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 33 (6.61%) Legal
6 24 (4.81%) Analytical Skills
7 16 (3.21%) Manufacturing
7 16 (3.21%) Retail
8 14 (2.81%) Law
8 14 (2.81%) Telecoms
9 13 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (2.61%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
10 12 (2.40%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (1.80%) Local Government
12 6 (1.20%) Marketing
12 6 (1.20%) Military
12 6 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.00%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.20%) ADO
1 1 (0.20%) Express.js
1 1 (0.20%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.20%) Middleware
1 1 (0.20%) Node.js
1 1 (0.20%) React
1 1 (0.20%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.20%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 17 (3.41%) Data Centre
2 13 (2.61%) Management Information System
3 11 (2.20%) Onboarding
4 10 (2.00%) FMCG
5 8 (1.60%) Legacy Systems
6 7 (1.40%) NHS
6 7 (1.40%) Product Ownership
7 6 (1.20%) CMDB
7 6 (1.20%) Video Editing
8 5 (1.00%) PMI
9 4 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 4 (0.80%) Life Science
10 3 (0.60%) e-Learning
10 3 (0.60%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.40%) Industry 4.0
11 2 (0.40%) LIMS
11 2 (0.40%) Reinsurance
11 2 (0.40%) Security Posture
11 2 (0.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 16 (3.21%) Windows
2 8 (1.60%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.00%) Windows 10
3 5 (1.00%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.20%) Linux
5 1 (0.20%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.20%) Windows 8
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (0.20%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (33.47%) Project Management
2 108 (21.64%) Stakeholder Management
3 102 (20.44%) Agile
4 72 (14.43%) Change Management
5 65 (13.03%) Project Delivery
6 63 (12.63%) PRINCE2
7 57 (11.42%) ITIL
8 43 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
8 43 (8.62%) Waterfall
9 42 (8.42%) Service Delivery
10 41 (8.22%) Migration
10 41 (8.22%) Service Management
11 37 (7.41%) Risk Management
12 33 (6.61%) Decision-Making
13 32 (6.41%) Continuous Improvement
13 32 (6.41%) ITSM
14 28 (5.61%) ERP
15 27 (5.41%) Budget Management
15 27 (5.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 22 (4.41%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 8 (1.60%) Swift
2 2 (0.40%) Python
2 2 (0.40%) SQL
3 1 (0.20%) C#
3 1 (0.20%) Java
Qualifications
1 38 (7.62%) Degree
2 36 (7.21%) Security Cleared
3 31 (6.21%) SC Cleared
4 30 (6.01%) PMP
5 28 (5.61%) PMI Certification
6 10 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 8 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (1.40%) ITIL Certification
9 6 (1.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (1.20%) DV Cleared
9 6 (1.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 4 (0.80%) Cisco Certification
11 3 (0.60%) CISM
11 3 (0.60%) CISSP
12 2 (0.40%) CCNA
12 2 (0.40%) CEH
12 2 (0.40%) CISMP
12 2 (0.40%) ISEB
12 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.40%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.21%) PMO
2 12 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.20%) SLA
4 10 (2.00%) QA
5 9 (1.80%) GDPR
5 9 (1.80%) NIST
6 7 (1.40%) COBIT
7 6 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
8 3 (0.60%) GxP
9 2 (0.40%) Basel III
9 2 (0.40%) Data Quality
9 2 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
9 2 (0.40%) GRC
10 1 (0.20%) EMIR
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS
10 1 (0.20%) IFRS 17
10 1 (0.20%) ISO 22301
10 1 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.20%) P3O
10 1 (0.20%) PMBOK
System Software
1 5 (1.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (1.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (0.60%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (0.20%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (0.20%) Avamar
1 1 (0.20%) Matomo
1 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (0.20%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.20%) SCCM
1 1 (0.20%) SCOM
1 1 (0.20%) Terraform
1 1 (0.20%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (8.82%) Microsoft
2 25 (5.01%) SAP
3 12 (2.40%) Oracle
4 9 (1.80%) Cisco
4 9 (1.80%) VMware
5 8 (1.60%) Okta
5 8 (1.60%) ServiceNow
6 7 (1.40%) Remedy
7 5 (1.00%) Adobe
7 5 (1.00%) Ariba
7 5 (1.00%) Citrix
7 5 (1.00%) Dynatrace
7 5 (1.00%) Splunk
8 4 (0.80%) Salesforce
9 3 (0.60%) BMC
9 3 (0.60%) Cadence
9 3 (0.60%) Siemens
10 2 (0.40%) Aruba
10 2 (0.40%) Atlassian
10 2 (0.40%) Fortinet