Software Manager Contracts in London

Software Manager
England > London

The median Software Manager daily rate in London is £750, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 366 454 528
Rank change year-on-year +88 +74 -58
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 34 28 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.19% 0.11% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.21% 0.12% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 22 63
10th Percentile £630 £483 £466
25th Percentile £650 £500 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £613 £700
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -12.50% +27.27%
75th Percentile £800 £675 £813
90th Percentile £875 £734 £823
England median daily rate £538 £550 £625
% change year-on-year -2.18% -12.00% +38.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in London

Software Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Software Manager in London

Software Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Manager in London

Software Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Manager in London

Software Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 12 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
Central London +42 5 £700 -
Software Manager
England

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Software 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 London region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 28 (82.35%) Agile
2 27 (79.41%) Finance
3 26 (76.47%) AWS
4 23 (67.65%) Software Engineering
4 23 (67.65%) Fintech
5 21 (61.76%) DevOps
6 20 (58.82%) React
6 20 (58.82%) QA
6 20 (58.82%) TypeScript
6 20 (58.82%) C#
6 20 (58.82%) JavaScript
7 19 (55.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 19 (55.88%) .NET
7 19 (55.88%) Front Office
7 19 (55.88%) Equities
7 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
7 19 (55.88%) Derivative
7 19 (55.88%) Azure
7 19 (55.88%) Hedge funds
7 19 (55.88%) Investment Management
7 19 (55.88%) TDD
7 19 (55.88%) Asset Management
7 19 (55.88%) Redux
7 19 (55.88%) GCP
7 19 (55.88%) Full Stack Development
8 15 (44.12%) .NET Core
9 8 (23.53%) Software Delivery
10 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
11 4 (11.76%) Vue
11 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core

Software Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (2.94%) Apache Spark
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 26 (76.47%) AWS
2 19 (55.88%) Azure
2 19 (55.88%) GCP
3 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.94%) Hadoop
General
1 27 (79.41%) Finance
2 19 (55.88%) Front Office
3 2 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.94%) Social Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (58.82%) React
2 19 (55.88%) .NET
2 19 (55.88%) Redux
3 15 (44.12%) .NET Core
4 5 (14.71%) AngularJS
5 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET
5 4 (11.76%) ASP.NET Core
5 4 (11.76%) Vue
6 1 (2.94%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 19 (55.88%) Derivative
1 19 (55.88%) Equities
1 19 (55.88%) Fixed Income
1 19 (55.88%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 19 (55.88%) Hedge funds
2 2 (5.88%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Agile
2 23 (67.65%) Fintech
2 23 (67.65%) Software Engineering
3 21 (61.76%) DevOps
4 19 (55.88%) Asset Management
4 19 (55.88%) Full Stack Development
4 19 (55.88%) Investment Management
4 19 (55.88%) TDD
5 8 (23.53%) Software Delivery
6 2 (5.88%) Agile Coaching
6 2 (5.88%) Artificial Intelligence
6 2 (5.88%) Generative AI
6 2 (5.88%) Machine Learning
6 2 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 2 (5.88%) Presales
6 2 (5.88%) Roadmaps
6 2 (5.88%) SDLC
7 1 (2.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 1 (2.94%) Test Automation
7 1 (2.94%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 20 (58.82%) C#
1 20 (58.82%) JavaScript
1 20 (58.82%) TypeScript
2 2 (5.88%) Java
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Go
3 1 (2.94%) Kotlin
3 1 (2.94%) Ruby
3 1 (2.94%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (58.82%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (2.94%) Blue Prism
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft