Software Manager Contracts in the South East

Software Manager
England > South East

The median Software Manager daily rate in the South East is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 198 199 238
Rank change year-on-year +1 +39 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 3 12 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.053% 0.21% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.22% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 13
10th Percentile £490 £463 -
25th Percentile £531 £478 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £515 £433
Median % change year-on-year +16.50% +19.08% +1.76%
75th Percentile £638 £597 £449
90th Percentile £660 £638 £550
England median daily rate £544 £538 £625
% change year-on-year +1.21% -14.00% +38.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate £47.50 £65.25 £65.00
% change year-on-year -27.20% +0.38% +51.16%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,205 5,364 7,367
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 94.62% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,082 3,717 5,057
10th Percentile £234 £217 £206
25th Percentile £400 £388 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £604 £590
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 524 238 311
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.18 £16.18
Median hourly rate £48.20 £50.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.60% +150.00% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.56
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £37.75 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.11% +88.21% +11.47%

Software Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Manager in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Software Manager in the South East

Software Manager
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 2 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
Surrey +14 2 £563 +6.13% 4
Hampshire - 1 £600 -
Software Manager
England

Software Manager Skill Set
Top 21 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 2 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 South East region featuring Software Manager in the job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Marketing
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing

Software Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 1 (33.33%) Marketing
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
2 1 (33.33%) Contract Negotiation
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Service
2 1 (33.33%) Design Patterns
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile Development
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Master's Degree
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS