Technical Manager Contract Job Trends in the South East

Technical Manager
England > South East

The median Technical Manager daily rate in the South East is £518, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 185 138 168
Rank change year-on-year -47 +30 +18
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 24 16 24
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.41% 0.53% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.58% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 9 22
10th Percentile £425 £371 £378
25th Percentile £455 £372 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £488 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.15% -7.14% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £697
90th Percentile £631 £757 £815
England median daily rate £550 £525 £546
% change year-on-year +4.76% -3.89% +4.05%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 5,347 2,754 5,095
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 91.77% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,325 1,821 3,078
10th Percentile £300 £248 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £600 £618
90th Percentile £713 £665 £688
England median daily rate £511 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.67% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 506 164 480
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.78
25th Percentile £24.30 £20.09 £18.32
Median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -1.86%
75th Percentile £81.76 £63.75 £62.50
90th Percentile £88.00 £75.00 £77.04
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.62 £36.50
% change year-on-year +53.52% -16.12% -18.03%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Technical Manager job vacancy trend in the South East

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the South East

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 4 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Manager in the South East

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Technical Manager job vacancies in the South East

Technical 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 Technical Manager within the South East region over the 6 months to 4 May 2026. 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
Hampshire -17 13 £600 +61.40% 6
Thames Valley -42 7 £510 -17.97% 18
Berkshire -27 6 £537 +11.58% 10
Surrey - 4 £460 - 2
Buckinghamshire -32 1 £510 -32.72% 2
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 4 May 2026, Technical Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the South East region featuring Technical Manager in the job title.

1 13 (54.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
3 10 (41.67%) Agile
4 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
4 9 (37.50%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
5 5 (20.83%) Risk Assessment
6 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
6 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 4 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (12.50%) Change Control
7 3 (12.50%) Change Management
7 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
7 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
7 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 3 (12.50%) Windows
8 2 (8.33%) 2G
8 2 (8.33%) 5G
8 2 (8.33%) AWS
8 2 (8.33%) Azure
8 2 (8.33%) Business Case
8 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
8 2 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
8 2 (8.33%) Nokia
8 2 (8.33%) Observability
8 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
8 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps

Technical Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.17%) Apache Pulsar
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.17%) SAP QM
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 1 (4.17%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (4.17%) Apigee
2 1 (4.17%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (4.17%) AWS KMS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure AKS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure API Management
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (4.17%) Kong
2 1 (4.17%) OCI
2 1 (4.17%) Power Platform
2 1 (4.17%) Smartsheet
2 1 (4.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.33%) 2G
1 2 (8.33%) 5G
1 2 (8.33%) Radio Access Network
2 1 (4.17%) 3G
2 1 (4.17%) 4G
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (4.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.17%) Aerospace
5 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Manufacturing
5 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Kafka
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth
1 1 (4.17%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.17%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.17%) Cloud Native
3 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (4.17%) EMV
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (4.17%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (41.67%) Agile
3 9 (37.50%) Project Management
4 5 (20.83%) Cybersecurity
4 5 (20.83%) PRINCE2
4 5 (20.83%) Risk Assessment
5 4 (16.67%) Programme Management
5 4 (16.67%) Risk Management
5 4 (16.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (12.50%) Change Control
6 3 (12.50%) Change Management
6 3 (12.50%) Computer Science
6 3 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 3 (12.50%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 2 (8.33%) Matrix Organization
7 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Service Delivery
7 2 (8.33%) Tech Ops
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Security Cleared
2 9 (37.50%) DV Cleared
3 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) GDPR
1 1 (4.17%) ISO 8583
1 1 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.17%) NIST
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (4.17%) Grafana
1 1 (4.17%) Istio
1 1 (4.17%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.17%) linkerd
1 1 (4.17%) NSN NetAct
1 1 (4.17%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (8.33%) Nokia
2 1 (4.17%) BT
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco
2 1 (4.17%) F5
2 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
2 1 (4.17%) Juniper
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle
2 1 (4.17%) SAP
2 1 (4.17%) Splunk
2 1 (4.17%) VMware