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 £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025.

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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 163 176
Rank change year-on-year +17 +13 +60
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 15 21 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.46% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% 0.50% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 24
10th Percentile £358 £365 £415
25th Percentile £405 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £523
Median % change year-on-year - -4.31% -0.48%
75th Percentile £588 £574 £608
90th Percentile £700 £575 £746
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £52.50 -
England median hourly rate £58.75 £52.50 £71.90
% change year-on-year +11.90% -26.98% +11.40%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 3,138 4,241 5,295
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 92.38% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,031 2,534 3,585
10th Percentile £204 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £613
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 278 317 250
10th Percentile £13.43 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £30.41 £21.05
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.26% +15.00% +106.78%
75th Percentile £57.50 £75.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.00 £75.67
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £44.75
% change year-on-year -45.54% +3.20% +71.00%

Technical Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Manager 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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
Thames Valley +14 7 £525 +5.00% 30
Hampshire +8 6 £470 +26.43% 9
Buckinghamshire +10 4 £565 +41.25% 9
Berkshire +21 2 £525 - 16
East Sussex -1 1 - - 2
Oxfordshire -10 1 - - 6
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 17 September 2025, Technical 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 Technical Manager in the job title.

1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
4 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
5 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Cisco
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (6.67%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (6.67%) 5G
6 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
6 1 (6.67%) Regulatory Compliance
6 1 (6.67%) Resource Allocation
6 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (6.67%) Programme Delivery
6 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy

Technical 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 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) AWS
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (6.67%) Oracle CX
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) 5G
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
1 1 (6.67%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
3 1 (6.67%) French Language
3 1 (6.67%) Greek Language
3 1 (6.67%) Italian Language
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Manufacturing
3 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Portuguese Language
3 1 (6.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
3 1 (6.67%) Spanish Language
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Life Science
2 1 (6.67%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (6.67%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (40.00%) Agile
1 6 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Project Management
3 4 (26.67%) Scrum
4 3 (20.00%) Migration
5 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
5 2 (13.33%) Risk Management
5 2 (13.33%) Service Management
5 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (13.33%) Validation
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
6 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps
6 1 (6.67%) Kanban
6 1 (6.67%) Project Governance
6 1 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (6.67%) Time Management
6 1 (6.67%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (6.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.67%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.67%) PMP
2 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.67%) PMBOK
2 1 (6.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cisco
2 1 (6.67%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) SAP