IT Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £520, 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 157 126 119
Rank change year-on-year -31 -7 +50
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 293 442 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.37% 1.95% 2.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.49% 2.07% 2.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 345 514
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £649 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 7 12
10th Percentile - £31.50 £19.64
25th Percentile £21.19 £35.00 £22.51
Median hourly rate £25.28 £65.00 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.12% +140.74% -17.20%
75th Percentile £27.50 £68.65 £64.63
90th Percentile £48.80 £76.21 £65.27
UK median hourly rate £27.70 £62.50 £35.20
% change year-on-year -55.68% +77.56% +5.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,709 21,379 29,050
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.42% 94.21% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,751 14,853 20,421
10th Percentile £213 £225 £208
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £593 £600 £575
90th Percentile £680 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,515 1,090 1,383
10th Percentile £12.63 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.92 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%
75th Percentile £62.83 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.68 £62.45
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

IT Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Manager in the UK excluding London

IT Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding 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
Midlands +13 69 £520 +4.00% 75
South East -11 69 £525 +2.94% 49
West Midlands +13 56 £520 +2.72% 50
South West +6 51 £519 +9.21% 24
North of England -45 49 £500 -3.85% 77
Scotland +24 41 £475 -4.52% 15
North West -19 23 £525 +12.00% 36
Yorkshire -28 19 £450 -18.18% 37
East Midlands +5 12 £400 -20.00% 25
East of England -21 7 £575 +4.55% 18
North East +14 6 £525 +16.67% 6
Wales +22 4 £500 +57.48% 11
Northern Ireland -5 3 - -
IT Manager
UK

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 12 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 87 (29.69%) Project Management
2 77 (26.28%) Social Skills
3 71 (24.23%) Finance
4 64 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 59 (20.14%) Agile
6 42 (14.33%) ITIL
7 40 (13.65%) Project Delivery
8 38 (12.97%) Change Management
9 37 (12.63%) Service Delivery
10 36 (12.29%) PRINCE2
11 33 (11.26%) Public Sector
12 31 (10.58%) Service Management
13 28 (9.56%) Waterfall
14 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
14 27 (9.22%) Legal
14 27 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
15 26 (8.87%) ITSM
16 25 (8.53%) Migration
16 25 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
17 23 (7.85%) Decision-Making
18 19 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
18 19 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
18 19 (6.48%) Degree
19 18 (6.14%) Risk Management
20 17 (5.80%) Azure
20 17 (5.80%) People Management
21 16 (5.46%) Security Cleared
22 15 (5.12%) Retail
22 15 (5.12%) ERP
22 15 (5.12%) SaaS

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 13 (4.44%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.05%) Microsoft Office
1 6 (2.05%) Photoshop
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.02%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.34%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.34%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (5.80%) Azure
3 15 (5.12%) SaaS
4 10 (3.41%) AWS
5 7 (2.39%) Slack
6 6 (2.05%) Canva
7 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.34%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.34%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.34%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 10 (3.41%) Intranet
2 3 (1.02%) WAN
3 2 (0.68%) LAN
4 1 (0.34%) DHCP
4 1 (0.34%) DNS
4 1 (0.34%) Firewall
4 1 (0.34%) Internet
4 1 (0.34%) Network Security
4 1 (0.34%) SAN
4 1 (0.34%) SNMP
4 1 (0.34%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.34%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (0.34%) Power BI
1 1 (0.34%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (3.41%) JIRA
2 3 (1.02%) Hudson
General
1 77 (26.28%) Social Skills
2 71 (24.23%) Finance
3 33 (11.26%) Public Sector
4 27 (9.22%) Legal
5 19 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.12%) Retail
7 14 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.44%) Law
9 11 (3.75%) Manufacturing
9 11 (3.75%) Telecoms
10 10 (3.41%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.07%) Influencing Skills
12 7 (2.39%) Banking
12 7 (2.39%) Local Government
13 6 (2.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.71%) Automotive
15 3 (1.02%) Billing
16 2 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
16 2 (0.68%) Military
16 2 (0.68%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.34%) Middleware
1 1 (0.34%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.12%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.73%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.05%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.05%) Video Editing
4 5 (1.71%) FMCG
4 5 (1.71%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.71%) NHS
5 3 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.02%) e-Learning
5 3 (1.02%) Life Science
6 2 (0.68%) CMDB
6 2 (0.68%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.68%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.34%) Contactless
7 1 (0.34%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.34%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.34%) Housing Association
7 1 (0.34%) Mobile App
7 1 (0.34%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.34%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.07%) Apple iOS
2 8 (2.73%) Windows
3 3 (1.02%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.34%) Android
5 1 (0.34%) Linux
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.69%) Project Management
2 64 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 59 (20.14%) Agile
4 42 (14.33%) ITIL
5 40 (13.65%) Project Delivery
6 38 (12.97%) Change Management
7 37 (12.63%) Service Delivery
8 36 (12.29%) PRINCE2
9 31 (10.58%) Service Management
10 28 (9.56%) Waterfall
11 27 (9.22%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (8.87%) ITSM
13 25 (8.53%) Continuous Improvement
13 25 (8.53%) Migration
14 23 (7.85%) Decision-Making
15 18 (6.14%) Risk Management
16 17 (5.80%) People Management
17 15 (5.12%) ERP
17 15 (5.12%) IT Governance
18 14 (4.78%) Digital Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (2.73%) Swift
2 2 (0.68%) Python
3 1 (0.34%) Java
3 1 (0.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (6.48%) Degree
2 16 (5.46%) Security Cleared
3 14 (4.78%) SC Cleared
4 12 (4.10%) PMI Certification
4 12 (4.10%) PMP
5 7 (2.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 6 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (1.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 2 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
8 2 (0.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (0.68%) ISEB
8 2 (0.68%) SAP Certification
9 1 (0.34%) CAPM
9 1 (0.34%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.41%) PMO
2 7 (2.39%) QA
3 5 (1.71%) GDPR
4 4 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (1.02%) COBIT
5 3 (1.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.68%) Disclosure Scotland
6 2 (0.68%) SLA
7 1 (0.34%) GAMP
7 1 (0.34%) GMP
7 1 (0.34%) GxP
7 1 (0.34%) P3O
7 1 (0.34%) PMBOK
System Software
1 4 (1.37%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.68%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.34%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (0.34%) AirWatch
1 1 (0.34%) SafeCom
1 1 (0.34%) SCCM
1 1 (0.34%) SCOM
Vendors
1 27 (9.22%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.10%) Oracle
3 11 (3.75%) SAP
4 8 (2.73%) Okta
5 5 (1.71%) Dynatrace
5 5 (1.71%) Remedy
5 5 (1.71%) Splunk
6 4 (1.37%) Citrix
7 3 (1.02%) Ariba
7 3 (1.02%) BMC
7 3 (1.02%) Siemens
7 3 (1.02%) VMware
8 2 (0.68%) Cadence
8 2 (0.68%) ServiceNow
9 1 (0.34%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.34%) Google
9 1 (0.34%) IFS
9 1 (0.34%) Imperva
9 1 (0.34%) Samsung
9 1 (0.34%) SolarWinds