Contracts Manager Contracts

Contract Manager
UK

The median Contract Manager daily rate in the UK is £538, 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 487 563 672
Rank change year-on-year +76 +109 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Contracts Manager 97 134 176
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.22% 0.24% 0.20%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.24% 0.26% 0.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 100 132
10th Percentile £315 £350 £382
25th Percentile £406 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £745 £650 £606
90th Percentile - £745 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +5.00% +16.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.50 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £62.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,557 52,491 83,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 94.51% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,070 36,644 58,616
10th Percentile £280 £313 £318
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% +2.48% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,936 1,486 1,938
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.75
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.42 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.81 £65.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +7.82%

Contracts Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Contracts Manager in the UK

Contracts Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK

Contracts Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Contracts Manager in the UK

Contracts Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Contracts Manager in the UK

Contracts Manager
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Contracts Manager within the UK 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
England +60 95 £538 -2.27% 61
London +87 63 £675 +20.00% 16
UK excluding London -4 30 £438 -16.67% 40
Work from Home +66 22 £463 -17.78% 14
South West -2 11 £375 -36.17% 5
North of England +6 7 £494 -14.13% 9
East of England +8 6 £388 - 11
South East +5 6 £450 -1.64% 10
Yorkshire +15 3 £538 -12.24% 3
North West +2 3 £406 -29.35% 6
North East - 1 - - 1

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 12 June 2024, Contracts 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 featuring Contracts Manager in the job title.

1 33 (34.02%) Public Sector
2 30 (30.93%) PRINCE2
3 23 (23.71%) Project Management
3 23 (23.71%) Agile
3 23 (23.71%) Collaborative Working
4 22 (22.68%) Supplier Management
4 22 (22.68%) Finance
5 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
6 11 (11.34%) Contract Management
7 9 (9.28%) NHS
7 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (9.28%) Programme Management
7 9 (9.28%) Degree
8 8 (8.25%) Change Management
9 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
9 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
9 7 (7.22%) Banking
9 7 (7.22%) Contract Negotiation
10 6 (6.19%) Static Application Security Testing
10 6 (6.19%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
10 6 (6.19%) Vulnerability Management
10 6 (6.19%) Retail
10 6 (6.19%) Risk Management
11 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
11 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
11 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
11 5 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
11 5 (5.15%) SAP
11 5 (5.15%) Marketing
11 5 (5.15%) Problem-Solving

Contracts Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.03%) CMS
1 1 (1.03%) EPiServer
Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.09%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.12%) AWS
2 3 (3.09%) Azure
3 2 (2.06%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.03%) Azure AKS
4 1 (1.03%) Azure App Service
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Data Factory
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Event Grid
4 1 (1.03%) Azure Service Bus
4 1 (1.03%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.03%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (1.03%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.03%) NoSQL
1 1 (1.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (1.03%) JIRA
General
1 33 (34.02%) Public Sector
2 22 (22.68%) Finance
3 19 (19.59%) Social Skills
4 7 (7.22%) Banking
5 6 (6.19%) Retail
6 5 (5.15%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.15%) Marketing
6 5 (5.15%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.12%) Electronics
7 4 (4.12%) Legal
8 3 (3.09%) Billing
8 3 (3.09%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.06%) Analytical Skills
9 2 (2.06%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Law
10 1 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.12%) FIX Protocol
2 3 (3.09%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) CSS
3 1 (1.03%) HTML
3 1 (1.03%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) NHS
2 4 (4.12%) SWIFT Messaging Network
3 3 (3.09%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.09%) PMI
4 2 (2.06%) Credit Risk
5 1 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.03%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.03%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.03%) Linux
1 1 (1.03%) Unix
1 1 (1.03%) Windows
1 1 (1.03%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.93%) PRINCE2
2 23 (23.71%) Agile
2 23 (23.71%) Collaborative Working
2 23 (23.71%) Project Management
3 22 (22.68%) Supplier Management
4 11 (11.34%) Contract Management
5 9 (9.28%) Programme Management
5 9 (9.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (8.25%) Change Management
7 7 (7.22%) Contract Negotiation
8 6 (6.19%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
8 6 (6.19%) Risk Management
8 6 (6.19%) Static Application Security Testing
8 6 (6.19%) Vulnerability Management
9 5 (5.15%) Business Intelligence
9 5 (5.15%) Due Diligence
9 5 (5.15%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (5.15%) Project Delivery
10 4 (4.12%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (4.12%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.12%) SQL
2 1 (1.03%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.03%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (9.28%) Degree
2 7 (7.22%) SC Cleared
2 7 (7.22%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.12%) Computer Science Degree
4 3 (3.09%) PMI Certification
5 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (2.06%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.03%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.09%) Data Quality
1 3 (3.09%) PMO
1 3 (3.09%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (4.12%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 5 (5.15%) Microsoft
1 5 (5.15%) SAP
2 4 (4.12%) BT
3 3 (3.09%) ServiceNow
4 2 (2.06%) Cadence
5 1 (1.03%) Blue Prism
5 1 (1.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.03%) NEC
5 1 (1.03%) Optimizely
5 1 (1.03%) Salesforce