IT Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

IT Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median IT Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 165 175 169
Rank change year-on-year +10 -6 +54
Contract jobs requiring an IT Manager 192 339 722
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 1.42% 1.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.40% 1.50% 1.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 265 540
10th Percentile £363 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £525 £501
Median % change year-on-year +2.38% +4.83% +8.28%
75th Percentile £626 £638 £591
90th Percentile £708 £738 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - +12.30%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 11
10th Percentile £21.19 - £19.41
25th Percentile £21.80 £35.00 £38.22
Median hourly rate £25.28 £46.25 £64.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% -28.29% +97.79%
75th Percentile £32.69 £64.69 £67.65
90th Percentile £36.76 £75.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.70 £63.06 £47.65
% change year-on-year -56.07% +32.33% +39.12%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 13,706 22,653 42,031
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 95.17% 95.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,234 16,031 30,546
10th Percentile £325 £350 £360
25th Percentile £425 £440 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £530
% change year-on-year -2.33% +1.42% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 547 532 561
10th Percentile £14.26 £16.98 £14.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £24.59 £20.50
Median hourly rate £43.00 £50.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% +26.58% +66.32%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.45 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £43.81 £25.50
% change year-on-year -14.39% +71.78% +18.60%

IT Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured IT Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

IT Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Manager.

IT Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

IT Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing IT Manager.

IT Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing IT Manager over the 6 months to 27 June 2024.

IT Manager hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

IT Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 27 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring IT Manager in the job title.

1 67 (34.90%) Finance
2 51 (26.56%) Project Management
3 44 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
4 38 (19.79%) Agile
4 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
5 34 (17.71%) Change Management
6 28 (14.58%) Banking
7 25 (13.02%) PRINCE2
8 22 (11.46%) Waterfall
9 18 (9.38%) Microsoft
10 17 (8.85%) ITIL
10 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
10 17 (8.85%) Degree
11 15 (7.81%) SC Cleared
12 14 (7.29%) PMP
12 14 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
12 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
12 14 (7.29%) Project Delivery
13 13 (6.77%) PMI Certification
13 13 (6.77%) Business Continuity
13 13 (6.77%) Legal
13 13 (6.77%) Risk Management
13 13 (6.77%) Service Delivery
13 13 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (5.73%) SharePoint
14 11 (5.73%) ERP
14 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
14 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (5.73%) Roadmaps
15 10 (5.21%) Budget Management

IT Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 11 (5.73%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.56%) Confluence
3 1 (0.52%) CMS
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.04%) Photoshop
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.52%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (1.56%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.04%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.52%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 11 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (4.69%) Azure
3 5 (2.60%) SaaS
4 4 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (2.08%) Power Platform
5 3 (1.56%) WhatsApp
6 2 (1.04%) Canva
6 2 (1.04%) Slack
7 1 (0.52%) AWS
7 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.52%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.52%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.52%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.52%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.60%) Intranet
2 1 (0.52%) LAN
2 1 (0.52%) Network Security
2 1 (0.52%) SNMP
2 1 (0.52%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.08%) Power BI
2 2 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.52%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.52%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.52%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.52%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 67 (34.90%) Finance
2 38 (19.79%) Social Skills
3 28 (14.58%) Banking
4 14 (7.29%) Public Sector
5 13 (6.77%) Legal
6 8 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.60%) Law
8 5 (2.60%) Local Government
8 5 (2.60%) Retail
9 4 (2.08%) Aerospace
9 4 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 4 (2.08%) Military
10 3 (1.56%) French Language
10 3 (1.56%) Pharmaceutical
11 2 (1.04%) Billing
11 2 (1.04%) Health Technology
12 1 (0.52%) Italian Language
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.52%) ADO
1 1 (0.52%) Express.js
1 1 (0.52%) MERN Stack
1 1 (0.52%) Node.js
1 1 (0.52%) React
1 1 (0.52%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
2 7 (3.65%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.08%) FMCG
5 3 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
5 3 (1.56%) NHS
5 3 (1.56%) PMI
6 2 (1.04%) Industry 4.0
6 2 (1.04%) Life Science
6 2 (1.04%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.04%) Video Editing
7 1 (0.52%) CMDB
7 1 (0.52%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.52%) Freedom of Information
7 1 (0.52%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.52%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.52%) Tandem
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.56%) Windows
2 2 (1.04%) Linux
3 1 (0.52%) Android
3 1 (0.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.56%) Project Management
2 44 (22.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 38 (19.79%) Agile
4 34 (17.71%) Change Management
5 25 (13.02%) PRINCE2
6 22 (11.46%) Waterfall
7 17 (8.85%) ITIL
8 14 (7.29%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (7.29%) Project Delivery
9 13 (6.77%) Business Continuity
9 13 (6.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 13 (6.77%) Risk Management
9 13 (6.77%) Service Delivery
10 11 (5.73%) ERP
10 11 (5.73%) Roadmaps
11 10 (5.21%) Budget Management
11 10 (5.21%) Service Management
12 9 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
12 9 (4.69%) GAP Analysis
12 9 (4.69%) Line Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (0.52%) C#
1 1 (0.52%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (8.85%) Degree
1 17 (8.85%) Security Cleared
2 15 (7.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (7.29%) PMP
4 13 (6.77%) PMI Certification
5 5 (2.60%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.56%) DBS Check
6 3 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 2 (1.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (1.04%) CEH
7 2 (1.04%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.04%) CISM
7 2 (1.04%) CISMP
7 2 (1.04%) CISSP
7 2 (1.04%) CSSLP
7 2 (1.04%) GCIH
8 1 (0.52%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (4.17%) PMO
2 7 (3.65%) NIST
3 6 (3.13%) COBIT
3 6 (3.13%) SLA
4 4 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 4 (2.08%) GDPR
5 2 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 2 (1.04%) GRC
5 2 (1.04%) GxP
6 1 (0.52%) Basel III
6 1 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 1 (0.52%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.52%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (1.04%) SCCM
2 1 (0.52%) AirWatch
2 1 (0.52%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 9 (4.69%) Oracle
3 8 (4.17%) SAP
4 5 (2.60%) Adobe
4 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
5 4 (2.08%) Remedy
6 2 (1.04%) Cadence
6 2 (1.04%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.04%) VMware
6 2 (1.04%) Workday
7 1 (0.52%) Apple
7 1 (0.52%) Ariba
7 1 (0.52%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.52%) Citrix
7 1 (0.52%) CyberArk
7 1 (0.52%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.52%) IFS
7 1 (0.52%) Planview
7 1 (0.52%) Samsung