The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the Bradford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Manager
Rank 24 25 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Manager 1 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 0.633% 1.887% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.662% 1.935% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £398 £400 £425
% change year-on-year
-0.62% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £17.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+128.57% -53.33%
All Job Titles
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
151 155 120
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 95.57% 97.48% 97.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 41 31
Average daily rate £325 £263 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.80% +5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £150 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £465 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £15.25 £12.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.00% -39.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £7.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £32.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Manager
West Yorkshire

Software Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Software Manager across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Bradford Software Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Software Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Manager across the Bradford region.

Bradford Software Manager Daily Rate Trend

Software Manager
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Software Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Manager in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) CMMI
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) QMS
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle

Software Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region that cited Software Manager in their job title mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled with Software Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Quality Management
2 1 (33.33%) CMMI
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Matrix Management
2 1 (33.33%) Release Management
2 1 (33.33%) Test Management
2 1 (33.33%) QMS
2 1 (33.33%) Waterfall
2 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle