The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Technical 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 Canary Wharf 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
Technical Manager
Rank 53 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 1 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.260% 2.162% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.282% 2.360% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 7 0
Average daily rate - £450 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £405
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.45 £28.96 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-22.48% -10.90%
All Job Titles
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
354 339 470
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 91.95% 91.62% 94.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 272 212 366
Average daily rate £550 £550 £575
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £375 £450
10% offered a daily rate of more than £650 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 4
Average hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £40.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% -13.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Manager
London

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf Technical Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Canary Wharf Technical Manager Daily Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Technical 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 Technical Manager in their job title.

1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
2 3 (50.00%) Operations Management
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 1 (16.67%) XML
4 1 (16.67%) DOM
4 1 (16.67%) XSLT
4 1 (16.67%) SAX
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) SQL
4 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) XPath
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf region that cited Technical 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 Technical Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) DOM
1 1 (16.67%) XSLT
1 1 (16.67%) SAX
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Project Management
1 3 (50.00%) Migration
1 3 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Data Mapping
2 1 (16.67%) Data Analysis
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) XPath