The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire 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 23 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 Cheshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 56 62 63
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +1
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.821% 0.501% 0.909%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.902% 0.549% 0.998%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 3 1
Average daily rate £425 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.33% +25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.54% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-29.49% -15.38%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
665 729 902
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 90.97% 91.35% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 288 378 494
Average daily rate £375 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £488 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 20 35
Average hourly rate £38.25 £25.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+53.00% +61.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £34.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Manager
North West

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Technical Manager Daily Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Manager across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire Technical Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Technical Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Technical Manager across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Warrington - 2 £343 -
Knutsford - 1 £475 -
Technical Manager
North West

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 8 (42.11%) Retail
3 7 (36.84%) Retail Banking
4 6 (31.58%) WebSphere
4 6 (31.58%) Middleware
4 6 (31.58%) Finance
4 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (26.32%) Migration
5 5 (26.32%) WebSphere MQ
5 5 (26.32%) IBM
6 4 (21.05%) Oracle
6 4 (21.05%) Change Management
7 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
7 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
7 3 (15.79%) LAN
7 3 (15.79%) WAN
7 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
7 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (10.53%) Online Banking
8 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
8 2 (10.53%) Matrix Management
8 2 (10.53%) Mobile Banking
8 2 (10.53%) Informatica
8 2 (10.53%) NetApp
8 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
8 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
8 2 (10.53%) ETL
8 2 (10.53%) Windows
8 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 6 (31.58%) WebSphere
1 6 (31.58%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) WebSphere MQ
2 1 (5.263%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) LAN
1 3 (15.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
General
1 11 (57.89%) Banking
2 8 (42.11%) Retail
3 7 (36.84%) Retail Banking
4 6 (31.58%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Online Banking
1 2 (10.53%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.263%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
2 5 (26.32%) Migration
3 4 (21.05%) Change Management
4 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2
4 3 (15.79%) E-Commerce
4 3 (15.79%) Data Migration
4 3 (15.79%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Resource Management
5 2 (10.53%) Matrix Management
5 2 (10.53%) Data Modelling
5 2 (10.53%) ETL
6 1 (5.263%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (5.263%) Workflow
6 1 (5.263%) ITIL
6 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) IBM
2 4 (21.05%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Informatica
3 2 (10.53%) NetApp
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) VMware
4 1 (5.263%) Siebel