The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support 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 City of London 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
Support Manager
Rank 191 198 239
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +41
Contract jobs requiring a Support Manager 10 15 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.159% 0.193% 0.071%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.172% 0.210% 0.077%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 3
Average daily rate £450 £425 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.88% +41.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £400 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £608 £648 £452
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £410 £367
% change year-on-year
-17.07% +11.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5827 7127 9041
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.57% 91.61% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 4285 5101 6595
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 180 188
Average hourly rate £19.44 £19.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.31% -2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £41.50 £40.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Support Manager
London

Support Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Support Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Support Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Support Manager Daily Rate Trend

Support Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Support Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Support Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Support Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Support Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Support Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Support 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 Support Manager in their job title.

1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Change Management
3 4 (23.53%) Front Office
4 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
4 3 (17.65%) MS PowerPoint
4 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
4 3 (17.65%) MS Office
4 3 (17.65%) ITIL
4 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
4 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
5 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
5 2 (11.76%) Sybase
5 2 (11.76%) .NET
5 2 (11.76%) C#
5 2 (11.76%) SQL
5 2 (11.76%) UNIX
5 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
5 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.882%) UniData
6 1 (5.882%) Retail
6 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
6 1 (5.882%) TOGAF
6 1 (5.882%) Back Office
6 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (5.882%) Strategic Planning
6 1 (5.882%) Migration
6 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (5.882%) Global One

Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
2 1 (5.882%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Office
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
1 3 (17.65%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (5.882%) Spreadsheet
2 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) Endur
1 1 (5.882%) Global One
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) UniData
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Banking
3 4 (23.53%) Front Office
4 2 (11.76%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.882%) Back Office
5 1 (5.882%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) UNIX
2 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) Change Management
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL
3 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.882%) Asset Management
4 1 (5.882%) TOGAF
4 1 (5.882%) Strategic Planning
4 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) Wealth Management
4 1 (5.882%) Investment Management
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
4 1 (5.882%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (5.882%) Change Control
4 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
4 1 (5.882%) Project Management
4 1 (5.882%) Migration
4 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C#
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) VB.NET
2 1 (5.882%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (5.882%) OpenView
1 1 (5.882%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Sybase
3 1 (5.882%) Oracle
3 1 (5.882%) HP
3 1 (5.882%) Bloomberg
3 1 (5.882%) OpenLink
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