The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 154 169 190
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 56 43 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.826% 0.555% 0.609%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.893% 0.607% 0.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 36 45
Average daily rate £475 £463 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £358 £276
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £74.98 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £28.96 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+8.78% -13.56%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6270 7082 9182
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.48% 91.49% 91.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4641 5158 6680
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £285 £315
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 155 170 217
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.15 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.90 £41.85 £43.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
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 City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London 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 City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 40 (39.60%) Project Management
2 32 (31.68%) Finance
3 27 (26.73%) Banking
4 24 (23.76%) Migration
5 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (15.84%) PRINCE2
6 15 (14.85%) Agile Software Development
7 11 (10.89%) SAP
7 11 (10.89%) WAN
8 10 (9.901%) LAN
9 9 (8.911%) MS Office
9 9 (8.911%) Windows
10 8 (7.921%) .NET
10 8 (7.921%) Change Management
10 8 (7.921%) Investment Banking
10 8 (7.921%) Waterfall
11 7 (6.931%) Project Planning
11 7 (6.931%) Telecoms
11 7 (6.931%) Service Delivery
11 7 (6.931%) Java
11 7 (6.931%) MS Visio
12 6 (5.941%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 6 (5.941%) SAP BW
12 6 (5.941%) Service Management
12 6 (5.941%) SAP Oil and Gas
12 6 (5.941%) Market Risk
12 6 (5.941%) Performance Management
12 6 (5.941%) Test Strategy
12 6 (5.941%) SAP HANA
13 5 (4.950%) Apple iOS

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 8 (7.921%) .NET
2 5 (4.950%) WebSphere
3 4 (3.960%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.980%) CSS
4 2 (1.980%) HTML
4 2 (1.980%) Django
4 2 (1.980%) Mason
4 2 (1.980%) Adobe AIR
5 1 (0.990%) Rendezvous
5 1 (0.990%) EDIFACT
5 1 (0.990%) J2EE
5 1 (0.990%) Web Services
5 1 (0.990%) MSMQ
5 1 (0.990%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.970%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.990%) Lync
2 1 (0.990%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.990%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (0.990%) WebLogic
2 1 (0.990%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.990%) SAS
2 1 (0.990%) Apache
2 1 (0.990%) Tomcat
Applications
1 9 (8.911%) MS Office
2 7 (6.931%) MS Visio
3 5 (4.950%) MS Excel
3 5 (4.950%) MS Project
4 1 (0.990%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (5.941%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.89%) WAN
2 10 (9.901%) LAN
3 4 (3.960%) HTTP
4 3 (2.970%) VoIP
5 2 (1.980%) PBX
5 2 (1.980%) Firewall
5 2 (1.980%) Wireless
5 2 (1.980%) MPLS
6 1 (0.990%) SWIFTNet
6 1 (0.990%) Network Security
6 1 (0.990%) TCP/IP
6 1 (0.990%) FTP
6 1 (0.990%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.941%) SAP BW
1 6 (5.941%) SAP HANA
2 4 (3.960%) Big Data
3 2 (1.980%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.990%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.990%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.990%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.990%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 2 (1.980%) JIRA
2 1 (0.990%) TeamCity
2 1 (0.990%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 32 (31.68%) Finance
2 27 (26.73%) Banking
3 8 (7.921%) Investment Banking
4 7 (6.931%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.970%) Front Office
6 2 (1.980%) Publishing
6 2 (1.980%) Back Office
6 2 (1.980%) Billing
7 1 (0.990%) Retail
7 1 (0.990%) Norwegian Language
7 1 (0.990%) Law
7 1 (0.990%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.990%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.941%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 6 (5.941%) Market Risk
2 4 (3.960%) AS400
2 4 (3.960%) iSeries
2 4 (3.960%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (1.980%) Equities
4 1 (0.990%) SWIFT
4 1 (0.990%) New Media
4 1 (0.990%) Open Source
4 1 (0.990%) SaaS
4 1 (0.990%) PKI
4 1 (0.990%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.990%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 9 (8.911%) Windows
2 5 (4.950%) Apple iOS
2 5 (4.950%) Android
3 3 (2.970%) Windows 7
3 3 (2.970%) Linux
3 3 (2.970%) UNIX
4 2 (1.980%) Windows Phone 7
4 2 (1.980%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.990%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (0.990%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (0.990%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.990%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (0.990%) Windows XP
5 1 (0.990%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (39.60%) Project Management
2 24 (23.76%) Migration
3 16 (15.84%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (15.84%) PRINCE2
4 15 (14.85%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (7.921%) Change Management
5 8 (7.921%) Waterfall
6 7 (6.931%) Project Planning
6 7 (6.931%) Service Delivery
7 6 (5.941%) Service Management
7 6 (5.941%) Performance Management
7 6 (5.941%) Test Strategy
8 5 (4.950%) Data Migration
8 5 (4.950%) Matrix Management
8 5 (4.950%) Time Management
8 5 (4.950%) Risk Management
8 5 (4.950%) Scrum
8 5 (4.950%) E-Commerce
8 5 (4.950%) ERP
8 5 (4.950%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 7 (6.931%) Java
2 5 (4.950%) SQL
3 2 (1.980%) Python
3 2 (1.980%) JavaScript
3 2 (1.980%) PHP
3 2 (1.980%) C#
4 1 (0.990%) PowerShell
4 1 (0.990%) C
4 1 (0.990%) C++
Qualifications
1 5 (4.950%) Security Cleared
1 5 (4.950%) Degree
2 4 (3.960%) SC Cleared
3 3 (2.970%) MBA
4 2 (1.980%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (1.980%) CCNA
4 2 (1.980%) ISEB
5 1 (0.990%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 1 (0.990%) BC Cleared
5 1 (0.990%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.990%) CIPD
5 1 (0.990%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.990%) CCNP
5 1 (0.990%) CNA
5 1 (0.990%) Novell Certification
5 1 (0.990%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.990%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.950%) QA
System Software
1 4 (3.960%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 1 (0.990%) XenApp
2 1 (0.990%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 11 (10.89%) SAP
2 5 (4.950%) Citrix
3 4 (3.960%) Oracle
3 4 (3.960%) IBM
4 3 (2.970%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.970%) Cisco
5 2 (1.980%) Adobe
5 2 (1.980%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (0.990%) Facebook
6 1 (0.990%) TIBCO
6 1 (0.990%) Reuters
6 1 (0.990%) Perforce
6 1 (0.990%) SunGard
6 1 (0.990%) HP
6 1 (0.990%) Juniper
6 1 (0.990%) Informatica
6 1 (0.990%) NetApp
6 1 (0.990%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.990%) Red Hat
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