East Midlands Technical Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts within the East Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Manager
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fife Gateshead Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Tyneside North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Rickmansworth Sale Scotland Sheffield Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southend-on-Sea Staines Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	94
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.234 %	0.108 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£250
Average daily rate	£360	£275
% change on same period last year	+30.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£400	£300
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£415
% change on same period last year	-0.13 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.88	£34.86
% change on same period last year	-5.68 %
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1706	1854
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.274 %	1.876 %
Daily rates quoted	461	382
Average minimum daily rate	£339	£332
Average daily rate	£356	£349
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	171	262
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.56	£22.30
Average hourly rate	£17.88	£23.47
% change on same period last year	-23.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.20	£24.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Technical Manager England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Technical Manager across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Manager across the East Midlands region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leicestershire	+9	2	-	-
Nottinghamshire	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 7 (43.75 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 3 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 4 3 (18.75 %) SAN 4 3 (18.75 %) Windows 4 3 (18.75 %) SAP 5 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 5 2 (12.50 %) C# 5 2 (12.50 %) .NET 5 2 (12.50 %) OO 5 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 5 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 5 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 5 2 (12.50 %) Finance

5 2 (12.50 %) Health 5 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 5 2 (12.50 %) .NET Framework 6 1 (6.250 %) Matrix Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Citrix Presentation Server 6 1 (6.250 %) Data Migration 6 1 (6.250 %) PACS 6 1 (6.250 %) Retail 6 1 (6.250 %) STB 6 1 (6.250 %) Supplier Management 6 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 1 (6.250 %) Migration 6 1 (6.250 %) VMware 6 1 (6.250 %) CCNP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 2 (12.50 %) .NET 1 2 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 1 2 (12.50 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (6.250 %) NetWeaver 1 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (6.250 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Project 1 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) SAP MM
Communications & Networking 1 3 (18.75 %) SAN 2 1 (6.250 %) LAN 2 1 (6.250 %) WAN 2 1 (6.250 %) SMTP 2 1 (6.250 %) HTTP	General 1 2 (12.50 %) Finance 1 2 (12.50 %) Health 2 1 (6.250 %) Retail
Miscellaneous 1 2 (12.50 %) Clustering 2 1 (6.250 %) PACS 2 1 (6.250 %) STB 2 1 (6.250 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 3 (18.75 %) Windows 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) PRINCE2 2 4 (25.00 %) Agile Software Development 3 2 (12.50 %) OO 3 2 (12.50 %) Project Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Migration 4 1 (6.250 %) ITIL 4 1 (6.250 %) ERP 4 1 (6.250 %) EAI 4 1 (6.250 %) Supplier Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Matrix Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Data Migration	Programming Languages 1 2 (12.50 %) C# 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) MCSE 2 1 (6.250 %) CCNP 2 1 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (6.250 %) SLA
System Software 1 2 (12.50 %) Active Directory 2 1 (6.250 %) ISA Server 2 1 (6.250 %) Citrix Presentation Server	Vendors 1 5 (31.25 %) Microsoft 2 3 (18.75 %) SAP 3 2 (12.50 %) Cisco 4 1 (6.250 %) Citrix 4 1 (6.250 %) VMware