The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the East of England 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 21 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 East of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Manager
Rank 114 127 124
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Support Manager 6 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.275% 0.136% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.294% 0.145% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £650 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+73.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £405 £357
% change year-on-year
-16.04% +13.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £31.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
All Job Titles
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2038 2765 2452
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 93.49% 94.14% 94.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1044 1303 1080
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 258 285 319
Average hourly rate £24.90 £25.75 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.30% +25.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £42.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Support Manager
England

Support Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England 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 East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England 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 East of England region.

East of England Support Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Support Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Manager within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Essex -1 3 £675 +50.00%
Bedfordshire +3 2 £525 +40.00%
Hertfordshire - 1 - -
Support Manager
England

Support Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
2 2 (25.00%) Publishing
2 2 (25.00%) SAP CO
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) SAP FI
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) SQL
2 2 (25.00%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Documentum
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) SLA
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Epicor
3 1 (12.50%) NHS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) LAN
3 1 (12.50%) WAN
3 1 (12.50%) DHCP
3 1 (12.50%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) DNS
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange

Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 (25.00%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) Documentum
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) SAP CO
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI
1 2 (25.00%) SAP FI/CO
Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) LAN
1 1 (12.50%) WAN
1 1 (12.50%) DHCP
1 1 (12.50%) VPN
1 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
1 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
1 1 (12.50%) Open Source
1 1 (12.50%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Content Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Project Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
3 1 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Information Management
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) Java
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
1 1 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) SAP
2 1 (12.50%) Epicor
2 1 (12.50%) VMware