East of England Technical Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts within the East of England 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnsley Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hounslow Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stirling Stirlingshire Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Winchester Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	124
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	54	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.069 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	1.357 %	0.627 %
Daily rates quoted	20	8
Average minimum daily rate	£451	£404
Average daily rate	£487	£434
% change on same period last year	+12.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£522	£464
UK excluding London average daily rate	£431	£411
% change on same period last year	+4.92 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	-
Average hourly rate	£30.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£35.00	£26.88
% change on same period last year	+30.23 %
Job Titles East of England
Matching contract IT job ads	3979	3986
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	5.105 %	4.478 %
Daily rates quoted	1322	1186
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£333
Average daily rate	£349	£356
% change on same period last year	-2.17 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£379
UK excluding London average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	582	492
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.87	£23.56
Average hourly rate	£23.45	£24.80
% change on same period last year	-5.44 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.02	£26.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.48	£25.12
% change on same period last year	-6.53 %
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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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing Technical Manager across the East of England 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 contract IT jobs ads citing Technical Manager across the East of England region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Manager across the East of England region over the past 3 months.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs ads citing Technical Manager across the East of England region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the East of England region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Hertfordshire	+9	19	£458	+36.81 %
1	Essex	-5	19	£525	+17.13 %
2	Cambridgeshire	-	10	-	-
3	Suffolk	-	3	£438	-
4	Norfolk	+18	2	£431	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Technical Manager also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Technical Manager.

1 26 (34.67 %) Oracle 2 22 (29.33 %) Java 3 21 (28.00 %) Project Management 4 14 (18.67 %) Internet 4 14 (18.67 %) DSDM 5 13 (17.33 %) E-Commerce 5 13 (17.33 %) Client/Server 6 11 (14.67 %) Government 6 11 (14.67 %) Finance 7 10 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 8 8 (10.67 %) Unix 9 7 (9.333 %) J2EE 9 7 (9.333 %) Telecoms 9 7 (9.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 6 (8.000 %) Sun

10 6 (8.000 %) Windows 11 5 (6.667 %) Solaris 11 5 (6.667 %) Linux 11 5 (6.667 %) WebLogic 11 5 (6.667 %) Microsoft 11 5 (6.667 %) Matrix Management 12 4 (5.333 %) Release Management 12 4 (5.333 %) Technical Architecture 12 4 (5.333 %) JIRA 12 4 (5.333 %) Cisco 12 4 (5.333 %) Active Directory 12 4 (5.333 %) Ant 12 4 (5.333 %) ClearCase 12 4 (5.333 %) Wireless 12 4 (5.333 %) Change Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the East of England region citing Technical Manager also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Technical Manager. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (9.333 %) J2EE 2 3 (4.000 %) .NET 3 2 (2.667 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.333 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 5 (6.667 %) WebLogic 2 3 (4.000 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (2.667 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 2 (2.667 %) MS Exchange 4 1 (1.333 %) Oracle Workflow 4 1 (1.333 %) Apache 4 1 (1.333 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (4.000 %) MS Project 2 2 (2.667 %) MS Excel 3 1 (1.333 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.333 %) CA Clarity 3 1 (1.333 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 14 (18.67 %) Internet 2 4 (5.333 %) Wireless 3 3 (4.000 %) Firewall 3 3 (4.000 %) WAN 4 2 (2.667 %) DHCP 4 2 (2.667 %) LAN 4 2 (2.667 %) DNS 4 2 (2.667 %) VoIP 5 1 (1.333 %) HSDPA 5 1 (1.333 %) NGN 5 1 (1.333 %) HSUPA 5 1 (1.333 %) Network Security 5 1 (1.333 %) SSL 5 1 (1.333 %) SAN 5 1 (1.333 %) Intranet 5 1 (1.333 %) Wi-Fi 5 1 (1.333 %) Extranet 5 1 (1.333 %) 3G 5 1 (1.333 %) UMTS 5 1 (1.333 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (4.000 %) TOAD 2 2 (2.667 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (1.333 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.333 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.333 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 4 (5.333 %) Ant 1 4 (5.333 %) ClearCase 1 4 (5.333 %) JIRA 2 3 (4.000 %) ClearQuest 2 3 (4.000 %) Subversion
General 1 11 (14.67 %) Finance 1 11 (14.67 %) Government 2 7 (9.333 %) Telecoms 3 4 (5.333 %) Pensions 4 3 (4.000 %) Electronics 5 2 (2.667 %) Financial Institution 5 2 (2.667 %) Insurance 6 1 (1.333 %) Auditing 6 1 (1.333 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.333 %) Health 6 1 (1.333 %) Legal 6 1 (1.333 %) Retail 6 1 (1.333 %) Billing	Miscellaneous 1 13 (17.33 %) Client/Server 2 3 (4.000 %) NHS 2 3 (4.000 %) Clustering 3 2 (2.667 %) STB 3 2 (2.667 %) IPTV 3 2 (2.667 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.333 %) German Language 4 1 (1.333 %) IBM Mainframe 4 1 (1.333 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.333 %) e-Health 4 1 (1.333 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (10.67 %) Unix 2 6 (8.000 %) Windows 3 5 (6.667 %) Solaris 3 5 (6.667 %) Linux 4 3 (4.000 %) Windows 2000 5 2 (2.667 %) Windows NT 6 1 (1.333 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.333 %) MVS 6 1 (1.333 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (1.333 %) Embedded Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 21 (28.00 %) Project Management 2 14 (18.67 %) DSDM 3 13 (17.33 %) E-Commerce 4 10 (13.33 %) PRINCE2 5 7 (9.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 5 (6.667 %) Matrix Management 7 4 (5.333 %) Release Management 7 4 (5.333 %) Technical Architecture 7 4 (5.333 %) Enterprise Architecture 7 4 (5.333 %) Change Management 8 3 (4.000 %) Migration 9 2 (2.667 %) Stakeholder Management 9 2 (2.667 %) Software Engineering 9 2 (2.667 %) Project Planning 9 2 (2.667 %) QMS 9 2 (2.667 %) UML 9 2 (2.667 %) OO 9 2 (2.667 %) RUP 10 1 (1.333 %) ERP 10 1 (1.333 %) SOA
Programming Languages 1 22 (29.33 %) Java 2 2 (2.667 %) C# 2 2 (2.667 %) SQL 2 2 (2.667 %) Python 3 1 (1.333 %) Embedded C 3 1 (1.333 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.333 %) JCL 3 1 (1.333 %) C++ 3 1 (1.333 %) PL/SQL 3 1 (1.333 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (4.000 %) PRINCE2 Certification 1 3 (4.000 %) Degree 2 1 (1.333 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.333 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (1.333 %) PMP 2 1 (1.333 %) PMI Certification 2 1 (1.333 %) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (1.333 %) SLA 1 1 (1.333 %) QA	System Software 1 4 (5.333 %) Active Directory 2 1 (1.333 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 1 (1.333 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 1 (1.333 %) Netcool 1 1 (1.333 %) Netcool/OMNIbus 1 1 (1.333 %) AutoSys 1 1 (1.333 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 26 (34.67 %) Oracle 2 6 (8.000 %) Sun 3 5 (6.667 %) Microsoft 4 4 (5.333 %) Cisco 5 2 (2.667 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.333 %) IBM 6 1 (1.333 %) Citrix 6 1 (1.333 %) Nokia 6 1 (1.333 %) Primavera