The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh 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 22 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 Edinburgh 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 49 54 70
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.726% 0.362% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.772% 0.386% 0.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
Average daily rate £438 £438 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
+6.80% -6.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.45 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-18.38% -15.38%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
777 1036 1225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 94.07% 93.84% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 331 510 600
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £538
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 27 36
Average hourly rate £15.50 £23.00 £15.29
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.60% +50.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.70 £9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.00 £32.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Manager
Scotland

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
3 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (20.00%) Informatica
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Information Security
3 2 (20.00%) Teradata
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
3 2 (20.00%) ETL
3 2 (20.00%) SAS
3 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (20.00%) Star Schema
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (10.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) SSL
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) .NET
4 1 (10.00%) Oracle
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
4 1 (10.00%) Web Services
4 1 (10.00%) XML
4 1 (10.00%) XSL
4 1 (10.00%) Publishing
4 1 (10.00%) Middleware

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (10.00%) .NET
1 1 (10.00%) Web Services
1 1 (10.00%) XML
1 1 (10.00%) XSL
1 1 (10.00%) Middleware
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SAS
2 1 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (10.00%) WordPress
2 1 (10.00%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) Star Schema
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Investment Banking
3 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Android
1 1 (10.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (30.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Metadata Management
2 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (20.00%) Data Modelling
2 2 (20.00%) ETL
2 2 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (10.00%) Service Management
3 1 (10.00%) Change Management
3 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (10.00%) Content Management
3 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (10.00%) Release Management
3 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Informatica
1 2 (20.00%) Teradata
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Citrix
2 1 (10.00%) Oracle
2 1 (10.00%) VMware