Essex Technical Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts within the Essex region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Technical Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Manager
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Fife Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stirling Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	49
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	24	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.032 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	3.727 %	1.582 %
Daily rates quoted	12	6
Average minimum daily rate	£475	£422
Average daily rate	£504	£449
% change on same period last year	+12.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£533	£476
UK excluding London average daily rate	£436	£418
% change on same period last year	+4.25 %
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	£33.00	£41.63
% change on same period last year	-20.72 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	644	632
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.849 %	0.670 %
Daily rates quoted	249	188
Average minimum daily rate	£276	£331
Average daily rate	£292	£356
% change on same period last year	-18.00 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£381
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	104	144
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.68	£25.12
Average hourly rate	£28.17	£25.86
% change on same period last year	+8.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.66	£26.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Manager East of 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.

Technical Manager
Demand Trend

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

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Technical Manager across the Essex 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 Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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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 Essex 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 job ads citing Technical Manager within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 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
Southend-on-Sea	-	5	£558	-
Colchester	-	2	£400	-
Brentwood	-	1	£200	-

Technical Manager East of England

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 16 (64.00 %) Oracle 2 14 (56.00 %) Java 2 14 (56.00 %) DSDM 3 13 (52.00 %) E-Commerce 3 13 (52.00 %) Client/Server 4 12 (48.00 %) Internet 5 11 (44.00 %) Government 6 7 (28.00 %) Project Management 7 5 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 8 4 (16.00 %) Enterprise Architecture 8 4 (16.00 %) Matrix Management 8 4 (16.00 %) IBM 9 3 (12.00 %) Mainframe 9 3 (12.00 %) PRINCE2 9 3 (12.00 %) IBM Mainframe

9 3 (12.00 %) Migration 9 3 (12.00 %) Risk Management 10 2 (8.000 %) Finance 10 2 (8.000 %) Insurance 10 2 (8.000 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (8.000 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 10 2 (8.000 %) Project Planning 10 2 (8.000 %) Wireless 10 2 (8.000 %) SC Cleared 10 2 (8.000 %) VoIP 10 2 (8.000 %) NHS 11 1 (4.000 %) MVS 11 1 (4.000 %) Site Server 11 1 (4.000 %) PRINCE 11 1 (4.000 %) Intranet

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 (4.000 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.000 %) Site Server 1 1 (4.000 %) Oracle Workflow
Applications 1 1 (4.000 %) MS Project 1 1 (4.000 %) MS PowerPoint 1 1 (4.000 %) CA Clarity	Communications & Networking 1 12 (48.00 %) Internet 2 2 (8.000 %) Wireless 2 2 (8.000 %) VoIP 3 1 (4.000 %) WAN 3 1 (4.000 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (4.000 %) Intranet 3 1 (4.000 %) LAN 3 1 (4.000 %) Extranet 3 1 (4.000 %) Firewall
General 1 11 (44.00 %) Government 2 2 (8.000 %) Finance 2 2 (8.000 %) Insurance 3 1 (4.000 %) Auditing 3 1 (4.000 %) Automotive 3 1 (4.000 %) Health	Miscellaneous 1 13 (52.00 %) Client/Server 2 3 (12.00 %) Mainframe 2 3 (12.00 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (8.000 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.000 %) Unix 1 1 (4.000 %) AIX 1 1 (4.000 %) Solaris 1 1 (4.000 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 14 (56.00 %) DSDM 2 13 (52.00 %) E-Commerce 3 7 (28.00 %) Project Management 4 5 (20.00 %) Security Cleared 5 4 (16.00 %) Enterprise Architecture 5 4 (16.00 %) Matrix Management 6 3 (12.00 %) Migration 6 3 (12.00 %) Risk Management 6 3 (12.00 %) PRINCE2 7 2 (8.000 %) Business Analysis 7 2 (8.000 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 7 2 (8.000 %) Project Planning 7 2 (8.000 %) SC Cleared 8 1 (4.000 %) ITIL 8 1 (4.000 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (4.000 %) UML 8 1 (4.000 %) PRINCE 8 1 (4.000 %) Workflow 8 1 (4.000 %) Service Management
Programming Languages 1 14 (56.00 %) Java 2 1 (4.000 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (4.000 %) SQL 2 1 (4.000 %) Shell Script 2 1 (4.000 %) JCL	Qualifications 1 1 (4.000 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 1 (4.000 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (4.000 %) AutoSys 1 1 (4.000 %) SCOM
Vendors 1 16 (64.00 %) Oracle 2 4 (16.00 %) IBM 3 1 (4.000 %) Sun 3 1 (4.000 %) Cisco