The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 36 - 48
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.727% - 0.235%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.763% - 0.251%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
Average daily rate £387 - £400
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
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
262 621 398
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 95.27% 92.83% 93.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 152 366 159
Average daily rate £380 £400 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £276 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 33 61
Average hourly rate £16.50 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-34.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £21.00 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £37.40 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Manager
South West

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Technical Manager Daily Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cheltenham - 2 £387 -
Technical Manager
South West

Technical Manager
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 (33.33%) J2EE
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Client/Server
1 2 (66.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) HNC
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) DV Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) VMware