Hertfordshire Support Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Support Manager role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 Support Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Support Manager
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bridgend Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire Hounslow Ilford London Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Middlesex Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North Wales North West Oxford Oxfordshire Scotland Slough South East South Wales South West Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex Wilmslow Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	85	89
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	4	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.281 %	0.284 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£312	£346
% change on same period last year	-9.98 %
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	£34.42	£29.50
% change on same period last year	+16.66 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1426	1759
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.901 %	1.780 %
Daily rates quoted	522	682
Average minimum daily rate	£359	£330
Average daily rate	£386	£350
% change on same period last year	+10.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£413	£370
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	181	161
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.27	£22.02
Average hourly rate	£25.34	£23.13
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£24.23
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Support 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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Support Manager across the Hertfordshire 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 IT contract jobs citing Support Manager across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Support Manager across the Hertfordshire region.

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 3 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 2 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 2 (33.33 %) VPN 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory 2 2 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 2 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX

2 2 (33.33 %) Windows 3 1 (16.67 %) Billing 3 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft 3 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 3 1 (16.67 %) VMware 3 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (16.67 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 Platforms 1 3 (50.00 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) DHCP 1 2 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 2 (33.33 %) VPN 1 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco PIX
General 1 1 (16.67 %) Telecoms 1 1 (16.67 %) Billing	Operating Systems 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows 1 2 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) ITIL 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (16.67 %) PRINCE2	Qualifications 1 2 (33.33 %) ITIL Certification
System Software 1 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 1 2 (33.33 %) McAfee Security 2 1 (16.67 %) VMware 2 1 (16.67 %) Microsoft