The first table below looks at the demand for the Support Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Support Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Lancashire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Support Manager
Rank - 40 -
Contract jobs requiring a Support Manager 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire - 0.474% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.512% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £369 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.47% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-27.91% -14.28%
All Job Titles
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
208 391 220
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 94.12% 92.65% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 217 99
Average daily rate £290 £375 £326
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-22.66% +14.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £275 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £500 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 19 30
Average hourly rate £18.00 £20.50 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.19% -45.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.70 £11.50 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.95 £30.00 £42.05
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Support Manager
North West

Support Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Support Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Support Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Support Manager across the Lancashire region.

Lancashire Support Manager Daily Rate Trend

Support Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Support Manager within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Daily Rate
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Average Daily Rate
% Change
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Support Manager
North West

Support Manager
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere

Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
1 1 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) NetApp