The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds 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 17 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 Leeds 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 73 62 53
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 3 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.403% 0.674% 0.639%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.425% 0.710% 0.671%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £375 £374 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.26% -7.65%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £405
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.45 £28.96 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-22.48% -10.90%
All Job Titles
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
706 845 596
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 94.77% 94.94% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 370 480 279
Average daily rate £300 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £213 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £434 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 47 44
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £6.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.75 £32.80 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Technical Manager
West Yorkshire

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Technical Manager Daily Rate Trend

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
4 4 (40.00%) SQL
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
5 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
5 3 (30.00%) Microsoft
6 2 (20.00%) Retail
6 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
7 1 (10.00%) CRM
7 1 (10.00%) UNIX
7 1 (10.00%) Windows
7 1 (10.00%) Linux
7 1 (10.00%) C#
7 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
7 1 (10.00%) ITIL
7 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
7 1 (10.00%) MS Office
7 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
7 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
7 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (10.00%) PRINCE

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) UNIX
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Project Management
2 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 3 (30.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (20.00%) E-Commerce
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL
5 1 (10.00%) CRM
5 1 (10.00%) PRINCE
5 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (10.00%) Business Continuity
5 1 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 1 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
5 1 (10.00%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Oracle
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft