The first table below looks at the demand for the Infrastructure Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Infrastructure Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Manchester 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Infrastructure Manager
Rank 58 74 57
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -17
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Manager 15 15 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 1.589% 1.154% 1.685%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.699% 1.258% 1.786%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 7
Average daily rate £341 £381 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.57% +1.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £331 £338 £365
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £513 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £92.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £72.00 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year
+60.00% +20.00%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
883 1192 952
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.54% 91.69% 94.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 590 419
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 75 77
Average hourly rate £16.84 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £33.32 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Infrastructure Manager
North West

Infrastructure Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Infrastructure Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Infrastructure Manager Daily Rate Trend

Infrastructure Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Infrastructure Manager across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Manchester Infrastructure Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Infrastructure Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Infrastructure Manager across the Manchester region.

Manchester Infrastructure Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Infrastructure Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager in their job title.

1 11 (61.11%) Finance
1 11 (61.11%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Banking
5 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 3 (16.67%) UNIX
6 2 (11.11%) VMware
6 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
6 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
6 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
6 2 (11.11%) PRINCE
6 2 (11.11%) FTP
6 2 (11.11%) NFS
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco
6 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
6 2 (11.11%) Citrix
6 2 (11.11%) IIS
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 2 (11.11%) SAS
6 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
6 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
6 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
6 2 (11.11%) vSphere
6 2 (11.11%) Retail

Infrastructure Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SAS
1 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) FTP
1 2 (11.11%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
2 1 (5.556%) LAN
2 1 (5.556%) WAN
2 1 (5.556%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) Wi-Fi
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 1 (5.556%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) UNIX
3 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (61.11%) Project Management
2 6 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (27.78%) PRINCE2
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 2 (11.11%) Programme Management
5 2 (11.11%) PRINCE
6 1 (5.556%) Time Management
6 1 (5.556%) Project Planning
6 1 (5.556%) Change Control
6 1 (5.556%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (5.556%) Service Management
6 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
6 1 (5.556%) Change Management
6 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) NFS
1 2 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
1 2 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Backup Exec
1 2 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (11.11%) VMware
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco
1 2 (11.11%) Citrix
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle