Manchester IT Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the IT Manager role in IT contracts within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited IT Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Hove Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peacehaven Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Shropshire Skelmersdale South East South Wales South West Southampton Staffordshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	84	67
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching contract IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.307 %	0.203 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£281	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£313	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£374	£399
% change on same period last year	-6.25 %
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	£24.88	£27.55
% change on same period last year	-9.69 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching contract IT job ads	1304	983
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.719 %	1.028 %
Daily rates quoted	250	189
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£313
Average daily rate	£340	£333
% change on same period last year	+2.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£358	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.58 %
Hourly rates quoted	190	110
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.10	£19.28
Average hourly rate	£20.92	£20.81
% change on same period last year	+0.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.74	£22.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.39	£25.89
% change on same period last year	-9.63 %
IT Manager North West

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 IT Manager across the Manchester 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 IT Manager across the Manchester 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 IT Manager across the Manchester region.

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Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title.

1 4 (36.36 %) Finance 2 3 (27.27 %) Project Management 2 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 3 (27.27 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (18.18 %) NHS 3 2 (18.18 %) Smartcard 3 2 (18.18 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (18.18 %) Data Protection 3 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 4 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 4 1 (9.091 %) Migration 4 1 (9.091 %) Data Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Marketing 4 1 (9.091 %) Performance Management

4 1 (9.091 %) ECDL 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server 4 1 (9.091 %) SAP 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 4 1 (9.091 %) Lotus 4 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes 4 1 (9.091 %) CRM 4 1 (9.091 %) LAN 4 1 (9.091 %) WAN 4 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (9.091 %) Lotus Notes	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Firewall 1 1 (9.091 %) LAN 1 1 (9.091 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL Server	General 1 4 (36.36 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Marketing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) NHS 1 2 (18.18 %) Smartcard	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Project Management 1 3 (27.27 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (18.18 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (18.18 %) Data Protection 2 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 3 1 (9.091 %) Migration 3 1 (9.091 %) Data Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Performance Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 3 1 (9.091 %) CRM
Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) ECDL 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 1 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Oracle 2 1 (9.091 %) SAP 2 1 (9.091 %) Avaya 2 1 (9.091 %) Lotus