The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Design Leader 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 Technical Design Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Design Lead
Rank 74 81 69
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Design Leader 1 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.107% 0.155% 0.288%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.115% 0.168% 0.305%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £430 - £1,000
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
872 1190 982
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.46% 92.11% 94.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 413 578 432
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £496
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 72 77
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.82% +18.18%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.01 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Design Leader
North West

Technical Design Leader
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Technical Design Leader Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Design Leader
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Technical Design Leader Daily Rate Trend

Technical Design Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical Design Leader 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 Design Leader in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Foglight
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) IVR
2 1 (50.00%) CTI
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
2 1 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia

Technical Design Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited Technical Design Leader 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 Design Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) WebSphere
1 1 (50.00%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) CICS
2 1 (50.00%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) CTI
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 2 (100.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 2 (100.00%) VSAM
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (50.00%) Visualisation
2 1 (50.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) zOS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Data Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) COBOL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Foglight
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (50.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) CA
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Nokia
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle