The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the North West 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 20 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 North West 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 99 131 119
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 20 5 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.863% 0.157% 0.432%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.925% 0.172% 0.466%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 4 4
Average daily rate £345 £400 £414
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.75% -3.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £262 £375 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £443 £486
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £405
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -7.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.45 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-18.38% -15.38%
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2161 2909 2791
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.62% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1017 1450 1397
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 171 188
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Technical Manager Daily Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Technical Manager across the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

North West Technical Manager Daily Rate Histogram

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 North West region.

North West Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the North West region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cheshire +10 6 £425 +13.33%
Manchester +14 5 £339 -24.66%
Lancashire - 5 £261 -
Merseyside - 2 £425 -
Cumbria - 1 £285 -
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 13 (29.55%) Windows
1 13 (29.55%) Banking
2 11 (25.00%) Retail
3 10 (22.73%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (22.73%) Hyper-V
3 10 (22.73%) XenDesktop
3 10 (22.73%) SQL
3 10 (22.73%) MS Exchange
3 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (20.45%) Finance
4 9 (20.45%) Cisco
4 9 (20.45%) Retail Banking
4 9 (20.45%) vSphere
5 8 (18.18%) Migration
5 8 (18.18%) VMware
6 7 (15.91%) Middleware
6 7 (15.91%) Citrix
7 6 (13.64%) WebSphere
7 6 (13.64%) PRINCE2
7 6 (13.64%) Project Management
7 6 (13.64%) NetApp
8 5 (11.36%) Backup Exec
8 5 (11.36%) WebSphere MQ
8 5 (11.36%) IIS
8 5 (11.36%) Oracle
8 5 (11.36%) IBM
8 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
8 5 (11.36%) NFS

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 7 (15.91%) Middleware
2 6 (13.64%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.273%) HTML
3 1 (2.273%) CSS
3 1 (2.273%) XML
3 1 (2.273%) XSLT
3 1 (2.273%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 10 (22.73%) MS Exchange
1 10 (22.73%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (11.36%) SAS
2 5 (11.36%) WebSphere MQ
2 5 (11.36%) IIS
3 1 (2.273%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (4.545%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) iSCSI
1 5 (11.36%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (6.818%) LAN
2 3 (6.818%) WAN
3 2 (4.545%) Internet
4 1 (2.273%) Wireless
4 1 (2.273%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
General
1 13 (29.55%) Banking
2 11 (25.00%) Retail
3 9 (20.45%) Finance
3 9 (20.45%) Retail Banking
4 2 (4.545%) Multimedia
5 1 (2.273%) Games
5 1 (2.273%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.545%) Mainframe
1 2 (4.545%) Online Banking
1 2 (4.545%) Mobile Banking
2 1 (2.273%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.273%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.273%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 13 (29.55%) Windows
2 10 (22.73%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (6.818%) UNIX
4 2 (4.545%) Linux
5 1 (2.273%) SUSE
5 1 (2.273%) Solaris
5 1 (2.273%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (22.73%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (18.18%) Migration
3 6 (13.64%) PRINCE2
3 6 (13.64%) Project Management
4 5 (11.36%) Data Migration
5 4 (9.091%) Change Management
5 4 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 3 (6.818%) Scrum
6 3 (6.818%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (6.818%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (4.545%) Resource Management
7 2 (4.545%) Matrix Management
7 2 (4.545%) Data Modelling
7 2 (4.545%) ETL
8 1 (2.273%) Workflow
8 1 (2.273%) Service Management
8 1 (2.273%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (2.273%) System Testing
8 1 (2.273%) Kanban
8 1 (2.273%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (22.73%) SQL
2 1 (2.273%) ActionScript
2 1 (2.273%) Java
2 1 (2.273%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.273%) PHP
Qualifications
1 4 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (4.545%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.273%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (2.273%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (2.273%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 10 (22.73%) Active Directory
1 10 (22.73%) Hyper-V
1 10 (22.73%) XenDesktop
2 9 (20.45%) vSphere
3 5 (11.36%) XenApp
3 5 (11.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (11.36%) Backup Exec
1 5 (11.36%) SCOM
2 1 (2.273%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (20.45%) Cisco
2 8 (18.18%) VMware
3 7 (15.91%) Citrix
4 6 (13.64%) NetApp
5 5 (11.36%) Oracle
5 5 (11.36%) IBM
5 5 (11.36%) Microsoft
6 2 (4.545%) Informatica
7 1 (2.273%) CheckPoint
7 1 (2.273%) Wyse
7 1 (2.273%) Verint
7 1 (2.273%) Dell
7 1 (2.273%) Nortel
7 1 (2.273%) Siebel
7 1 (2.273%) Avaya
7 1 (2.273%) Genesys
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Therefore the successful candidate must be able to clearly demonstrate: - Extensive previous experience of Infrastructure Project Management - Previous experience of managing a wide range of infrastructure projects across...
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Rate: £250 - £275 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013