The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the Reading 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 19 June 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 Reading 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 67 80 77
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -3
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 6 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.682% 0.087% 0.099%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.749% 0.094% 0.114%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
Average daily rate £450 - £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £28.96 £33.50
% change year-on-year
+8.78% -13.56%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
801 1060 876
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.02% 92.09% 86.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 355 370 393
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 39
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +48.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.38 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £27.50 £22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Technical Manager
Berkshire

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Technical Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 (53.33%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (26.67%) Niku
3 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (26.67%) ATM
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Resource Management
3 4 (26.67%) Degree
3 4 (26.67%) Change Control
4 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (20.00%) GIS
4 3 (20.00%) SLA
4 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 3 (20.00%) SQL
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Finance
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) SAP ERP
6 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (6.667%) Scrum
6 1 (6.667%) Analytics
6 1 (6.667%) NHS
6 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
6 1 (6.667%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (6.667%) J2EE

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 1 (6.667%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (6.667%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 4 (26.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (20.00%) GIS
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
2 1 (6.667%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (6.667%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) NHS
1 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Project Management
2 6 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (26.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (26.67%) Resource Management
3 4 (26.67%) Change Control
4 3 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Time Management
6 1 (6.667%) Software Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) SAP Implementation
6 1 (6.667%) Scrum
6 1 (6.667%) Analytics
6 1 (6.667%) RUP
6 1 (6.667%) ERP
6 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
6 1 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (6.667%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (6.667%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) Niku
2 3 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (6.667%) SAP