The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the South East 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 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 163 191 146
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Manager 60 51 118
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.771% 0.502% 1.118%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.833% 0.543% 1.207%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 26 74
Average daily rate £438 £364 £403
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.27% -9.62%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £308 £350
10% offered a daily rate of more than £563 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £370 £400
% change year-on-year
+5.54% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Average hourly rate £19.39 £45.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.91% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.39 £27.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-29.49% -15.38%
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7204 9391 9776
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.56% 92.35% 92.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3605 4218 4213
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 721 839
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Berkshire +24 22 £450 +28.11%
Hampshire +3 13 £470 +23.68%
Surrey +22 7 £338 -23.94%
Oxfordshire +11 7 - -
West Sussex +12 4 £413 +13.79%
Middlesex +12 2 £350 -
Kent - 2 £275 -
Buckinghamshire +3 1 - -
M4 Corridor - 1 £390 -
Technical Manager
England

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 52 (41.94%) Project Management
2 31 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 27 (21.77%) Finance
4 21 (16.94%) Telecoms
5 18 (14.52%) Microsoft
6 17 (13.71%) WAN
6 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (12.90%) Migration
8 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
9 14 (11.29%) Cisco
9 14 (11.29%) LAN
9 14 (11.29%) SQL
10 12 (9.677%) Windows
11 11 (8.871%) VMware
11 11 (8.871%) Change Management
12 10 (8.065%) Salesforce.com
13 9 (7.258%) Service Delivery
13 9 (7.258%) ITIL
13 9 (7.258%) SharePoint
13 9 (7.258%) MS Exchange
13 9 (7.258%) Degree
14 8 (6.452%) Change Control
14 8 (6.452%) SAN
15 7 (5.645%) Citrix
15 7 (5.645%) CRM
15 7 (5.645%) Oracle
15 7 (5.645%) SAP
15 7 (5.645%) Service Management
15 7 (5.645%) MPLS
15 7 (5.645%) Data Migration

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 5 (4.032%) .NET
2 3 (2.419%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.613%) J2EE
4 1 (0.806%) COM
4 1 (0.806%) Web Services
4 1 (0.806%) Middleware
4 1 (0.806%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 9 (7.258%) SharePoint
1 9 (7.258%) MS Exchange
2 5 (4.032%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (0.806%) Apache
3 1 (0.806%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (0.806%) Lync
Applications
1 4 (3.226%) MS Excel
1 4 (3.226%) MS Project
2 2 (1.613%) MS PowerPoint
2 2 (1.613%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.806%) MS Office
3 1 (0.806%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.419%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (1.613%) SAP FI
2 2 (1.613%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (1.613%) SAP CRM
3 1 (0.806%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.806%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.806%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.806%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 17 (13.71%) WAN
2 14 (11.29%) LAN
3 8 (6.452%) SAN
4 7 (5.645%) MPLS
5 6 (4.839%) Firewall
5 6 (4.839%) TCP/IP
5 6 (4.839%) VPN
6 5 (4.032%) LDAP
7 4 (3.226%) ATM
7 4 (3.226%) VoIP
7 4 (3.226%) DNS
8 3 (2.419%) SMTP
8 3 (2.419%) HTTP
8 3 (2.419%) WLAN
8 3 (2.419%) 2G
8 3 (2.419%) 3G
8 3 (2.419%) Internet
8 3 (2.419%) SS7
8 3 (2.419%) NAS
8 3 (2.419%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (4.839%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.419%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (2.419%) GIS
3 2 (1.613%) SAP Data Services
4 1 (0.806%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.806%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.806%) DataStage
4 1 (0.806%) SAP BW
Development Applications
1 4 (3.226%) JIRA
2 1 (0.806%) Selenium
General
1 27 (21.77%) Finance
2 21 (16.94%) Telecoms
3 5 (4.032%) Automotive
3 5 (4.032%) Pharmaceutical
4 4 (3.226%) Retail
5 2 (1.613%) Billing
5 2 (1.613%) Banking
5 2 (1.613%) Publishing
5 2 (1.613%) Electronics
6 1 (0.806%) Law
6 1 (0.806%) Legal
6 1 (0.806%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.806%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.226%) NHS
2 3 (2.419%) Data Integration
2 3 (2.419%) Smart Meter
3 2 (1.613%) Digital Media
3 2 (1.613%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (1.613%) SaaS
3 2 (1.613%) Mainframe
4 1 (0.806%) PMI
4 1 (0.806%) AS400
4 1 (0.806%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (0.806%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 12 (9.677%) Windows
2 4 (3.226%) Windows 7
2 4 (3.226%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (1.613%) UNIX
4 1 (0.806%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.806%) Linux
4 1 (0.806%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (41.94%) Project Management
2 31 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 17 (13.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 16 (12.90%) Migration
5 11 (8.871%) Change Management
6 9 (7.258%) Service Delivery
6 9 (7.258%) ITIL
7 8 (6.452%) Change Control
8 7 (5.645%) CRM
8 7 (5.645%) Service Management
8 7 (5.645%) Data Migration
8 7 (5.645%) Business Analysis
9 6 (4.839%) Release Management
9 6 (4.839%) PRINCE
10 5 (4.032%) Waterfall
11 4 (3.226%) Agile Software Development
11 4 (3.226%) Resource Management
11 4 (3.226%) Root Cause Analysis
11 4 (3.226%) Budget Control
11 4 (3.226%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (11.29%) SQL
2 5 (4.032%) Java
3 4 (3.226%) C#
4 1 (0.806%) C
4 1 (0.806%) Perl
4 1 (0.806%) RPG
4 1 (0.806%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (7.258%) Degree
2 5 (4.032%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (4.032%) CCNA
3 4 (3.226%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 4 (3.226%) CCIE
3 4 (3.226%) CCNP
4 3 (2.419%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.613%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (1.613%) PMP
6 1 (0.806%) ISEB
6 1 (0.806%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (0.806%) Security Cleared
6 1 (0.806%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.032%) SLA
2 1 (0.806%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.645%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.032%) XenApp
4 3 (2.419%) Microsoft App-V
4 3 (2.419%) vSphere
5 1 (0.806%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (2.419%) SCCM
2 2 (1.613%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 18 (14.52%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.29%) Cisco
3 11 (8.871%) VMware
4 10 (8.065%) Salesforce.com
5 7 (5.645%) Citrix
5 7 (5.645%) Oracle
5 7 (5.645%) SAP
6 4 (3.226%) Riverbed
6 4 (3.226%) Niku
6 4 (3.226%) EMC
7 3 (2.419%) Juniper
7 3 (2.419%) Informatica
7 3 (2.419%) HP
7 3 (2.419%) AppSense
7 3 (2.419%) CheckPoint
7 3 (2.419%) Brocade
7 3 (2.419%) Blue Coat
8 2 (1.613%) Remedy
8 2 (1.613%) Ericsson
9 1 (0.806%) Novell
Southampton, Hampshire
Responsibilities: Responsible for the delivery of end to end projects BAU Engaging with Service Delivery Engaging with vendors and 3rd parties Budget Control This is an excellent opportunity...
Roc Search
Posted: 22 May 2013
Farnham, South East
Responsibilities: Ensure all the aims of the project are met Ensure the quality standards are met Risk assessment Monitoring project resources and third party suppliers to ensure guidelines...
Satigo
Rate: £0.00 per annum
Posted: 10 May 2013
Berkshire
The right candidate will have experience of driving projects from design through implementation, test & delivery, using the following technologies: SAP FI or similar. Datastage or similar ETL technology...
Proactive Appointments
Rate: Unspecified Market Rate
Posted: 21 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
There will also be elements of both project management and commercial vendor management... Migration of customers and their routers... The 3 key areas of this role will include;...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £400 - £435 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013