Surrey Technical Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT contracts within the Surrey 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 Technical Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Technical Manager
Location Barnsley Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Denbighshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Fife Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rhyl Rickmansworth Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Solihull South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Stirling Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wetherby Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	94
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	6	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.310 %	0.503 %
Daily rates quoted	1	5
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£380
Average daily rate	£425	£395
% change on same period last year	+7.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£436	£418
% change on same period last year	+4.25 %
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	£33.00	£41.63
% change on same period last year	-20.72 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching contract IT job ads	1933	2185
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.549 %	2.318 %
Daily rates quoted	549	538
Average minimum daily rate	£324	£331
Average daily rate	£345	£349
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£366	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	270	266
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.68	£22.01
Average hourly rate	£22.40	£22.84
% change on same period last year	-1.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£23.67
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
Technical Manager South East

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 Technical Manager across the Surrey 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 Technical Manager across the Surrey 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 Technical Manager across the Surrey region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Technical Manager within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Guildford	+7	1	-	-

Technical Manager South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 10 (45.45 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (40.91 %) Project Management 3 8 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 8 (36.36 %) Finance 4 5 (22.73 %) Migration 4 5 (22.73 %) Insurance 5 4 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 4 (18.18 %) PRINCE 6 3 (13.64 %) E-Commerce 6 3 (13.64 %) SQL 6 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 6 3 (13.64 %) Windows 6 3 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 6 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 7 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5

7 2 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (9.091 %) Management Information System 7 2 (9.091 %) LAN 7 2 (9.091 %) WAN 7 2 (9.091 %) Linux 7 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory 7 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 8 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification 8 1 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2000 8 1 (4.545 %) HP 8 1 (4.545 %) BusinessObjects 8 1 (4.545 %) Client/Server 8 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft CRM 8 1 (4.545 %) Red Hat

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Platforms 1 4 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2007 2 3 (13.64 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (9.091 %) Exchange Server 5.5 4 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2000 4 1 (4.545 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) MS Project
Business Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft CRM 1 1 (4.545 %) Infinys	Communications & Networking 1 2 (9.091 %) LAN 1 2 (9.091 %) WAN 2 1 (4.545 %) SMTP 2 1 (4.545 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (4.545 %) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.545 %) BusinessObjects 2 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (4.545 %) SQL Server 2005	General 1 8 (36.36 %) Finance 2 5 (22.73 %) Insurance 3 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 4 1 (4.545 %) Government 4 1 (4.545 %) Health 4 1 (4.545 %) Police 4 1 (4.545 %) Billing
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Management Information System 2 1 (4.545 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 3 (13.64 %) Windows 2 2 (9.091 %) Linux 3 1 (4.545 %) Windows NT 3 1 (4.545 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (4.545 %) Unix
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (45.45 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (40.91 %) Project Management 3 5 (22.73 %) Migration 4 4 (18.18 %) PRINCE 5 3 (13.64 %) E-Commerce 6 2 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 7 1 (4.545 %) Security Cleared 7 1 (4.545 %) Change Management 7 1 (4.545 %) Risk Management 7 1 (4.545 %) ITIL 7 1 (4.545 %) CRM 7 1 (4.545 %) Business Analysis 7 1 (4.545 %) Supplier Management 7 1 (4.545 %) Project Planning 7 1 (4.545 %) Operations Management 7 1 (4.545 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (13.64 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 8 (36.36 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) MCSE 2 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 2 1 (4.545 %) Red Hat 2 1 (4.545 %) Agresso 2 1 (4.545 %) VMware 2 1 (4.545 %) Planview 2 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 2 1 (4.545 %) Business Objects 2 1 (4.545 %) Cognos 2 1 (4.545 %) Cisco 2 1 (4.545 %) Microsoft 2 1 (4.545 %) HP