The first part of the table below looks at the demand for the Data Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Data Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

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.

Data Manager
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank418436391
Rank change year-on-year
Up+18Down-45
Matching contract IT job ads161145148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.272 %0.236 %0.269 %
As % of the Job Titles category0.294 %0.255 %0.292 %
Number of daily rates quoted988271
Average daily rate£450£494£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.86 %-1.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£283£325£300
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£675£600£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£413£475£475
% change year-on-year
-13.15 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted215
Average hourly rate£60.00£30.00£25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+100.00 %+20.00 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£60.00£30.00£37.47
% change year-on-year
+100.00 %-19.92 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryAll Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
547785688250613
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK92.55 %92.70 %91.92 %
Number of daily rates quoted302013092924313
Average daily rate£400£425£410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88 %+3.65 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£240£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted259529252766
Average hourly rate£18.75£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.25 %+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£10.75
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£40.00£40.50£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.00£20.00£18.00
% change year-on-year
-10.00 %+11.11 %

Data Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Data Manager within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Data Manager Demand Trend

Data Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Data Manager within the UK.

Data Manager Daily Rate Trend

Data Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Data Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Data Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Data Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Data Manager within the UK.

Data Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Data Manager
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+11143£469-5.06 %
LondonUp+5399£474-5.25 %
City of LondonUp+3825£550+10.00 %
South EastDown-1517£500+21.21 %
ScotlandNew entry-12£375-
South WestDown-157£419-
West MidlandsDown-237£425-29.16 %
BristolNew entry-6£419-
GlasgowNew entry-5£369-
SurreyUp+34£700+47.36 %
BerkshireDown-234£500-9.09 %
MiddlesexUp+53£260-
East of EnglandDown-83--
YorkshireDown-143£500+42.85 %
EdinburghNew entry-3£375-
AberdeenNew entry-3£373-
BirminghamNew entry-3£375-
Sunbury-on-ThamesNew entry-3£700-
North WestDown-12--
HertfordshireDown-102--
BuckinghamshireNew entry-2--
OxfordshireNew entry-2£500-
Sutton ColdfieldNew entry-2£554-
Milton KeynesNew entry-2--
BracknellNew entry-2--
Canary WharfUp+101£525+5.00 %
South YorkshireUp+81--
BasingstokeUp+61£465-
HampshireDown-21£465+41.98 %
East MidlandsDown-71--

Data Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Data 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 Data Manager in their job title.

1107 (34.63 %)Migration
299 (32.04 %)Finance
378 (25.24 %)Data Migration
475 (24.27 %)Project Management
552 (16.83 %)Data Management
649 (15.86 %)PRINCE2
748 (15.53 %)Banking
839 (12.62 %)Stakeholder Management
936 (11.65 %)SAP
1034 (11.00 %)Data Modelling
1034 (11.00 %)Data Quality
1131 (10.03 %)Data Cleansing
1131 (10.03 %)SQL
1131 (10.03 %)PMI Certification
1230 (9.709 %)Data Warehouse
1329 (9.385 %)Data Governance
1428 (9.061 %)Oracle
1525 (8.091 %)Reference Data
1525 (8.091 %)PMI
1624 (7.767 %)Data Analysis
1624 (7.767 %)Risk Management
1723 (7.443 %)Degree
1822 (7.120 %)Financial Institution
1921 (6.796 %)MS Excel
1921 (6.796 %)Validation
2020 (6.472 %)MS Project
2119 (6.149 %)Front Office
2218 (5.825 %)Investment Banking
2218 (5.825 %)Asset Management
2218 (5.825 %)Business Intelligence

Data Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Data 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 Data Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
12 (0.647 %)Grails
12 (0.647 %)OSGi
12 (0.647 %)Spring
12 (0.647 %)Hibernate
12 (0.647 %)JMS
12 (0.647 %).NET
12 (0.647 %)J2EE
12 (0.647 %)Flash
12 (0.647 %)JDBC
12 (0.647 %)Web Services
12 (0.647 %)XSD
12 (0.647 %)Middleware
21 (0.324 %)ODBC
21 (0.324 %)EDI
21 (0.324 %)XMPP
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
18 (2.589 %)SAS
18 (2.589 %)SharePoint
21 (0.324 %)CICS
21 (0.324 %)IIS
21 (0.324 %)SharePoint 2010
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
121 (6.796 %)MS Excel
220 (6.472 %)MS Project
314 (4.531 %)MS Office
412 (3.883 %)MS PowerPoint
53 (0.971 %)MS Visio
53 (0.971 %)Spreadsheet
61 (0.324 %)Open Workbench
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
110 (3.236 %)Oracle EBS R12
26 (1.942 %)Oracle EBS
35 (1.618 %)Oracle ERP
44 (1.294 %)Cognos Business Intelligence
44 (1.294 %)Oracle Applications
53 (0.971 %)Eagle PACE
62 (0.647 %)Dynamics CRM
62 (0.647 %)SAP FI/CO
62 (0.647 %)SAP CO
62 (0.647 %)SAP MDM
62 (0.647 %)Oracle Financials
62 (0.647 %)SAP FI
71 (0.324 %)SAP HR
71 (0.324 %)SAP SD
71 (0.324 %)Oracle Payroll
71 (0.324 %)Oracle HRMS
71 (0.324 %)HFM
71 (0.324 %)assyst
71 (0.324 %)SAP Oil and Gas
71 (0.324 %)Dynamics AX
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
111 (3.560 %)SAN
25 (1.618 %)LAN
34 (1.294 %)WAN
43 (0.971 %)VoIP
43 (0.971 %)NAS
51 (0.324 %)Firewall
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
130 (9.709 %)Data Warehouse
214 (4.531 %)ETL
39 (2.913 %)SQL Server
43 (0.971 %)TOAD
52 (0.647 %)SQL Server 2008
52 (0.647 %)SQL Server 2005
52 (0.647 %)SQL Server Integration Services
52 (0.647 %)Data Mining
52 (0.647 %)OLAP
52 (0.647 %)Oracle Reports
61 (0.324 %)DecisionStream
61 (0.324 %)BusinessObjects
61 (0.324 %)SAP BW
61 (0.324 %)RDBMS
61 (0.324 %)Oracle 10g
61 (0.324 %)DTS
61 (0.324 %)BusinessObjects Data Services
61 (0.324 %)DbVisualizer
61 (0.324 %)Oracle BI EE
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.971 %)LSMW
22 (0.647 %)Hudson
22 (0.647 %)Maven
22 (0.647 %)Ant
31 (0.324 %)PowerDesigner
31 (0.324 %)Subversion
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
199 (32.04 %)Finance
248 (15.53 %)Banking
322 (7.120 %)Financial Institution
419 (6.149 %)Front Office
518 (5.825 %)Investment Banking
617 (5.502 %)Retail
77 (2.265 %)Marketing
86 (1.942 %)Back Office
94 (1.294 %)Telecoms
103 (0.971 %)Pharmaceutical
103 (0.971 %)Legal
112 (0.647 %)Spanish Language
112 (0.647 %)General Ledger
112 (0.647 %)Manufacturing
121 (0.324 %)Law
121 (0.324 %)Advertising
121 (0.324 %)Publishing
121 (0.324 %)Local Government
121 (0.324 %)Dutch Language
121 (0.324 %)French Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
125 (8.091 %)Reference Data
125 (8.091 %)PMI
218 (5.825 %)Credit Risk
314 (4.531 %)Market Risk
410 (3.236 %)Management Information System
57 (2.265 %)Fixed Income
66 (1.942 %)Data Conversion
75 (1.618 %)NHS
75 (1.618 %)Mainframe
75 (1.618 %)FMCG
84 (1.294 %)Data Integration
93 (0.971 %)CMDB
102 (0.647 %)Data Extraction
102 (0.647 %)Informatics
102 (0.647 %)Mathematics
102 (0.647 %)HP Superdome
102 (0.647 %)Derivative
102 (0.647 %)Economics
102 (0.647 %)Freedom of Information
102 (0.647 %)CLARiiON
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
110 (3.236 %)UNIX
26 (1.942 %)Windows
32 (0.647 %)HPUX
32 (0.647 %)Solaris
32 (0.647 %)Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1107 (34.63 %)Migration
278 (25.24 %)Data Migration
375 (24.27 %)Project Management
452 (16.83 %)Data Management
549 (15.86 %)PRINCE2
639 (12.62 %)Stakeholder Management
734 (11.00 %)Data Modelling
831 (10.03 %)Data Cleansing
929 (9.385 %)Data Governance
1024 (7.767 %)Data Analysis
1024 (7.767 %)Risk Management
1121 (6.796 %)Validation
1218 (5.825 %)Asset Management
1218 (5.825 %)Business Intelligence
1317 (5.502 %)User Acceptance Testing
1416 (5.178 %)PRINCE
1515 (4.854 %)ITIL
1613 (4.207 %)Quality Management
178 (2.589 %)Data Mapping
178 (2.589 %)CRM
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
131 (10.03 %)SQL
25 (1.618 %)C
32 (0.647 %)Groovy
32 (0.647 %)XPath
32 (0.647 %)XQuery
32 (0.647 %)Java
32 (0.647 %)JavaScript
32 (0.647 %)PL/SQL
32 (0.647 %)VB
32 (0.647 %)Python
41 (0.324 %)ABAP
41 (0.324 %)T-SQL
41 (0.324 %)Apex Code
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
131 (10.03 %)PMI Certification
223 (7.443 %)Degree
39 (2.913 %)PMP
47 (2.265 %)Security Cleared
54 (1.294 %)SC Cleared
54 (1.294 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
54 (1.294 %)PRINCE2 Certification
62 (0.647 %)BC Cleared
62 (0.647 %)ISEB
71 (0.324 %)ITIL Certification
71 (0.324 %)Cisco Certification
71 (0.324 %)HNC
71 (0.324 %)HND
71 (0.324 %)CCIE
71 (0.324 %)CCNP
71 (0.324 %)MBA
71 (0.324 %)CFA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
134 (11.00 %)Data Quality
210 (3.236 %)Solvency II
34 (1.294 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
43 (0.971 %)QA
52 (0.647 %)Basel II
61 (0.324 %)SLA
61 (0.324 %)Basel III
61 (0.324 %)HL7
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.971 %)VMware Infrastructure
21 (0.324 %)Active Directory
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
11 (0.324 %)NetBackup
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
136 (11.65 %)SAP
228 (9.061 %)Oracle
318 (5.825 %)Microsoft
414 (4.531 %)Bloomberg
512 (3.883 %)Reuters
69 (2.913 %)Cognos
76 (1.942 %)Cisco
76 (1.942 %)EMC
84 (1.294 %)Cadis
84 (1.294 %)HP
84 (1.294 %)Citrix
93 (0.971 %)Informatica
93 (0.971 %)Salesforce.com
93 (0.971 %)IBM
93 (0.971 %)Sun
93 (0.971 %)VMware
102 (0.647 %)Avaloq
102 (0.647 %)thinkFolio
102 (0.647 %)BI-SAM
102 (0.647 %)GoldenSource