The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Support 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 Technical Support 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 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Support Manager
Rank 537 564 595
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Support Manager 4 6 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.011% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 1
Average daily rate £700 £325 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+115.38% +30.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £325 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
44347 53663 57608
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.17% 92.47% 92.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 25564 29628 31510
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2099 2560 2964
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%

Technical Support Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Support Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Support Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Manager Daily Rate Trend

Technical Support Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Technical Support Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Technical Support Manager
Top 26 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Support Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +11 4 £700 +115.38% 3
London - 3 £700 -
East of England +18 1 - - 1
East Yorkshire - - - -
Aylesbury - - - -
Guildford - - - - 1
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Hull - - - -
Leeds - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Windsor - - - -
Woking - - - - 1
Berkshire - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - - 1
Hertfordshire - - - -
Kent - - - -
Staffordshire - - - -
Surrey - - - - 1
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
City of London - - - -
North West - - - - 1
South East - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - -

Technical Support Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Support 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 Support Manager in their job title.

1 3 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
2 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 2 (28.57%) LAN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) OpenLink
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
2 2 (28.57%) Time Management
2 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
2 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
3 1 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) ITIL

Technical Support Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Technical Support 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 Support Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) Project Management
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Problem Management
1 2 (28.57%) Time Management
1 2 (28.57%) Incident Management
1 2 (28.57%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) XenApp
1 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
1 1 (14.29%) vSphere
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) OpenLink
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp