The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 110 118 104
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -14
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 8 9 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.444% 0.459% 0.795%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.463% 0.481% 0.843%
Number of salaries quoted 8 9 7
Average salary £42,500 £33,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.86% -21.17%
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Job Titles
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1728 1872 1542
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 95.84% 95.56% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 1373 1646 1312
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £22,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Manager
North West

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Technical Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Manager
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Technical Manager across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire Technical Manager Salary Trend

Technical Manager
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Manager within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Northwich - 5 £42,500 -
Warrington +20 2 £41,250 -2.94%
Knutsford - 1 £45,000 -
Technical Manager
North West

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled with Technical Manager in their job title.

1 13 (61.90%) VMware
2 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (52.38%) ITIL
3 11 (52.38%) Windows
4 9 (42.86%) Linux
4 9 (42.86%) SQL Server
4 9 (42.86%) HP
4 9 (42.86%) SAN
4 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (33.33%) Finance
5 7 (33.33%) Cisco
6 6 (28.57%) Citrix
7 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (23.81%) Avaya
7 5 (23.81%) IBM
7 5 (23.81%) MOM
7 5 (23.81%) Nagios
7 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
7 5 (23.81%) VoIP
7 5 (23.81%) DHCP
7 5 (23.81%) DNS
7 5 (23.81%) Change Control
8 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
8 4 (19.05%) XenApp
8 4 (19.05%) XenDesktop
8 4 (19.05%) WLAN
8 4 (19.05%) WAN
8 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
8 4 (19.05%) MS Exchange

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled with Technical Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) SharePoint
2 4 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (19.05%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 9 (42.86%) SAN
2 5 (23.81%) VoIP
2 5 (23.81%) DHCP
2 5 (23.81%) DNS
3 4 (19.05%) WLAN
3 4 (19.05%) WAN
3 4 (19.05%) LAN
3 4 (19.05%) PBX
3 4 (19.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (19.05%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 7 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (9.524%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.762%) Banking
3 1 (4.762%) Marketing
Operating Systems
1 11 (52.38%) Windows
2 9 (42.86%) Linux
2 9 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (19.05%) Windows XP
3 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 5 (23.81%) Change Control
3 2 (9.524%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) PRINCE
4 1 (4.762%) RUP
4 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.762%) Service Delivery
4 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (4.762%) Product Marketing
4 1 (4.762%) Product Management
4 1 (4.762%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) SQL
2 1 (4.762%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (19.05%) HP APS
3 1 (4.762%) Degree
3 1 (4.762%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (19.05%) XenApp
2 4 (19.05%) XenDesktop
2 4 (19.05%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (23.81%) MOM
1 5 (23.81%) Nagios
Vendors
1 13 (61.90%) VMware
2 9 (42.86%) HP
3 7 (33.33%) Cisco
4 6 (28.57%) Citrix
5 5 (23.81%) Avaya
5 5 (23.81%) IBM
6 4 (19.05%) NetApp
6 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
6 4 (19.05%) Mitel
6 4 (19.05%) ProCurve