The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 24 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 80 84 95
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 4 6 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.373% 0.441% 0.382%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.389% 0.461% 0.401%
Number of salaries quoted 1 6 6
Average salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1029 1301 1496
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 96.08% 95.52% 95.35%
Number of salaries quoted 603 952 1084
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Manager
Scotland

Technical Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Technical Manager Salary Trend

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (73.33%) Project Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (40.00%) Degree
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Java
4 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
4 5 (33.33%) Product Management
5 4 (26.67%) C#
5 4 (26.67%) SQL
5 4 (26.67%) .NET
5 4 (26.67%) Games
6 3 (20.00%) Firewall
6 3 (20.00%) Finance
6 3 (20.00%) SOAP
6 3 (20.00%) Web Services
6 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (20.00%) PHP
6 3 (20.00%) WAN
6 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
6 3 (20.00%) Release Management
7 2 (13.33%) Document Management
7 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
7 2 (13.33%) Python
7 2 (13.33%) Open Text
7 2 (13.33%) Internet
8 1 (6.667%) Middleware
8 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
8 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
8 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 4 (26.67%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) SOAP
2 3 (20.00%) Web Services
3 1 (6.667%) Middleware
3 1 (6.667%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon EC2
1 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.667%) Apache
2 1 (6.667%) Drupal
Applications
1 1 (6.667%) MS Excel
1 1 (6.667%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 3 (20.00%) Firewall
1 3 (20.00%) WAN
2 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) MySQL
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.667%) Mainframe
2 1 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) UNIX
1 1 (6.667%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Project Management
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) Product Management
5 3 (20.00%) Software Architecture
5 3 (20.00%) Release Management
6 2 (13.33%) Document Management
7 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery
7 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (6.667%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.667%) ITIL
7 1 (6.667%) PRINCE2
7 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
7 1 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Java
2 4 (26.67%) C#
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
3 3 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 3 (20.00%) PHP
4 2 (13.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Open Text
2 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience with Microsoft Technologies such as C# and .Net would be highly advantageous. Knowledge of: JavaScript, Web Services, Java, Software Architecture/Design and SQL would also be useful...
Net Talent
Posted: 20 May 2013
Edinburgh, Scotland
The successful .NET Technical Manager will be highly motivated, and have a university degree in an IT related subject (this is preferable but not essential if relevant industry...
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013