The first table below looks at the demand for the IT Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Manager
Rank - 97 91
Permanent jobs requiring an IT Manager 0 7 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex - 0.509% 0.879%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.524% 0.925%
Number of salaries quoted 0 7 11
Average salary - £31,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -31.11%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
- -5.55%
All Job Titles
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
983 1337 1189
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 97.71% 97.24% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 844 1100 998
Average salary £39,500 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
IT Manager
East of England

IT Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex IT Manager Jobs Demand Trend

IT Manager
Salary Trend

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

Essex IT Manager Salary Trend

IT Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) iPhone
4 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Apple
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) VoIP
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) VBScript
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
4 1 (25.00%) IIS
4 1 (25.00%) Banking
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005

IT Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited IT 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 IT Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) iPhone
1 1 (25.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) IT Governance
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (25.00%) Budget Control
1 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (25.00%) XenApp
2 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Apple
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco