The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 17 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Manager
Rank 178 166 160
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -6
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Manager 16 9 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.394% 0.248% 0.329%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.413% 0.257% 0.343%
Number of salaries quoted 14 8 13
Average salary £47,500 £36,250 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.03% -19.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £38,800 £35,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £73,250 £52,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3875 3500 3791
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.49% 96.53% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 3350 3122 3469
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
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 Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Technical Manager Salary Trend

Technical Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Manager across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manchester Technical Manager Salary Histogram

Technical Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 30 (53.57%) Project Management
2 18 (32.14%) .NET
2 18 (32.14%) E-Commerce
3 14 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (23.21%) Kanban
4 13 (23.21%) PRINCE2
5 11 (19.64%) SQL
5 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
5 11 (19.64%) Scrum
6 10 (17.86%) Advertising
7 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.07%) Degree
7 9 (16.07%) Retail
7 9 (16.07%) ITIL
8 8 (14.29%) User Stories
8 8 (14.29%) Java
9 7 (12.50%) MS Excel
9 7 (12.50%) B2C
9 7 (12.50%) Web Development
9 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 7 (12.50%) Change Management
9 7 (12.50%) Finance
9 7 (12.50%) TDD
9 7 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
9 7 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
9 7 (12.50%) BDD
10 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 6 (10.71%) Windows
10 6 (10.71%) C#
11 5 (8.929%) SQL Server

Technical Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 18 (32.14%) .NET
2 3 (5.357%) CSS
2 3 (5.357%) XSLT
2 3 (5.357%) jQuery
2 3 (5.357%) HTML
2 3 (5.357%) Razor View Engine
3 2 (3.571%) TAPI
4 1 (1.786%) BAPI
4 1 (1.786%) XML
4 1 (1.786%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.357%) MS Exchange
1 3 (5.357%) CMS
1 3 (5.357%) Joomla!
1 3 (5.357%) Drupal
1 3 (5.357%) Umbraco
1 3 (5.357%) WordPress
1 3 (5.357%) Magento
1 3 (5.357%) Kentico
2 2 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.571%) IIS
2 2 (3.571%) SAS
3 1 (1.786%) NetWeaver
3 1 (1.786%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.786%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.357%) MS Project
3 2 (3.571%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.571%) SAP GRC
2 1 (1.786%) SAP HR
2 1 (1.786%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.929%) VoIP
2 4 (7.143%) HTTP
2 4 (7.143%) Firewall
3 2 (3.571%) Unified Communications
3 2 (3.571%) VLAN
3 2 (3.571%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.571%) WAN
3 2 (3.571%) CTI
4 1 (1.786%) TACACS
4 1 (1.786%) VPN
4 1 (1.786%) DNS
4 1 (1.786%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.786%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (1.786%) MRTG
4 1 (1.786%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (1.786%) SSH
4 1 (1.786%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.929%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.571%) MySQL
3 1 (1.786%) SAP BW
3 1 (1.786%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.786%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.786%) Subversion
General
1 10 (17.86%) Advertising
2 9 (16.07%) Retail
3 7 (12.50%) Finance
4 4 (7.143%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.357%) Automotive
5 3 (5.357%) Multimedia
5 3 (5.357%) Banking
6 1 (1.786%) Billing
6 1 (1.786%) Legal
6 1 (1.786%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.786%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.786%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.929%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.357%) BBC
2 3 (5.357%) E-Learning
3 2 (3.571%) IVR
4 1 (1.786%) Statistics
4 1 (1.786%) PMI
4 1 (1.786%) NHS
4 1 (1.786%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.786%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.71%) Windows
2 4 (7.143%) Android
2 4 (7.143%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.571%) Windows Vista
3 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (3.571%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.786%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.786%) Linux
4 1 (1.786%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (53.57%) Project Management
2 18 (32.14%) E-Commerce
3 14 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 13 (23.21%) PRINCE2
4 13 (23.21%) Kanban
5 11 (19.64%) Scrum
6 9 (16.07%) ITIL
6 9 (16.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 8 (14.29%) User Stories
8 7 (12.50%) Web Development
8 7 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (12.50%) BDD
8 7 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
8 7 (12.50%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.50%) TDD
8 7 (12.50%) Change Management
8 7 (12.50%) B2C
9 6 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (8.929%) Mobile Application Development
11 2 (3.571%) SAP Security
Programming Languages
1 11 (19.64%) SQL
2 8 (14.29%) Java
3 6 (10.71%) C#
4 3 (5.357%) C
4 3 (5.357%) Objective-C
5 2 (3.571%) T-SQL
5 2 (3.571%) PHP
6 1 (1.786%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.786%) VB.NET
6 1 (1.786%) C++
6 1 (1.786%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (16.07%) Degree
2 2 (3.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 2 (3.571%) CCNA
2 2 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.786%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.786%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (1.786%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.786%) MCTS
3 1 (1.786%) MCP
System Software
1 3 (5.357%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.357%) vSphere
2 2 (3.571%) XenApp
2 2 (3.571%) VMware ESX
2 2 (3.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.571%) NFS
3 1 (1.786%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.786%) Sendmail
3 1 (1.786%) XenServer
3 1 (1.786%) SpamAssassin
3 1 (1.786%) FreeRADIUS
Systems Management
1 1 (1.786%) OpenView
1 1 (1.786%) Nagios
1 1 (1.786%) Cacti
1 1 (1.786%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.143%) Avaya
2 4 (7.143%) VMware
2 4 (7.143%) Cisco
3 3 (5.357%) HP
4 2 (3.571%) Nortel
4 2 (3.571%) Citrix
4 2 (3.571%) Genesys
4 2 (3.571%) NetApp
4 2 (3.571%) 3Com
4 2 (3.571%) Verint
4 2 (3.571%) Huawei
4 2 (3.571%) SAP
5 1 (1.786%) Oracle
5 1 (1.786%) SolarWinds
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