The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Problem Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Berkshire region.

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 111 127 109
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -18
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 12 12 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.496% 0.394% 0.538%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.753% 0.629% 0.855%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
Average daily rate £250 £300 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -15.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £140 £321
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £357 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £300 £323
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -28.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1593 1907 1872
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 65.83% 62.55% 62.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 651 723 742
Average daily rate £388 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.16% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £495 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 63 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £19.00 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% -41.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.93 £11.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £50.00 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Problem Management across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Berkshire Problem Management Jobs Demand Trend

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Problem Management across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Problem Management Daily Rate Trend

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Problem Management Daily Rate Histogram

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Problem Management across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Problem Management Hourly Rate Trend

Problem Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +12 6 £250 +203.03%
Slough - 4 - -
Maidenhead - 1 £500 -
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Problem Management also 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 that cited Problem Management.

1 16 (59.26%) ITIL
2 12 (44.44%) SLA
3 7 (25.93%) Change Management
3 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
4 6 (22.22%) Workflow
4 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
5 5 (18.52%) Ericsson
5 5 (18.52%) IBM
5 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
5 5 (18.52%) Oracle
5 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
5 5 (18.52%) Windows
5 5 (18.52%) Migration
5 5 (18.52%) WebSphere
6 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
6 4 (14.81%) Clustering
6 4 (14.81%) IIS
6 4 (14.81%) SQL
6 4 (14.81%) .NET
6 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (14.81%) SAN
6 4 (14.81%) Project Management
7 3 (11.11%) 2G
7 3 (11.11%) Service Management
7 3 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
7 3 (11.11%) ERwin
7 3 (11.11%) 3G
7 3 (11.11%) DataStage
7 3 (11.11%) HTTP
7 3 (11.11%) Active Directory

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Problem Management also 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 that cited Problem Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (18.52%) WebSphere
2 4 (14.81%) .NET
3 3 (11.11%) XML
4 2 (7.407%) J2EE
4 2 (7.407%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) IIS
2 3 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
2 3 (11.11%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (7.407%) IBM HTTP Server
3 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (7.407%) WebLogic
3 2 (7.407%) Apache
3 2 (7.407%) Tomcat
3 2 (7.407%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 2 (7.407%) MS Office
1 2 (7.407%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
2 4 (14.81%) SAN
3 3 (11.11%) 3G
3 3 (11.11%) 2G
3 3 (11.11%) HTTP
4 2 (7.407%) NAS
4 2 (7.407%) DNS
4 2 (7.407%) DHCP
4 2 (7.407%) LDAP
4 2 (7.407%) LAN
5 1 (3.704%) WAN
5 1 (3.704%) SMTP
5 1 (3.704%) FTP
5 1 (3.704%) VPN
5 1 (3.704%) SSL
5 1 (3.704%) Internet
5 1 (3.704%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.11%) DB2
2 3 (11.11%) TOAD
2 3 (11.11%) DataStage
3 1 (3.704%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (11.11%) ERwin
General
1 6 (22.22%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.704%) Games
2 1 (3.704%) Banking
2 1 (3.704%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Administrator
2 5 (18.52%) Backup Administrator
3 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 3 (11.11%) Problem Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Applications Developer
4 2 (7.407%) Services Delivery Manager
4 2 (7.407%) WebSphere Consultant
4 2 (7.407%) Incident Manager
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) RPG Developer
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Server Support
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Architect
5 1 (3.704%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.704%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) iSeries
3 2 (7.407%) Mainframe
3 2 (7.407%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.704%) Physics
4 1 (3.704%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (18.52%) Windows
2 2 (7.407%) Linux
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (7.407%) Windows 7
2 2 (7.407%) UNIX
3 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (59.26%) ITIL
2 7 (25.93%) Change Management
2 7 (25.93%) Incident Management
3 6 (22.22%) Workflow
4 5 (18.52%) Migration
5 4 (14.81%) Service Delivery
5 4 (14.81%) Project Management
6 3 (11.11%) Service Management
6 3 (11.11%) eTOM
6 3 (11.11%) Automated Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Web Application Development
7 2 (7.407%) Capacity Management
7 2 (7.407%) Lean Six Sigma
7 2 (7.407%) Fault Management
7 2 (7.407%) Waterfall
7 2 (7.407%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (7.407%) TOGAF
7 2 (7.407%) Content Management
7 2 (7.407%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (11.11%) RPG IV
2 3 (11.11%) RPG
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) ITIL Certification
2 3 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.407%) NLBS
2 2 (7.407%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (7.407%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (7.407%) Foglight
1 2 (7.407%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle
1 5 (18.52%) IBM
1 5 (18.52%) Ericsson
2 3 (11.11%) VMware
2 3 (11.11%) Huawei
2 3 (11.11%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 2 (7.407%) Remedy
3 2 (7.407%) HP
3 2 (7.407%) SAP
3 2 (7.407%) JBoss
4 1 (3.704%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.704%) Citrix
4 1 (3.704%) Verint
4 1 (3.704%) LANDesk