The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Buckinghamshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 65 69 74
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +5
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 2 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.247% 0.405% 0.184%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.351% 0.613% 0.307%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £300 £280 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £313 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.20% -3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £20.44
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -26.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 652 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 70.28% 66.06% 59.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 306 273
Average daily rate £340 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 29 47
Average hourly rate £17.75 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
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 Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Problem Management Daily Rate Trend

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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Milton Keynes +4 1 £275 -
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Services Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Management
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Configuration Management
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) NetBackup
1 1 (33.33%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) VMware
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) EMC
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix