The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Remedy products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Remedy 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 Vendors for the Chester 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BMC Remedy.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Remedy
Rank 16 13 15
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +2
Contract jobs citing Remedy 8 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 5.839% 7.826% 5.000%
As % of the Vendors category 11.59% 16.67% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £250 £300
% change year-on-year
+12.00% -16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.48 £15.00 £13.65
% change year-on-year
-23.45% +9.93%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
69 54 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 50.36% 46.96% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 15 23
Average daily rate £300 £334 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.11% -7.93%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £146 £150 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £471 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 2
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £25.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -45.09%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.35 £14.00 £9.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £21.20 £41.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Remedy
Cheshire

Remedy
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Remedy across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Chester Remedy Jobs Demand Trend

Remedy
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Remedy Daily Rate Trend

Remedy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Chester Remedy Daily Rate Histogram

Remedy
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Chester Remedy Hourly Rate Trend

Remedy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Remedy 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 Remedy.

1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 6 (35.29%) MS Excel
3 5 (29.41%) CMDB
4 4 (23.53%) Service Management
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
4 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
4 4 (23.53%) MS Office
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
5 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
5 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
6 2 (11.76%) BladeLogic
6 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
6 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
6 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
6 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (11.76%) SCCM
6 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
6 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
6 2 (11.76%) HP
6 2 (11.76%) BMC
6 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
6 2 (11.76%) Change Management
6 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
6 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (11.76%) Clustering

Remedy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Remedy 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 Remedy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (35.29%) MS Excel
2 4 (23.53%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Remedy ITSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (5.882%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (64.71%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Configuration Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
3 3 (17.65%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (11.76%) Wintel Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Project Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Services Delivery Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Remedy Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Project Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Business Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.882%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) CMDB
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
2 2 (11.76%) Clustering
3 1 (5.882%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 3 (17.65%) Windows 7
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) ITIL
2 4 (23.53%) Configuration Management
2 4 (23.53%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Project Management
4 2 (11.76%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (11.76%) Information Security
4 2 (11.76%) Supplier Management
5 1 (5.882%) Project Planning
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) Quality Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.882%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) BladeLogic
1 2 (11.76%) SCCM
1 2 (11.76%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) HP
1 2 (11.76%) BMC