The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Root Cause Analysis over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Root Cause Analysis
Rank 172 185 183
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -2
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 31 32 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.482% 0.407% 0.548%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.658% 0.569% 0.760%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 40
Average daily rate £359 £400 £506
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.31% -20.98%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £167 £340 £274
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £610 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £330
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +51.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £33.75 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +84.93%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4714 5628 6972
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.36% 71.58% 72.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3547 4064 5163
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 97 96
Average hourly rate £41.50 £24.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.91% -4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.50 £15.00 £14.68
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Root Cause Analysis
London

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London Root Cause Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the City of London region.

City of London Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the City of London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

City of London Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the City of London region.

City of London Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Root Cause Analysis 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 Root Cause Analysis.

1 21 (45.65%) Banking
2 19 (41.30%) Windows
3 18 (39.13%) UNIX
3 18 (39.13%) Finance
4 15 (32.61%) SQL
4 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
5 14 (30.43%) Oracle
6 10 (21.74%) MS Excel
6 10 (21.74%) QA
7 9 (19.57%) Investment Banking
7 9 (19.57%) MS Office
8 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
8 8 (17.39%) Front Office
8 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
9 7 (15.22%) Derivative
9 7 (15.22%) Service Management
9 7 (15.22%) Windows XP
9 7 (15.22%) IIS
9 7 (15.22%) Linux
9 7 (15.22%) Java
10 6 (13.04%) E-Commerce
10 6 (13.04%) ITIL
10 6 (13.04%) Tivoli
10 6 (13.04%) Middleware
10 6 (13.04%) HP
11 5 (10.87%) Misys
11 5 (10.87%) Back Office
11 5 (10.87%) ITSM
11 5 (10.87%) Solaris

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Root Cause Analysis 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 Root Cause Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.04%) Middleware
2 5 (10.87%) .NET
3 4 (8.696%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (4.348%) WebSphere
4 2 (4.348%) XML
5 1 (2.174%) ASP
5 1 (2.174%) Web Services
5 1 (2.174%) HTML
5 1 (2.174%) RESTful
5 1 (2.174%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.22%) IIS
2 4 (8.696%) SharePoint
3 3 (6.522%) FileNet
4 2 (4.348%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.174%) Apache
5 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (2.174%) WebLogic
5 1 (2.174%) SAS
5 1 (2.174%) Documentum
5 1 (2.174%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (2.174%) WebLogic Portal
5 1 (2.174%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (2.174%) WebSphere Process Server
5 1 (2.174%) WorkSite
5 1 (2.174%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.174%) Lync
5 1 (2.174%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 10 (21.74%) MS Excel
2 9 (19.57%) MS Office
3 2 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (4.348%) MS Visio
3 2 (4.348%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (2.174%) 3000 Xtra
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.522%) SAN
2 2 (4.348%) LAN
2 2 (4.348%) TCP/IP
2 2 (4.348%) DNS
3 1 (2.174%) SSL
3 1 (2.174%) SMS
3 1 (2.174%) WAN
3 1 (2.174%) SMTP
3 1 (2.174%) DHCP
3 1 (2.174%) FTP
3 1 (2.174%) S/MIME
3 1 (2.174%) LDAP
3 1 (2.174%) Internet
3 1 (2.174%) Firewall
3 1 (2.174%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (32.61%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.696%) MS Access
3 3 (6.522%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (2.174%) PowerCenter
5 1 (2.174%) SQLPlus
5 1 (2.174%) IDOL
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle OWB
5 1 (2.174%) Essbase
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (2.174%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
Development Applications
1 2 (4.348%) Visual Studio
2 1 (2.174%) JDeveloper
2 1 (2.174%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (2.174%) JIRA
2 1 (2.174%) Selenium
2 1 (2.174%) JBehave
2 1 (2.174%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
2 1 (2.174%) SpecFlow
2 1 (2.174%) Cucumber
General
1 21 (45.65%) Banking
2 18 (39.13%) Finance
3 9 (19.57%) Investment Banking
4 8 (17.39%) Front Office
5 5 (10.87%) Back Office
6 4 (8.696%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.348%) Retail
7 2 (4.348%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.174%) Music
8 1 (2.174%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 21 (45.65%) Analyst
2 11 (23.91%) Support Analyst
3 6 (13.04%) Applications Support
4 5 (10.87%) Tester
4 5 (10.87%) Applications Support Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Operations Support Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Operations Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Business Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Windows Engineer
7 2 (4.348%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (4.348%) Desktop Support
7 2 (4.348%) Developer
7 2 (4.348%) Test Analyst
8 1 (2.174%) Consultant
8 1 (2.174%) DBA
8 1 (2.174%) Applications Developer
8 1 (2.174%) Customer Engineer
8 1 (2.174%) Programmer
8 1 (2.174%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) Derivative
2 5 (10.87%) SWIFT
3 4 (8.696%) Mathematics
3 4 (8.696%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (6.522%) Blackberry
5 2 (4.348%) Clustering
5 2 (4.348%) Fixed Income
5 2 (4.348%) Equities
5 2 (4.348%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.174%) Thin Client
6 1 (2.174%) PMI
6 1 (2.174%) Replication
6 1 (2.174%) Grid Computing
6 1 (2.174%) Market Risk
6 1 (2.174%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (41.30%) Windows
2 18 (39.13%) UNIX
3 8 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (15.22%) Windows XP
4 7 (15.22%) Linux
5 5 (10.87%) Solaris
6 3 (6.522%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (4.348%) Windows 7
7 2 (4.348%) Windows 2000
8 1 (2.174%) VMS
8 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) Incident Management
2 7 (15.22%) Service Management
3 6 (13.04%) E-Commerce
3 6 (13.04%) ITIL
4 5 (10.87%) ITSM
4 5 (10.87%) Problem Management
4 5 (10.87%) Capacity Management
5 4 (8.696%) Change Control
5 4 (8.696%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (8.696%) Performance Testing
5 4 (8.696%) Migration
5 4 (8.696%) Business Analysis
5 4 (8.696%) Project Management
6 3 (6.522%) Configuration Management
6 3 (6.522%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.522%) Data Management
7 2 (4.348%) Test Strategy
7 2 (4.348%) User Stories
7 2 (4.348%) Performance Management
7 2 (4.348%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (32.61%) SQL
2 7 (15.22%) Java
3 5 (10.87%) Perl
4 4 (8.696%) VBScript
4 4 (8.696%) Python
5 2 (4.348%) Shell Script
5 2 (4.348%) VBA
6 1 (2.174%) VB
6 1 (2.174%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.174%) T-SQL
6 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
6 1 (2.174%) C#
6 1 (2.174%) Scala
Qualifications
1 4 (8.696%) Degree
2 2 (4.348%) ISEB
3 1 (2.174%) MCSE
3 1 (2.174%) MCP
3 1 (2.174%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.174%) OCP
3 1 (2.174%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.174%) PMI Certification
3 1 (2.174%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.174%) DV Cleared
3 1 (2.174%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (21.74%) QA
2 3 (6.522%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (6.522%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.522%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle RMAN
2 1 (2.174%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.174%) SRDF
2 1 (2.174%) XenApp
2 1 (2.174%) UAG
Systems Management
1 6 (13.04%) Tivoli
2 4 (8.696%) SCCM
3 3 (6.522%) NetBackup
4 2 (4.348%) HP SIM
4 2 (4.348%) WSUS
4 2 (4.348%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (4.348%) Legato
5 1 (2.174%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.174%) OpenView
5 1 (2.174%) CA SiteMinder
5 1 (2.174%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (2.174%) WMI
5 1 (2.174%) SCOM
5 1 (2.174%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (2.174%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 1 (2.174%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 14 (30.43%) Oracle
2 8 (17.39%) Microsoft
3 6 (13.04%) HP
4 5 (10.87%) Misys
4 5 (10.87%) Sybase
5 4 (8.696%) Thunderhead
5 4 (8.696%) VMware
5 4 (8.696%) Citrix
6 3 (6.522%) Symantec
6 3 (6.522%) McAfee
6 3 (6.522%) GoldenSource
7 2 (4.348%) NetIQ
7 2 (4.348%) Reuters
7 2 (4.348%) Bloomberg
7 2 (4.348%) Veritas
7 2 (4.348%) IBM
8 1 (2.174%) SAP
8 1 (2.174%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.174%) Informatica
8 1 (2.174%) NetApp
City of London
Support Analyst - Payments and Reconciliations - Corporate Banking The team provides technical support for a number of payment, reconciliation and associated back office systems across traded asset classes traded...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The Principal Responsibilities of this position are: - Incident management o Participate in Cash Equities IT critical incident management event... - Problem management o Confirm the actual impact for Cash...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £495 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013