Edinburgh Problem Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	64
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	1	8
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.238 %	1.314 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£383
Average daily rate	£255	£397
% change on same period last year	-35.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£260	£410
UK excluding London average daily rate	£297	£309
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.49	£23.40
% change on same period last year	+8.95 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	420	609
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.587 %	0.612 %
Daily rates quoted	129	132
Average minimum daily rate	£296	£337
Average daily rate	£322	£351
% change on same period last year	-8.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£348	£366
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	11	19
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.70	£30.18
Average hourly rate	£33.01	£32.32
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£34.32	£34.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Problem Management Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Problem Management across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) Solaris 1 1 (100.00 %) Sun 1 1 (100.00 %) Management Information System

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh 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.

Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Systems Administrator 1 1 (100.00 %) Administrator 1 1 (100.00 %) Senior Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (100.00 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 1 (100.00 %) UNIX 1 1 (100.00 %) Solaris	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Sun