The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the England 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 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 England 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
Root Cause Analysis
Rank 291 276 300
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +24
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 242 324 308
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.582% 0.607% 0.546%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.816% 0.890% 0.801%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 145 166
Average daily rate £375 £475 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.05% +18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £227 £258 £261
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £333
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +50.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 16
Average hourly rate £22.50 £35.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.71% +42.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.30 £21.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £28.20 £57.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £33.75 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +104.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Histogram

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the England 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
London +23 120 £400 -
South East +28 57 £350 +40.00%
South West -8 21 £425 -15.00%
North West +20 14 £295 -11.27%
Yorkshire +4 9 £363 +39.42%
East of England -23 9 £450 +210.34%
West Midlands +3 5 £400 +3.22%
Midlands +8 2 £350 -
North East +10 1 - -
East Midlands -20 1 £430 +16.21%
Root Cause Analysis
UK

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 133 (28.42%) Windows
2 103 (22.01%) SQL
3 97 (20.73%) ITIL
4 95 (20.30%) Finance
5 91 (19.44%) Microsoft
6 71 (15.17%) SQL Server
7 68 (14.53%) UNIX
8 66 (14.10%) Problem Management
9 62 (13.25%) Oracle
10 61 (13.03%) Incident Management
11 57 (12.18%) Telecoms
12 56 (11.97%) MS Excel
13 54 (11.54%) Banking
14 52 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
15 50 (10.68%) Security Cleared
15 50 (10.68%) MS Office
16 49 (10.47%) Linux
17 46 (9.829%) Migration
18 45 (9.615%) SAP
18 45 (9.615%) SharePoint
18 45 (9.615%) Windows XP
19 42 (8.974%) Java
20 41 (8.761%) SLA
20 41 (8.761%) Active Directory
21 40 (8.547%) .NET
22 39 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
23 37 (7.906%) Service Management
23 37 (7.906%) Release Management
24 33 (7.051%) VMware
24 33 (7.051%) Windows 7

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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 40 (8.547%) .NET
2 29 (6.197%) Middleware
3 19 (4.060%) WebSphere
4 17 (3.632%) XML
5 16 (3.419%) Web Services
6 11 (2.350%) J2EE
7 9 (1.923%) Software Packaging
8 7 (1.496%) XML Schema
8 7 (1.496%) Hibernate
8 7 (1.496%) Spring
8 7 (1.496%) JSF
8 7 (1.496%) DHTML
8 7 (1.496%) CSS
8 7 (1.496%) Struts
8 7 (1.496%) JSP
8 7 (1.496%) Struts2
9 6 (1.282%) Application Packaging
10 5 (1.068%) FIX Protocol
10 5 (1.068%) ASP.NET
11 4 (0.855%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 45 (9.615%) SharePoint
2 24 (5.128%) MS Exchange
3 22 (4.701%) Apache
4 20 (4.274%) WebSphere MQ
5 16 (3.419%) BizTalk Server
5 16 (3.419%) IIS
5 16 (3.419%) SharePoint 2010
6 15 (3.205%) WebSphere Message Broker
7 12 (2.564%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
7 12 (2.564%) WebLogic
8 8 (1.709%) Exchange Server 2003
9 7 (1.496%) ActiveMQ
9 7 (1.496%) CICS
9 7 (1.496%) Exchange Server 2010
10 6 (1.282%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 5 (1.068%) SAS
11 5 (1.068%) Tomcat
11 5 (1.068%) Oracle Workflow
11 5 (1.068%) Liferay
11 5 (1.068%) Lync
Applications
1 56 (11.97%) MS Excel
2 50 (10.68%) MS Office
3 17 (3.632%) MS Visio
4 15 (3.205%) Acrobat
5 12 (2.564%) MS Project
6 9 (1.923%) MS PowerPoint
7 3 (0.641%) Office 365
8 1 (0.214%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (1.709%) SAP PSCD
2 7 (1.496%) ION MarketView
2 7 (1.496%) SAP FI
2 7 (1.496%) Oracle Applications
2 7 (1.496%) SAP FI-CA
3 5 (1.068%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (1.068%) SAP ERP
4 4 (0.855%) RMDS
5 3 (0.641%) SAP CRM
5 3 (0.641%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.427%) BPCS
6 2 (0.427%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.427%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.427%) AWD
6 2 (0.427%) Agresso
6 2 (0.427%) Hyperion Planning
7 1 (0.214%) 3000 Xtra
7 1 (0.214%) SAP IS-U
7 1 (0.214%) Oracle BRM
7 1 (0.214%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 22 (4.701%) DNS
2 19 (4.060%) SAN
3 18 (3.846%) TCP/IP
3 18 (3.846%) Firewall
4 17 (3.632%) DHCP
5 13 (2.778%) Broadband
6 12 (2.564%) LDAP
7 8 (1.709%) ADSL
7 8 (1.709%) LAN
7 8 (1.709%) HTTP
7 8 (1.709%) Wi-Fi
8 7 (1.496%) Network Security
8 7 (1.496%) GSM
8 7 (1.496%) UMTS
8 7 (1.496%) VPN
8 7 (1.496%) OSPF
8 7 (1.496%) BGP
9 6 (1.282%) SS7
9 6 (1.282%) S/MIME
9 6 (1.282%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (15.17%) SQL Server
2 17 (3.632%) Oracle Reports
2 17 (3.632%) BusinessObjects
3 14 (2.991%) SQL Server 2008
4 12 (2.564%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 12 (2.564%) Oracle 10g
4 12 (2.564%) Data Warehouse
5 11 (2.350%) TOAD
5 11 (2.350%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 10 (2.137%) SQLPlus
7 8 (1.709%) MS Access
7 8 (1.709%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 7 (1.496%) SAP BW
8 7 (1.496%) Oracle Discoverer
9 6 (1.282%) DB2
9 6 (1.282%) JasperReports
10 5 (1.068%) GIS
11 4 (0.855%) MySQL
11 4 (0.855%) Data Mining
12 2 (0.427%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 8 (1.709%) Oracle Forms
2 7 (1.496%) MSI
2 7 (1.496%) Maven
3 5 (1.068%) Git (software)
3 5 (1.068%) Introscope
3 5 (1.068%) Subversion
4 3 (0.641%) JIRA
4 3 (0.641%) Selenium
4 3 (0.641%) JBehave
4 3 (0.641%) Cucumber
4 3 (0.641%) Hudson
4 3 (0.641%) SpecFlow
5 2 (0.427%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (0.427%) Visual Studio
5 2 (0.427%) ProC
5 2 (0.427%) ClearCase
5 2 (0.427%) WinRunner
5 2 (0.427%) TestDirector
6 1 (0.214%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (0.214%) JDeveloper
General
1 95 (20.30%) Finance
2 57 (12.18%) Telecoms
3 54 (11.54%) Banking
4 27 (5.769%) Front Office
5 25 (5.342%) Investment Banking
6 21 (4.487%) Retail
7 12 (2.564%) Billing
8 9 (1.923%) Legal
8 9 (1.923%) Manufacturing
8 9 (1.923%) Back Office
9 6 (1.282%) General Ledger
9 6 (1.282%) Marketing
10 4 (0.855%) Corporate Banking
10 4 (0.855%) Publishing
11 3 (0.641%) Online Betting
12 2 (0.427%) Advertising
12 2 (0.427%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.214%) Electronics
13 1 (0.214%) Aerospace
13 1 (0.214%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 163 (34.83%) Analyst
2 64 (13.68%) Support Analyst
3 40 (8.547%) Business Analyst
4 39 (8.333%) Administrator
5 37 (7.906%) Support Engineer
6 35 (7.479%) Developer
7 30 (6.410%) Consultant
8 28 (5.983%) Applications Support
9 26 (5.556%) Applications Support Analyst
9 26 (5.556%) Desktop Support
10 23 (4.915%) Java Developer
11 19 (4.060%) Network Engineer
12 18 (3.846%) Desktop Engineer
13 17 (3.632%) DBA
14 15 (3.205%) Desktop Support Engineer
14 15 (3.205%) Network Support
14 15 (3.205%) Security Engineer
14 15 (3.205%) Windows Support Engineer
14 15 (3.205%) Security Support Engineer
15 14 (2.991%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 23 (4.915%) Fixed Income
2 16 (3.419%) Clustering
3 15 (3.205%) Smartcard
3 15 (3.205%) Credit Risk
4 14 (2.991%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.564%) Derivative
6 11 (2.350%) Replication
7 10 (2.137%) Mainframe
8 9 (1.923%) Blackberry
9 7 (1.496%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (1.496%) Open Source
9 7 (1.496%) SWIFT
10 6 (1.282%) SaaS
11 5 (1.068%) Mathematics
11 5 (1.068%) Reference Data
12 4 (0.855%) Statistics
13 3 (0.641%) IPTV
13 3 (0.641%) CMDB
13 3 (0.641%) Client/Server
13 3 (0.641%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 133 (28.42%) Windows
2 68 (14.53%) UNIX
3 49 (10.47%) Linux
4 45 (9.615%) Windows XP
5 39 (8.333%) Windows Server 2003
6 33 (7.051%) Windows 7
7 31 (6.624%) Windows Server 2008
8 18 (3.846%) Solaris
9 16 (3.419%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (1.282%) AIX
10 6 (1.282%) Windows 2000
10 6 (1.282%) Windows NT
10 6 (1.282%) Windows 2000 Server
10 6 (1.282%) zOS
11 4 (0.855%) Windows Vista
12 2 (0.427%) Android
12 2 (0.427%) OS/400
13 1 (0.214%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.214%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (20.73%) ITIL
2 66 (14.10%) Problem Management
3 61 (13.03%) Incident Management
4 52 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
5 46 (9.829%) Migration
6 37 (7.906%) Service Management
6 37 (7.906%) Release Management
7 29 (6.197%) Project Management
8 23 (4.915%) Business Analysis
9 22 (4.701%) CRM
9 22 (4.701%) Continuous Improvement
10 20 (4.274%) Business Intelligence
10 20 (4.274%) Change Management
11 18 (3.846%) Service Delivery
11 18 (3.846%) ERP
11 18 (3.846%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (3.632%) Unit Testing
13 15 (3.205%) Data Analysis
14 14 (2.991%) Risk Management
14 14 (2.991%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 103 (22.01%) SQL
2 42 (8.974%) Java
3 27 (5.769%) VB
4 26 (5.556%) Perl
5 22 (4.701%) C#
5 22 (4.701%) Shell Script
6 21 (4.487%) C
7 17 (3.632%) VBA
8 15 (3.205%) VB.NET
8 15 (3.205%) VB6
9 14 (2.991%) Korn
10 11 (2.350%) PowerShell
10 11 (2.350%) JavaScript
11 10 (2.137%) PL/SQL
12 8 (1.709%) T-SQL
13 7 (1.496%) COBOL
14 5 (1.068%) Python
15 4 (0.855%) VBScript
15 4 (0.855%) PHP
16 3 (0.641%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 50 (10.68%) Security Cleared
2 28 (5.983%) DV Cleared
3 26 (5.556%) Degree
4 20 (4.274%) SC Cleared
5 16 (3.419%) ISEB
6 13 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
7 10 (2.137%) Cisco Certification
7 10 (2.137%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (1.282%) CCIP
9 5 (1.068%) CCNP
9 5 (1.068%) MCSE
9 5 (1.068%) CTC Cleared
10 4 (0.855%) ISTQB
10 4 (0.855%) JNCIA
10 4 (0.855%) CCIE
10 4 (0.855%) CCDP
11 3 (0.641%) MCSA
11 3 (0.641%) MCP
11 3 (0.641%) CCA
11 3 (0.641%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (8.761%) SLA
2 21 (4.487%) QA
3 10 (2.137%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.427%) Basel III
4 2 (0.427%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (0.427%) Basel II
5 1 (0.214%) COBIT
System Software
1 41 (8.761%) Active Directory
2 16 (3.419%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.137%) Oracle RAC
4 8 (1.709%) Oracle RMAN
5 7 (1.496%) Microsoft App-V
5 7 (1.496%) VMware ESX
5 7 (1.496%) vSphere
5 7 (1.496%) UAG
6 6 (1.282%) XenApp
7 2 (0.427%) Varnish
7 2 (0.427%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (0.427%) NFS
8 1 (0.214%) Terminal Services
8 1 (0.214%) Samba
8 1 (0.214%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.214%) XenServer
8 1 (0.214%) XenDesktop
8 1 (0.214%) Veritas Volume Manager
8 1 (0.214%) Veritas File System
8 1 (0.214%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 15 (3.205%) SCCM
2 12 (2.564%) Tivoli
2 12 (2.564%) NetBackup
3 9 (1.923%) Data Guard
4 8 (1.709%) SCOM
5 6 (1.282%) WSUS
6 5 (1.068%) CA Wily
6 5 (1.068%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 5 (1.068%) OpenView
6 5 (1.068%) Legato
6 5 (1.068%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 4 (0.855%) Unicenter
7 4 (0.855%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (0.855%) Zenoss
7 4 (0.855%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (0.855%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (0.641%) OVPI
8 3 (0.641%) OVPM
8 3 (0.641%) HP SIM
8 3 (0.641%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 62 (13.25%) Oracle
3 45 (9.615%) SAP
4 33 (7.051%) VMware
5 26 (5.556%) HP
6 25 (5.342%) Citrix
7 23 (4.915%) Cisco
8 21 (4.487%) Business Objects
9 20 (4.274%) IBM
10 17 (3.632%) CA
11 16 (3.419%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.350%) Symantec
13 10 (2.137%) EMC
14 8 (1.709%) NetApp
14 8 (1.709%) Remedy
14 8 (1.709%) BT
14 8 (1.709%) ION Trading
15 6 (1.282%) Reuters
15 6 (1.282%) Bloomberg
15 6 (1.282%) McAfee
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