Essex Problem Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Essex region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Brentford Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dundee East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reigate Ryde Scotland Sheffield Solihull South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Walton-on-Thames Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	58	58
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.833 %	0.282 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£328	£333
% change on same period last year	-1.28 %
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	£21.70	£23.18
% change on same period last year	-6.40 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	360	354
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.475 %	0.376 %
Daily rates quoted	143	115
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£393
Average daily rate	£380	£417
% change on same period last year	-8.86 %
Average maximum daily rate	£398	£442
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	52	77
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.46	£31.96
Average hourly rate	£35.70	£32.57
% change on same period last year	+9.58 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.93	£33.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Problem Management East of England

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 Essex 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 Essex region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Problem Management across the Essex region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Problem Management within the Essex region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Colchester	-	3	-	-

Problem Management East of England

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 12 (85.71 %) Active Directory 1 12 (85.71 %) Citrix 1 12 (85.71 %) MS Office 1 12 (85.71 %) MS Exchange 1 12 (85.71 %) Incident Management 2 10 (71.43 %) Finance 3 2 (14.29 %) SLA 4 1 (7.143 %) Health 4 1 (7.143 %) AWK 4 1 (7.143 %) Insurance 4 1 (7.143 %) ITIL 4 1 (7.143 %) Windows 4 1 (7.143 %) Solaris 4 1 (7.143 %) Linux 4 1 (7.143 %) MCSA

4 1 (7.143 %) Java 4 1 (7.143 %) Perl 4 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 4 1 (7.143 %) Sybase 4 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli 4 1 (7.143 %) AutoSys 4 1 (7.143 %) Blackberry

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 12 (85.71 %) MS Exchange	Applications 1 12 (85.71 %) MS Office
General 1 10 (71.43 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Health 2 1 (7.143 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 13 (92.86 %) Analyst 1 13 (92.86 %) Support Analyst 2 12 (85.71 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Applications Support 3 1 (7.143 %) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 1 (7.143 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 1 (7.143 %) Windows 1 1 (7.143 %) Solaris 1 1 (7.143 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (85.71 %) Incident Management 2 1 (7.143 %) ITIL	Programming Languages 1 1 (7.143 %) Java 1 1 (7.143 %) Perl 1 1 (7.143 %) AWK
Qualifications 1 1 (7.143 %) MCSA 1 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (14.29 %) SLA
System Software 1 12 (85.71 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli 1 1 (7.143 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 12 (85.71 %) Citrix 2 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.143 %) Sybase