The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire 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 21 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 16 39 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 5.839% 5.830% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.939% 7.738% -
Number of daily rates quoted 11 35 0
Average daily rate £450 £500 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £330
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +51.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £33.75 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-33.33% +84.93%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
179 504 266
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.33% 75.34% 62.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 304 106
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £501 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 22 36
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £18.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Root Cause Analysis
South West

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cheltenham +4 4 £310 -38.00%
Gloucester +15 2 - -
Root Cause Analysis
South West

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (82.14%) DV Cleared
3 18 (64.29%) C
4 16 (57.14%) Java
4 16 (57.14%) Release Management
5 7 (25.00%) ITIL
6 6 (21.43%) UNIX
7 5 (17.86%) Windows
7 5 (17.86%) Linux
7 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
7 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
7 5 (17.86%) MSI
7 5 (17.86%) Microsoft App-V
7 5 (17.86%) Application Packaging
7 5 (17.86%) Software Packaging
7 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
7 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
8 3 (10.71%) Service Management
8 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
8 3 (10.71%) LAMP
8 3 (10.71%) VMware
8 3 (10.71%) Mercator
8 3 (10.71%) Solaris
8 3 (10.71%) PHP
8 3 (10.71%) MySQL
8 3 (10.71%) Puppet
8 3 (10.71%) Hudson
8 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
8 3 (10.71%) Content Management

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 5 (17.86%) Application Packaging
1 5 (17.86%) Software Packaging
2 3 (10.71%) LAMP
3 1 (3.571%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.571%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.143%) DHCP
1 2 (7.143%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) MSI
2 3 (10.71%) Hudson
2 3 (10.71%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (7.143%) Telecoms
1 2 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (57.14%) Developer
1 16 (57.14%) Java Developer
2 5 (17.86%) Applications Packager
3 4 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (14.29%) Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (7.143%) UNIX Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) IT Support Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) UNIX Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.571%) UNIX Administrator
6 1 (3.571%) IT Support
6 1 (3.571%) WebLogic Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (7.143%) Clustering
2 1 (3.571%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 6 (21.43%) UNIX
2 5 (17.86%) Windows
2 5 (17.86%) Linux
2 5 (17.86%) Windows XP
2 5 (17.86%) Windows 7
3 3 (10.71%) Solaris
4 2 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (57.14%) Release Management
2 7 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (10.71%) Service Management
3 3 (10.71%) Content Management
4 1 (3.571%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (64.29%) C
2 16 (57.14%) Java
3 5 (17.86%) PowerShell
4 3 (10.71%) PHP
5 2 (7.143%) Perl
5 2 (7.143%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 24 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 23 (82.14%) DV Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) NetBackup
1 3 (10.71%) Puppet
1 3 (10.71%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Red Hat
2 3 (10.71%) VMware
2 3 (10.71%) Mercator
3 1 (3.571%) IBM