Herefordshire Problem Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Herefordshire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reigate Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	22	26
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	7	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	6.796 %	2.609 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£275
Average daily rate	£325	£275
% change on same period last year	+18.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£275
UK excluding London average daily rate	£299	£323
% change on same period last year	-7.63 %
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	£20.92	£21.36
% change on same period last year	-2.04 %
Processes & Methodologies Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	103	115
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	22	41
Average minimum daily rate	£333	£331
Average daily rate	£353	£337
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£372	£344
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.44	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£39.00	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+239.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£43.56	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Problem Management West Midlands

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 Herefordshire 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 Herefordshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Herefordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Hemel Hempstead	+14	7	£325	+18.18 %

Problem Management West Midlands

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Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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 4 (57.14 %) assyst 2 3 (42.86 %) Altiris 2 3 (42.86 %) Service Management 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows 2 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory 2 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 2 3 (42.86 %) SAN 2 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (28.57 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (28.57 %) Incident Management 4 1 (14.29 %) Business Objects

4 1 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Herefordshire 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.

Business Applications 1 4 (57.14 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 3 (42.86 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 2 (28.57 %) Crystal Reports 2 2 (28.57 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (14.29 %) BusinessObjects	Job Titles 1 4 (57.14 %) Applications Support 2 2 (28.57 %) Applications Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Support Consultant 2 2 (28.57 %) Applications Support Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) Applications Support Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (14.29 %) 3rd Line Support
Operating Systems 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows 1 3 (42.86 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) ITIL 1 3 (42.86 %) Service Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL	System Software 1 3 (42.86 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 3 (42.86 %) Citrix 1 3 (42.86 %) Altiris 2 1 (14.29 %) Business Objects