The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Incident Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Incident Management
Rank 62 66 57
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -9
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 1 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.157% 0.412% 0.793%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.219% 0.624% 1.270%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £388 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +55.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-11.15% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 6
Average hourly rate - £15.55 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -52.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.88 £16.47 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-15.73% +9.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 641 551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.01% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 287 240
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 54 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.93 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Incident Management
East of England

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Incident Management across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hertfordshire Incident Management Jobs Demand Trend

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Incident Management across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Incident Management Daily Rate Trend

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Incident Management across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Incident Management Hourly Rate Trend

Incident Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Hemel Hempstead - 1 - -
Incident Management
East of England

Incident Management
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Incident 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 Incident Management.

1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
1 1 (50.00%) Varnish
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
1 1 (50.00%) Gearman

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Incident 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 Incident Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Memcached
1 1 (50.00%) Gearman
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SMTP
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
1 1 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Debian
1 1 (50.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) NFS
1 1 (50.00%) Samba
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
1 1 (50.00%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
1 1 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp