Kent Problem Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Kent 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire England Essex Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Isle of Wight Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reigate Ryde Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Swansea Tadworth Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Windsor York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	49
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	2	7
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.837 %	2.564 %
Daily rates quoted	0	3
Average minimum daily rate	-	£350
Average daily rate	-	£350
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£323
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
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	£22.01	£20.44
% change on same period last year	+7.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	239	273
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.319 %	0.276 %
Daily rates quoted	71	57
Average minimum daily rate	£335	£285
Average daily rate	£358	£311
% change on same period last year	+15.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£381	£337
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	22	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.48	£36.42
Average hourly rate	£21.62	£42.03
% change on same period last year	-48.55 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.76	£47.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Problem Management South East

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 Kent 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 Kent 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 Kent region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 1 (33.33 %) Change Management 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Hibernate 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail 1 1 (33.33 %) Spring 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) RPG 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Development 1 1 (33.33 %) J2EE 1 1 (33.33 %) WebServices 1 1 (33.33 %) Hibernate 1 1 (33.33 %) Spring	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Banking 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 1 1 (33.33 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Helpdesk Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Java Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) J2EE Developer 2 1 (33.33 %) Java/J2EE Developer	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Java 1 1 (33.33 %) RPG 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL