The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Problem Management 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 Leeds 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
Problem Management
Rank 65 64 53
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -11
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 7 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 0.925% 0.225% 0.328%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.259% 0.314% 0.488%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £250 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% -6.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £300 £323
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -31.81%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Problem Management
West Yorkshire

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Problem Management Jobs Demand Trend

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Problem Management Daily Rate Trend

Problem Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds Problem Management Daily Rate Histogram

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Problem Management Hourly Rate Trend

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) SLA
2 7 (41.18%) Release Management
3 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 4 (23.53%) ChangeMan
3 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
3 4 (23.53%) Windows
3 4 (23.53%) COBOL
3 4 (23.53%) CICS
3 4 (23.53%) zOS
3 4 (23.53%) Control-M
3 4 (23.53%) Mainframe
4 3 (17.65%) Service Management
4 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 3 (17.65%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) Oracle
4 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
4 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
5 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.76%) hybris
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (11.76%) Fault Management
5 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.76%) Migration
5 2 (11.76%) VMware
5 2 (11.76%) Linux
5 2 (11.76%) UML

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 2 (11.76%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) CICS
2 3 (17.65%) SharePoint
3 2 (11.76%) SAS
3 2 (11.76%) WebLogic
3 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
2 1 (5.882%) InfoPath
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) CTI
1 1 (5.882%) Internet
1 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.882%) VPN
1 1 (5.882%) DNS
1 1 (5.882%) SSL
1 1 (5.882%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) ChangeMan
2 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (23.53%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Analyst
1 4 (23.53%) Technical Support
1 4 (23.53%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Service Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (11.76%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Support Technician
3 1 (5.882%) Support Specialist
3 1 (5.882%) Applications Support
3 1 (5.882%) Applications Specialist
3 1 (5.882%) DBA
3 1 (5.882%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.882%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.882%) Administrator
3 1 (5.882%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.882%) Applications Support Specialist
3 1 (5.882%) Design Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) Applications Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.882%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.882%) CMDB
3 1 (5.882%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.882%) iPad
3 1 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.882%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (23.53%) Windows
1 4 (23.53%) zOS
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (5.882%) Mac OS X
3 1 (5.882%) AIX
3 1 (5.882%) UNIX
3 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
3 1 (5.882%) Apple iOS
3 1 (5.882%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) ITIL
2 7 (41.18%) Release Management
3 3 (17.65%) Service Management
3 3 (17.65%) Service Delivery
4 2 (11.76%) Fault Management
4 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
4 2 (11.76%) Migration
4 2 (11.76%) UML
4 2 (11.76%) Change Management
4 2 (11.76%) ITSM
4 2 (11.76%) Configuration Management
4 2 (11.76%) Project Management
5 1 (5.882%) Regression Testing
5 1 (5.882%) PRINCE2
5 1 (5.882%) CRM
5 1 (5.882%) Data Modelling
5 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (5.882%) Document Management
5 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
5 1 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) COBOL
2 3 (17.65%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) C++
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
4 1 (5.882%) VBScript
4 1 (5.882%) VB
4 1 (5.882%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared
1 3 (17.65%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.882%) ISEB
3 1 (5.882%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (41.18%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.882%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.882%) Xen
1 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) Control-M
2 1 (5.882%) ZENworks
2 1 (5.882%) Business Desktop Deployment
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) hybris
3 2 (11.76%) VMware
3 2 (11.76%) TIBCO
3 2 (11.76%) Citrix
4 1 (5.882%) NetApp
4 1 (5.882%) Novell
4 1 (5.882%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.882%) Apple
4 1 (5.882%) Wyse
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