Luton Problem Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Luton 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 5 September 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 North East North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading 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 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	11	35
Rank change on same period last year	+24
Matching contract IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	10.34 %	1.064 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£295	£318
% change on same period last year	-7.27 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.00	-
Average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.33	£20.98
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Processes & Methodologies Luton
Matching contract IT job ads	29	94
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.093 %
Daily rates quoted	12	29
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£306
Average daily rate	£337	£338
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£360	£371
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£375
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.14	£32.48
Average hourly rate	£20.29	£34.55
% change on same period last year	-41.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.43	£36.62
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.41	£30.41
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Problem Management London

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 Luton 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 Luton 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 Luton region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Luton region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 (50.00 %) SLA 2 3 (37.50 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (37.50 %) Change Management 2 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Altiris 4 1 (12.50 %) assyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 4 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 1 (12.50 %) assyst	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) Crystal Reports 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Analyst 2 5 (62.50 %) Service Analyst 3 4 (50.00 %) Service Control Analyst 4 2 (25.00 %) Service Desk Team Leader 4 2 (25.00 %) Service Desk Manager 4 2 (25.00 %) Service Manager 4 2 (25.00 %) Team Leader 5 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Team Leader 5 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (12.50 %) Applications Support 5 1 (12.50 %) Helpdesk Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL 1 3 (37.50 %) Service Delivery 1 3 (37.50 %) Change Management 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (50.00 %) SLA
Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Altiris