The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 70 70 67
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 5 18 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.531% 1.371% 0.195%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.749% 2.153% 0.299%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 9 0
Average daily rate - £280 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.50 £32.50 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-46.15% +76.63%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -28.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
668 836 669
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 70.91% 63.67% 65.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 421 308
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £230 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 40 38
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.05 £12.01 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £37.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Problem Management Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester Problem Management Hourly Rate Trend

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
2 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Management
2 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 5 (45.45%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) SQL
3 4 (36.36%) XML
3 4 (36.36%) XSLT
3 4 (36.36%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
4 3 (27.27%) Equities
4 3 (27.27%) Drools
4 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
4 3 (27.27%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
4 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
4 3 (27.27%) TIBCO EMS
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) LDAP
4 3 (27.27%) Web Services
4 3 (27.27%) XSD
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 3 (27.27%) IBM
4 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
4 3 (27.27%) EAI
4 3 (27.27%) SOA
4 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (27.27%) Shell Script

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (36.36%) XML
1 4 (36.36%) XSLT
2 3 (27.27%) Drools
2 3 (27.27%) WebSphere
2 3 (27.27%) Web Services
2 3 (27.27%) XSD
2 3 (27.27%) Middleware
2 3 (27.27%) Esper
3 1 (9.091%) JSON
3 1 (9.091%) Ajax
3 1 (9.091%) WCF
3 1 (9.091%) jQuery
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (9.091%) HTML
3 1 (9.091%) .NET
3 1 (9.091%) ASP.NET
3 1 (9.091%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) TIBCO EMS
1 3 (27.27%) SharePoint
1 3 (27.27%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (27.27%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
1 3 (27.27%) BusinessWorks
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Help Desk Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Support Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) TIBCO Support
3 2 (18.18%) Coordinator
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support
3 2 (18.18%) Help Desk Support Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (9.091%) Desktop Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 3 (27.27%) Equities
1 3 (27.27%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Service Delivery
1 5 (45.45%) Knowledge Management
1 5 (45.45%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (27.27%) Risk Management
3 3 (27.27%) EAI
3 3 (27.27%) SOA
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (18.18%) Benchmarking
4 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) MVC
5 1 (9.091%) Resource Management
5 1 (9.091%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
2 3 (27.27%) Java
2 3 (27.27%) Shell Script
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.091%) C#
3 1 (9.091%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (18.18%) COBIT
3 1 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) TIBCO Hawk
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) IBM
1 3 (27.27%) TIBCO
2 1 (9.091%) Remedy
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
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