Middlesex Problem Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Middlesex 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	40	44
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	7	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	1.923 %	1.351 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£425	£150
Average daily rate	£438	£150
% change on same period last year	+191.66 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£150
UK excluding London average daily rate	£315	£323
% change on same period last year	-2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.00	£15.00
Average hourly rate	£30.00	£22.50
% change on same period last year	+33.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.01	£20.44
% change on same period last year	+7.66 %
Processes & Methodologies Middlesex
Matching contract IT job ads	364	370
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.374 %
Daily rates quoted	96	93
Average minimum daily rate	£331	£316
Average daily rate	£355	£338
% change on same period last year	+5.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£379	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	13
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.44	£38.64
Average hourly rate	£35.44	£39.35
% change on same period last year	-9.94 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.44	£40.07
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 Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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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 Middlesex region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (42.86 %) HP 2 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 2 4 (28.57 %) DNS 2 4 (28.57 %) ABAP 2 4 (28.57 %) SAP 2 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 2 4 (28.57 %) MCSE 2 4 (28.57 %) SAP BW 2 4 (28.57 %) SAP APO 2 4 (28.57 %) Migration 2 4 (28.57 %) VMware 2 4 (28.57 %) Clustering

2 4 (28.57 %) Load Balancing 2 4 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 2 4 (28.57 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 3 (21.43 %) VLAN 4 2 (14.29 %) Change Management 4 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 2 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 4 2 (14.29 %) ITIL 4 2 (14.29 %) OpenView 4 2 (14.29 %) Validation 4 2 (14.29 %) Incident Management 5 1 (7.143 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (7.143 %) Degree 5 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (7.143 %) HTML 1 1 (7.143 %) CSS 1 1 (7.143 %) WebServices 1 1 (7.143 %) XML 1 1 (7.143 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 1 (7.143 %) Apache
Business Applications 1 4 (28.57 %) SAP APO 2 1 (7.143 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 4 (28.57 %) TCP/IP 1 4 (28.57 %) DNS 2 3 (21.43 %) VLAN 3 1 (7.143 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (28.57 %) SAP BW 2 2 (14.29 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (7.143 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (7.143 %) Oracle 10g 3 1 (7.143 %) BusinessObjects 3 1 (7.143 %) DB2	General 1 1 (7.143 %) Pharmaceutical 1 1 (7.143 %) Education 1 1 (7.143 %) Government 1 1 (7.143 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 7 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 4 (28.57 %) Consultant 3 3 (21.43 %) Senior Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) Network Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) SAP Consultant 3 3 (21.43 %) SAP APO Consultant 3 3 (21.43 %) Senior Network Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) Infrastructure Analyst 3 3 (21.43 %) Senior Infrastructure Analyst 4 2 (14.29 %) Problem Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Web Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Project Manager 5 1 (7.143 %) Administrator 5 1 (7.143 %) Data Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Applications Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (7.143 %) Applications Support	Miscellaneous 1 4 (28.57 %) Clustering 2 1 (7.143 %) Management Information System 2 1 (7.143 %) AS400
Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) Windows 1 4 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 2 1 (7.143 %) Windows NT 2 1 (7.143 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (28.57 %) Migration 1 4 (28.57 %) Load Balancing 1 4 (28.57 %) Integration Testing 2 2 (14.29 %) Incident Management 2 2 (14.29 %) ITIL 2 2 (14.29 %) Change Management 2 2 (14.29 %) Validation 3 1 (7.143 %) ERP 3 1 (7.143 %) Project Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Asset Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Data Analysis 3 1 (7.143 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (7.143 %) Technical Architecture 3 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 4 (28.57 %) ABAP 2 1 (7.143 %) JavaScript 2 1 (7.143 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (28.57 %) MCSE 1 4 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) Degree 2 1 (7.143 %) HND
System Software 1 4 (28.57 %) Active Directory 1 4 (28.57 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (14.29 %) OpenView 2 1 (7.143 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (7.143 %) OVSD
Vendors 1 6 (42.86 %) HP 2 4 (28.57 %) SAP 2 4 (28.57 %) VMware 3 2 (14.29 %) Oracle 4 1 (7.143 %) Business Objects 4 1 (7.143 %) JD Edwards 4 1 (7.143 %) Cognos 4 1 (7.143 %) IBM 4 1 (7.143 %) Sun