Northamptonshire Problem Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Northamptonshire 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 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester Crewe Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ilford Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Norfolk North Lanarkshire North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tadworth UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	32	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.130 %	0.000 %
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	£294	£314
% change on same period last year	-6.47 %
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	£25.49	£23.49
% change on same period last year	+8.51 %
Processes & Methodologies Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	177	198
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.250 %	0.200 %
Daily rates quoted	121	73
Average minimum daily rate	£428	£372
Average daily rate	£447	£396
% change on same period last year	+12.74 %
Average maximum daily rate	£466	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	7	21
Average minimum hourly rate	£33.64	£24.63
Average hourly rate	£37.21	£27.29
% change on same period last year	+36.34 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.79	£29.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Problem Management East Midlands

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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Northampton	-	1	-	-

Problem Management East Midlands

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (100.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (100.00 %) ITSM 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Problem Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) Incident Manager 2 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Manager	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 1 2 (100.00 %) Service Management 1 2 (100.00 %) ITSM
Qualifications 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification	Vendors 1 2 (100.00 %) SAP