The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Incident 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 Reading 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
Incident Management
Rank 53 75 73
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -2
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 18 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.091% 0.527% 0.388%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.130% 0.832% 0.584%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £415 £83 £200
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+403.03% -58.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-15.38% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-17.18% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
575 721 685
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.78% 63.36% 66.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 269 307
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Incident Management
Berkshire

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Incident Management Jobs Demand Trend

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Incident Management Daily Rate Trend

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Incident Management across the Reading region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Reading Incident Management Daily Rate Histogram

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Incident Management Hourly Rate Trend

Incident Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Incident 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 Incident Management.

1 10 (40.00%) Internet
2 9 (36.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (32.00%) Information Security
3 8 (32.00%) Windows
3 8 (32.00%) ITIL
4 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery
4 7 (28.00%) PCI DSS
5 6 (24.00%) Change Control
5 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
5 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
5 6 (24.00%) CA
5 6 (24.00%) Oracle
5 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
6 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
6 5 (20.00%) MS Office
6 5 (20.00%) Security Testing
6 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
6 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
7 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 4 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
7 4 (16.00%) Ethical Hacking
7 4 (16.00%) CESG
7 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
7 4 (16.00%) SIEM
7 4 (16.00%) Network Security
7 4 (16.00%) RMADS
7 4 (16.00%) Service Management
7 4 (16.00%) Change Management
7 4 (16.00%) Finance

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Incident 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 Incident Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (8.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (8.000%) SharePoint
1 2 (8.000%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (20.00%) MS Office
2 2 (8.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS R12
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (40.00%) Internet
2 9 (36.00%) Intrusion Detection
3 5 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 4 (16.00%) Network Security
4 4 (16.00%) Firewall
4 4 (16.00%) DNS
5 3 (12.00%) VPN
5 3 (12.00%) WAN
6 2 (8.000%) NAS
6 2 (8.000%) DHCP
6 2 (8.000%) Ethernet
6 2 (8.000%) LAN
6 2 (8.000%) LDAP
6 2 (8.000%) SAN
6 2 (8.000%) Intranet
7 1 (4.000%) SSL
7 1 (4.000%) FTP
7 1 (4.000%) HTTP
7 1 (4.000%) SMTP
7 1 (4.000%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle Exadata
1 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
General
1 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
2 4 (16.00%) Finance
3 1 (4.000%) Games
Job Titles
1 7 (28.00%) Analyst
2 5 (20.00%) Administrator
2 5 (20.00%) Security Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Security Analyst
3 4 (16.00%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (12.00%) Incident Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (8.000%) Security Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Security Operations Manager
5 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Web Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) Operations Manager
5 2 (8.000%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.000%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) DBA
6 1 (4.000%) Senior Manager
6 1 (4.000%) Server Support
6 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Support
6 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.00%) CESG
1 4 (16.00%) RMADS
1 4 (16.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.000%) Clustering
2 2 (8.000%) Physics
2 2 (8.000%) Computer Science
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle Exalogic
2 2 (8.000%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.000%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 8 (32.00%) Windows
2 4 (16.00%) Linux
2 4 (16.00%) UNIX
3 2 (8.000%) Windows 7
3 2 (8.000%) Windows XP
3 2 (8.000%) Mac OS X
3 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Information Security
1 8 (32.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Service Delivery
3 6 (24.00%) Change Control
4 5 (20.00%) Security Testing
4 5 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Architecture
5 4 (16.00%) Ethical Hacking
5 4 (16.00%) TOGAF
5 4 (16.00%) SIEM
5 4 (16.00%) Service Management
5 4 (16.00%) Change Management
6 3 (12.00%) Security Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) Project Management
7 2 (8.000%) Operations Management
7 2 (8.000%) Supply Chain Management
7 2 (8.000%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (8.000%) Software Distribution
7 2 (8.000%) Fault Management
7 2 (8.000%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.000%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (16.00%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (8.000%) Degree
5 1 (4.000%) MCSE
5 1 (4.000%) MCDBA
5 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (28.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (16.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (16.00%) SLA
3 1 (4.000%) QA
System Software
1 6 (24.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.000%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (8.000%) NLBS
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle RAC
2 2 (8.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (16.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (8.000%) SCCM
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 2 (8.000%) Unicenter
Vendors
1 6 (24.00%) CA
1 6 (24.00%) Oracle
2 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.00%) Citrix
3 3 (12.00%) Qualys
4 2 (8.000%) VMware
4 2 (8.000%) FrontRange
4 2 (8.000%) Royalblue
4 2 (8.000%) HP
4 2 (8.000%) Remedy
4 2 (8.000%) Ericsson
4 2 (8.000%) Red Hat
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