The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Incident Management over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Scotland 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Incident Management
Rank 104 84 80
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -4
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 15 25 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.599% 0.930% 1.124%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.867% 1.458% 1.708%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 9
Average daily rate £328 £293 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.96% +6.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £311 £225 £207
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £380 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £289 £310 £283
% change year-on-year
-6.85% +9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 4
Average hourly rate - £25.00 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +163.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £16.75 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-20.89% +11.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1731 1715 1874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.13% 63.78% 65.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 875 826 1002
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 62 44
Average hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £28.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.83% -15.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Incident Management
UK

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Incident Management Hourly Rate Trend

Incident Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Glasgow -21 7 £363 +39.42% 2
Edinburgh -2 5 £450 +36.36%
Aberdeen +1 1 £308 +28.12%
Stirling - - - -
Renfrewshire - - - -
West Lothian - - - -
Moray - - - -
Highlands - - - -
Dumfries and Galloway - - - -
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Incident Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 11 (30.56%) ITIL
2 11 (30.56%) Finance
3 8 (22.22%) Firewall
3 8 (22.22%) Information Security
3 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 8 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 8 (22.22%) Windows XP
4 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
5 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
5 6 (16.67%) Project Management
5 6 (16.67%) SIEM
6 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 5 (13.89%) Change Management
6 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 5 (13.89%) VMware
7 4 (11.11%) Retail
7 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 4 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (11.11%) MCDST
7 4 (11.11%) Retail Banking
7 4 (11.11%) Cisco
7 4 (11.11%) MS Exchange
7 4 (11.11%) Oracle
7 4 (11.11%) MS Excel
7 4 (11.11%) Service Management
7 4 (11.11%) ArcSight
8 3 (8.333%) SAN
8 3 (8.333%) Symantec

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Platforms
1 4 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 2 (5.556%) SAS
2 2 (5.556%) IBM Notes
3 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.778%) IIS
3 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (11.11%) MS Excel
2 3 (8.333%) MS Office
3 1 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (5.556%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Payroll
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (22.22%) Firewall
1 8 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
2 3 (8.333%) SAN
2 3 (8.333%) DNS
2 3 (8.333%) DHCP
3 2 (5.556%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.556%) Internet
3 2 (5.556%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.556%) DB2
2 1 (2.778%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 8 (22.22%) Banking
3 4 (11.11%) Retail
3 4 (11.11%) Retail Banking
4 3 (8.333%) German Language
5 2 (5.556%) Billing
6 1 (2.778%) Dutch Language
6 1 (2.778%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (36.11%) Analyst
2 4 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 3 (8.333%) Consultant
3 3 (8.333%) Incident Manager
3 3 (8.333%) Service Manager
3 3 (8.333%) Server Engineer
4 2 (5.556%) Services Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.556%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (5.556%) DB2 DBA
4 2 (5.556%) Applications Manager
4 2 (5.556%) Business Analyst
4 2 (5.556%) DBA
4 2 (5.556%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.556%) Test Analyst
4 2 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.556%) Security Consultant
4 2 (5.556%) Service Analyst
5 1 (2.778%) ERP Manager
5 1 (2.778%) UAT Manager
5 1 (2.778%) Project Support Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) Management Information System
1 2 (5.556%) Mainframe
2 1 (2.778%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (2.778%) NHS
2 1 (2.778%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.778%) PDA
2 1 (2.778%) Computer Science
2 1 (2.778%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 14 (38.89%) Windows
2 8 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (13.89%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (8.333%) Linux
5 2 (5.556%) UNIX
5 2 (5.556%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (30.56%) ITIL
2 8 (22.22%) Information Security
3 6 (16.67%) Project Management
3 6 (16.67%) SIEM
4 5 (13.89%) Change Management
5 4 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 4 (11.11%) Service Management
6 3 (8.333%) ERP
6 3 (8.333%) Test Scripting
6 3 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (5.556%) Migration
7 2 (5.556%) Operations Management
7 2 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (5.556%) Requirements Management
7 2 (5.556%) Supply Chain Management
7 2 (5.556%) Automated Testing
7 2 (5.556%) Business Analysis
7 2 (5.556%) CRM
7 2 (5.556%) Service Delivery
7 2 (5.556%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (11.11%) MCDST
3 2 (5.556%) ISEB Practitioner
3 2 (5.556%) ISEB
3 2 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.556%) MCP
3 2 (5.556%) MCSE
4 1 (2.778%) PMP
4 1 (2.778%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.778%) CISSP
4 1 (2.778%) Degree
4 1 (2.778%) GIAC
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.778%) XenApp
3 1 (2.778%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (8.333%) SCCM
2 2 (5.556%) MAINVIEW
3 1 (2.778%) Splunk
Vendors
1 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.89%) VMware
3 4 (11.11%) Cisco
3 4 (11.11%) Oracle
3 4 (11.11%) ArcSight
4 3 (8.333%) Symantec
4 3 (8.333%) McAfee
4 3 (8.333%) IBM
5 2 (5.556%) BMC
5 2 (5.556%) Lotus
6 1 (2.778%) Apple
6 1 (2.778%) NetApp
6 1 (2.778%) HP
6 1 (2.778%) EMC
6 1 (2.778%) Intel
6 1 (2.778%) Citrix
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