The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Incident Management over the 3 months to 17 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 South Yorkshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Incident Management
Rank 27 28 34
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 7 5 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 2.612% 1.961% 1.754%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.846% 3.448% 3.378%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £205 £105 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+94.77% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
-16.03% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
Average hourly rate £22.75 £23.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.08% +15.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.88 £16.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-13.28% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 145 148
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Yorkshire 67.91% 56.86% 51.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 77 87
Average daily rate £330 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.45% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £185 £200 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £464 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 18
Average hourly rate £25.00 £27.00 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -36.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.44 £19.72 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.75 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Incident Management
Yorkshire

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire Incident Management Daily Rate Trend

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 South Yorkshire region.

South Yorkshire 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 South Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Sheffield -1 3 £211 +100.71%
Doncaster 0 2 - -
Barnsley - 2 £205 -
Incident Management
Yorkshire

Incident Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 10 (47.62%) Windows
3 9 (42.86%) MS Excel
3 9 (42.86%) MS Office
4 8 (38.10%) Service Management
5 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
6 6 (28.57%) Change Management
6 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
6 6 (28.57%) CA
6 6 (28.57%) Unicenter
7 5 (23.81%) Citrix
7 5 (23.81%) SLA
7 5 (23.81%) Windows NT
7 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
7 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
7 5 (23.81%) Solaris
7 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
7 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (19.05%) Quality Management
8 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
9 3 (14.29%) Lotus
9 3 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
9 3 (14.29%) Information Management
9 3 (14.29%) Electronics
9 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
9 3 (14.29%) Finance
9 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
9 3 (14.29%) Military

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Yorkshire 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 5 (23.81%) MS Exchange
2 3 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (4.762%) SharePoint
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 5.5
3 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 9 (42.86%) MS Office
1 9 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.762%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) VoIP
1 1 (4.762%) TCP/IP
1 1 (4.762%) VPN
General
1 3 (14.29%) Electronics
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 3 (14.29%) Finance
1 3 (14.29%) Aerospace
1 3 (14.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Service Analyst
3 5 (23.81%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Computer Operator
5 1 (4.762%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.762%) Business Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Services Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.762%) IT Support Technician
5 1 (4.762%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.762%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.762%) IT Support
5 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) Chip and PIN
1 2 (9.524%) Blackberry
1 2 (9.524%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.762%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 10 (47.62%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Solaris
2 5 (23.81%) Windows NT
2 5 (23.81%) Windows XP
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.762%) UNIX
3 1 (4.762%) Linux
3 1 (4.762%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) ITIL
2 8 (38.10%) Service Management
3 6 (28.57%) Change Management
4 5 (23.81%) Configuration Management
4 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (19.05%) Quality Management
6 3 (14.29%) Information Management
6 3 (14.29%) Problem Management
6 3 (14.29%) Communications Security
7 2 (9.524%) Capacity Management
7 2 (9.524%) Data Analysis
7 2 (9.524%) Service Delivery
7 2 (9.524%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (9.524%) ITSM
8 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (4.762%) Project Management
8 1 (4.762%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) C
1 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 7 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (23.81%) SLA
2 2 (9.524%) QA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Unicenter
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Remote Control
2 1 (4.762%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (4.762%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 6 (28.57%) CA
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
3 4 (19.05%) Red Hat
4 3 (14.29%) Lotus
5 2 (9.524%) Sun
5 2 (9.524%) HP
5 2 (9.524%) Oracle
5 2 (9.524%) IBM
6 1 (4.762%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.762%) Remedy
6 1 (4.762%) Cisco
6 1 (4.762%) BMC