The first table below looks at the demand for Fault Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Fault 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.

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
Fault Management
Rank 483 503 555
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +52
Contract jobs citing Fault Management 58 67 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.121% 0.115% 0.074%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.170% 0.169% 0.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 23 21
Average daily rate £100 £270 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-62.96% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £85 £245 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £300 £410
UK excluding London average daily rate £100 £265 £255
% change year-on-year
-62.26% +3.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 10
Average hourly rate £10.69 £19.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.73% -40.62%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.69 £19.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
-43.73% -34.48%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34218 39623 41917
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 71.12% 68.27% 67.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 20499 22617 23889
Average daily rate £413 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.12% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £275 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £580 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 979 1259 1448
Average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.83 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £45.00 £45.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Fault Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Fault Management Jobs Demand Trend

Fault Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Fault Management within the UK.

Fault Management Daily Rate Trend

Fault Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Fault Management within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Fault Management Daily Rate Histogram

Fault Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Fault Management within the UK.

Fault Management Hourly Rate Trend

Fault Management
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Fault Management within the UK 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
England +1 50 £100 -62.96% 6
South East +19 40 £100 -63.63% 1
Berkshire +19 33 £100 -62.96%
Buckinghamshire 0 7 £400 +63.26% 1
South West +31 3 - -
London +27 3 £195 -30.97% 2
Bristol - 3 - -
East of England +19 2 - -
City of London +2 1 - - 1
Newbury +2 1 - -
Yorkshire 0 1 - - 1
West Yorkshire -3 1 - - 1
Leeds -9 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
Cambridge - 1 - -
Cambridgeshire - 1 - -
Cheshire - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Northamptonshire - - - -
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Somerset - - - -
Surrey - - - -
Chippenham - - - -
Edinburgh - - - -
Leatherhead - - - -
Northampton - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Slough - - - -

Fault Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fault 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 Fault Management.

1 67 (63.81%) Telecoms
2 33 (31.43%) SLA
3 21 (20.00%) ITIL
3 21 (20.00%) Remedy
3 21 (20.00%) Performance Management
4 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
5 18 (17.14%) SQL
6 17 (16.19%) Citrix
6 17 (16.19%) Radio Access Network
7 16 (15.24%) LTE
8 15 (14.29%) 2G
9 14 (13.33%) HP
9 14 (13.33%) 3G
9 14 (13.33%) WAN
9 14 (13.33%) Degree
10 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
10 13 (12.38%) Project Management
11 12 (11.43%) Service Management
11 12 (11.43%) ATM
11 12 (11.43%) Oracle
12 11 (10.48%) Netcool
12 11 (10.48%) Nokia
12 11 (10.48%) IPv4
12 11 (10.48%) Nokia NetAct
13 10 (9.524%) Java
13 10 (9.524%) MS Office
13 10 (9.524%) VPN
13 10 (9.524%) HTTP
14 9 (8.571%) FTP
14 9 (8.571%) SMTP

Fault Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Fault 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 Fault Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.571%) .NET
2 7 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 7 (6.667%) SOAP
3 5 (4.762%) WSDL
3 5 (4.762%) BPEL4WS
4 2 (1.905%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.905%) WAP
5 1 (0.952%) EDIFACT
5 1 (0.952%) Middleware
5 1 (0.952%) EDI
5 1 (0.952%) Web Services
5 1 (0.952%) XML
5 1 (0.952%) Java EE
5 1 (0.952%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.857%) Oracle Workflow
2 1 (0.952%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.952%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.952%) GlassFish
2 1 (0.952%) ESB
Applications
1 10 (9.524%) MS Office
2 3 (2.857%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (8.571%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.952%) Metrica
Communications & Networking
1 17 (16.19%) Radio Access Network
2 16 (15.24%) LTE
3 15 (14.29%) 2G
4 14 (13.33%) 3G
4 14 (13.33%) WAN
5 13 (12.38%) TCP/IP
6 12 (11.43%) ATM
7 11 (10.48%) IPv4
7 11 (10.48%) Nokia NetAct
8 10 (9.524%) VPN
8 10 (9.524%) HTTP
9 9 (8.571%) FTP
9 9 (8.571%) SMTP
10 7 (6.667%) GSM
11 5 (4.762%) LAN
12 4 (3.810%) GPRS
12 4 (3.810%) WCDMA
13 3 (2.857%) Internet
13 3 (2.857%) DNS
13 3 (2.857%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.667%) NoSQL
1 7 (6.667%) Big Data
2 5 (4.762%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (2.857%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (2.857%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (2.857%) BODI
3 3 (2.857%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
4 2 (1.905%) SQL Server
4 2 (1.905%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.952%) DTS
5 1 (0.952%) MySQL
5 1 (0.952%) MS Access
5 1 (0.952%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 1 (0.952%) MSI
1 1 (0.952%) AdminStudio
1 1 (0.952%) Eclipse
1 1 (0.952%) JUnit
1 1 (0.952%) JIRA
1 1 (0.952%) Maven
1 1 (0.952%) Subversion
1 1 (0.952%) Bugzilla
1 1 (0.952%) Valgrind
1 1 (0.952%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (63.81%) Telecoms
2 2 (1.905%) Finance
3 1 (0.952%) Back Office
3 1 (0.952%) French Language
3 1 (0.952%) Banking
3 1 (0.952%) Automotive
3 1 (0.952%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 40 (38.10%) Administrator
2 18 (17.14%) Analyst
3 13 (12.38%) Help Desk Administrator
4 10 (9.524%) Architect
5 7 (6.667%) Service Analyst
5 7 (6.667%) Test Engineer
6 6 (5.714%) Technical Leader
6 6 (5.714%) OSS Architect
6 6 (5.714%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.762%) Test Analyst
7 5 (4.762%) OSS Engineer
7 5 (4.762%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (3.810%) Systems Architect
8 4 (3.810%) Support Analyst
9 3 (2.857%) 1st Line Support
10 2 (1.905%) Test Leader
10 2 (1.905%) RAN Engineer
10 2 (1.905%) Business Analyst
10 2 (1.905%) Help Desk Analyst
11 1 (0.952%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.857%) Management Information System
1 3 (2.857%) Open Source
2 2 (1.905%) Mobile App
2 2 (1.905%) Mainframe
3 1 (0.952%) Statistics
3 1 (0.952%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (7.619%) Windows
2 7 (6.667%) Linux
3 2 (1.905%) Solaris
3 2 (1.905%) UNIX
4 1 (0.952%) Windows 7
4 1 (0.952%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (0.952%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (20.00%) ITIL
1 21 (20.00%) Performance Management
2 19 (18.10%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (12.38%) Project Management
4 12 (11.43%) Service Management
5 9 (8.571%) ITSM
5 9 (8.571%) Network Management
5 9 (8.571%) TOGAF
6 8 (7.619%) eTOM
6 8 (7.619%) Disaster Recovery
6 8 (7.619%) Configuration Management
7 5 (4.762%) Test Strategy
8 4 (3.810%) Data Entry
8 4 (3.810%) Workflow
8 4 (3.810%) Operations Management
9 3 (2.857%) Change Management
9 3 (2.857%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (2.857%) Incident Management
9 3 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (2.857%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (17.14%) SQL
2 10 (9.524%) Java
3 9 (8.571%) Perl
4 7 (6.667%) C
5 3 (2.857%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.905%) Bash shell
6 2 (1.905%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.905%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.952%) VBA
7 1 (0.952%) C++
7 1 (0.952%) RPG
7 1 (0.952%) VBScript
7 1 (0.952%) Python
7 1 (0.952%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (13.33%) Degree
2 7 (6.667%) ISEB
3 4 (3.810%) ISEB Practitioner
4 2 (1.905%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.905%) CCNA
4 2 (1.905%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.952%) CNA
5 1 (0.952%) Novell Certification
5 1 (0.952%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.952%) CCNP
5 1 (0.952%) APMP
5 1 (0.952%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.43%) SLA
2 3 (2.857%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (0.952%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.952%) VMware ESX
1 1 (0.952%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (0.952%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 11 (10.48%) Netcool
2 9 (8.571%) Ionix
3 1 (0.952%) Control-M
3 1 (0.952%) TeMIP
3 1 (0.952%) SCCM
Vendors
1 21 (20.00%) Remedy
2 17 (16.19%) Citrix
3 14 (13.33%) HP
4 12 (11.43%) Oracle
5 11 (10.48%) Nokia
6 9 (8.571%) Business Objects
6 9 (8.571%) EMC
6 9 (8.571%) BMC
6 9 (8.571%) Ericsson
7 5 (4.762%) Greenplum
7 5 (4.762%) Nokia Siemens Networks
8 3 (2.857%) NEC
8 3 (2.857%) Microsoft
8 3 (2.857%) Huawei
9 2 (1.905%) Foundry
9 2 (1.905%) Redknee
9 2 (1.905%) Sun
9 2 (1.905%) Cisco
10 1 (0.952%) MKS
10 1 (0.952%) Juniper
Lancashire
To support the RAN Optimisation teams as required. Successful candidates must have strong skills in GSM, GPRS, UMTS and LTE network architectures and operation. Working knowledge of Fault...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £140 - £160 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
West Yorkshire
To support the RAN Optimisation teams as required. Successful candidates must have strong skills in GSM, GPRS, UMTS and LTE network architectures and operation. Working knowledge of Fault...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £140 - £160 per day
Posted: 18 June 2013
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