Warwickshire Problem Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills within the Warwickshire 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 16 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire 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 Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Ilford 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 Peterborough Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton 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 16 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	31	42
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	4	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.721 %	4.098 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£475	-
Average daily rate	£475	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£475	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£302	£311
% change on same period last year	-2.91 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£28.50	£38.33
Average hourly rate	£30.25	£43.33
% change on same period last year	-30.19 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.00	£48.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.82	£21.92
% change on same period last year	+13.21 %
Processes & Methodologies Warwickshire
Matching contract IT job ads	147	244
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.210 %	0.252 %
Daily rates quoted	33	58
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£222
Average daily rate	£365	£240
% change on same period last year	+52.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£257
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.95 %
Hourly rates quoted	41	66
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.36	£31.46
Average hourly rate	£24.14	£33.95
% change on same period last year	-28.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.92	£36.44
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.18	£29.77
% change on same period last year	-1.96 %
Problem Management West 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 Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire 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 Warwickshire region over the 3 months to 16 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
Warwick	+2	2	-	-

Problem Management West Midlands

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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 4 (57.14 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) HP 2 2 (28.57 %) Compaq 2 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 2 2 (28.57 %) Remedy 2 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 2 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 2 (28.57 %) VMware 3 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN 3 1 (14.29 %) Symposium

3 1 (14.29 %) IP Telephony 3 1 (14.29 %) Nortel Periphonics 3 1 (14.29 %) Nortel Meridian 3 1 (14.29 %) NGN 3 1 (14.29 %) Release Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Time Management 3 1 (14.29 %) ITSM 3 1 (14.29 %) Finance 3 1 (14.29 %) AIX 3 1 (14.29 %) HPUX 3 1 (14.29 %) Solaris 3 1 (14.29 %) RAD 3 1 (14.29 %) RUP 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 3 1 (14.29 %) LDAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Warwickshire 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.

Application Development 1 1 (14.29 %) J2EE	Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Nortel Periphonics
Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) LDAP 1 1 (14.29 %) Symposium 1 1 (14.29 %) IP Telephony 1 1 (14.29 %) Nortel Meridian 1 1 (14.29 %) NGN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (14.29 %) TOAD 1 1 (14.29 %) RDBMS 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) PVCS	General 1 1 (14.29 %) Financial Institution 1 1 (14.29 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 3 (42.86 %) Analyst 2 2 (28.57 %) DBA 2 2 (28.57 %) Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Support Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle DBA 3 1 (14.29 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) UNIX Administrator 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Modeller 3 1 (14.29 %) Contracts Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Oracle Support Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) IT Services Manager 3 1 (14.29 %) Voice Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Support 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Consultant 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Administrator	Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows Server 2003 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 Server 2 1 (14.29 %) UNIX 2 1 (14.29 %) AIX 2 1 (14.29 %) HPUX 2 1 (14.29 %) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Disaster Recovery 2 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 3 1 (14.29 %) RAD 3 1 (14.29 %) RUP 3 1 (14.29 %) Data Modelling 3 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Change Management 3 1 (14.29 %) ITSM 3 1 (14.29 %) Release Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Time Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) Java 1 1 (14.29 %) PL/SQL 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (14.29 %) NetBackup 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 1 2 (28.57 %) Microsoft 1 2 (28.57 %) HP 1 2 (28.57 %) Compaq 1 2 (28.57 %) Remedy 1 2 (28.57 %) VMware 2 1 (14.29 %) Nortel