The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Remedy products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Remedy 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 Vendors for the West Midlands 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within BMC Remedy.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Remedy
Rank 88 96 78
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -18
Contract jobs citing Remedy 11 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.656% 0.613% 1.136%
As % of the Vendors category 1.276% 1.243% 2.602%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 11
Average daily rate £280 £150 £360
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+86.66% -58.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £131 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £345 £271 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £245 £300
% change year-on-year
+34.69% -18.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 2
Average hourly rate £12.00 £17.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.42% +16.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.80 £10.10 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £142.40 £17.50 £19.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.00 £14.31 £13.54
% change year-on-year
-16.15% +5.70%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
862 1126 807
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.40% 49.28% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 369 459 317
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £177
10% offered a daily rate of more than £520 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 96 92
Average hourly rate £19.50 £16.50 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.18% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Remedy
England

Remedy
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Remedy across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Midlands Remedy Jobs Demand Trend

Remedy
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Remedy across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Remedy Daily Rate Trend

Remedy
Daily Rate Histogram

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

West Midlands Remedy Daily Rate Histogram

Remedy
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Remedy across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Remedy Hourly Rate Trend

Remedy
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Remedy across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Remedy Hourly Rate Histogram

Remedy
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Remedy within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Birmingham +13 7 £269 +79.16%
Warwickshire -6 2 £280 -
Sutton Coldfield - 1 - -
Remedy
England

Remedy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Remedy 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 Remedy.

1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
3 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
3 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 5 (27.78%) BMC
3 5 (27.78%) MS PowerPoint
3 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
4 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
4 4 (22.22%) Windows XP
4 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 3 (16.67%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (16.67%) MS Office
5 3 (16.67%) Lotus
5 3 (16.67%) SLA
5 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
5 3 (16.67%) Internet
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
6 2 (11.11%) Change Management
6 2 (11.11%) Migration
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle HRMS
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle Discoverer
6 2 (11.11%) WAN
6 2 (11.11%) SQL
6 2 (11.11%) Oracle
6 2 (11.11%) LAN
6 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
6 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software

Remedy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Remedy 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 Remedy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle BPEL
3 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (16.67%) MS Office
2 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (33.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle HRMS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (16.67%) Internet
2 2 (11.11%) WAN
2 2 (11.11%) LAN
3 1 (5.556%) xDSL
3 1 (5.556%) Softswitch
3 1 (5.556%) ADSL
3 1 (5.556%) Broadband
3 1 (5.556%) ISDN
3 1 (5.556%) PSTN
3 1 (5.556%) VoIP
3 1 (5.556%) Ethernet
3 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.556%) IP Telephony
3 1 (5.556%) LLU
3 1 (5.556%) DSLAM
3 1 (5.556%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) Oracle Discoverer
General
1 1 (5.556%) Multimedia
1 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Incident Manager
1 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 2 (11.11%) Systems Tester
2 2 (11.11%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) IT Support
3 1 (5.556%) Desktop Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Provisioning Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.556%) Developer
3 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.556%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows XP
3 2 (11.11%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (5.556%) Windows 2000
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) ITIL
2 5 (27.78%) Incident Management
3 3 (16.67%) Problem Management
4 2 (11.11%) Service Management
4 2 (11.11%) Change Management
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
4 2 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (5.556%) Data Migration
5 1 (5.556%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
5 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
5 1 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (5.556%) BPEL
5 1 (5.556%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.556%) MCSE
3 1 (5.556%) CCNA
3 1 (5.556%) ISEB
3 1 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) SLA
3 1 (5.556%) QA
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (5.556%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
1 5 (27.78%) BMC
2 3 (16.67%) Lotus
3 2 (11.11%) Oracle
4 1 (5.556%) Cisco
4 1 (5.556%) Ericsson
4 1 (5.556%) HP
4 1 (5.556%) Cramer
4 1 (5.556%) BT
4 1 (5.556%) Symantec