The first table below looks at the demand for Root Cause Analysis skills 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 Root Cause Analysis over the 3 months to 24 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 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Root Cause Analysis
Rank 90 91 85
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -6
Contract jobs citing Root Cause Analysis 5 12 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.306% 0.535% 0.899%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.461% 0.839% 1.420%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 11
Average daily rate £400 £388 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% +40.90%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £500 £358
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +39.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £16.48 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £32.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year
-30.76% +78.08%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1085 1431 1197
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.44% 63.83% 63.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 527 675 550
Average daily rate £350 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £233 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £527 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 73 75
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands Root Cause Analysis Jobs Demand Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Midlands Root Cause Analysis Daily Rate Histogram

Root Cause Analysis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Root Cause Analysis Hourly Rate Trend

Root Cause Analysis
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Root Cause Analysis within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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 +12 2 £400 +77.77%
Warwickshire -4 1 - -
Root Cause Analysis
England

Root Cause Analysis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Root Cause Analysis 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 Root Cause Analysis.

1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (20.00%) Windows
3 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
3 2 (20.00%) FTP
3 2 (20.00%) HTTP
3 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
3 2 (20.00%) Middleware
3 2 (20.00%) OSPF
3 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 2 (20.00%) SLA
3 2 (20.00%) Data Management
3 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Xcelsius
4 1 (10.00%) XenServer
4 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop

Root Cause Analysis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Root Cause Analysis 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 Root Cause Analysis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (20.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) RESTful
2 1 (10.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (10.00%) FIX Protocol
2 1 (10.00%) JMX
2 1 (10.00%) JMS
2 1 (10.00%) Java RMI
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) JDBC
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) ESB
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Process Server
1 1 (10.00%) BizTalk Server
1 1 (10.00%) IBM HTTP Server
1 1 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) Apache
1 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (10.00%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) FTP
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (10.00%) IPsec
3 1 (10.00%) NetScreen
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) HTTPS
3 1 (10.00%) IIOP
3 1 (10.00%) SSL
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) SNMP
3 1 (10.00%) VoIP
3 1 (10.00%) SMTP
3 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (10.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (10.00%) Xcelsius
2 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (10.00%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (10.00%) DB2
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Marketing
2 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (30.00%) Network Support Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Network Support
1 3 (30.00%) Analyst
1 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (30.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Business Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Support Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Voice Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Major Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Incident Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Exchange Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Network Support Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) SAP Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Data Management
1 2 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (10.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (10.00%) Change Control
2 1 (10.00%) Analytics
2 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (10.00%) Release Management
2 1 (10.00%) Dimensional Modelling
2 1 (10.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (10.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (10.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (10.00%) Service Management
2 1 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (10.00%) Migration
2 1 (10.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) SOA
2 1 (10.00%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
1 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
2 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
2 1 (10.00%) Jython
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) XenServer
2 1 (10.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) VMware
2 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (10.00%) ION Trading
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Juniper
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Business Objects
3 1 (10.00%) SAP