The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 20 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 Sussex 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank - 48 -
Contract jobs citing Problem Management 0 8 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex - 1.240% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.699% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £376 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £300 £323
% change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £15.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -28.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
256 471 306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 67.72% 73.02% 69.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 280 146
Average daily rate £388 £338 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -12.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £275 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 5 16
Average hourly rate £32.50 £22.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+47.72% -41.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.60 £10.00 £21.79
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £32.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Problem Management
South East

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex Problem Management Jobs Demand Trend

Problem Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Problem Management Daily Rate Trend

Problem Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex Problem Management Hourly Rate Trend

Problem Management
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Remedy
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Project Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Consultant
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 2 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) Multithreading
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Remedy