The first table below looks at the demand for Incident Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Incident Management 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 Yorkshire 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
Incident Management
Rank 59 88 58
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -30
Contract jobs citing Incident Management 29 3 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 2.311% 0.192% 1.867%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.269% 0.265% 2.838%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 0 14
Average daily rate £275 - £419
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 - £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 - £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
-7.69% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.25 £16.47 £15.00
% change year-on-year
-19.52% +9.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
887 1132 740
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.68% 72.33% 65.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 487 659 357
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £230 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 30
Average hourly rate £23.50 £15.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.66% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Incident Management
Yorkshire

Incident Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Incident Management Jobs Demand Trend

Incident Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Incident Management Daily Rate Trend

Incident Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Incident Management across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Incident Management Daily Rate Histogram

Incident Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Incident Management Hourly Rate Trend

Incident Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Incident Management within the West Yorkshire 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
Leeds - 21 £275 -
Halifax - 4 £365 -
Bradford - 2 - -
Incident Management
Yorkshire

Incident Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Incident 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 Incident Management.

1 20 (54.05%) Linux
2 19 (51.35%) Oracle
3 18 (48.65%) TCP/IP
4 17 (45.95%) Configuration Management
4 17 (45.95%) Telecoms
5 16 (43.24%) Ruby
5 16 (43.24%) Load Balancing
5 16 (43.24%) Test Automation
5 16 (43.24%) nginx
5 16 (43.24%) Amazon EC2
5 16 (43.24%) Amazon S3
5 16 (43.24%) Amazon AWS
5 16 (43.24%) Kanban
5 16 (43.24%) Bash shell
5 16 (43.24%) Puppet
5 16 (43.24%) MongoDB
5 16 (43.24%) Node.js
5 16 (43.24%) Redis
5 16 (43.24%) Capacity Management
5 16 (43.24%) Route 53
5 16 (43.24%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (43.24%) DNS
5 16 (43.24%) SSL
5 16 (43.24%) DHCP
5 16 (43.24%) Apache
5 16 (43.24%) Python
5 16 (43.24%) Client/Server
5 16 (43.24%) C++
5 16 (43.24%) Java
5 16 (43.24%) Perl

Incident Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Incident 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 Incident Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (43.24%) Node.js
1 16 (43.24%) Web Services
2 1 (2.703%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 16 (43.24%) nginx
1 16 (43.24%) Amazon EC2
1 16 (43.24%) Amazon S3
1 16 (43.24%) Amazon AWS
1 16 (43.24%) Route 53
1 16 (43.24%) Apache
2 2 (5.405%) Lotus Notes
3 1 (2.703%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 1 (2.703%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (8.108%) Oracle Retail
3 1 (2.703%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 18 (48.65%) TCP/IP
2 16 (43.24%) DNS
2 16 (43.24%) SSL
2 16 (43.24%) DHCP
3 10 (27.03%) Internet
3 10 (27.03%) Intrusion Detection
4 6 (16.22%) LAN
4 6 (16.22%) WAN
5 2 (5.405%) FWSM
5 2 (5.405%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (5.405%) Network Security
5 2 (5.405%) Firewall
5 2 (5.405%) EIGRP
5 2 (5.405%) MPLS
5 2 (5.405%) OSPF
5 2 (5.405%) BGP
5 2 (5.405%) VPN
6 1 (2.703%) ATM
6 1 (2.703%) VLAN
6 1 (2.703%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (43.24%) MongoDB
1 16 (43.24%) Redis
1 16 (43.24%) Amazon RDS
1 16 (43.24%) MySQL
2 3 (8.108%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.405%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.703%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (5.405%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 17 (45.95%) Telecoms
2 7 (18.92%) Retail
2 7 (18.92%) Finance
3 4 (10.81%) Banking
4 2 (5.405%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Operations Engineer
2 6 (16.22%) Network Engineer
3 5 (13.51%) Analyst
4 4 (10.81%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (8.108%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.405%) Oracle DBA
6 2 (5.405%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) Administrator
6 2 (5.405%) DBA
6 2 (5.405%) Senior Manager
6 2 (5.405%) Business Analyst
6 2 (5.405%) Desktop Support
7 1 (2.703%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) Support Engineer
7 1 (2.703%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (2.703%) 2nd Line Support
7 1 (2.703%) Senior Service Manager
7 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Client/Server
2 2 (5.405%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.703%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.703%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 20 (54.05%) Linux
2 4 (10.81%) UNIX
3 3 (8.108%) HPUX
4 2 (5.405%) Windows
5 1 (2.703%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.703%) OS/390
5 1 (2.703%) zOS
5 1 (2.703%) MVS
5 1 (2.703%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (45.95%) Configuration Management
2 16 (43.24%) Load Balancing
2 16 (43.24%) Test Automation
2 16 (43.24%) Kanban
2 16 (43.24%) Capacity Management
3 12 (32.43%) ITIL
4 10 (27.03%) Security Testing
5 6 (16.22%) Change Management
5 6 (16.22%) Performance Testing
6 4 (10.81%) Network Architecture
7 3 (8.108%) RDF
7 3 (8.108%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (5.405%) Capacity Planning
8 2 (5.405%) Service Management
9 1 (2.703%) Project Management
9 1 (2.703%) Cost-Benefit Analysis
9 1 (2.703%) Business Analysis
9 1 (2.703%) Risk Management
9 1 (2.703%) Disaster Recovery
9 1 (2.703%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (43.24%) Ruby
1 16 (43.24%) Bash shell
1 16 (43.24%) Python
1 16 (43.24%) C++
1 16 (43.24%) Java
1 16 (43.24%) Perl
1 16 (43.24%) PHP
2 1 (2.703%) COBOL
2 1 (2.703%) JCL
Qualifications
1 6 (16.22%) CCSA
1 6 (16.22%) CCNP
1 6 (16.22%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.405%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (2.703%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (8.108%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (2.703%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.703%) RACF
Systems Management
1 16 (43.24%) Puppet
2 1 (2.703%) Control-M
2 1 (2.703%) CA Endevor
Vendors
1 19 (51.35%) Oracle
2 10 (27.03%) Percona
3 6 (16.22%) Cisco
4 4 (10.81%) HP
5 2 (5.405%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.405%) Lotus
6 1 (2.703%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.703%) Avaya