The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 76 94 61
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -33
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 45 15 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.500% 0.907% 2.467%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.351% 1.285% 3.696%
Number of salaries quoted 40 15 33
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% +16.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
- -3.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1343 1167 920
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.61% 70.60% 66.76%
Number of salaries quoted 1151 1017 783
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Problem Management
West Midlands

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Problem Management Jobs Demand Trend

Problem Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Problem Management Salary Trend

Problem Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Birmingham Problem Management Salary Histogram

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Problem Management.

1 36 (40.91%) ITIL
2 33 (37.50%) Finance
3 23 (26.14%) UNIX
4 22 (25.00%) Windows
4 22 (25.00%) Linux
5 21 (23.86%) Cisco
5 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
6 20 (22.73%) Solaris
6 20 (22.73%) Change Management
6 20 (22.73%) Incident Management
7 19 (21.59%) Active Directory
8 18 (20.45%) SLA
9 16 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
9 16 (18.18%) EMC
9 16 (18.18%) SAN
9 16 (18.18%) Banking
9 16 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
10 15 (17.05%) Symmetrix DMX
10 15 (17.05%) VMware
11 14 (15.91%) SharePoint
11 14 (15.91%) MS Excel
12 13 (14.77%) SQL
12 13 (14.77%) Shell Script
13 12 (13.64%) Perl
13 12 (13.64%) Oracle
13 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking
14 11 (12.50%) MS Office
14 11 (12.50%) AIX
14 11 (12.50%) MS Exchange
14 11 (12.50%) Migration

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Problem Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (5.682%) .NET
2 4 (4.545%) Middleware
3 3 (3.409%) HTML
4 2 (2.273%) Flash
4 2 (2.273%) ASP.NET
5 1 (1.136%) XML
Application Platforms
1 14 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 11 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 8 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 8 (9.091%) SAS
3 8 (9.091%) Apache
3 8 (9.091%) Tomcat
4 3 (3.409%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (2.273%) IIS
6 1 (1.136%) SharePoint Server
6 1 (1.136%) WorkSite
6 1 (1.136%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 14 (15.91%) MS Excel
2 11 (12.50%) MS Office
3 2 (2.273%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (2.273%) assyst
2 1 (1.136%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (1.136%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.136%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 16 (18.18%) SAN
2 8 (9.091%) MPLS
2 8 (9.091%) DSL
2 8 (9.091%) LAN
2 8 (9.091%) WAN
3 5 (5.682%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.545%) Firewall
5 2 (2.273%) DHCP
5 2 (2.273%) DNS
6 1 (1.136%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (3.409%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.273%) MySQL
3 2 (2.273%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.136%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (1.136%) Visual Studio
1 1 (1.136%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 33 (37.50%) Finance
2 16 (18.18%) Banking
3 12 (13.64%) Investment Banking
4 8 (9.091%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.273%) Advertising
5 2 (2.273%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.273%) Retail
6 1 (1.136%) Local Government
6 1 (1.136%) Law
6 1 (1.136%) Legal
6 1 (1.136%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 27 (30.68%) Analyst
2 17 (19.32%) Support Analyst
3 13 (14.77%) Problem Manager
4 11 (12.50%) Administrator
5 9 (10.23%) UNIX Systems Administrator
5 9 (10.23%) Team Leader
6 8 (9.091%) Support Team Leader
6 8 (9.091%) Problem Analyst
7 7 (7.955%) Storage Administrator
8 6 (6.818%) Applications Support
8 6 (6.818%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.818%) Technical Leader
9 5 (5.682%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 4 (4.545%) Network Engineer
10 4 (4.545%) Network Support Analyst
10 4 (4.545%) Network Support Engineer
10 4 (4.545%) Network Support
10 4 (4.545%) Network Analyst
10 4 (4.545%) Windows Support Analyst
11 3 (3.409%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.05%) Symmetrix DMX
2 8 (9.091%) Blackberry
2 8 (9.091%) Wiki
3 4 (4.545%) Replication
3 4 (4.545%) Symmetrix
4 2 (2.273%) AS400
4 2 (2.273%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.273%) Clustering
4 2 (2.273%) iSeries
4 2 (2.273%) Derivative
5 1 (1.136%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 23 (26.14%) UNIX
2 22 (25.00%) Windows
2 22 (25.00%) Linux
3 20 (22.73%) Solaris
4 16 (18.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (18.18%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (12.50%) AIX
5 11 (12.50%) SUSE
6 10 (11.36%) Windows 7
7 8 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (5.682%) Windows 2000
9 3 (3.409%) Windows Vista
9 3 (3.409%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) ITIL
2 20 (22.73%) Change Management
2 20 (22.73%) Incident Management
3 11 (12.50%) Migration
4 8 (9.091%) RDF
4 8 (9.091%) Risk Analysis
5 7 (7.955%) Root Cause Analysis
5 7 (7.955%) BCP
6 6 (6.818%) Release Management
7 5 (5.682%) Configuration Management
8 4 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.545%) Business Continuity
8 4 (4.545%) Performance Management
9 3 (3.409%) Logistics
9 3 (3.409%) Service Management
10 2 (2.273%) Service Delivery
10 2 (2.273%) Information Security
10 2 (2.273%) Capacity Planning
10 2 (2.273%) Capacity Management
10 2 (2.273%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.77%) SQL
1 13 (14.77%) Shell Script
2 12 (13.64%) Perl
3 9 (10.23%) Korn
4 8 (9.091%) Java
5 4 (4.545%) C#
6 3 (3.409%) VB
7 2 (2.273%) VBScript
7 2 (2.273%) C
7 2 (2.273%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (9.091%) Degree
2 6 (6.818%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (3.409%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.409%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.136%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (20.45%) SLA
2 1 (1.136%) QA
System Software
1 19 (21.59%) Active Directory
2 9 (10.23%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 9 (10.23%) Veritas File System
2 9 (10.23%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 6 (6.818%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.682%) SRDF
5 2 (2.273%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (9.091%) WSUS
2 4 (4.545%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (2.273%) Foglight
3 2 (2.273%) Tivoli
3 2 (2.273%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (2.273%) Netcool
3 2 (2.273%) Netcool/OMNIbus
3 2 (2.273%) SCCM
3 2 (2.273%) Netcool/Webtop
Vendors
1 21 (23.86%) Cisco
1 21 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 16 (18.18%) EMC
3 15 (17.05%) VMware
4 12 (13.64%) Oracle
5 10 (11.36%) Sun
5 10 (11.36%) Sybase
6 9 (10.23%) HP
6 9 (10.23%) Veritas
7 8 (9.091%) Red Hat
7 8 (9.091%) Citrix
8 4 (4.545%) McAfee
8 4 (4.545%) Hitachi
8 4 (4.545%) CheckPoint
9 3 (3.409%) Brocade
10 2 (2.273%) Open Text
10 2 (2.273%) IBM
10 2 (2.273%) NetApp
10 2 (2.273%) BMC
10 2 (2.273%) Nimsoft
Birmingham, West Midlands
The position will be based at the company's Call Response Centre in Birmingham The role: To have overall Team responsibility for the Major Incident/Problem Management operation...
Greenhall Recruitment
Salary: £0 - £50,000 per year plus £450 per month car allowance or car.
Posted: 5 June 2013