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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 148 154 160
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +6
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 44 19 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.074% 0.524% 0.253%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.392% 0.717% 0.370%
Number of salaries quoted 42 18 10
Average salary £31,000 £32,500 £30,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.61% +5.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £26,400 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,900 £39,500 £41,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £39,750
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -1.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3160 2649 2705
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 77.17% 73.10% 68.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2717 2323 2441
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Problem Management Salary Trend

Problem Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester Problem Management Salary Histogram

Problem Management
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Problem Management within the Manchester 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Wigan +6 2 £25,500 -24.44%
Altrincham - 2 £37,000 -
Problem Management
North West

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 39 (44.32%) ITIL
2 35 (39.77%) SQL
3 30 (34.09%) Windows
4 26 (29.55%) Finance
5 24 (27.27%) .NET
6 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
7 22 (25.00%) Change Management
7 22 (25.00%) Incident Management
8 20 (22.73%) Active Directory
9 19 (21.59%) Windows Server 2008
10 18 (20.45%) UNIX
11 17 (19.32%) C#
11 17 (19.32%) JavaScript
11 17 (19.32%) Visual Studio
11 17 (19.32%) ASP.NET
12 16 (18.18%) jQuery
12 16 (18.18%) MVC
12 16 (18.18%) MS Exchange
13 15 (17.05%) Service Delivery
13 15 (17.05%) Release Management
14 13 (14.77%) Exchange Server 2010
14 13 (14.77%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (14.77%) Citrix
14 13 (14.77%) SLA
15 12 (13.64%) MS Excel
15 12 (13.64%) Oracle
15 12 (13.64%) SCCM
16 11 (12.50%) MS Office
16 11 (12.50%) SharePoint
16 11 (12.50%) Cisco

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 24 (27.27%) .NET
2 17 (19.32%) ASP.NET
3 16 (18.18%) jQuery
4 7 (7.955%) XML
5 3 (3.409%) HTML
6 2 (2.273%) CSS
6 2 (2.273%) Web Services
6 2 (2.273%) JSON
6 2 (2.273%) Windows SharePoint Services
7 1 (1.136%) WCF
7 1 (1.136%) REST
7 1 (1.136%) Ajax
7 1 (1.136%) XSLT
7 1 (1.136%) SOAP
7 1 (1.136%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 16 (18.18%) MS Exchange
2 13 (14.77%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 10 (11.36%) SharePoint 2010
5 4 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 4 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (3.409%) Lync
7 2 (2.273%) MS Project Server
7 2 (2.273%) SharePoint Server
7 2 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.136%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
8 1 (1.136%) WebSphere Message Broker
8 1 (1.136%) IIS
8 1 (1.136%) CICS
8 1 (1.136%) WebSphere MQ
Applications
1 12 (13.64%) MS Excel
2 11 (12.50%) MS Office
3 2 (2.273%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.136%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.136%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.955%) DNS
1 7 (7.955%) DHCP
2 6 (6.818%) Firewall
3 5 (5.682%) SAN
4 3 (3.409%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.409%) LAN
4 3 (3.409%) WAN
4 3 (3.409%) Internet
5 2 (2.273%) DSL
5 2 (2.273%) MPLS
6 1 (1.136%) VPN
6 1 (1.136%) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (10.23%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.409%) TOAD
3 2 (2.273%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (2.273%) Crystal Reports
3 2 (2.273%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (2.273%) NonStop SQL
3 2 (2.273%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.136%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.136%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.136%) DB2
4 1 (1.136%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (1.136%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.136%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 17 (19.32%) Visual Studio
General
1 26 (29.55%) Finance
2 4 (4.545%) Retail
3 2 (2.273%) Advertising
3 2 (2.273%) Banking
4 1 (1.136%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Analyst
2 25 (28.41%) Support Analyst
3 21 (23.86%) Applications Support
4 17 (19.32%) Developer
4 17 (19.32%) Applications Support Analyst
5 16 (18.18%) Web Applications Developer
5 16 (18.18%) Applications Developer
5 16 (18.18%) Web Developer
6 10 (11.36%) Service Analyst
6 10 (11.36%) Team Leader
7 7 (7.955%) UNIX Administrator
7 7 (7.955%) AIX Administrator
7 7 (7.955%) Administrator
8 6 (6.818%) Service Desk Analyst
8 6 (6.818%) Support Team Leader
9 5 (5.682%) UNIX Systems Administrator
9 5 (5.682%) Systems Administrator
10 4 (4.545%) Service Manager
10 4 (4.545%) Problem Manager
10 4 (4.545%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.545%) Blackberry
2 3 (3.409%) Fat Client
2 3 (3.409%) Clustering
2 3 (3.409%) Thin Client
3 2 (2.273%) Mainframe
3 2 (2.273%) AS400
3 2 (2.273%) CMDB
4 1 (1.136%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.136%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 30 (34.09%) Windows
2 19 (21.59%) Windows Server 2008
3 18 (20.45%) UNIX
4 13 (14.77%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (9.091%) Windows 7
6 7 (7.955%) AIX
6 7 (7.955%) Linux
7 5 (5.682%) Windows XP
8 2 (2.273%) zOS
8 2 (2.273%) VMS
9 1 (1.136%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (44.32%) ITIL
2 22 (25.00%) Change Management
2 22 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 16 (18.18%) MVC
4 15 (17.05%) Service Delivery
4 15 (17.05%) Release Management
5 11 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 10 (11.36%) Change Control
7 7 (7.955%) Service Management
7 7 (7.955%) Business Continuity
8 6 (6.818%) Root Cause Analysis
9 4 (4.545%) Project Management
9 4 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (4.545%) Continuous Improvement
10 3 (3.409%) Wealth Management
10 3 (3.409%) ITSM
11 2 (2.273%) Workflow
11 2 (2.273%) Data Modelling
11 2 (2.273%) ETL
11 2 (2.273%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 35 (39.77%) SQL
2 17 (19.32%) C#
2 17 (19.32%) JavaScript
3 9 (10.23%) Java
4 8 (9.091%) VB
5 4 (4.545%) VBScript
5 4 (4.545%) PowerShell
6 3 (3.409%) PL/SQL
7 2 (2.273%) Perl
7 2 (2.273%) T-SQL
8 1 (1.136%) VB.NET
8 1 (1.136%) VBA
8 1 (1.136%) C
8 1 (1.136%) COBOL
8 1 (1.136%) JCL
Qualifications
1 7 (7.955%) Degree
1 7 (7.955%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (6.818%) Citrix Certification
2 6 (6.818%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (4.545%) CCEA
3 4 (4.545%) CCA
3 4 (4.545%) MCSA
3 4 (4.545%) MCITP
4 3 (3.409%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.409%) CCNA
5 2 (2.273%) SC Cleared
5 2 (2.273%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.136%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (14.77%) SLA
2 3 (3.409%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.136%) QA
System Software
1 20 (22.73%) Active Directory
2 10 (11.36%) XenApp
3 7 (7.955%) vSphere
4 4 (4.545%) VMware ESX
4 4 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (4.545%) XenServer
4 4 (4.545%) XenDesktop
5 2 (2.273%) VMware Infrastructure
6 1 (1.136%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.136%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (13.64%) SCCM
2 10 (11.36%) SCOM
3 5 (5.682%) McAfee ePO
4 3 (3.409%) BladeLogic
5 2 (2.273%) WSUS
6 1 (1.136%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (1.136%) MOM
6 1 (1.136%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 23 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (14.77%) Citrix
3 12 (13.64%) Oracle
4 11 (12.50%) Cisco
4 11 (12.50%) VMware
5 9 (10.23%) HP
6 6 (6.818%) NetApp
7 5 (5.682%) McAfee
8 3 (3.409%) Altiris
8 3 (3.409%) Wyse
8 3 (3.409%) Remedy
9 2 (2.273%) Business Objects
9 2 (2.273%) Northgate
9 2 (2.273%) Civica
10 1 (1.136%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.136%) Teradata
10 1 (1.136%) Sybase
10 1 (1.136%) IBM
10 1 (1.136%) Sun
10 1 (1.136%) AppSense
Manchester, Lancashire
Working within the Service Delivery Team, the Problem Manager is responsible for managing the end to end Problem Management Process, based on ITIL best practices. Involvement in core...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £33000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Working within the Service Delivery Team, the Problem Manager is responsible for managing the end to end Problem Management Process, based on ITIL best practices. Involvement in core...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Our client based in Manchester is currently looking for an experienced Problem Manager. Working within the Service Delivery Team, the Problem Manager is responsible for managing the end...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Working within the Service Delivery Team, you will be actively involved in the conception and Service Transition of new IT Services. At the project conception, you will influence...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £26000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Working within the Service Delivery Team, you will be actively involved in the conception and Service Transition of new IT Services. At the project conception, you will influence...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Working within the Service Delivery Team, you will be actively involved in the conception and Service Transition of new IT Services. At the project conception, you will influence...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
You must have worked on service transition projects, PMO projects and ideally in an ITIL environment. If you have ITIL qualifications then that would be a bonus... As...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £20000 - £27000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Skills -Background Qualifications/education required - Of degree calibre, with extensive on-the job experience in SQL 2000 and 2005... - Knowledge of software development methods, tools and delivery and...
Conspicuous
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Business Objects)... Proven experience of system and application development, support and maintenance, of either Oracle (PL/SQL, TOAD) or Microsoft (SQL, .NET etc) based applications... Microsoft and/or...
The Guinness Partnership
Salary: £29,797 + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Technical Skills: * Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 * Microsoft Windows XP / 7 * Microsoft SCCM 2007 SP3 * Microsoft SCOM 2012 * Microsoft Exchange 2010 * Microsoft SharePoint 2010 * VMWARE vSphere 4.1/...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Establish a "continuous improvement" approach by identifying technical and process gaps and seeking to resolve * Coach the team to ensure engagement and motivation to deliver a consistently positive...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Technical Skills: * Microsoft Windows Server 2003/2008 * Microsoft Windows XP / 7 * Microsoft SCCM 2007 SP3 * Microsoft SCOM 2012 * Microsoft Exchange 2010 * Microsoft SharePoint 2010 * VMWARE vSphere 4.1/...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
A candidate must have knowledge and experience in languages like HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, ASP.Net, C#, JSON, SOAP, Odata and REST including software development methods, tools and...
Calyx Managed Services
Salary: From £32,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013