The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 91 112 87
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -25
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 42 23 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 1.955% 1.015% 1.511%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.962% 1.419% 2.335%
Number of salaries quoted 33 22 21
Average salary £37,500 £51,250 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.82% +23.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,700 £26,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £71,800 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -2.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1418 1621 1242
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 66.01% 71.50% 64.72%
Number of salaries quoted 1092 1364 980
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Problem Management
Berkshire

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Problem Management Salary Trend

Problem Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading Problem Management Salary Histogram

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 46 (90.20%) ITIL
2 36 (70.59%) Cisco
3 30 (58.82%) Incident Management
4 26 (50.98%) UNIX
4 26 (50.98%) Service Management
5 25 (49.02%) LAN
5 25 (49.02%) WLAN
5 25 (49.02%) WAN
5 25 (49.02%) CCNA
5 25 (49.02%) Cisco Certification
6 24 (47.06%) Linux
7 19 (37.25%) ISO 9000
7 19 (37.25%) CMMI
7 19 (37.25%) CCNP
8 18 (35.29%) Management Information System
9 17 (33.33%) Project Management
10 16 (31.37%) Degree
11 13 (25.49%) Root Cause Analysis
12 11 (21.57%) Foundry
12 11 (21.57%) FWSM
12 11 (21.57%) tcpdump
12 11 (21.57%) snoop
12 11 (21.57%) F5
12 11 (21.57%) Wireshark
12 11 (21.57%) Web Development
12 11 (21.57%) Intrusion Detection
12 11 (21.57%) VMware Infrastructure
12 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
12 11 (21.57%) Cisco ASA
12 11 (21.57%) Windows Server 2008

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 11 (21.57%) HTML
1 11 (21.57%) XML
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.57%) SAS
1 11 (21.57%) Apache
1 11 (21.57%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (21.57%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.922%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 25 (49.02%) LAN
1 25 (49.02%) WLAN
1 25 (49.02%) WAN
2 11 (21.57%) FWSM
2 11 (21.57%) tcpdump
2 11 (21.57%) snoop
2 11 (21.57%) Wireshark
2 11 (21.57%) Intrusion Detection
2 11 (21.57%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (9.804%) GGSN
3 5 (9.804%) SGSN
4 2 (3.922%) ATM
5 1 (1.961%) GPRS
General
1 6 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 4 (7.843%) Legal
3 1 (1.961%) Billing
3 1 (1.961%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 14 (27.45%) Cisco Engineer
3 13 (25.49%) Network Support
4 11 (21.57%) Network Analyst
4 11 (21.57%) Analyst
5 10 (19.61%) Support Analyst
5 10 (19.61%) Network Support Analyst
6 8 (15.69%) Cisco Support
7 6 (11.76%) Cisco Analyst
8 5 (9.804%) Network Support Engineer
8 5 (9.804%) Support Engineer
9 4 (7.843%) Incident Manager
10 3 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
10 3 (5.882%) Cisco Support Engineer
10 3 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (5.882%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
11 2 (3.922%) Windows Engineer
11 2 (3.922%) Lead Network Engineer
11 2 (3.922%) Cisco Network Analyst
11 2 (3.922%) Process Manager
Miscellaneous
1 18 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 11 (21.57%) Firmware
3 5 (9.804%) Physics
3 5 (9.804%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.98%) UNIX
2 24 (47.06%) Linux
3 11 (21.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (21.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 11 (21.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 11 (21.57%) Windows
3 11 (21.57%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (90.20%) ITIL
2 30 (58.82%) Incident Management
3 26 (50.98%) Service Management
4 19 (37.25%) CMMI
5 17 (33.33%) Project Management
6 13 (25.49%) Root Cause Analysis
7 11 (21.57%) Web Development
7 11 (21.57%) Service Delivery
7 11 (21.57%) Change Management
8 6 (11.76%) Risk Management
9 2 (3.922%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (3.922%) Workflow
10 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2
10 1 (1.961%) eTOM
10 1 (1.961%) Validation
10 1 (1.961%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) PowerShell
1 11 (21.57%) Java
1 11 (21.57%) Perl
Qualifications
1 25 (49.02%) CCNA
1 25 (49.02%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (37.25%) CCNP
3 16 (31.37%) Degree
4 7 (13.73%) MCSE
4 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (37.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 11 (21.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 36 (70.59%) Cisco
2 11 (21.57%) Foundry
2 11 (21.57%) F5
2 11 (21.57%) Egenera
2 11 (21.57%) VMware
2 11 (21.57%) Juniper
2 11 (21.57%) Red Hat
2 11 (21.57%) HP
2 11 (21.57%) Nortel
2 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Sun
3 5 (9.804%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 2 (3.922%) Remedy