The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Problem Management over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 131 107 116
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +9
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 24 44 43
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.758% 1.261% 1.264%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.019% 1.800% 1.659%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 32
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £20,400 £27,650
10% offered a salary of more than £48,200 £65,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2355 2445 2592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.34% 70.08% 76.17%
Number of salaries quoted 1398 1742 1882
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Problem Management Salary Trend

Problem Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Problem Management across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow -20 12 £32,500 -17.72%
Aberdeen +3 3 £40,000 +100.00%
Edinburgh +2 3 £40,000 -33.33%
Highlands -12 3 - -
North Lanarkshire +5 1 - -
Renfrewshire - 1 - -
Problem Management
UK

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 31 (60.78%) ITIL
1 31 (60.78%) Windows
2 27 (52.94%) Microsoft
3 18 (35.29%) SQL
4 17 (33.33%) Incident Management
5 16 (31.37%) MCTS
5 16 (31.37%) Windows 7
5 16 (31.37%) UNIX
5 16 (31.37%) Active Directory
5 16 (31.37%) Finance
6 14 (27.45%) Linux
7 13 (25.49%) MS Excel
8 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 12 (23.53%) Service Management
8 12 (23.53%) Change Management
9 11 (21.57%) Oracle
9 11 (21.57%) MS Office
10 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
10 10 (19.61%) Java
10 10 (19.61%) DHCP
10 10 (19.61%) DNS
10 10 (19.61%) SLA
10 10 (19.61%) Project Management
11 9 (17.65%) Service Delivery
11 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
11 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 9 (17.65%) MCITP
11 9 (17.65%) CMDB
11 9 (17.65%) SCCM
12 8 (15.69%) Shell Script

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 8 (15.69%) XML
2 7 (13.73%) .NET
2 7 (13.73%) ASP.NET
3 5 (9.804%) Web Services
3 5 (9.804%) AppFabric
4 2 (3.922%) HTML
4 2 (3.922%) CSS
4 2 (3.922%) SOAP
5 1 (1.961%) OLE
5 1 (1.961%) Middleware
5 1 (1.961%) J2EE
5 1 (1.961%) Oracle Streams
5 1 (1.961%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) IIS
2 5 (9.804%) BizTalk Server
3 4 (7.843%) Lync
3 4 (7.843%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
4 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 13 (25.49%) MS Excel
2 11 (21.57%) MS Office
3 2 (3.922%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (3.922%) MS Project
4 1 (1.961%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 10 (19.61%) DHCP
1 10 (19.61%) DNS
2 4 (7.843%) TCP/IP
2 4 (7.843%) Firewall
3 1 (1.961%) WAN
3 1 (1.961%) Internet
3 1 (1.961%) SAN
3 1 (1.961%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (19.61%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle 9i
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Oracle APEX
General
1 16 (31.37%) Finance
2 5 (9.804%) Banking
3 3 (5.882%) Legal
4 2 (3.922%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (29.41%) Analyst
2 9 (17.65%) Support Analyst
3 8 (15.69%) Applications Support
4 6 (11.76%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (9.804%) Desktop Support
5 5 (9.804%) Support Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Desktop Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Technical Specialist
7 3 (5.882%) Problem Manager
7 3 (5.882%) Consultant
8 2 (3.922%) Incident Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Problem Management Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Project Leader
8 2 (3.922%) DBA
8 2 (3.922%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.922%) Configuration Manager
8 2 (3.922%) Architect
8 2 (3.922%) Project Manager
8 2 (3.922%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (17.65%) CMDB
2 4 (7.843%) IBM Mainframe
2 4 (7.843%) Mainframe
3 3 (5.882%) Tandem
4 2 (3.922%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.961%) Clustering
5 1 (1.961%) Replication
5 1 (1.961%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 31 (60.78%) Windows
2 16 (31.37%) Windows 7
2 16 (31.37%) UNIX
3 14 (27.45%) Linux
4 9 (17.65%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (7.843%) Windows XP
7 3 (5.882%) MVS
7 3 (5.882%) AIX
7 3 (5.882%) Solaris
8 1 (1.961%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (60.78%) ITIL
2 17 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 12 (23.53%) Service Management
3 12 (23.53%) Change Management
4 10 (19.61%) Project Management
5 9 (17.65%) Service Delivery
5 9 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (15.69%) Configuration Management
7 7 (13.73%) Change Control
7 7 (13.73%) Root Cause Analysis
8 6 (11.76%) Business Analysis
9 4 (7.843%) ITIL V3
9 4 (7.843%) Project Planning
9 4 (7.843%) Performance Management
9 4 (7.843%) Security Management
10 3 (5.882%) Asset Management
10 3 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
10 3 (5.882%) CRM
10 3 (5.882%) ITIL V2
11 2 (3.922%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (35.29%) SQL
2 10 (19.61%) Java
3 8 (15.69%) Shell Script
4 7 (13.73%) VB
4 7 (13.73%) C#
5 3 (5.882%) C
6 2 (3.922%) VB.NET
6 2 (3.922%) Perl
7 1 (1.961%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.961%) C++
7 1 (1.961%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) MCTS
2 12 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (17.65%) MCITP
4 8 (15.69%) MCSE
5 5 (9.804%) ITIL Certification
6 4 (7.843%) MCDST
6 4 (7.843%) SC Cleared
6 4 (7.843%) Security Cleared
6 4 (7.843%) MCP
6 4 (7.843%) MCSA
6 4 (7.843%) A+ Certification
7 3 (5.882%) ISEB Practitioner
7 3 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (5.882%) ISEB
7 3 (5.882%) Degree
8 2 (3.922%) VCP5
8 2 (3.922%) VCDX
9 1 (1.961%) CCA
9 1 (1.961%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.961%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (19.61%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (31.37%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.804%) Microsoft App-V
3 4 (7.843%) Hyper-V
3 4 (7.843%) XenApp
3 4 (7.843%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.922%) Oracle RMAN
5 1 (1.961%) XenServer
5 1 (1.961%) XenDesktop
5 1 (1.961%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (1.961%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (17.65%) SCCM
2 4 (7.843%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (3.922%) WSUS
3 2 (3.922%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 1 (1.961%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.961%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 27 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 11 (21.57%) Oracle
3 6 (11.76%) HP
3 6 (11.76%) VMware
4 5 (9.804%) IBM
5 4 (7.843%) Dell
5 4 (7.843%) EMC
5 4 (7.843%) Citrix
5 4 (7.843%) McAfee
5 4 (7.843%) AppSense
6 3 (5.882%) CommVault
6 3 (5.882%) Fujitsu
7 1 (1.961%) Remedy
7 1 (1.961%) NetApp
7 1 (1.961%) Veritas
7 1 (1.961%) BMC