The first table below looks at the demand for Problem Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Problem Management
Rank 130 126 108
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -18
Permanent jobs citing Problem Management 73 55 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.457% 1.218% 1.567%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.948% 1.759% 2.273%
Number of salaries quoted 69 52 62
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £20,000 £24,050
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £47,500 £45,550
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £39,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-3.84% -
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3747 3127 2816
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 74.79% 69.27% 68.94%
Number of salaries quoted 3154 2692 2372
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands region.

West Midlands Problem Management Salary Trend

Problem Management
Salary Histogram

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

West Midlands 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +10 35 £35,500 -25.26%
Coventry -10 18 £35,750 +8.33%
Warwickshire +4 9 £35,000 -
Solihull - 3 £35,000 -
Sutton Coldfield - 2 £34,500 -
Shropshire - 2 £60,000 -
West Bromwich - 1 £27,500 -
Problem Management
England

Problem Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 97 (60.25%) ITIL
2 52 (32.30%) SLA
3 49 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 42 (26.09%) Cisco
5 40 (24.84%) VMware
6 39 (24.22%) SQL
7 38 (23.60%) Active Directory
8 37 (22.98%) Linux
9 36 (22.36%) Change Management
10 35 (21.74%) Finance
11 31 (19.25%) Windows
12 28 (17.39%) Oracle
12 28 (17.39%) SAN
13 26 (16.15%) SUSE
14 24 (14.91%) EMC
14 24 (14.91%) Microsoft Certification
14 24 (14.91%) UNIX
14 24 (14.91%) MCSE
14 24 (14.91%) MS Excel
15 22 (13.66%) Banking
15 22 (13.66%) Symmetrix DMX
16 21 (13.04%) Incident Management
16 21 (13.04%) Solaris
16 21 (13.04%) HP
17 20 (12.42%) Windows Server 2008
18 19 (11.80%) SharePoint
19 18 (11.18%) Windows Server 2003
20 15 (9.317%) Red Hat
20 15 (9.317%) Citrix
20 15 (9.317%) Shell Script

Problem Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 (3.106%) .NET
1 5 (3.106%) Middleware
2 4 (2.484%) Web Dynpro
3 3 (1.863%) JMS
3 3 (1.863%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (1.242%) HTML
4 2 (1.242%) ASP.NET
5 1 (0.621%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.621%) XML
5 1 (0.621%) SAP XI
Application Platforms
1 19 (11.80%) SharePoint
2 11 (6.832%) MS Exchange
2 11 (6.832%) SAS
3 10 (6.211%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (2.484%) IIS
4 4 (2.484%) Apache
4 4 (2.484%) Tomcat
5 3 (1.863%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.242%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (0.621%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.621%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (0.621%) WorkSite
Applications
1 24 (14.91%) MS Excel
2 14 (8.696%) MS Office
3 1 (0.621%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.484%) SAP R/3
2 3 (1.863%) SAP xRPM
3 1 (0.621%) SAP IS-U
3 1 (0.621%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.621%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.621%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.621%) Maximo
Communications & Networking
1 28 (17.39%) SAN
2 10 (6.211%) MPLS
2 10 (6.211%) LAN
2 10 (6.211%) WAN
3 9 (5.590%) Firewall
4 8 (4.969%) DSL
5 4 (2.484%) IP Telephony
5 4 (2.484%) TCP/IP
5 4 (2.484%) VoIP
6 3 (1.863%) LDAP
7 2 (1.242%) Wireless
7 2 (1.242%) Cisco IPT
7 2 (1.242%) VPLS
7 2 (1.242%) OSPF
7 2 (1.242%) Internet
7 2 (1.242%) EIGRP
7 2 (1.242%) BGP
7 2 (1.242%) PBX
7 2 (1.242%) ADSL
7 2 (1.242%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (6.832%) Oracle Exadata
2 3 (1.863%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.242%) QlikView
3 2 (1.242%) SAP BW
3 2 (1.242%) MySQL
3 2 (1.242%) DB2
3 2 (1.242%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.621%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (0.621%) MS Access
4 1 (0.621%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (0.621%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 3 (1.863%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (0.621%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.621%) Visual Studio
General
1 35 (21.74%) Finance
2 22 (13.66%) Banking
3 15 (9.317%) Investment Banking
4 7 (4.348%) Telecoms
5 3 (1.863%) Marketing
6 2 (1.242%) Automotive
6 2 (1.242%) Financial Institution
6 2 (1.242%) Back Office
6 2 (1.242%) Advertising
6 2 (1.242%) Retail
6 2 (1.242%) Corporate Banking
6 2 (1.242%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.621%) Billing
7 1 (0.621%) Local Government
7 1 (0.621%) Law
7 1 (0.621%) Legal
Job Titles
1 73 (45.34%) Analyst
2 33 (20.50%) Support Analyst
3 22 (13.66%) Administrator
3 22 (13.66%) Problem Manager
4 20 (12.42%) Problem Analyst
5 17 (10.56%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 15 (9.317%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
7 11 (6.832%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 11 (6.832%) Storage Administrator
8 10 (6.211%) Team Leader
9 9 (5.590%) Network Engineer
10 8 (4.969%) Technical Leader
11 7 (4.348%) Systems Analyst
12 6 (3.727%) Support Team Leader
12 6 (3.727%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 6 (3.727%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 6 (3.727%) Linux Administrator
12 6 (3.727%) Systems Administrator
12 6 (3.727%) Support Engineer
13 5 (3.106%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 22 (13.66%) Symmetrix DMX
2 11 (6.832%) Wiki
3 10 (6.211%) Blackberry
4 7 (4.348%) Replication
4 7 (4.348%) Symmetrix
5 5 (3.106%) Fixed Income
5 5 (3.106%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.863%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.242%) AS400
7 2 (1.242%) Clustering
7 2 (1.242%) Derivative
7 2 (1.242%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.242%) iSeries
8 1 (0.621%) Statistics
8 1 (0.621%) PDA
8 1 (0.621%) Credit Risk
8 1 (0.621%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 37 (22.98%) Linux
2 31 (19.25%) Windows
3 26 (16.15%) SUSE
4 24 (14.91%) UNIX
5 21 (13.04%) Solaris
6 20 (12.42%) Windows Server 2008
7 18 (11.18%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (8.075%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (7.453%) AIX
10 10 (6.211%) Windows 7
11 3 (1.863%) Windows 2000
12 1 (0.621%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.621%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (60.25%) ITIL
2 36 (22.36%) Change Management
3 21 (13.04%) Incident Management
4 15 (9.317%) Service Delivery
5 14 (8.696%) BCP
6 13 (8.075%) Configuration Management
6 13 (8.075%) Business Continuity
7 11 (6.832%) RDF
7 11 (6.832%) Service Management
7 11 (6.832%) Migration
7 11 (6.832%) Risk Analysis
8 8 (4.969%) ITIL V3
9 6 (3.727%) Release Management
10 5 (3.106%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (3.106%) Root Cause Analysis
10 5 (3.106%) Project Management
10 5 (3.106%) Logistics
10 5 (3.106%) Data Analysis
10 5 (3.106%) Knowledge Management
11 4 (2.484%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 39 (24.22%) SQL
2 15 (9.317%) Shell Script
3 13 (8.075%) Perl
4 11 (6.832%) Korn
5 4 (2.484%) C#
5 4 (2.484%) Java
5 4 (2.484%) ABAP
6 3 (1.863%) VB
7 2 (1.242%) VBScript
7 2 (1.242%) C
7 2 (1.242%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.621%) JCL
Qualifications
1 24 (14.91%) Microsoft Certification
1 24 (14.91%) MCSE
2 11 (6.832%) ITIL Certification
2 11 (6.832%) Degree
3 8 (4.969%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (4.969%) CCNP
4 6 (3.727%) CCNA
5 3 (1.863%) SC Cleared
5 3 (1.863%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.242%) MCP
7 1 (0.621%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (32.30%) SLA
2 3 (1.863%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.621%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.621%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.621%) QA
System Software
1 38 (23.60%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.832%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 11 (6.832%) Veritas File System
2 11 (6.832%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 10 (6.211%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (4.348%) SRDF
5 6 (3.727%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.863%) ClearTrust
7 2 (1.242%) Xen
7 2 (1.242%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 8 (4.969%) WSUS
2 7 (4.348%) EMC TimeFinder
3 3 (1.863%) Control-M
4 2 (1.242%) NetBackup
4 2 (1.242%) Backup Exec
4 2 (1.242%) SCCM
5 1 (0.621%) Tivoli
5 1 (0.621%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 1 (0.621%) Netcool
5 1 (0.621%) Netcool/OMNIbus
5 1 (0.621%) Netcool/Webtop
5 1 (0.621%) Foglight
Vendors
1 49 (30.43%) Microsoft
2 42 (26.09%) Cisco
3 40 (24.84%) VMware
4 28 (17.39%) Oracle
5 24 (14.91%) EMC
6 21 (13.04%) HP
7 15 (9.317%) Red Hat
7 15 (9.317%) Citrix
7 15 (9.317%) Sun
8 13 (8.075%) Veritas
9 12 (7.453%) Sybase
10 8 (4.969%) Hitachi
10 8 (4.969%) Dell
11 6 (3.727%) SAP
12 4 (2.484%) Brocade
12 4 (2.484%) CheckPoint
12 4 (2.484%) McAfee
12 4 (2.484%) NetApp
12 4 (2.484%) Siemens
12 4 (2.484%) Adobe
Birmingham, West Midlands
Knowledge of Oracle, SQL, Unix, Linux, Perl Scripting and Sun Solaris are beneficial but not essential as is a background in bespoke application support... In this role, you...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + + bonus + benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013