Aberdeen ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Aberdeen region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	28
Rank change on same period last year	+12
Matching contract IT job ads	10	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	16.13 %	2.381 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£400	-
Average daily rate	£400	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£400	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.49 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£36.61	-
Average hourly rate	£37.61	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£38.61	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.41	£24.08
% change on same period last year	-15.26 %
Processes & Methodologies Aberdeen
Matching contract IT job ads	62	42
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.087 %	0.042 %
Daily rates quoted	5	8
Average minimum daily rate	£307	£286
Average daily rate	£307	£338
% change on same period last year	-9.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£308	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	17	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.88	£24.41
Average hourly rate	£31.23	£26.68
% change on same period last year	+17.05 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.58	£28.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
ITIL Scotland

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ITIL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Aberdeen region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL across the Aberdeen region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Aberdeen region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Aberdeen region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing ITIL 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL.

1 12 (63.16 %) Microsoft 2 8 (42.11 %) Active Directory 3 6 (31.58 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (31.58 %) MS Project 3 6 (31.58 %) Windows 3 6 (31.58 %) Backup Exec 4 5 (26.32 %) UNIX 5 4 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 5 4 (21.05 %) Linux 5 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 5 4 (21.05 %) SQL 5 4 (21.05 %) Oracle 5 4 (21.05 %) Shell Script 5 4 (21.05 %) Remedy 5 4 (21.05 %) VERITAS

5 4 (21.05 %) IBM 5 4 (21.05 %) Red Hat 5 4 (21.05 %) VMware 5 4 (21.05 %) Clustering 5 4 (21.05 %) NetBackup 5 4 (21.05 %) Degree 5 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 4 (21.05 %) Red Hat Linux 6 3 (15.79 %) Incident Management 6 3 (15.79 %) Telecoms 6 3 (15.79 %) Finance 6 3 (15.79 %) Korn 6 3 (15.79 %) Citrix 6 3 (15.79 %) MetaFrame 6 3 (15.79 %) ARCserve

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Aberdeen region citing ITIL also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (10.53 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 2 (10.53 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 6 (31.58 %) MS Project 2 2 (10.53 %) MS Office 3 1 (5.263 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 2 (10.53 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (10.53 %) MS Access
General 1 3 (15.79 %) Telecoms 1 3 (15.79 %) Finance 2 2 (10.53 %) Health 2 2 (10.53 %) Banking 2 2 (10.53 %) Insurance 2 2 (10.53 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (5.263 %) Education	Job Titles 1 6 (31.58 %) Analyst 2 4 (21.05 %) Programme Manager 2 4 (21.05 %) Support Analyst 2 4 (21.05 %) Programme Office Manager 3 3 (15.79 %) UNIX Support Analyst 3 3 (15.79 %) UNIX Support 3 3 (15.79 %) Linux Support 4 2 (10.53 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Junior Project Manager 4 2 (10.53 %) Desktop Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Project Manager 4 2 (10.53 %) Systems Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Server Engineer 4 2 (10.53 %) Service Analyst 4 2 (10.53 %) Junior 5 1 (5.263 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (5.263 %) Administrator 5 1 (5.263 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (5.263 %) UNIX Specialist 5 1 (5.263 %) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 4 (21.05 %) Clustering 2 2 (10.53 %) PDA 2 2 (10.53 %) Video Conferencing 2 2 (10.53 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 6 (31.58 %) Windows 1 6 (31.58 %) Windows Server 2003 2 5 (26.32 %) UNIX 3 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (21.05 %) Red Hat Linux 3 4 (21.05 %) Linux 3 4 (21.05 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (10.53 %) Windows XP 4 2 (10.53 %) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (15.79 %) Incident Management 3 2 (10.53 %) Project Management 3 2 (10.53 %) Change Management 3 2 (10.53 %) ITSM 3 2 (10.53 %) Asset Management 4 1 (5.263 %) Service Delivery	Programming Languages 1 4 (21.05 %) SQL 1 4 (21.05 %) Shell Script 2 3 (15.79 %) Korn
Qualifications 1 4 (21.05 %) Degree 2 2 (10.53 %) MCP 2 2 (10.53 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 8 (42.11 %) Active Directory 2 6 (31.58 %) Backup Exec 3 4 (21.05 %) NetBackup 4 3 (15.79 %) MetaFrame
Systems Management 1 3 (15.79 %) ARCserve 2 2 (10.53 %) MOM	Vendors 1 12 (63.16 %) Microsoft 2 4 (21.05 %) Oracle 2 4 (21.05 %) VERITAS 2 4 (21.05 %) Red Hat 2 4 (21.05 %) Remedy 2 4 (21.05 %) VMware 2 4 (21.05 %) IBM 3 3 (15.79 %) Citrix 4 2 (10.53 %) Novell 4 2 (10.53 %) Lotus 4 2 (10.53 %) Cisco 4 2 (10.53 %) Adobe