Avon Service Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills within the Avon region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Management over the 3 months to 8 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hendon Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Hull Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Lytham St Annes Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Reading Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Wirral Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 8 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	4	12
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	33.33 %	2.564 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£250	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£394	£378
% change on same period last year	+4.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.43	£21.94
% change on same period last year	-11.44 %
Processes & Methodologies Avon
Matching contract IT job ads	3	39
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.049 %
Daily rates quoted	3	12
Average minimum daily rate	£242	£359
Average daily rate	£250	£371
% change on same period last year	-32.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£258	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£30.00
Average hourly rate	-	£35.00
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.65	£28.89
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
Service Management South West

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Service Management across the Avon 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 Service Management across the Avon 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 Service Management across the Avon region.

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Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Avon region citing Service 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Service Management.

1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (50.00 %) Incident Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Problem Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Avon region citing Service 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Service Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles 1 2 (100.00 %) Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Problem Analyst 1 2 (100.00 %) Problem Management Analyst 2 1 (50.00 %) Incident Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 1 (50.00 %) Incident Management 2 1 (50.00 %) Problem Management
Qualifications 1 1 (50.00 %) ITIL Certification