The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Bedford region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 5 3 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Contract jobs citing ITIL 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 9.091% 20.83% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% 25.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 0
Average daily rate £338 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.58% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -3.12%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16 20 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 72.73% 83.33% 63.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 9
Average daily rate £325 £425 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% +129.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £265 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £575 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £190.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +744.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL
Bedfordshire

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bedford ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Degree
3 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
3 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) ISEB
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) NHS
4 1 (14.29%) Firmware
4 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
4 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
4 1 (14.29%) SLA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Local Government
4 1 (14.29%) TickIT
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford 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.

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) LAN
1 1 (14.29%) WAN
1 1 (14.29%) IP Telephony
1 1 (14.29%) Network Security
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Manufacturing
2 1 (14.29%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Project Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Business Systems Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Services Manager
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) ICT Technician
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
2 1 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (14.29%) Firmware
2 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) PRINCE2
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Management
3 2 (28.57%) Systems Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Business Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Change Control
4 1 (14.29%) Demand Management
4 1 (14.29%) Information Governance
4 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Quality Management
4 1 (14.29%) Service Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (14.29%) Business Continuity
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (28.57%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (14.29%) ISO 9001
2 1 (14.29%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) TickIT
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) VMware