The first table below looks at the demand for TickIT 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 TickIT over the 3 months to 17 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TickIT
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing TickIT 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford - - -
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
Bedford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedford 5.000% 15.79% 4.762%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £350 £575 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-39.13% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £42.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.35 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+7.03% -43.62%
TickIT
Bedfordshire

TickIT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TickIT across the Bedford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

Bedford TickIT Jobs Demand Trend

TickIT
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bedford TickIT Daily Rate Trend

TickIT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bedford TickIT Hourly Rate Trend

TickIT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing TickIT 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 TickIT.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Thin Client

TickIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedford region citing TickIT 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 TickIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) IP Telephony
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Change Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Change Management
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (100.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Project Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Information Governance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) ISO 9001
1 2 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) VMware