The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire 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 22 4 34
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +30
Contract jobs citing ITIL 10 40 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 5.102% 15.04% 2.734%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.757% 19.51% 3.518%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 25 4
Average daily rate £325 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £280 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £575 £307
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
Bedfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
148 205 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 75.51% 77.07% 77.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 111 98
Average daily rate £363 £375 £305
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.33% +22.95%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £444 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 9 9
Average hourly rate £35.50 £40.00 £47.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.25% -15.78%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL
East of England

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire 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 Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Luton -10 3 £325 -13.33%
Bedford -2 2 £338 -20.58% 2
Dunstable -2 1 - -
ITIL
East of England

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) Citrix
3 8 (29.63%) Cisco
3 8 (29.63%) PRINCE2
4 7 (25.93%) VMware
5 6 (22.22%) IP Telephony
5 6 (22.22%) Degree
5 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
5 6 (22.22%) Fat Client
5 6 (22.22%) Thin Client
5 6 (22.22%) Windows
5 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
5 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 5 (18.52%) DNS
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
6 5 (18.52%) FTP
6 5 (18.52%) IIS
6 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
6 5 (18.52%) Project Management
6 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
6 5 (18.52%) Finance
6 5 (18.52%) Publishing
6 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
6 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 5 (18.52%) SCOM
7 4 (14.81%) TickIT
7 4 (14.81%) PRINCE
7 4 (14.81%) ISO 9001
8 3 (11.11%) SLA
8 3 (11.11%) LAN

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 Development
1 2 (7.407%) COM
2 1 (3.704%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (18.52%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.704%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.704%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (7.407%) Agresso
Communications & Networking
1 6 (22.22%) IP Telephony
2 5 (18.52%) DHCP
2 5 (18.52%) FTP
2 5 (18.52%) DNS
3 3 (11.11%) LAN
3 3 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (7.407%) HTTP
5 1 (3.704%) Cisco PIX
5 1 (3.704%) Network Security
5 1 (3.704%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) OLAP
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.704%) MSI
1 1 (3.704%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 5 (18.52%) Finance
1 5 (18.52%) Publishing
2 3 (11.11%) Local Government
3 1 (3.704%) Military
3 1 (3.704%) Legal
3 1 (3.704%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Project Manager
2 5 (18.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Administrator
4 2 (7.407%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (7.407%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Contracts Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Services Manager
5 1 (3.704%) Web Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
5 1 (3.704%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Web Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) ICT Technician
5 1 (3.704%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (3.704%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (22.22%) Thin Client
1 6 (22.22%) Fat Client
2 5 (18.52%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.704%) Statistics
3 1 (3.704%) NHS
3 1 (3.704%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (3.704%) Windows XP
2 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (3.704%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (3.704%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) PRINCE2
2 5 (18.52%) Configuration Management
2 5 (18.52%) Project Management
3 4 (14.81%) PRINCE
4 3 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.407%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (7.407%) Business Analysis
5 2 (7.407%) Resource Management
5 2 (7.407%) Service Management
5 2 (7.407%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (7.407%) ITIL V3
5 2 (7.407%) Change Control
5 2 (7.407%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (7.407%) Change Management
6 1 (3.704%) Business Process Improvement
6 1 (3.704%) Demand Management
6 1 (3.704%) Information Governance
6 1 (3.704%) Quality Management
6 1 (3.704%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.704%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 5 (18.52%) PowerShell
2 2 (7.407%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 2 (7.407%) ISEB
3 1 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.704%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.704%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (3.704%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.704%) MCSE
3 1 (3.704%) CCNP
3 1 (3.704%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (18.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (14.81%) ISO 9001
2 4 (14.81%) TickIT
3 3 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (3.704%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 6 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 6 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.704%) XenApp
2 1 (3.704%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (18.52%) SCOM
2 1 (3.704%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 12 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 10 (37.04%) Citrix
3 8 (29.63%) Cisco
4 7 (25.93%) VMware
5 2 (7.407%) Cognos
5 2 (7.407%) IBM
6 1 (3.704%) Juniper
6 1 (3.704%) Adobe
6 1 (3.704%) HP
6 1 (3.704%) Dell
6 1 (3.704%) AppSense
6 1 (3.704%) LANDesk