The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 19 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 Belfast 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 21 15 25
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 4 10 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 2.500% 6.494% 4.828%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.704% 10.99% 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
Average daily rate £438 £400 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.37% +60.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £328 £325 £315
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +3.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.25 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+18.03% -4.68%
All Processes & Methodologies
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
108 91 161
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 67.50% 59.09% 55.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 32 46
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £180 £263 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL
County Antrim

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Belfast 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 Belfast region.

Belfast ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) Workflow
1 5 (41.67%) Metastorm
2 4 (33.33%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SLA
3 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (25.00%) BMC
3 3 (25.00%) Intranet
3 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
3 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
4 2 (16.67%) Splunk
4 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Compuware
4 2 (16.67%) HP
4 2 (16.67%) SNMP
5 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
5 1 (8.333%) DNS
5 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
5 1 (8.333%) Linux
5 1 (8.333%) Apache
5 1 (8.333%) LDAP
5 1 (8.333%) Internet
5 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
5 1 (8.333%) Remedy
5 1 (8.333%) Information Security
5 1 (8.333%) Data Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast 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 3 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.333%) Apache
Business Applications
1 1 (8.333%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (25.00%) Intranet
2 2 (16.67%) SNMP
3 1 (8.333%) TCP/IP
3 1 (8.333%) DNS
3 1 (8.333%) HTTPS
3 1 (8.333%) LDAP
3 1 (8.333%) Internet
3 1 (8.333%) SMTP
3 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) DBA
2 3 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Consultant
2 3 (25.00%) Web Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Web Support Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Management Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Security Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Information Specialist
4 1 (8.333%) Remedy Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Information Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
1 5 (41.67%) Workflow
2 3 (25.00%) Service Management
3 1 (8.333%) Information Security
3 1 (8.333%) Data Management
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.333%) ITSM
3 1 (8.333%) SIEM
3 1 (8.333%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (8.333%) Cyber Security
3 1 (8.333%) Use Case
3 1 (8.333%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) Shell Script
2 1 (8.333%) Perl
2 1 (8.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds Orion
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Metastorm
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) BMC
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Compuware
3 2 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (8.333%) Remedy
4 1 (8.333%) ArcSight
4 1 (8.333%) LogLogic
4 1 (8.333%) Q1 Labs
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