The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL Certification 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 Qualifications for the Berkshire 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) Certification
Rank 89 128 112
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -16
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 32 10 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 1.367% 0.315% 0.597%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.237% 1.366% 2.403%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 8
Average daily rate £353 £390 £353
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.61% +10.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £144 £314
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £398 £461
UK excluding London average daily rate £352 £300 £300
% change year-on-year
+17.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
Average hourly rate £34.25 - £21.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £13.93 £21.98
% change year-on-year
+61.57% -36.63%
All Qualifications
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
611 732 749
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 26.10% 23.09% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 272 271
Average daily rate £400 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £218 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £503 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 6 44
Average hourly rate £18.50 £25.25 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-26.73% +53.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.25 £10.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.25 £48.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
ITIL Certification
South East

ITIL Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Berkshire ITIL Certification Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ITIL Certification Daily Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Berkshire ITIL Certification Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire ITIL Certification Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Reading +19 14 £281 +16.58% 5
Slough - 7 £478 -
Bracknell - 3 £245 - 1
Maidenhead +2 2 £330 -
Newbury - - - -
ITIL Certification
South East

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification.

1 45 (100.00%) ITIL
2 16 (35.56%) Service Management
3 13 (28.89%) HP
4 12 (26.67%) Service Delivery
5 11 (24.44%) Telecoms
6 10 (22.22%) Cisco
6 10 (22.22%) Windows
7 9 (20.00%) PRINCE2
7 9 (20.00%) VMware
7 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
8 8 (17.78%) BMC
9 7 (15.56%) SLA
9 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
10 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
10 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
10 6 (13.33%) Bash shell
10 6 (13.33%) EMC
10 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
10 6 (13.33%) WSH
10 6 (13.33%) UNIX
10 6 (13.33%) Java
10 6 (13.33%) SQL
10 6 (13.33%) VBScript
10 6 (13.33%) Linux
10 6 (13.33%) Nagios
10 6 (13.33%) Middleware
10 6 (13.33%) Change Management
11 5 (11.11%) Remedy
11 5 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (13.33%) WSH
1 6 (13.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.667%) Documentum
1 3 (6.667%) IIS
2 1 (2.222%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.11%) MS Office
2 3 (6.667%) MS Excel
3 2 (4.444%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.222%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.889%) TCP/IP
1 4 (8.889%) MPLS
2 3 (6.667%) VPN
2 3 (6.667%) SSL
3 2 (4.444%) Radio Access Network
3 2 (4.444%) HTTP
4 1 (2.222%) Firewall
4 1 (2.222%) 3G
4 1 (2.222%) Nokia NetAct
4 1 (2.222%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.444%) EDMS
Development Applications
1 2 (4.444%) ClearQuest
General
1 11 (24.44%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.11%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (8.889%) Finance
3 4 (8.889%) Retail
4 3 (6.667%) Legal
5 1 (2.222%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (13.33%) Service Manager
1 6 (13.33%) Analyst
2 5 (11.11%) Consultant
2 5 (11.11%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (11.11%) Technical Leader
2 5 (11.11%) Services Delivery Manager
3 4 (8.889%) Process Manager
3 4 (8.889%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (6.667%) Operations Manager
4 3 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (6.667%) Administrator
4 3 (6.667%) Design Engineer
4 3 (6.667%) Operations Consultant
5 2 (4.444%) Configuration Analyst
5 2 (4.444%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (4.444%) Project Manager
5 2 (4.444%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.444%) Process Analyst
5 2 (4.444%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.222%) Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.889%) CMDB
2 3 (6.667%) IaaS
3 1 (2.222%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 10 (22.22%) Windows
2 6 (13.33%) UNIX
2 6 (13.33%) Linux
3 3 (6.667%) Windows Vista
4 1 (2.222%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (100.00%) ITIL
2 16 (35.56%) Service Management
3 12 (26.67%) Service Delivery
4 9 (20.00%) PRINCE2
5 6 (13.33%) Problem Management
5 6 (13.33%) Change Management
6 5 (11.11%) Migration
6 5 (11.11%) ITSM
7 4 (8.889%) Process Management
7 4 (8.889%) ERP
7 4 (8.889%) Six Sigma
7 4 (8.889%) Project Management
8 3 (6.667%) PRINCE
8 3 (6.667%) CRM
8 3 (6.667%) Network Design
8 3 (6.667%) Incident Management
9 2 (4.444%) Capacity Planning
9 2 (4.444%) ITIL V2
9 2 (4.444%) Change Control
9 2 (4.444%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
1 6 (13.33%) Bash shell
1 6 (13.33%) Java
1 6 (13.33%) SQL
1 6 (13.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 9 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 7 (15.56%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.11%) Degree
4 4 (8.889%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
5 2 (4.444%) PMP
5 2 (4.444%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.222%) ISEB
6 1 (2.222%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (2.222%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) SLA
2 2 (4.444%) GxP
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (8.889%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.222%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (13.33%) Nagios
2 3 (6.667%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (4.444%) HP UCMDB
3 2 (4.444%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (2.222%) OpenView
4 1 (2.222%) SCCM
4 1 (2.222%) SCOM
Vendors
1 13 (28.89%) HP
2 10 (22.22%) Cisco
3 9 (20.00%) VMware
4 8 (17.78%) BMC
5 6 (13.33%) EMC
5 6 (13.33%) Microsoft
6 5 (11.11%) Remedy
7 4 (8.889%) Huawei
7 4 (8.889%) Juniper
8 2 (4.444%) Serena
8 2 (4.444%) BT
8 2 (4.444%) SAP
8 2 (4.444%) Ericsson
9 1 (2.222%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.222%) Citrix
9 1 (2.222%) WatchGuard
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