Berkshire ITIL Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification in IT contracts within the Berkshire region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL Certification over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location Avon Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corby Coventry Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Peterborough Prescot Reading Rochdale Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Stirling Stirlingshire Surrey Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Witham York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	115
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	36	36
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.040 %
As % of the category below	10.65 %	7.860 %
Daily rates quoted	8	19
Average minimum daily rate	£411	£356
Average daily rate	£426	£379
% change on same period last year	+12.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£442	£402
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£372
% change on same period last year	-13.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	-
Average hourly rate	£16.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.00	£29.31
% change on same period last year	-24.92 %
Qualifications Berkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	338	458
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.434 %	0.515 %
Daily rates quoted	92	133
Average minimum daily rate	£321	£324
Average daily rate	£340	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£327	£332
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	46
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.73	£30.18
Average hourly rate	£23.53	£31.76
% change on same period last year	-25.90 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.34	£33.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.74	£25.82
% change on same period last year	-4.19 %
ITIL Certification South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ITIL Certification across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the Berkshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
1	Windsor	-	7	-	-
2	Slough	+4	5	-	-
3	Reading	-5	4	£475	+45.48 %

ITIL Certification South East

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ITIL Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ITIL Certification.

1 59 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 25 (42.37 %) Service Management 3 17 (28.81 %) Service Delivery 4 16 (27.12 %) Telecoms 5 14 (23.73 %) Problem Management 5 14 (23.73 %) Change Management 6 12 (20.34 %) PRINCE2 6 12 (20.34 %) Incident Management 7 11 (18.64 %) Unix 7 11 (18.64 %) Windows 7 11 (18.64 %) OpenView 8 9 (15.25 %) HP 8 9 (15.25 %) Project Management 9 7 (11.86 %) LAN 9 7 (11.86 %) WAN

10 5 (8.475 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 5 (8.475 %) BEA 10 5 (8.475 %) WebLogic 10 5 (8.475 %) MS Exchange 10 5 (8.475 %) Risk Management 10 5 (8.475 %) WebSphere 11 4 (6.780 %) Degree 11 4 (6.780 %) MS Office 11 4 (6.780 %) MS Excel 11 4 (6.780 %) Six Sigma 11 4 (6.780 %) SLA 11 4 (6.780 %) Microsoft 12 3 (5.085 %) VMS 12 3 (5.085 %) MS Project 12 3 (5.085 %) MS PowerPoint

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing ITIL Certification also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ITIL Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (8.475 %) WebSphere 2 2 (3.390 %) J2EE	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.475 %) WebLogic 1 5 (8.475 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 4 (6.780 %) MS Office 1 4 (6.780 %) MS Excel 2 3 (5.085 %) MS PowerPoint 2 3 (5.085 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 7 (11.86 %) WAN 1 7 (11.86 %) LAN 2 2 (3.390 %) SMS 2 2 (3.390 %) VoIP 2 2 (3.390 %) ATM 2 2 (3.390 %) Bluetooth 2 2 (3.390 %) VPN 2 2 (3.390 %) 3G 2 2 (3.390 %) MPLS 2 2 (3.390 %) X.25 2 2 (3.390 %) Firewall 2 2 (3.390 %) 2G 2 2 (3.390 %) 2.5G 3 1 (1.695 %) TETRA
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.390 %) Crystal Reports 2 1 (1.695 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 16 (27.12 %) Telecoms 2 2 (3.390 %) Government 2 2 (3.390 %) Marketing 3 1 (1.695 %) Finance
Job Titles 1 17 (28.81 %) Analyst 2 15 (25.42 %) Change Analyst 3 11 (18.64 %) Service Manager 4 10 (16.95 %) Project Manager 5 7 (11.86 %) Architect 6 5 (8.475 %) Transition Manager 6 5 (8.475 %) ITIL Manager 7 4 (6.780 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 4 (6.780 %) Delivery Manager 8 3 (5.085 %) Service Desk Manager 8 3 (5.085 %) ITIL Service Manager 8 3 (5.085 %) Computer Operator 9 2 (3.390 %) Helpdesk Analyst 9 2 (3.390 %) Team Leader 9 2 (3.390 %) Coordinator 9 2 (3.390 %) Consultant 10 1 (1.695 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 10 1 (1.695 %) Senior Manager 10 1 (1.695 %) Management Consultant 10 1 (1.695 %) Implementation Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.085 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 11 (18.64 %) Unix 1 11 (18.64 %) Windows 2 3 (5.085 %) VMS 3 1 (1.695 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 59 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 25 (42.37 %) Service Management 3 17 (28.81 %) Service Delivery 4 14 (23.73 %) Change Management 4 14 (23.73 %) Problem Management 5 12 (20.34 %) Incident Management 5 12 (20.34 %) PRINCE2 6 9 (15.25 %) Project Management 7 5 (8.475 %) Risk Management 8 4 (6.780 %) Six Sigma 9 2 (3.390 %) Migration 9 2 (3.390 %) Release Management 10 1 (1.695 %) Project Planning 10 1 (1.695 %) Programme Management 10 1 (1.695 %) BPM 10 1 (1.695 %) Configuration Management 10 1 (1.695 %) ERP 10 1 (1.695 %) Disaster Recovery 10 1 (1.695 %) ITSM
Qualifications 1 5 (8.475 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 4 (6.780 %) Degree 3 1 (1.695 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (1.695 %) PMP 3 1 (1.695 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (6.780 %) SLA 2 1 (1.695 %) COBIT
Systems Management 1 11 (18.64 %) OpenView 2 1 (1.695 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 9 (15.25 %) HP 2 5 (8.475 %) BEA 3 4 (6.780 %) Microsoft 4 1 (1.695 %) SAP 4 1 (1.695 %) Remedy