The first table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Management over the 3 months to 24 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Bradford 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Management
Rank 26 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Management 1 9 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 0.654% 6.000% 1.709%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.971% 9.375% 2.410%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.84% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £30.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.60% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.33 £17.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year
-6.71% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
103 96 83
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bradford 67.32% 64.00% 70.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 30 17
Average daily rate £300 £213 £205
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.17% +3.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £150 £188
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £450 £315
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 0
Average hourly rate £12.42 £32.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-61.78% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Service Management
West Yorkshire

Service Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Service Management Jobs Demand Trend

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bradford Service Management Hourly Rate Trend

Service Management
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Service Management 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 Service Management.

1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Broadband
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bradford region citing Service Management 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 Service Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Broadband
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Service Manager
1 2 (66.67%) Transition Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) C
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe
1 1 (33.33%) Juniper