The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change 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 Buckinghamshire 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
Change Management
Rank 18 28 40
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +12
Contract jobs citing Change Management 55 48 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 6.790% 4.918% 3.652%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.649% 7.407% 6.103%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 13
Average daily rate £300 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £173 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £364 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £361
% change year-on-year
- +3.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
Average hourly rate £10.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.58% -3.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £15.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+152.00% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 648 639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 70.37% 66.39% 59.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 303 267
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £207 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £424 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Change Management
South East

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Management across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Change Management Daily Rate Histogram

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Management within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Milton Keynes +5 38 £288 -8.73%
Amersham - 1 - -
Change Management
South East

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 32 (40.00%) ITIL
2 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 19 (23.75%) Project Management
4 18 (22.50%) PRINCE2
5 15 (18.75%) Service Management
5 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
6 14 (17.50%) ITIL V3
6 14 (17.50%) Finance
6 14 (17.50%) Programme Management
7 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (15.00%) Telecoms
7 12 (15.00%) Citrix
8 11 (13.75%) Windows
8 11 (13.75%) Radio Access Network
9 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
9 10 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
10 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
10 9 (11.25%) HP
10 9 (11.25%) Cisco
10 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
10 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
11 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
11 8 (10.00%) SQL
11 8 (10.00%) Quality Management
11 8 (10.00%) VMware
11 8 (10.00%) Incident Management
11 8 (10.00%) Degree
11 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (10.00%) Process Architecture

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (3.750%) XML
1 3 (3.750%) XSLT
1 3 (3.750%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 6 (7.500%) MS Exchange
2 5 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (3.750%) SharePoint
4 2 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (2.500%) Lync
5 1 (1.250%) CMS
5 1 (1.250%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (6.250%) MS Excel
1 5 (6.250%) MS Office
2 3 (3.750%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.250%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) Radio Access Network
2 5 (6.250%) 2G
2 5 (6.250%) 3G
3 2 (2.500%) Broadband
3 2 (2.500%) SAN
4 1 (1.250%) NAS
4 1 (1.250%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.250%) Firewall
4 1 (1.250%) DMZ
4 1 (1.250%) DHCP
4 1 (1.250%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.500%) SQL Server
1 2 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 14 (17.50%) Finance
2 12 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 6 (7.500%) Banking
4 5 (6.250%) Retail
5 4 (5.000%) Retail Banking
6 3 (3.750%) Automotive
7 1 (1.250%) Law
7 1 (1.250%) Games
7 1 (1.250%) Back Office
7 1 (1.250%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 31 (38.75%) Analyst
2 10 (12.50%) Change Analyst
3 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 8 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 6 (7.500%) 3rd Line Support
4 6 (7.500%) Change Manager
5 5 (6.250%) Technical Analyst
5 5 (6.250%) Consultant
6 4 (5.000%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.000%) Administrator
6 4 (5.000%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (3.750%) EMC Storage Consultant
7 3 (3.750%) Storage Consultant
7 3 (3.750%) Help Desk Trainee
7 3 (3.750%) Deployment Analyst
7 3 (3.750%) Trainee
7 3 (3.750%) Developer
7 3 (3.750%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (3.750%) Graduate
8 2 (2.500%) Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.250%) Management Information System
2 4 (5.000%) NHS
3 3 (3.750%) EMC Centera
4 2 (2.500%) Informatics
4 2 (2.500%) CMDB
4 2 (2.500%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.250%) SaaS
5 1 (1.250%) Clustering
5 1 (1.250%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 11 (13.75%) Windows
2 10 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (8.750%) UNIX
4 5 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (5.000%) Linux
6 2 (2.500%) Windows NT
6 2 (2.500%) Windows 2000
6 2 (2.500%) Windows 8
6 2 (2.500%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (1.250%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) ITIL
2 19 (23.75%) Project Management
3 18 (22.50%) PRINCE2
4 15 (18.75%) Service Management
5 14 (17.50%) ITIL V3
5 14 (17.50%) Programme Management
6 12 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (11.25%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.25%) Configuration Management
9 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery
9 8 (10.00%) Quality Management
9 8 (10.00%) Incident Management
9 8 (10.00%) Process Architecture
10 5 (6.250%) Performance Testing
11 3 (3.750%) Migration
11 3 (3.750%) Release Management
11 3 (3.750%) Business Analysis
11 3 (3.750%) BPR
12 2 (2.500%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) SQL
2 2 (2.500%) C
2 2 (2.500%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 10 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 8 (10.00%) Degree
5 6 (7.500%) MCSE
5 6 (7.500%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (5.000%) MCP
7 3 (3.750%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (1.250%) PMP
8 1 (1.250%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.250%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.250%) SLA
2 4 (5.000%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (3.750%) ISO 14001
4 2 (2.500%) FATCA
System Software
1 8 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (7.500%) Hyper-V
3 2 (2.500%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.250%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (1.250%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (7.500%) OVSD
1 6 (7.500%) Backup Exec
2 3 (3.750%) OpenView
3 2 (2.500%) SCOM
4 1 (1.250%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (1.250%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.250%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 12 (15.00%) Citrix
2 9 (11.25%) HP
2 9 (11.25%) Cisco
2 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
3 8 (10.00%) VMware
4 5 (6.250%) Oracle
5 3 (3.750%) Verint
5 3 (3.750%) EMC
6 2 (2.500%) Intel
7 1 (1.250%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.250%) CA
7 1 (1.250%) Symantec
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Change, ITIL V3, HP Service Management, SC My client is looking for an SC cleared Change Analyst to maintain and support the clients ICT Operating model including Policy,...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
They need someone with a background in service management, who has worked in an ITIL environment... Objectives *To maintain and support the ICT Operating model including Policy, Process...
LA International
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Change Analyst, ITIL v3, HP Service Manager, SC Security Cleared is required by our government, public sector organisation based in Milton Keynes, Bucks, South East with occasional travel...
Smart Sourcing
Rate: Unspecified daily rate c.£250-350 daily
Posted: 21 May 2013