The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 24 36 42
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +6
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 50 39 34
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 6.165% 3.951% 3.128%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.772% 5.982% 5.223%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 13 18
Average daily rate £275 £165 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+66.66% -49.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £206 £113 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £335 £343 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £13.00 - £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 652 651
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 70.28% 66.06% 59.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 306 273
Average daily rate £340 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 29 47
Average hourly rate £17.75 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Service Delivery
South East

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Buckinghamshire Service Delivery Daily Rate Histogram

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Buckinghamshire Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 23 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 +9 40 £275 +66.66%
High Wycombe - 2 - -
Newport Pagnell - 1 - -
Service Delivery
South East

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Service Delivery 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 Delivery.

1 33 (44.59%) ITIL
2 25 (33.78%) Security Cleared
3 24 (32.43%) Windows
4 20 (27.03%) Service Management
5 15 (20.27%) SQL
6 14 (18.92%) DV Cleared
7 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
7 13 (17.57%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (16.22%) Finance
9 11 (14.86%) VMware
10 10 (13.51%) Project Management
10 10 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
10 10 (13.51%) MS Excel
10 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
11 9 (12.16%) SLA
11 9 (12.16%) MS Office
11 9 (12.16%) HP
12 8 (10.81%) UNIX
12 8 (10.81%) MS Exchange
12 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
12 8 (10.81%) Change Management
12 8 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2003
12 8 (10.81%) Degree
13 7 (9.459%) Management Information System
13 7 (9.459%) Windows Server 2003
14 6 (8.108%) Citrix
14 6 (8.108%) RDBMS
14 6 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
14 6 (8.108%) Java
14 6 (8.108%) IIS

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Service Delivery 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 Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.108%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (10.81%) MS Exchange
1 8 (10.81%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (8.108%) IIS
2 6 (8.108%) GlassFish
3 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (1.351%) Moodle
3 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.351%) Drupal
3 1 (1.351%) CMS
Applications
1 10 (13.51%) MS Excel
2 9 (12.16%) MS Office
3 2 (2.703%) MS PowerPoint
3 2 (2.703%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (1.351%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.351%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.757%) LAN
1 5 (6.757%) WAN
2 4 (5.405%) SAN
3 2 (2.703%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.351%) Symposium
4 1 (1.351%) DNS
4 1 (1.351%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.108%) RDBMS
2 3 (4.054%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.054%) OLTP
2 3 (4.054%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (16.22%) Finance
2 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.405%) Banking
3 4 (5.405%) Retail
4 3 (4.054%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.351%) Billing
5 1 (1.351%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Analyst
2 13 (17.57%) Service Manager
3 11 (14.86%) Support Analyst
4 7 (9.459%) Service Analyst
5 6 (8.108%) Coordinator
5 6 (8.108%) 3rd Line Support
5 6 (8.108%) Service Desk Analyst
5 6 (8.108%) Transition Manager
6 5 (6.757%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (6.757%) Project Coordinator
6 5 (6.757%) Services Delivery Manager
7 4 (5.405%) Architect
7 4 (5.405%) Applications Support
7 4 (5.405%) Applications Support Analyst
7 4 (5.405%) Change Analyst
7 4 (5.405%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (4.054%) Designer
8 3 (4.054%) Support Team Leader
8 3 (4.054%) Operations Manager
8 3 (4.054%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.459%) Management Information System
2 3 (4.054%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.351%) Open Source
3 1 (1.351%) CMDB
3 1 (1.351%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 24 (32.43%) Windows
2 13 (17.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (10.81%) UNIX
4 7 (9.459%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (6.757%) Windows Vista
6 3 (4.054%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (4.054%) Windows 7
7 2 (2.703%) Linux
8 1 (1.351%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.351%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (44.59%) ITIL
2 20 (27.03%) Service Management
3 10 (13.51%) Project Management
4 8 (10.81%) Change Management
5 6 (8.108%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (8.108%) Data Architecture
5 6 (8.108%) ITIL V3
5 6 (8.108%) Analytics
6 5 (6.757%) Capacity Management
6 5 (6.757%) PRINCE2
7 3 (4.054%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (4.054%) Technical Architecture
7 3 (4.054%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (4.054%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (4.054%) Scrum
7 3 (4.054%) ERP
8 2 (2.703%) Configuration Management
8 2 (2.703%) Migration
8 2 (2.703%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (2.703%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (20.27%) SQL
2 6 (8.108%) Java
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) Security Cleared
2 14 (18.92%) DV Cleared
3 13 (17.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (13.51%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (10.81%) Degree
6 5 (6.757%) MCP
6 5 (6.757%) MCSE
6 5 (6.757%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.351%) CEH
7 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (1.351%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.16%) SLA
2 4 (5.405%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.351%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.351%) QA
3 1 (1.351%) ISO 14001
System Software
1 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (5.405%) vSphere
3 3 (4.054%) VMware ESX
4 2 (2.703%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.351%) XenApp
5 1 (1.351%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (1.351%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (8.108%) Backup Exec
2 3 (4.054%) OVSD
3 2 (2.703%) OpenView
3 2 (2.703%) SCOM
4 1 (1.351%) SCCM
4 1 (1.351%) MOM
4 1 (1.351%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (14.86%) VMware
2 9 (12.16%) HP
3 6 (8.108%) Citrix
4 5 (6.757%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.757%) Compaq
5 3 (4.054%) Intel
5 3 (4.054%) Oracle
5 3 (4.054%) SAP
6 2 (2.703%) NetApp
7 1 (1.351%) Riverbed
7 1 (1.351%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.351%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.351%) CA
7 1 (1.351%) Siebel
7 1 (1.351%) Cisco
7 1 (1.351%) Business Objects
High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire
Management and improvements of ITIL services and security management... Good knowledge of industry best practice for ITIL, PRINCE2, ISO20000 & 27001. Strong knowledge of IT Market and technology, Windows,...
Roc Search
Posted: 17 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
You will be an experienced 1st line professional with a good track record of technical, Windows 7 Support roles and you must be able to demonstrate a first...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £13.00 per hour
Posted: 3 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Creation and maintenance of schedule of additional revenue opportunities for Service Delivery work stream, liaison between work stream and invoicing team... *Ability to work well without detailed supervision,...
LA International
Posted: 20 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
Experience of writing SQL queries* Experience with RDBMS* Experience with supporting Java and .NET applications * Experience of data architectureA good understanding of web and business intelligence technology would...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £250 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013