Buckinghamshire Service Delivery Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Services Delivery skills within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Crawley Crewe Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	75
Rank change on same period last year	+8
Matching contract IT job ads	13	23
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.680 %	2.550 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£358
Average daily rate	£365	£384
% change on same period last year	-5.16 %
Average maximum daily rate	£393	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£400	£344
% change on same period last year	+16.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.00	£28.00
Average hourly rate	£23.00	£28.00
% change on same period last year	-17.85 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.00	£28.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.21	£22.72
% change on same period last year	-11.03 %
Processes & Methodologies Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	774	902
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.081 %	0.906 %
Daily rates quoted	282	275
Average minimum daily rate	£312	£323
Average daily rate	£335	£343
% change on same period last year	-2.22 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£363
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	80	86
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.60	£29.65
Average hourly rate	£22.73	£30.63
% change on same period last year	-25.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.85	£31.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
Service Delivery 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.

Service Delivery
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

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
Milton Keynes	-2	11	£365	-8.28 %
Chesham	-	1	-	-

Service Delivery South East

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 19 (59.38 %) ITIL 2 10 (31.25 %) ITIL Certification 2 10 (31.25 %) Security Cleared 3 9 (28.13 %) Government 4 8 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (21.88 %) ITSM 5 7 (21.88 %) Degree 5 7 (21.88 %) SLA 6 6 (18.75 %) Automotive 7 5 (15.63 %) HP 8 4 (12.50 %) Windows 8 4 (12.50 %) OpenView 8 4 (12.50 %) Problem Management 8 4 (12.50 %) Service Management 9 3 (9.375 %) Finance

9 3 (9.375 %) OVOW 9 3 (9.375 %) Cisco 9 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 9 3 (9.375 %) Oracle 9 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (6.250 %) CNE 10 2 (6.250 %) Novell Certification 10 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 10 2 (6.250 %) Symantec 10 2 (6.250 %) McAfee Security 10 2 (6.250 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 2 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 10 2 (6.250 %) MCSE 10 2 (6.250 %) SQL 10 2 (6.250 %) OVSD

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, 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 Platforms 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 5.5 1 1 (3.125 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Office 1 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel 1 1 (3.125 %) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle EBS 1 1 (3.125 %) Oracle BRM	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.125 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 1 1 (3.125 %) PowerCenter	General 1 9 (28.13 %) Government 2 6 (18.75 %) Automotive 3 3 (9.375 %) Finance 4 1 (3.125 %) Legal 4 1 (3.125 %) Manufacturing 4 1 (3.125 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 15 (46.88 %) Services Delivery Manager 1 15 (46.88 %) Service Manager 1 15 (46.88 %) Delivery Manager 2 2 (6.250 %) ITIL Manager 2 2 (6.250 %) Analyst 2 2 (6.250 %) Service Analyst 2 2 (6.250 %) Problem Manager 2 2 (6.250 %) ITIL Service Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) Operations Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) Coordinator 3 1 (3.125 %) Architect 3 1 (3.125 %) Project Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) IT Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) Delivery Project Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) Database Specialist 3 1 (3.125 %) 1st Line Support 3 1 (3.125 %) Exchange Specialist 3 1 (3.125 %) Server Specialist 3 1 (3.125 %) Customer Services Manager 3 1 (3.125 %) Incident Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) Management Information System
Operating Systems 1 4 (12.50 %) Windows 2 2 (6.250 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.125 %) UNIX 3 1 (3.125 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.125 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (59.38 %) ITIL 2 10 (31.25 %) Security Cleared 3 8 (25.00 %) SC Cleared 4 7 (21.88 %) ITSM 5 4 (12.50 %) Service Management 5 4 (12.50 %) Problem Management 6 2 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (3.125 %) CRM 7 1 (3.125 %) Project Management 7 1 (3.125 %) Process Management 7 1 (3.125 %) Migration 7 1 (3.125 %) Risk Assessment 7 1 (3.125 %) Data Migration 7 1 (3.125 %) DV Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.250 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 10 (31.25 %) ITIL Certification 2 7 (21.88 %) Degree 3 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft Certification 4 2 (6.250 %) CNE 4 2 (6.250 %) Novell Certification 4 2 (6.250 %) MCSE 4 2 (6.250 %) SCSP 5 1 (3.125 %) MCDBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (21.88 %) SLA 2 1 (3.125 %) COBIT	System Software 1 1 (3.125 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 4 (12.50 %) OpenView 2 3 (9.375 %) OVOW 3 2 (6.250 %) Norton AntiVirus 3 2 (6.250 %) OVSD 4 1 (3.125 %) CiscoWorks 4 1 (3.125 %) CONTROL-M 4 1 (3.125 %) OVPA 4 1 (3.125 %) OVPI	Vendors 1 5 (15.63 %) HP 2 3 (9.375 %) Oracle 2 3 (9.375 %) Cisco 2 3 (9.375 %) Microsoft 3 2 (6.250 %) Symantec 3 2 (6.250 %) McAfee Security