Cambridgeshire Service Delivery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Services Delivery skills within the Cambridgeshire 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunbar Durham East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Hounslow Hull Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester Matlock Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames 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 Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	63
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	10	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.013 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	2.747 %	1.935 %
Daily rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum daily rate	£460	£408
Average daily rate	£470	£442
% change on same period last year	+6.41 %
Average maximum daily rate	£480	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£357
% change on same period last year	+6.05 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£22.00
Average hourly rate	£16.00	£22.00
% change on same period last year	-27.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.00	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.20	£24.44
% change on same period last year	-13.27 %
Processes & Methodologies Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	364	465
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.485 %	0.464 %
Daily rates quoted	95	128
Average minimum daily rate	£329	£356
Average daily rate	£350	£376
% change on same period last year	-7.05 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£396
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	54	55
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.32	£33.89
Average hourly rate	£24.39	£36.15
% change on same period last year	-32.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.47	£38.41
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Service Delivery East of England

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 Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Service Delivery
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Peterborough	-	5	£500	-

Service Delivery East of England

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 11 (78.57 %) ITIL 2 6 (42.86 %) Change Management 2 6 (42.86 %) Finance 3 4 (28.57 %) UNIX 3 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 4 3 (21.43 %) Linux 4 3 (21.43 %) Migration 4 3 (21.43 %) Service Management 5 2 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN 5 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Application Server 5 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere 5 2 (14.29 %) Data Extraction 5 2 (14.29 %) MCSE 5 2 (14.29 %) MCP 5 2 (14.29 %) MS Access

5 2 (14.29 %) Client/Server 5 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Discoverer 5 2 (14.29 %) Windows 5 2 (14.29 %) Solaris 5 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (14.29 %) Disaster Recovery 5 2 (14.29 %) Shell Script 5 2 (14.29 %) SQL 6 1 (7.143 %) Remedy 6 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms 6 1 (7.143 %) Construction 6 1 (7.143 %) Government 6 1 (7.143 %) Internet 6 1 (7.143 %) SLA

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 2 (14.29 %) WebSphere 2 1 (7.143 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (7.143 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 1 (7.143 %) Internet 1 1 (7.143 %) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (14.29 %) MS Access 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle Discoverer	General 1 6 (42.86 %) Finance 2 1 (7.143 %) Construction 2 1 (7.143 %) Government 2 1 (7.143 %) Billing 2 1 (7.143 %) Insurance 2 1 (7.143 %) Pensions 2 1 (7.143 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 3 (21.43 %) Service Manager 2 2 (14.29 %) DBA 2 2 (14.29 %) Oracle DBA 2 2 (14.29 %) Delivery Manager 2 2 (14.29 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist 3 1 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 1 (7.143 %) Infrastructure Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Change Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Change Management Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Change Manager 3 1 (7.143 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Management Consultant 3 1 (7.143 %) Analyst 3 1 (7.143 %) Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 2 (14.29 %) Client/Server 1 2 (14.29 %) Data Extraction 2 1 (7.143 %) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems 1 4 (28.57 %) UNIX 2 3 (21.43 %) Linux 3 2 (14.29 %) Windows 3 2 (14.29 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (78.57 %) ITIL 2 6 (42.86 %) Change Management 3 3 (21.43 %) Migration 3 3 (21.43 %) Service Management 4 2 (14.29 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 5 1 (7.143 %) Release Management 5 1 (7.143 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (7.143 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (14.29 %) SQL 1 2 (14.29 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 2 (14.29 %) MCP 1 2 (14.29 %) MCSE 1 2 (14.29 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (7.143 %) CCVP 2 1 (7.143 %) Degree 2 1 (7.143 %) MCSA 2 1 (7.143 %) CCNA 2 1 (7.143 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (7.143 %) SLA	System Software 1 2 (14.29 %) Oracle RMAN
Vendors 1 4 (28.57 %) Oracle 2 1 (7.143 %) Cisco 2 1 (7.143 %) Microsoft 2 1 (7.143 %) Remedy