The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cardiff region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery 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 Cardiff 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
Services Delivery
Rank 27 33 32
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -1
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 2 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.087% 0.889% 1.240%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.613% 1.333% 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
Average daily rate £388 - £305
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.30% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.25 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-13.04% +1.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
124 150 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cardiff 67.39% 66.67% 60.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 94 86
Average daily rate £370 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £229 £275 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 3
Average hourly rate £11.60 £14.50 £100.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.03% -85.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.69 £12.10 £25.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £16.90 £106.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Service Delivery
South Wales

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff 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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

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 Cardiff region.

Cardiff Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
2 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
3 1 (25.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCIP
3 1 (25.00%) CCDP
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
3 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) ARCserve
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (25.00%) MS Office
3 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (25.00%) Windows
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos
3 1 (25.00%) Cognos Impromptu
3 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cardiff 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 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) Crystal Reports
1 1 (25.00%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Transition Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
1 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CCIE
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCIP
1 1 (25.00%) CCDP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Intel
2 1 (25.00%) Cognos
2 1 (25.00%) VMware