The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL 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 Cheshire 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
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 5 24 10
Rank change year-on-year
+19 -14
Contract jobs citing ITIL 111 47 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 15.33% 5.882% 10.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 20.15% 9.553% 15.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 19 52
Average daily rate £300 £355 £283
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.49% +25.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £198 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £418 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 7
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +60.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £22.41 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.98 £22.41 £18.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
551 492 664
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.10% 61.58% 68.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 249 364
Average daily rate £375 £351 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.84% +7.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £250 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 12 25
Average hourly rate £40.00 £22.41 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+78.49% +12.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.95 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £31.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Cheshire ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire ITIL Hourly Rate Histogram

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Cheshire 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
Chester +8 38 £379 +2.02%
Macclesfield +2 8 £80 -77.46%
Crewe +13 7 £275 -
Knutsford -2 7 £307 +104.50%
Warrington -1 4 - -
Alderley Edge - 1 - -
Nantwich - 1 £325 -
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing ITIL 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 ITIL.

1 58 (30.21%) Windows
2 51 (26.56%) Service Management
3 39 (20.31%) PRINCE2
4 38 (19.79%) Project Management
5 36 (18.75%) Change Management
6 35 (18.23%) Finance
7 34 (17.71%) Migration
8 29 (15.10%) Service Delivery
8 29 (15.10%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (15.10%) UNIX
9 27 (14.06%) MS Excel
9 27 (14.06%) Microsoft
10 25 (13.02%) Banking
11 22 (11.46%) MS Office
11 22 (11.46%) Information Security
12 20 (10.42%) Configuration Management
12 20 (10.42%) Windows 7
13 19 (9.896%) HP
13 19 (9.896%) Citrix
14 18 (9.375%) Security Cleared
14 18 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
15 17 (8.854%) Problem Management
15 17 (8.854%) Local Government
15 17 (8.854%) CISSP
15 17 (8.854%) SQL
16 16 (8.333%) SLA
16 16 (8.333%) SharePoint
16 16 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
16 16 (8.333%) Clustering
16 16 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (2.604%) Middleware
2 4 (2.083%) .NET
3 3 (1.563%) Application Packaging
4 2 (1.042%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.042%) SAP Basis
5 1 (0.521%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 16 (8.333%) SharePoint
2 11 (5.729%) Lotus Notes
3 10 (5.208%) MS Exchange
4 9 (4.688%) Exchange Server 2010
5 6 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (2.083%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 4 (2.083%) LiveLink
6 4 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (1.042%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (1.042%) WebSphere Application Server
7 2 (1.042%) WebLogic
7 2 (1.042%) iPlanet
7 2 (1.042%) NetWeaver
7 2 (1.042%) IBM HTTP Server
7 2 (1.042%) SharePoint Server
8 1 (0.521%) ArcSDE
8 1 (0.521%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.521%) IIS
8 1 (0.521%) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications
1 27 (14.06%) MS Excel
2 22 (11.46%) MS Office
3 15 (7.813%) MS Visio
3 15 (7.813%) MS Project
4 8 (4.167%) MS PowerPoint
5 3 (1.563%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (1.042%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 4 (2.083%) SAP R/3
2 1 (0.521%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.521%) Academy Revenues and Benefits
Communications & Networking
1 10 (5.208%) SAN
2 9 (4.688%) DNS
3 8 (4.167%) LAN
4 7 (3.646%) Wireless
4 7 (3.646%) VPN
4 7 (3.646%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (3.125%) DHCP
5 6 (3.125%) WAN
6 5 (2.604%) SMTP
6 5 (2.604%) TCP/IP
7 4 (2.083%) LDAP
8 3 (1.563%) Network Security
9 2 (1.042%) HTTP
9 2 (1.042%) Firewall
10 1 (0.521%) IP Telephony
10 1 (0.521%) Intranet
10 1 (0.521%) Unified Communications
10 1 (0.521%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (7.292%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.604%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (2.083%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.563%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (1.563%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (1.563%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (1.563%) OLTP
4 3 (1.563%) SQL Server 2012
5 2 (1.042%) NoSQL
5 2 (1.042%) IDMS
5 2 (1.042%) VLDB
5 2 (1.042%) MySQL
6 1 (0.521%) GIS
6 1 (0.521%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 8 (4.167%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (3.125%) JIRA
3 3 (1.563%) InstallShield
3 3 (1.563%) ClearQuest
3 3 (1.563%) Visual Studio
3 3 (1.563%) VSS/SourceSafe
3 3 (1.563%) FinalBuilder
General
1 35 (18.23%) Finance
2 25 (13.02%) Banking
3 17 (8.854%) Local Government
4 12 (6.250%) Retail
5 11 (5.729%) Telecoms
6 9 (4.688%) Legal
7 3 (1.563%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.042%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.521%) Billing
9 1 (0.521%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.521%) Publishing
9 1 (0.521%) Back Office
9 1 (0.521%) German Language
Job Titles
1 49 (25.52%) Analyst
2 23 (11.98%) Project Manager
3 18 (9.375%) Consultant
3 18 (9.375%) Service Manager
4 16 (8.333%) Security Consultant
5 15 (7.813%) Service Analyst
6 12 (6.250%) Support Analyst
7 10 (5.208%) Risk Consultant
8 9 (4.688%) Configuration Analyst
9 8 (4.167%) Architect
9 8 (4.167%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 8 (4.167%) Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.646%) 3rd Line Support
10 7 (3.646%) Services Delivery Manager
10 7 (3.646%) Wintel Engineer
11 6 (3.125%) Applications Support
11 6 (3.125%) Service Desk Analyst
11 6 (3.125%) Configuration Management Analyst
11 6 (3.125%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
11 6 (3.125%) Services Delivery Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.333%) Clustering
2 12 (6.250%) Mainframe
3 11 (5.729%) CMDB
4 9 (4.688%) PMI
5 8 (4.167%) Blackberry
6 5 (2.604%) Management Information System
7 4 (2.083%) EPoS
8 3 (1.563%) Replication
8 3 (1.563%) Smartcard
8 3 (1.563%) FMCG
8 3 (1.563%) Data Integration
9 2 (1.042%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (1.042%) Computer Science
9 2 (1.042%) Client/Server
9 2 (1.042%) Tandem
10 1 (0.521%) LLPG
10 1 (0.521%) Data Conversion
Operating Systems
1 58 (30.21%) Windows
2 29 (15.10%) UNIX
3 20 (10.42%) Windows 7
4 18 (9.375%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (7.813%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (7.813%) Windows XP
6 14 (7.292%) AIX
6 14 (7.292%) Linux
7 8 (4.167%) Windows 2000
8 6 (3.125%) Windows NT
9 5 (2.604%) Tru64
10 4 (2.083%) Windows 8
11 2 (1.042%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 2 (1.042%) Windows Vista
11 2 (1.042%) Solaris
12 1 (0.521%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (26.56%) Service Management
2 39 (20.31%) PRINCE2
3 38 (19.79%) Project Management
4 36 (18.75%) Change Management
5 34 (17.71%) Migration
6 29 (15.10%) Service Delivery
7 22 (11.46%) Information Security
8 20 (10.42%) Configuration Management
9 17 (8.854%) Problem Management
10 16 (8.333%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (7.813%) Risk Assessment
12 14 (7.292%) Risk Analysis
12 14 (7.292%) Incident Management
13 11 (5.729%) Risk Management
14 9 (4.688%) ITIL V3
15 8 (4.167%) Continuous Improvement
15 8 (4.167%) Vulnerability Assessment
16 7 (3.646%) PRINCE
17 6 (3.125%) Time Management
17 6 (3.125%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (8.854%) SQL
2 13 (6.771%) PowerShell
3 6 (3.125%) T-SQL
4 4 (2.083%) Shell Script
5 3 (1.563%) VB6
5 3 (1.563%) VB
5 3 (1.563%) Java
5 3 (1.563%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 2 (1.042%) ABAP
7 1 (0.521%) Python
7 1 (0.521%) C#
7 1 (0.521%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.521%) Perl
7 1 (0.521%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 29 (15.10%) ITIL Certification
2 18 (9.375%) Security Cleared
3 17 (8.854%) CISSP
4 16 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
5 13 (6.771%) SC Cleared
6 12 (6.250%) MCP
7 11 (5.729%) PMI Certification
7 11 (5.729%) MCSE
8 10 (5.208%) MCITP
9 9 (4.688%) Cisco Certification
10 8 (4.167%) Degree
10 8 (4.167%) CCNA
10 8 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 7 (3.646%) MCDST
11 7 (3.646%) CCDP
11 7 (3.646%) CCNP
12 4 (2.083%) PMP
13 3 (1.563%) MCTS
13 3 (1.563%) MCSA
14 2 (1.042%) IBM WebSphere Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.333%) SLA
2 7 (3.646%) ISO 9000
2 7 (3.646%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.646%) BS25999
3 4 (2.083%) COBIT
3 4 (2.083%) BS7799
4 3 (1.563%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (1.042%) QA
6 1 (0.521%) Basel III
System Software
1 14 (7.292%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.688%) XenApp
3 8 (4.167%) Hyper-V
4 6 (3.125%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (2.604%) Microsoft App-V
5 5 (2.604%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 4 (2.083%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
7 2 (1.042%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (1.042%) UAG
7 2 (1.042%) PowerHA
7 2 (1.042%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.521%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 16 (8.333%) SCCM
2 10 (5.208%) OpenView
3 7 (3.646%) Tivoli
3 7 (3.646%) SCOM
3 7 (3.646%) ServiceCenter
4 6 (3.125%) WSUS
4 6 (3.125%) DameWare
5 3 (1.563%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (1.042%) SCVMM
7 1 (0.521%) Tivoli Identity Manager
7 1 (0.521%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.521%) AppDNA
7 1 (0.521%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 1 (0.521%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 27 (14.06%) Microsoft
2 19 (9.896%) HP
2 19 (9.896%) Citrix
3 15 (7.813%) SAP
4 13 (6.771%) Cisco
5 12 (6.250%) Oracle
5 12 (6.250%) VMware
6 11 (5.729%) Remedy
6 11 (5.729%) Lotus
7 10 (5.208%) AppSense
8 7 (3.646%) F5
9 6 (3.125%) IBM
9 6 (3.125%) Symantec
10 4 (2.083%) BMC
11 3 (1.563%) Red Hat
11 3 (1.563%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.042%) Aruba
12 2 (1.042%) Riverbed
12 2 (1.042%) Dell
12 2 (1.042%) webMethods
Chester, Cheshire
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