Chester ITIL Certification Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification in IT contracts within the Chester region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 4 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location Avon Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Bellshill Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coatbridge Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newcastle Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Redditch Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Worcestershire Wrexham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	29
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	10.00 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£332
% change on same period last year	+5.29 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	-
Average hourly rate	£20.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£20.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£16.56	£23.56
% change on same period last year	-29.71 %
Qualifications Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	26	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.042 %	0.011 %
Daily rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum daily rate	£258	£283
Average daily rate	£258	£283
% change on same period last year	-8.94 %
Average maximum daily rate	£258	£283
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£327
% change on same period last year	+1.08 %
Hourly rates quoted	9	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.72	-
Average hourly rate	£25.72	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.72	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.70	£25.15
% change on same period last year	+2.18 %
ITIL Certification Cheshire

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.

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification.

1 8 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 6 (75.00 %) SAP 3 5 (62.50 %) Remedy 4 4 (50.00 %) Service Management 4 4 (50.00 %) Change Management 5 3 (37.50 %) SAP BW 5 3 (37.50 %) SAP APO 5 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 5 3 (37.50 %) UNIX 5 3 (37.50 %) Citrix 5 3 (37.50 %) Incident Management 6 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms 7 1 (12.50 %) Migration 7 1 (12.50 %) Project Management 7 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification

7 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory 7 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 7 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) SAP APO	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (37.50 %) SAP BW
General 1 2 (25.00 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 3 (37.50 %) Release Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Change Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager
Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 4 (50.00 %) Service Management 2 4 (50.00 %) Change Management 3 3 (37.50 %) Incident Management 4 1 (12.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Data Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) Migration 4 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (12.50 %) Project Management
Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 Certification	System Software 1 1 (12.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) SAP 2 5 (62.50 %) Remedy 3 3 (37.50 %) Oracle 3 3 (37.50 %) Citrix