Chester ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	5	20
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	28	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	19.44 %	11.88 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£360	-
Average daily rate	£360	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£321
% change on same period last year	+2.78 %
Hourly rates quoted	15	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.27	£20.00
Average hourly rate	£18.43	£20.00
% change on same period last year	-7.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.60	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.37	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-16.62 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	144	101
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.201 %	0.101 %
Daily rates quoted	29	18
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£221
Average daily rate	£335	£234
% change on same period last year	+43.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£340	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£378	£372
% change on same period last year	+1.69 %
Hourly rates quoted	31	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.80	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£22.49	£21.38
% change on same period last year	+5.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.18	£25.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.30	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-3.20 %
ITIL 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
Demand Trend

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

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Chester region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 24 (47.06 %) Change Management 2 15 (29.41 %) Service Delivery 3 13 (25.49 %) Remedy 4 12 (23.53 %) Project Management 5 10 (19.61 %) PRINCE2 5 10 (19.61 %) Service Management 6 9 (17.65 %) ITIL Certification 7 8 (15.69 %) SAP 8 6 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 Certification 9 5 (9.804 %) UNIX 9 5 (9.804 %) Incident Management 10 4 (7.843 %) MS Project 10 4 (7.843 %) MS Visio 10 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft 11 3 (5.882 %) Active Directory

11 3 (5.882 %) OpenView 11 3 (5.882 %) Citrix 11 3 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 11 3 (5.882 %) Avaya 11 3 (5.882 %) SAP BW 11 3 (5.882 %) SAP APO 11 3 (5.882 %) Cisco 11 3 (5.882 %) Oracle 11 3 (5.882 %) IP Telephony 11 3 (5.882 %) Asset Management 11 3 (5.882 %) e-Work 11 3 (5.882 %) Government 11 3 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 11 3 (5.882 %) Release Management 11 3 (5.882 %) Local Government

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms 1 1 (1.961 %) SharePoint	Applications 1 4 (7.843 %) MS Project 1 4 (7.843 %) MS Visio 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 3 (5.882 %) SAP APO 1 3 (5.882 %) e-Work 2 2 (3.922 %) SAP SM	Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.882 %) IP Telephony 2 2 (3.922 %) VLAN 2 2 (3.922 %) EIGRP 2 2 (3.922 %) Broadband 2 2 (3.922 %) LAN 2 2 (3.922 %) WAN 3 1 (1.961 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.882 %) SAP BW	General 1 3 (5.882 %) Government 1 3 (5.882 %) Manufacturing 1 3 (5.882 %) Local Government 1 3 (5.882 %) FMCG 2 2 (3.922 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 30 (58.82 %) Analyst 2 15 (29.41 %) Service Analyst 3 9 (17.65 %) Services Delivery Analyst 4 8 (15.69 %) Change Analyst 4 8 (15.69 %) Project Manager 5 5 (9.804 %) Quality Analyst 6 3 (5.882 %) Release Analyst 7 2 (3.922 %) Coordinator 7 2 (3.922 %) Network Engineer 7 2 (3.922 %) Data Analyst 8 1 (1.961 %) IT Operations Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Technical Project Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Helpdesk Analyst 8 1 (1.961 %) IT Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Release Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Service Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Operations Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Infrastructure Manager 8 1 (1.961 %) Technical Manager	Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.961 %) HACMP
Operating Systems 1 5 (9.804 %) UNIX 2 2 (3.922 %) Linux 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows XP 3 1 (1.961 %) Tru64 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows 3 1 (1.961 %) AIX 3 1 (1.961 %) HPUX	Processes & Methodologies 1 24 (47.06 %) Change Management 2 15 (29.41 %) Service Delivery 3 12 (23.53 %) Project Management 4 10 (19.61 %) Service Management 4 10 (19.61 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (9.804 %) Incident Management 6 3 (5.882 %) Release Management 6 3 (5.882 %) Asset Management 7 2 (3.922 %) PRINCE 8 1 (1.961 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (1.961 %) Risk Management 8 1 (1.961 %) Migration 8 1 (1.961 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (1.961 %) Data Migration 8 1 (1.961 %) Technical Architecture 8 1 (1.961 %) Problem Management 8 1 (1.961 %) Matrix Management
Qualifications 1 9 (17.65 %) ITIL Certification 2 6 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 3 (5.882 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (1.961 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (3.922 %) SLA 1 2 (3.922 %) QA
System Software 1 3 (5.882 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (5.882 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 13 (25.49 %) Remedy 2 8 (15.69 %) SAP 3 4 (7.843 %) Microsoft 4 3 (5.882 %) Citrix 4 3 (5.882 %) Avaya 4 3 (5.882 %) Cisco 4 3 (5.882 %) Oracle