Chester ITSM Contracts

This section looks at the demand for IT Service Management (ITSM) skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ITSM over the 3 months to 18 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Buckinghamshire Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Chester City of London Colchester Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Harrogate Leeds Leicestershire London Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Peterborough Plymouth Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	24
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.515 %
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	£316	£370
% change on same period last year	-14.68 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£32.87	£22.37
% change on same period last year	+46.93 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	128	66
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.170 %	0.068 %
Daily rates quoted	31	16
Average minimum daily rate	£348	£233
Average daily rate	£359	£246
% change on same period last year	+45.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£260
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£375
% change on same period last year	+1.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.64	£16.13
Average hourly rate	£23.66	£16.88
% change on same period last year	+40.18 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.67	£17.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.43	£30.35
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
ITSM 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.

ITSM
Demand Trend

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

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend

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