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The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the City of London region.

 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank193139186
Rank change year-on-year
Down-54Up+47
Matching contract IT job ads241121
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London0.280 %0.272 %0.261 %
As % of the Qualifications category2.703 %2.048 %2.497 %
Daily rates quoted13715
Average daily rate£395£250£375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+58.00 %-33.33 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£282£184£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£460£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£310£350£325
% change year-on-year
-11.42 %+7.690 %
Hourly rates quoted400
Average hourly rate£20.00--
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£15.50£19.00
% change year-on-year
-3.220 %-18.42 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
888537841
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London10.35 %13.28 %10.44 %
Daily rates quoted522267349
Average daily rate£413£375£381
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00 %-1.440 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£241£245£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£553£550
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£350£350
% change year-on-year
-7.140 %-
Hourly rates quoted292352
Average hourly rate£19.00£18.00£20.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.550 %-12.62 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.00£25.00£25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.00 %-
ITIL Certification LondonITIL Certification
London

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.

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

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

City of London ITIL Certification Demand Trend

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 City of London region.

City of London ITIL Certification Daily Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

City of London ITIL Certification Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London ITIL Certification Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

138 (100.00 %)ITIL
211 (28.95 %)Service Management
39 (23.68 %)Service Delivery
39 (23.68 %)Banking
39 (23.68 %)Windows
39 (23.68 %)Security Cleared
48 (21.05 %)Finance
56 (15.79 %)PRINCE2
56 (15.79 %)SAN
56 (15.79 %)SC Cleared
65 (13.16 %)Investment Banking
65 (13.16 %)Active Directory
65 (13.16 %)Windows Server 2003
65 (13.16 %)Project Management
65 (13.16 %)Oracle
65 (13.16 %)SLA
65 (13.16 %)VMware
74 (10.53 %)MS Exchange
74 (10.53 %)Solaris
74 (10.53 %)Linux
74 (10.53 %)SQL
74 (10.53 %)UNIX
74 (10.53 %)MS Office
74 (10.53 %)Microsoft
74 (10.53 %)Release Management
83 (7.895 %)VMware Infrastructure
83 (7.895 %)Windows Server 2008
83 (7.895 %)C
83 (7.895 %)Windows XP
83 (7.895 %)Change Management

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
11 (2.632 %)Middleware
11 (2.632 %)XML
11 (2.632 %).NET
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
14 (10.53 %)MS Exchange
22 (5.263 %)Exchange Server 2007
31 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2003
31 (2.632 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
31 (2.632 %)SharePoint
31 (2.632 %)CMS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
14 (10.53 %)MS Office
21 (2.632 %)MS PowerPoint
21 (2.632 %)MS Excel
21 (2.632 %)MS Visio
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
12 (5.263 %)Remedy ITSM
12 (5.263 %)Remedy AR System
21 (2.632 %)Cerner Millennium
21 (2.632 %)Oracle Applications
21 (2.632 %)Summit
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
16 (15.79 %)SAN
22 (5.263 %)LDAP
22 (5.263 %)TCP/IP
22 (5.263 %)VPN
22 (5.263 %)NAS
31 (2.632 %)Internet
31 (2.632 %)LAN
31 (2.632 %)VoIP
31 (2.632 %)FTP
31 (2.632 %)IP Telephony
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12 (5.263 %)BusinessObjects
12 (5.263 %)BusinessObjects XI
21 (2.632 %)SQL Server 2005
21 (2.632 %)SQL Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (5.263 %)Oracle Forms
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
19 (23.68 %)Banking
28 (21.05 %)Finance
35 (13.16 %)Investment Banking
42 (5.263 %)Government
42 (5.263 %)Health
42 (5.263 %)Financial Institution
42 (5.263 %)Back Office
51 (2.632 %)Law
51 (2.632 %)Legal
51 (2.632 %)Police
51 (2.632 %)Education
51 (2.632 %)Electric
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
15 (13.16 %)Service Manager
15 (13.16 %)Analyst
23 (7.895 %)Support Engineer
23 (7.895 %)Transition Manager
23 (7.895 %)Service Desk Manager
32 (5.263 %)Problem Manager
32 (5.263 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
32 (5.263 %)Environment Manager
32 (5.263 %)Senior Applications Developer
32 (5.263 %)UNIX Administrator
32 (5.263 %)Remedy Developer
32 (5.263 %)Service Analyst
32 (5.263 %)Developer
32 (5.263 %)Administrator
32 (5.263 %)Test Manager
32 (5.263 %)Consultant
32 (5.263 %)Systems Administrator
32 (5.263 %)Applications Developer
32 (5.263 %)Senior Developer
32 (5.263 %)Support Analyst
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
12 (5.263 %)Management Information System
12 (5.263 %)NHS
21 (2.632 %)Statistics
21 (2.632 %)CMDB
21 (2.632 %)Mainframe
21 (2.632 %)Blackberry
21 (2.632 %)Tandem
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
19 (23.68 %)Windows
25 (13.16 %)Windows Server 2003
34 (10.53 %)Solaris
34 (10.53 %)Linux
34 (10.53 %)UNIX
43 (7.895 %)Windows Server 2008
43 (7.895 %)Windows XP
52 (5.263 %)Red Hat Linux
61 (2.632 %)Windows 2000 Server
61 (2.632 %)Mac OS X
61 (2.632 %)AIX
61 (2.632 %)Windows 2000
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
138 (100.00 %)ITIL
211 (28.95 %)Service Management
39 (23.68 %)Service Delivery
46 (15.79 %)PRINCE2
55 (13.16 %)Project Management
64 (10.53 %)Release Management
73 (7.895 %)Change Management
73 (7.895 %)Migration
82 (5.263 %)Workflow
82 (5.263 %)Disaster Recovery
82 (5.263 %)ITSM
91 (2.632 %)User Acceptance Testing
91 (2.632 %)Test Management
91 (2.632 %)Business Analysis
91 (2.632 %)Incident Management
91 (2.632 %)Operations Management
91 (2.632 %)Data Migration
91 (2.632 %)Problem Management
91 (2.632 %)Reverse Engineering
91 (2.632 %)Configuration Management
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
14 (10.53 %)SQL
23 (7.895 %)C
32 (5.263 %)Perl
32 (5.263 %)Shell Script
41 (2.632 %)C#
41 (2.632 %)Java
41 (2.632 %)JavaScript
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
19 (23.68 %)Security Cleared
26 (15.79 %)SC Cleared
32 (5.263 %)MCSE
32 (5.263 %)Microsoft Certification
32 (5.263 %)Sun Certification
32 (5.263 %)Degree
41 (2.632 %)BC Cleared
41 (2.632 %)DV Cleared
41 (2.632 %)Avaya Certification
41 (2.632 %)ISEB
41 (2.632 %)PRINCE2 Certification
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
15 (13.16 %)SLA
21 (2.632 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
15 (13.16 %)Active Directory
23 (7.895 %)VMware Infrastructure
32 (5.263 %)VMware ESX
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15 (13.16 %)Oracle
15 (13.16 %)VMware
24 (10.53 %)Microsoft
32 (5.263 %)Cisco
32 (5.263 %)Business Objects
32 (5.263 %)Symantec
32 (5.263 %)Remedy
32 (5.263 %)EMC
32 (5.263 %)Hitachi
32 (5.263 %)Veritas
32 (5.263 %)Red Hat
41 (2.632 %)Avaya
41 (2.632 %)BMC
41 (2.632 %)Cerner
41 (2.632 %)Citrix
41 (2.632 %)HP
41 (2.632 %)IBM
41 (2.632 %)Accenture