The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL V3 skills 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 V3 over the 3 months to 19 June 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 City of London 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Infrastructure Library Version 3
Rank 189 185 247
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +62
Contract jobs citing ITIL V3 21 27 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.310% 0.349% 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.418% 0.482% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 3
Average daily rate £416 £395 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.37% -1.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £220 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £489 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £301 £400
% change year-on-year
+33.11% -24.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £30.63 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £59.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-78.15% +376.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5027 5597 7112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 74.14% 72.30% 71.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 3796 4123 5235
Average daily rate £450 £475 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.26% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £301 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 82 123
Average hourly rate £31.25 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £16.65 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £125.00 £47.85 £54.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL V3
London

ITIL V3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V3 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

City of London ITIL V3 Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL V3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL V3 across the City of London region.

City of London ITIL V3 Daily Rate Trend

ITIL V3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL V3 across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London ITIL V3 Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL V3
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V3 across the City of London region.

City of London ITIL V3 Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL V3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ITIL V3 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 V3.

1 47 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (42.55%) Finance
3 17 (36.17%) Banking
4 16 (34.04%) Service Management
5 14 (29.79%) Windows
6 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
7 12 (25.53%) Service Delivery
7 12 (25.53%) Project Management
8 10 (21.28%) PRINCE2
8 10 (21.28%) Citrix
8 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
9 9 (19.15%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (19.15%) Business Analysis
10 8 (17.02%) VMware
11 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
11 7 (14.89%) ITSM
11 7 (14.89%) VBScript
11 7 (14.89%) XenDesktop
11 7 (14.89%) NetScaler
11 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
12 6 (12.77%) Release Management
12 6 (12.77%) Change Management
12 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
13 5 (10.64%) AppSense
13 5 (10.64%) MS Office
13 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
14 4 (8.511%) Oracle
14 4 (8.511%) VB
14 4 (8.511%) VMware ESX
14 4 (8.511%) Validation

ITIL V3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing ITIL V3 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 V3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.128%) Ajax
1 1 (2.128%) HTML
1 1 (2.128%) .NET
1 1 (2.128%) CSS
1 1 (2.128%) SOAP
1 1 (2.128%) Web Services
1 1 (2.128%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.255%) IBM Notes
2 1 (2.128%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.128%) CMS
2 1 (2.128%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.128%) Apache
Applications
1 5 (10.64%) MS Office
2 2 (4.255%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.255%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.128%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.128%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.128%) SAP SM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (14.89%) NetScaler
2 1 (2.128%) NAS
2 1 (2.128%) Firewall
2 1 (2.128%) POP3
2 1 (2.128%) SMTP
2 1 (2.128%) HTTP
2 1 (2.128%) Internet
2 1 (2.128%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.383%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.255%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.128%) MS Access
3 1 (2.128%) DTS
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (2.128%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 7
3 1 (2.128%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.128%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (2.128%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 2 (4.255%) JIRA
General
1 20 (42.55%) Finance
2 17 (36.17%) Banking
3 3 (6.383%) Telecoms
3 3 (6.383%) Investment Banking
4 2 (4.255%) Legal
5 1 (2.128%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.128%) Law
5 1 (2.128%) Back Office
5 1 (2.128%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (38.30%) Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Business Analyst
3 7 (14.89%) Service Manager
4 6 (12.77%) Project Manager
5 5 (10.64%) Configuration Analyst
6 3 (6.383%) Services Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.383%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.255%) Team Leader
7 2 (4.255%) Change Analyst
7 2 (4.255%) Infrastructure Manager
7 2 (4.255%) Architect
7 2 (4.255%) Service Analyst
7 2 (4.255%) Configuration Manager
8 1 (2.128%) IT Infrastructure Manager
8 1 (2.128%) Information Security Architect
8 1 (2.128%) ServiceNow Consultant
8 1 (2.128%) Service Continuity Manager
8 1 (2.128%) Operations Team Leader
8 1 (2.128%) Service Improvement Manager
8 1 (2.128%) Lead Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.89%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.255%) CESG
2 2 (4.255%) CESG CLAS
2 2 (4.255%) Mobile Payment
3 1 (2.128%) Open Source
3 1 (2.128%) SaaS
3 1 (2.128%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.128%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.128%) Online Banking
3 1 (2.128%) CMDB
3 1 (2.128%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 14 (29.79%) Windows
2 9 (19.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (8.511%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.128%) AIX
4 1 (2.128%) Solaris
4 1 (2.128%) Linux
4 1 (2.128%) Windows 2000
4 1 (2.128%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (100.00%) ITIL
2 16 (34.04%) Service Management
3 12 (25.53%) Service Delivery
3 12 (25.53%) Project Management
4 10 (21.28%) PRINCE2
5 9 (19.15%) Business Analysis
6 7 (14.89%) ITSM
7 6 (12.77%) Release Management
7 6 (12.77%) Change Management
7 6 (12.77%) Configuration Management
8 4 (8.511%) Validation
8 4 (8.511%) V-Model
9 3 (6.383%) Information Assurance
9 3 (6.383%) Migration
9 3 (6.383%) Risk Management
9 3 (6.383%) Information Security
10 2 (4.255%) Six Sigma
10 2 (4.255%) Information Security Management
10 2 (4.255%) Security Management
10 2 (4.255%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.89%) VBScript
1 7 (14.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (8.511%) VB
3 2 (4.255%) C
3 2 (4.255%) Java
4 1 (2.128%) JavaScript
4 1 (2.128%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.128%) SQL
4 1 (2.128%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (27.66%) Security Cleared
2 10 (21.28%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.383%) Degree
3 3 (6.383%) CISM
3 3 (6.383%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (6.383%) CISSP
4 2 (4.255%) ISSEP
4 2 (4.255%) CISA
4 2 (4.255%) BC Cleared
4 2 (4.255%) CTC Cleared
4 2 (4.255%) CGEIT
5 1 (2.128%) CCAA
5 1 (2.128%) VCP5
5 1 (2.128%) Six Sigma Green Belt
5 1 (2.128%) GIAC
5 1 (2.128%) CEH
5 1 (2.128%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.128%) MCSA
5 1 (2.128%) CCA
5 1 (2.128%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.383%) QA
2 2 (4.255%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.128%) COBIT
System Software
1 7 (14.89%) XenDesktop
2 4 (8.511%) VMware ESX
3 2 (4.255%) XenApp
4 1 (2.128%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.128%) Oracle RMAN
Vendors
1 10 (21.28%) Citrix
2 8 (17.02%) VMware
3 5 (10.64%) AppSense
3 5 (10.64%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.511%) Oracle
5 2 (4.255%) Cisco
5 2 (4.255%) Lotus
5 2 (4.255%) SAP
6 1 (2.128%) ServiceNow
6 1 (2.128%) Google
6 1 (2.128%) Business Objects
6 1 (2.128%) Reuters
6 1 (2.128%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.128%) IBM
6 1 (2.128%) Symantec
6 1 (2.128%) Remedy
6 1 (2.128%) Avaya
6 1 (2.128%) NetApp
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