The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Colchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 23 May 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 Colchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 17 7 11
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +4
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 1 14 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 1.923% 33.33% 10.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.448% 46.67% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 2
Average daily rate £350 £170 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+105.88% +13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Colchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29 30 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Colchester 55.77% 71.43% 70.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 20 19
Average daily rate £413 £250 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £145 £145
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 2
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Service Delivery
Essex

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Colchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Colchester Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Service Delivery across the Colchester region.

Colchester Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Colchester region.

Colchester Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Office
2 2 (66.67%) Billing
2 2 (66.67%) Document Management
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) WCF
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 1 (33.33%) .NET
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Colchester region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Billing
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Analyst
1 3 (100.00%) Support Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Service Analyst
2 2 (66.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Server Support Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Server Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Web Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Web Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Web Support Analyst
3 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Applications Support
3 1 (33.33%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows XP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Document Management
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory