The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Doncaster region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 20 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 Doncaster 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 8 8 5
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 1 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 2.941% 11.54% 14.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.571% 20.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £350 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.53% -13.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+4.44% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Doncaster
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
28 15 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 82.35% 57.69% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 7 5
Average daily rate £450 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.30% -23.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £304 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £455 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 2
Average hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Service Delivery
South Yorkshire

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster 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 Doncaster region.

Doncaster Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) IronPort
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) LAN
1 1 (33.33%) WAN
1 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
1 1 (33.33%) SAN
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Server Specialist
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Security Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Services Director
1 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery Director
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) ITSM
2 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 1 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Portfolio Management
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Business Transformation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Management
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) DV Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCSP
2 1 (33.33%) CISSP
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCSE
2 1 (33.33%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) XenApp
1 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 1 (33.33%) IronPort
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Juniper
2 1 (33.33%) NetApp
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) Websense
2 1 (33.33%) VMware