East Midlands ITIL Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification in IT contracts within the East Midlands region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location Avon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidlington Lancashire Leeds Letchworth Liverpool London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Prescot Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	78
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	5	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	2.551 %	5.116 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£280	£321
Average daily rate	£285	£343
% change on same period last year	-16.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£290	£365
UK excluding London average daily rate	£350	£355
% change on same period last year	-1.32 %
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	£20.60	£24.29
% change on same period last year	-15.21 %
Qualifications East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	196	215
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.258 %	0.228 %
Daily rates quoted	59	51
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£294
Average daily rate	£285	£315
% change on same period last year	-9.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£336
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£339
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	24	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.21	£23.76
Average hourly rate	£19.31	£24.56
% change on same period last year	-21.38 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.41	£25.36
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.13	£25.68
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
ITIL Certification England

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.

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

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

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 East Midlands region.

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 East Midlands region.

ITIL Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing ITIL Certification within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Derbyshire	-	1	£285	-
Nottinghamshire	-12	1	-	-

ITIL Certification England

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

1 17 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 6 (35.29 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (23.53 %) Problem Management 4 3 (17.65 %) Finance 5 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (11.76 %) Cisco Certification 5 2 (11.76 %) LAN 5 2 (11.76 %) WAN 5 2 (11.76 %) SLA 5 2 (11.76 %) Cisco 5 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 5 2 (11.76 %) CCNA 6 1 (5.882 %) Local Government 6 1 (5.882 %) Operations Management 6 1 (5.882 %) Banking

6 1 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 6 1 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 6 1 (5.882 %) Active Directory 6 1 (5.882 %) Intel 6 1 (5.882 %) PMI 6 1 (5.882 %) Project Management 6 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe 6 1 (5.882 %) Windows 6 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (5.882 %) MS Exchange 6 1 (5.882 %) Service Management 6 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 6 1 (5.882 %) .NET 6 1 (5.882 %) MS Project 6 1 (5.882 %) MS Office

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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.

Application Development 1 1 (5.882 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Project 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 2 (11.76 %) LAN 1 2 (11.76 %) WAN
General 1 3 (17.65 %) Finance 2 1 (5.882 %) Government 2 1 (5.882 %) Banking 2 1 (5.882 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) Analyst 1 4 (23.53 %) Team Leader 2 2 (11.76 %) Project Manager 2 2 (11.76 %) Project Administrator 2 2 (11.76 %) Support Team Leader 2 2 (11.76 %) Consultant 2 2 (11.76 %) Applications Support 2 2 (11.76 %) Service Analyst 2 2 (11.76 %) Administrator 2 2 (11.76 %) Process Analyst 2 2 (11.76 %) ITIL Consultant 3 1 (5.882 %) Service Support Manager 3 1 (5.882 %) Operations Manager 3 1 (5.882 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (5.882 %) Service Manager 3 1 (5.882 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 1 (5.882 %) Delivery Manager 3 1 (5.882 %) Services Delivery Analyst 3 1 (5.882 %) Services Delivery Consultant 3 1 (5.882 %) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.882 %) PMI 1 1 (5.882 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (5.882 %) Windows 1 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 6 (35.29 %) Service Delivery 3 4 (23.53 %) Problem Management 4 2 (11.76 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (5.882 %) Project Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Service Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 5 1 (5.882 %) Operations Management	Qualifications 1 2 (11.76 %) CCNA 1 2 (11.76 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (5.882 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (11.76 %) SLA	System Software 1 1 (5.882 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 2 (11.76 %) Cisco 1 2 (11.76 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.882 %) Intel