The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the East of England 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Rank 100 118 113
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 16 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.735% 0.436% 0.651%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.167% 2.342% 4.038%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 7 7
Average daily rate £225 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £314 £325
% change year-on-year
+13.20% -3.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £12.68 £15.25
% change year-on-year
+63.70% -16.88%
All Qualifications
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
384 555 421
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 17.64% 18.62% 16.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 279 149
Average daily rate £325 £313 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% +11.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £128 £78
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 62 76
Average hourly rate £25.00 £34.25 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.00% +37.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £12.79 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £47.50 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

East of England ITIL Certification Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL Certification across the East of England region.

East of England ITIL Certification Daily Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

East of England ITIL Certification Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the East of England region.

East of England ITIL Certification Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL Certification
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Norfolk +8 7 £225 -
Cambridgeshire +16 5 £425 -7.10%
Hertfordshire +12 4 - -
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 42 (100.00%) ITIL
2 25 (59.52%) Windows
3 21 (50.00%) PRINCE2
4 19 (45.24%) PRINCE
5 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
6 16 (38.10%) WAN
6 16 (38.10%) LAN
7 15 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
8 14 (33.33%) VMware
8 14 (33.33%) Cisco
9 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
9 13 (30.95%) Firewall
10 12 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (28.57%) DNS
10 12 (28.57%) SQL
11 11 (26.19%) IIS
11 11 (26.19%) VoIP
11 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
12 10 (23.81%) HP
12 10 (23.81%) SAN
12 10 (23.81%) Windows XP
12 10 (23.81%) MS Exchange
12 10 (23.81%) Wireless
13 9 (21.43%) NAS
13 9 (21.43%) MCITP
13 9 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (21.43%) WAAS
13 9 (21.43%) VCP5
14 8 (19.05%) Windows 8
14 8 (19.05%) UAG

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 4 (9.524%) .NET
2 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC 4
2 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET MVC
2 2 (4.762%) WCF
2 2 (4.762%) ASP
2 2 (4.762%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 11 (26.19%) IIS
2 10 (23.81%) MS Exchange
3 8 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
4 2 (4.762%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (2.381%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.381%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.762%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (2.381%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 16 (38.10%) WAN
1 16 (38.10%) LAN
2 13 (30.95%) Firewall
3 12 (28.57%) DNS
4 11 (26.19%) VoIP
5 10 (23.81%) SAN
5 10 (23.81%) Wireless
6 9 (21.43%) NAS
6 9 (21.43%) WAAS
7 3 (7.143%) TCP/IP
8 2 (4.762%) DHCP
9 1 (2.381%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 3 (7.143%) Subversion
1 3 (7.143%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 6 (14.29%) Finance
2 3 (7.143%) Retail
3 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (19.05%) Network Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (11.90%) Network Specialist
4 4 (9.524%) Release Manager
4 4 (9.524%) Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Support Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (7.143%) Team Leader
5 3 (7.143%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.762%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (4.762%) Applications Support Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Desktop Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.762%) Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Applications Support
7 1 (2.381%) Support Analyst
7 1 (2.381%) 3rd Line Support
7 1 (2.381%) Service Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) NHS
2 3 (7.143%) Clustering
3 2 (4.762%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.381%) HP StorageWorks
Operating Systems
1 25 (59.52%) Windows
2 15 (35.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (23.81%) Windows XP
4 8 (19.05%) Windows 8
5 5 (11.90%) UNIX
5 5 (11.90%) Linux
6 3 (7.143%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (7.143%) Windows 7
7 1 (2.381%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.381%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) ITIL
2 21 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 19 (45.24%) PRINCE
4 7 (16.67%) Project Management
4 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (9.524%) Configuration Management
6 3 (7.143%) E-Commerce
6 3 (7.143%) Migration
6 3 (7.143%) Service Delivery
6 3 (7.143%) Release Management
6 3 (7.143%) Build Automation
7 2 (4.762%) MVC
7 2 (4.762%) Service Management
7 2 (4.762%) ERP
8 1 (2.381%) CAD
8 1 (2.381%) Supplier Management
8 1 (2.381%) Change Management
8 1 (2.381%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.381%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 12 (28.57%) SQL
2 3 (7.143%) Java
3 2 (4.762%) C#
3 2 (4.762%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (21.43%) MCITP
3 9 (21.43%) VCP5
4 8 (19.05%) CCNP
5 6 (14.29%) Degree
5 6 (14.29%) CCIE
6 5 (11.90%) CCIP
6 5 (11.90%) CCDP
7 3 (7.143%) CISSP
8 2 (4.762%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (4.762%) CCA
8 2 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
8 2 (4.762%) ECDL
8 2 (4.762%) MCSE
8 2 (4.762%) HND
9 1 (2.381%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (30.95%) Active Directory
2 9 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
3 8 (19.05%) UAG
3 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 17 (40.48%) Microsoft
2 14 (33.33%) VMware
2 14 (33.33%) Cisco
3 10 (23.81%) HP
4 5 (11.90%) Brocade
5 4 (9.524%) Oracle
6 3 (7.143%) Veritas
6 3 (7.143%) Red Hat
7 2 (4.762%) SAP
8 1 (2.381%) Citrix
8 1 (2.381%) BMC
8 1 (2.381%) Remedy
8 1 (2.381%) Sophos
Cambridge, East Anglia
The key purpose is to administer the BMC toolset on a day to day basis in order to ensure availability of the supporting tools, namely Remedy, BPPM and...
Hudson
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 8 May 2013
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role will involve moving the platform supporting the end client's key trading websites and will also entail building completely new e-commerce infrastructure and will require...
Roc Search
Posted: 18 May 2013