The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 18 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 Edinburgh 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 47 23 34
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 16 40 35
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.730% 3.766% 2.624%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.462% 5.610% 4.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 15 17
Average daily rate £268 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.69% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £219 £126
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £425 £460
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £313
% change year-on-year
- +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -3.12%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
650 713 862
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Edinburgh 70.27% 67.14% 64.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 307 335 459
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £270 £250 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 8
Average hourly rate £19.50 £24.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-18.75% +37.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £12.87 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.25 £40.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL
Scotland

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Edinburgh ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Edinburgh ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing ITIL 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.

1 18 (52.94%) Windows
2 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
3 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 10 (29.41%) Oracle
4 9 (26.47%) MS Exchange
5 8 (23.53%) Solaris
5 8 (23.53%) UNIX
5 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (23.53%) Project Management
6 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
6 7 (20.59%) HPUX
6 7 (20.59%) Finance
6 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.59%) Banking
6 7 (20.59%) Exchange Server 2003
6 7 (20.59%) Exchange Server 2010
7 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
7 6 (17.65%) Service Management
7 6 (17.65%) AIX
7 6 (17.65%) Windows XP
7 6 (17.65%) MCP
7 6 (17.65%) MS Office
7 6 (17.65%) Internet
8 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
8 5 (14.71%) DB2
8 5 (14.71%) MySQL
8 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
8 5 (14.71%) Change Management
8 5 (14.71%) Risk Analysis

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Edinburgh region citing ITIL 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (5.882%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.941%) J2EE
2 1 (2.941%) XML
2 1 (2.941%) XSLT
2 1 (2.941%) WebSphere MQ
Application Platforms
1 9 (26.47%) MS Exchange
2 7 (20.59%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (20.59%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (11.76%) IIS
4 3 (8.824%) WebLogic
5 2 (5.882%) Apache
5 2 (5.882%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
6 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.941%) WebLogic Portal
6 1 (2.941%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.941%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 6 (17.65%) MS Office
2 5 (14.71%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.941%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (8.824%) assyst
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) Internet
2 3 (8.824%) DNS
3 2 (5.882%) Intranet
3 2 (5.882%) MPLS
3 2 (5.882%) LDAP
3 2 (5.882%) DHCP
3 2 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.941%) VPN
4 1 (2.941%) Firewall
4 1 (2.941%) Network Security
4 1 (2.941%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (14.71%) DB2
1 5 (14.71%) MySQL
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle 9i
4 1 (2.941%) Oracle 11g
General
1 7 (20.59%) Finance
1 7 (20.59%) Banking
2 2 (5.882%) Retail
2 2 (5.882%) Retail Banking
3 1 (2.941%) German Language
3 1 (2.941%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Administrator
2 5 (14.71%) IT Administrator
2 5 (14.71%) Desktop Administrator
3 4 (11.76%) Analyst
3 4 (11.76%) Consultant
4 3 (8.824%) Architect
4 3 (8.824%) Programme Manager
4 3 (8.824%) Desktop Support
4 3 (8.824%) Service Manager
4 3 (8.824%) UNIX Consultant
4 3 (8.824%) Senior Desktop Support
4 3 (8.824%) IT Support
4 3 (8.824%) Designer
5 2 (5.882%) Desktop Support Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Designer
5 2 (5.882%) Security Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) UNIX Administrator
5 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.882%) Handset
3 1 (2.941%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.941%) Client/Server
3 1 (2.941%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 18 (52.94%) Windows
2 10 (29.41%) Linux
3 8 (23.53%) UNIX
3 8 (23.53%) Solaris
4 7 (20.59%) HPUX
5 6 (17.65%) AIX
5 6 (17.65%) Windows XP
6 5 (14.71%) Windows 7
7 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2003
7 3 (8.824%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (23.53%) Project Management
2 7 (20.59%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (17.65%) Service Management
3 6 (17.65%) Problem Management
4 5 (14.71%) Risk Analysis
4 5 (14.71%) PRINCE2
4 5 (14.71%) Change Management
5 3 (8.824%) Migration
5 3 (8.824%) Service Delivery
6 2 (5.882%) Programme Management
6 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (5.882%) Incident Management
6 2 (5.882%) Project Planning
7 1 (2.941%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.941%) Asset Management
7 1 (2.941%) Web Analytics
7 1 (2.941%) Data Modelling
7 1 (2.941%) Configuration Management
7 1 (2.941%) Test Scripting
7 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (2.941%) T-SQL
2 1 (2.941%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (23.53%) Microsoft Certification
1 8 (23.53%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (17.65%) MCP
3 3 (8.824%) PMI Certification
4 2 (5.882%) PMP
4 2 (5.882%) MCSA
4 2 (5.882%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (5.882%) MCITP
5 1 (2.941%) Degree
5 1 (2.941%) MCDST
5 1 (2.941%) CCNA
5 1 (2.941%) CISSP
5 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.941%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.941%) QA
2 1 (2.941%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 1 (2.941%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (38.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.882%) vSphere
3 1 (2.941%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (2.941%) ISA Server
3 1 (2.941%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (5.882%) Backup Exec
1 2 (5.882%) WSUS
2 1 (2.941%) SCCM
2 1 (2.941%) SCOM
2 1 (2.941%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Oracle
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft
3 3 (8.824%) HP
3 3 (8.824%) VMware
3 3 (8.824%) IBM
4 2 (5.882%) Veeam
4 2 (5.882%) Nortel
4 2 (5.882%) JBoss
5 1 (2.941%) Sun
5 1 (2.941%) TIBCO
5 1 (2.941%) McAfee
5 1 (2.941%) Cadis
5 1 (2.941%) ServiceNow
5 1 (2.941%) thinkFolio
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Expert in Program/Project Management you will be able to demonstrate delivery of cross continent programmes... The role is for a hands-on individual that can manage logistics...
Randstad Technologies
Rate: £450 - £550 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013