Edinburgh ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 20 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Barnsley Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding Staffordshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	30	50
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	21	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.027 %
As % of the category below	5.497 %	4.394 %
Daily rates quoted	9	6
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£363
Average daily rate	£311	£375
% change on same period last year	-17.03 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£388
UK excluding London average daily rate	£341	£335
% change on same period last year	+1.80 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£13.40
Average hourly rate	-	£13.60
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£13.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.69	£22.19
% change on same period last year	-15.76 %
Processes & Methodologies Edinburgh
Matching contract IT job ads	382	569
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.599 %	0.619 %
Daily rates quoted	116	114
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£324
Average daily rate	£356	£339
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£386	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£369
% change on same period last year	+2.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	24
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.57	£20.98
Average hourly rate	£21.22	£22.23
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.88	£23.49
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.09	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-6.09 %
ITIL Scotland

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 November 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 8 (25.00 %) Service Management 1 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2 7 (21.88 %) Data Modelling 2 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft 2 7 (21.88 %) Process Management 2 7 (21.88 %) Replication 3 6 (18.75 %) Six Sigma 4 5 (15.63 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 4 5 (15.63 %) Banking 5 4 (12.50 %) Finance 5 4 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 5 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 5 4 (12.50 %) UNIX 6 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint

6 3 (9.375 %) MS Office 6 3 (9.375 %) Solaris 6 3 (9.375 %) DB2 6 3 (9.375 %) Change Management 6 3 (9.375 %) Project Management 6 3 (9.375 %) Retail 6 3 (9.375 %) Exchange Server 2007 7 2 (6.250 %) Pensions 7 2 (6.250 %) OVSD 7 2 (6.250 %) Programme Management 7 2 (6.250 %) Mainframe 7 2 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 7 2 (6.250 %) Avaya 7 2 (6.250 %) Avaya Certification 7 2 (6.250 %) LAN

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 November 2008, 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 Platforms 1 4 (12.50 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (9.375 %) SharePoint 2 3 (9.375 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (3.125 %) LiveLink 3 1 (3.125 %) WebLogic 3 1 (3.125 %) Lotus Notes	Applications 1 3 (9.375 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel 2 1 (3.125 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 2 (6.250 %) LAN 1 2 (6.250 %) WAN 1 2 (6.250 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (3.125 %) DNS 2 1 (3.125 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.375 %) DB2
Development Applications 1 1 (3.125 %) WinRunner 1 1 (3.125 %) LoadRunner	General 1 5 (15.63 %) Banking 2 4 (12.50 %) Telecoms 2 4 (12.50 %) Finance 3 3 (9.375 %) Retail 4 2 (6.250 %) Pensions 5 1 (3.125 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 12 (37.50 %) Analyst 2 7 (21.88 %) DBA 3 4 (12.50 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (9.375 %) DB2 DBA 4 3 (9.375 %) UNIX Support 4 3 (9.375 %) Business Analyst 4 3 (9.375 %) Service Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) Technical Specialist 5 2 (6.250 %) Junior 5 2 (6.250 %) Network Support Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Server Support 5 2 (6.250 %) Support Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) ITIL Service Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) ITIL Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) Project Manager 5 2 (6.250 %) Service Management Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Network Analyst 5 2 (6.250 %) Network Support 5 2 (6.250 %) Junior DBA 6 1 (3.125 %) Senior Technical Support	Miscellaneous 1 7 (21.88 %) Replication 2 2 (6.250 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (25.00 %) Windows 2 4 (12.50 %) UNIX 3 3 (9.375 %) Solaris 4 1 (3.125 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 8 (25.00 %) Service Management 2 7 (21.88 %) Process Management 2 7 (21.88 %) Data Modelling 3 6 (18.75 %) Six Sigma 4 3 (9.375 %) Project Management 4 3 (9.375 %) Change Management 5 2 (6.250 %) Programme Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Information Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Business Analysis 6 1 (3.125 %) Software Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Incident Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Workflow 6 1 (3.125 %) Migration 6 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 1 (3.125 %) Java 1 1 (3.125 %) VBScript 1 1 (3.125 %) VB	Qualifications 1 4 (12.50 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (6.250 %) Avaya Certification 2 2 (6.250 %) CCIE 2 2 (6.250 %) CCNP 2 2 (6.250 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.125 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.125 %) CNA 3 1 (3.125 %) Novell Certification 3 1 (3.125 %) ISEB 3 1 (3.125 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 3 1 (3.125 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (15.63 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 2 (6.250 %) SLA 3 1 (3.125 %) EFQM 3 1 (3.125 %) COBIT 3 1 (3.125 %) QA	System Software 1 1 (3.125 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (6.250 %) OpenView 1 2 (6.250 %) CiscoWorks 1 2 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 1 2 (6.250 %) OVSD	Vendors 1 7 (21.88 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.250 %) HP 2 2 (6.250 %) Cisco 2 2 (6.250 %) Avaya 3 1 (3.125 %) NetApp 3 1 (3.125 %) Novell 3 1 (3.125 %) Lotus 3 1 (3.125 %) Apple 3 1 (3.125 %) Citrix