The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL V2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL V2 over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Infrastructure Library Version 2
Rank 503 483 518
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +35
Contract jobs citing ITIL V2 15 79 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.036% 0.148% 0.096%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.051% 0.216% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 14
Average daily rate £400 £473 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.34% +98.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £297 £122
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £579 £368
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £293 £200
% change year-on-year
+17.52% +46.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
Average hourly rate £19.00 - £19.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 - £19.75
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
29662 36514 38847
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.44% 68.38% 68.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 18132 21436 22477
Average daily rate £420 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.81% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 906 1198 1411
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.61 £13.27 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
ITIL V2
UK

ITIL V2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V2 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England ITIL V2 Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL V2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL V2 across the England region.

England ITIL V2 Daily Rate Trend

ITIL V2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL V2 across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England ITIL V2 Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL V2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V2 across the England region.

England ITIL V2 Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL V2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL V2 within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
London -20 9 £438 -7.89%
South East +10 3 £350 +22.80%
South West +27 2 £200 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
ITIL V2
UK

ITIL V2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ITIL V2 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 V2.

1 42 (100.00%) ITIL
2 12 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
3 11 (26.19%) Project Management
3 11 (26.19%) Service Management
4 9 (21.43%) Service Delivery
5 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 8 (19.05%) Citrix
5 8 (19.05%) Windows
5 8 (19.05%) Incident Management
5 8 (19.05%) ITIL V3
6 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 7 (16.67%) Cisco
6 7 (16.67%) Change Management
7 6 (14.29%) Release Management
8 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
8 5 (11.90%) Remedy
8 5 (11.90%) HP
8 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
9 4 (9.524%) MS Excel
9 4 (9.524%) Intel
9 4 (9.524%) VoIP
9 4 (9.524%) DHCP
9 4 (9.524%) DNS
9 4 (9.524%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (9.524%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (9.524%) CommVault
9 4 (9.524%) SAN
9 4 (9.524%) MPLS
9 4 (9.524%) Firewall

ITIL V2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ITIL V2 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 V2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.762%) HTML
1 2 (4.762%) Web Services
2 1 (2.381%) WebSphere
2 1 (2.381%) .NET Framework
2 1 (2.381%) Java EE
2 1 (2.381%) Application Packaging
2 1 (2.381%) Spring
2 1 (2.381%) Middleware
2 1 (2.381%) JMS
2 1 (2.381%) XML
2 1 (2.381%) COM
2 1 (2.381%) CSS
2 1 (2.381%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.143%) MS Exchange
3 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (2.381%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (2.381%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle HTTP Server
3 1 (2.381%) Apache
3 1 (2.381%) Tomcat
3 1 (2.381%) Documentum
3 1 (2.381%) WebSphere Application Server
3 1 (2.381%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.381%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 3 (7.143%) MS Office
3 2 (4.762%) MS Project
4 1 (2.381%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (2.381%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.381%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.381%) WebTrends
Communications & Networking
1 4 (9.524%) VoIP
1 4 (9.524%) DHCP
1 4 (9.524%) DNS
1 4 (9.524%) SAN
1 4 (9.524%) MPLS
1 4 (9.524%) Firewall
2 1 (2.381%) SSL
2 1 (2.381%) HTTP
2 1 (2.381%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.762%) Data Mining
2 1 (2.381%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (4.762%) JIRA
General
1 4 (9.524%) Finance
2 3 (7.143%) Manufacturing
3 2 (4.762%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.381%) French Language
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Financial Institution
4 1 (2.381%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 17 (40.48%) Analyst
2 6 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 6 (14.29%) Configuration Analyst
3 4 (9.524%) Support Analyst
3 4 (9.524%) Operations Manager
3 4 (9.524%) Change Manager
4 3 (7.143%) Incident Analyst
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Incident Analyst
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
4 3 (7.143%) Incident Manager
4 3 (7.143%) Consultant
4 3 (7.143%) Senior Manager
5 2 (4.762%) Technical Support
5 2 (4.762%) Programme Manager
5 2 (4.762%) Configuration Manager
5 2 (4.762%) Configuration Management Analyst
5 2 (4.762%) Release Manager
5 2 (4.762%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (4.762%) Problem Analyst
5 2 (4.762%) Services Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.143%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.762%) SaaS
2 2 (4.762%) Statistics
3 1 (2.381%) CMDB
3 1 (2.381%) Clustering
3 1 (2.381%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (19.05%) Windows
2 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (7.143%) Linux
3 2 (4.762%) Windows XP
4 1 (2.381%) Windows Vista
4 1 (2.381%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.381%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (2.381%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.381%) Solaris
4 1 (2.381%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) ITIL
2 12 (28.57%) PRINCE2
3 11 (26.19%) Project Management
3 11 (26.19%) Service Management
4 9 (21.43%) Service Delivery
5 8 (19.05%) Configuration Management
5 8 (19.05%) Incident Management
5 8 (19.05%) ITIL V3
6 7 (16.67%) Problem Management
6 7 (16.67%) Change Management
7 6 (14.29%) Release Management
8 4 (9.524%) Change Control
8 4 (9.524%) Supplier Management
8 4 (9.524%) Asset Management
9 3 (7.143%) Migration
9 3 (7.143%) ITSM
10 2 (4.762%) SOA
10 2 (4.762%) PRINCE
10 2 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
10 2 (4.762%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.143%) SQL
2 2 (4.762%) VB
2 2 (4.762%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.381%) Korn
3 1 (2.381%) C-shell
3 1 (2.381%) Bash shell
3 1 (2.381%) Jython
3 1 (2.381%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.381%) Java
3 1 (2.381%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
2 4 (9.524%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (9.524%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
3 2 (4.762%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (4.762%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.762%) Degree
4 1 (2.381%) MOS
4 1 (2.381%) CBAP
4 1 (2.381%) MBA
4 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (2.381%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) SLA
1 2 (4.762%) QA
1 2 (4.762%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (4.762%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (4.762%) Hyper-V
1 2 (4.762%) vSphere
1 2 (4.762%) vCloud
2 1 (2.381%) XenApp
2 1 (2.381%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (7.143%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (2.381%) Business Desktop Deployment
2 1 (2.381%) ZENworks
Vendors
1 11 (26.19%) Microsoft
2 8 (19.05%) Citrix
3 7 (16.67%) Cisco
4 5 (11.90%) Remedy
4 5 (11.90%) HP
5 4 (9.524%) Intel
5 4 (9.524%) CommVault
6 3 (7.143%) Serena
7 2 (4.762%) Symantec
7 2 (4.762%) NetApp
7 2 (4.762%) EMC
7 2 (4.762%) VMware
8 1 (2.381%) Adobe
8 1 (2.381%) IBM
8 1 (2.381%) Novell
8 1 (2.381%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.381%) Avaya
8 1 (2.381%) BMC
8 1 (2.381%) JBoss
8 1 (2.381%) Oracle
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