The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL V3 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 V3 over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Infrastructure Library Version 3
Rank 356 401 450
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +49
Contract jobs citing ITIL V3 157 159 105
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.371% 0.297% 0.190%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.520% 0.435% 0.278%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 63 52
Average daily rate £395 £375 £409
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.33% -8.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £160 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £379 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
+8.21% -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 1
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% +60.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £13.00 £17.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +36.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
30182 36546 37754
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.34% 68.30% 68.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 18435 21484 21848
Average daily rate £425 £413 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £595 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 1202 1371
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 £13.12 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £46.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
ITIL V3
UK

ITIL V3
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V3 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

England ITIL V3 Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL V3
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL V3 across the England region.

England ITIL V3 Daily Rate Trend

ITIL V3
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL V3 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England ITIL V3 Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL V3
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V3 across the England region.

England ITIL V3 Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL V3
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL V3 across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England ITIL V3 Hourly Rate Histogram

ITIL V3
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL V3 within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 0 79 £400 -4.47%
South East +33 33 £338 +5.46%
Yorkshire +12 15 £400 +77.77%
South West +31 13 £283 -24.66%
North West +16 7 £400 +14.28%
North East +11 3 - -
East of England +8 3 £300 -14.28%
West Midlands +12 2 £325 +125.69%
Midlands +5 2 £475 -
ITIL V3
UK

ITIL V3
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ITIL V3 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 V3.

1 302 (100.00%) ITIL
2 82 (27.15%) Service Management
3 76 (25.17%) PRINCE2
4 73 (24.17%) Project Management
5 70 (23.18%) Windows
6 62 (20.53%) Security Cleared
7 60 (19.87%) Finance
8 58 (19.21%) Service Delivery
9 47 (15.56%) Citrix
10 43 (14.24%) Change Management
11 42 (13.91%) Microsoft
12 37 (12.25%) VMware
13 32 (10.60%) MS Excel
14 31 (10.26%) Cisco
14 31 (10.26%) DV Cleared
15 30 (9.934%) Windows Server 2008
16 29 (9.603%) MS Office
17 28 (9.272%) Banking
18 25 (8.278%) Management Information System
18 25 (8.278%) SC Cleared
19 23 (7.616%) PowerShell
19 23 (7.616%) Business Analysis
20 22 (7.285%) ITSM
20 22 (7.285%) PRINCE2 Certification
20 22 (7.285%) Oracle
21 21 (6.954%) SLA
21 21 (6.954%) Incident Management
22 20 (6.623%) Release Management
22 20 (6.623%) SQL
23 19 (6.291%) Configuration Management

ITIL V3
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ITIL V3 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 V3. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (4.967%) .NET
2 6 (1.987%) ASP.NET
3 3 (0.993%) COM
3 3 (0.993%) SAP Basis
4 2 (0.662%) Oracle Fusion
4 2 (0.662%) Ajax
4 2 (0.662%) HTML
4 2 (0.662%) CSS
4 2 (0.662%) Web Services
4 2 (0.662%) XML
5 1 (0.331%) Middleware
5 1 (0.331%) JSP
5 1 (0.331%) SOAP
5 1 (0.331%) ASP
5 1 (0.331%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.331%) Oracle Streams
Application Platforms
1 10 (3.311%) MS Exchange
2 6 (1.987%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (1.656%) Apache
4 3 (0.993%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.993%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (0.993%) Lync
5 2 (0.662%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.331%) NetWeaver
6 1 (0.331%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.331%) Lotus Domino
6 1 (0.331%) CMS
6 1 (0.331%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.331%) WebSphere Message Broker
6 1 (0.331%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 32 (10.60%) MS Excel
2 29 (9.603%) MS Office
3 11 (3.642%) MS Project
4 8 (2.649%) MS Visio
5 6 (1.987%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.325%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.662%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.662%) Bond Adapt
3 1 (0.331%) SAP SM
3 1 (0.331%) Oracle 11i
3 1 (0.331%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.331%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.331%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (5.960%) NetScaler
2 12 (3.974%) VoIP
3 11 (3.642%) SAN
4 9 (2.980%) VPN
4 9 (2.980%) Firewall
5 5 (1.656%) TCP/IP
6 4 (1.325%) Radio Access Network
7 3 (0.993%) Internet
7 3 (0.993%) LAN
7 3 (0.993%) NAS
8 2 (0.662%) HTTP
9 1 (0.331%) PBX
9 1 (0.331%) WAN
9 1 (0.331%) POP3
9 1 (0.331%) SMTP
9 1 (0.331%) IP Telephony
9 1 (0.331%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.987%) SQL Server
1 6 (1.987%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (1.325%) MS Access
3 3 (0.993%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (0.662%) Oracle 11g
4 2 (0.662%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.662%) Crystal Reports
4 2 (0.662%) Oracle 10g
4 2 (0.662%) DTS
4 2 (0.662%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (0.662%) SQL Server 7
4 2 (0.662%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (0.331%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.331%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 3 (0.993%) CruiseControl
1 3 (0.993%) Subversion
1 3 (0.993%) MSBuild
1 3 (0.993%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (0.331%) JIRA
General
1 60 (19.87%) Finance
2 28 (9.272%) Banking
3 14 (4.636%) Telecoms
4 9 (2.980%) Retail
5 7 (2.318%) Investment Banking
6 4 (1.325%) Marketing
6 4 (1.325%) Manufacturing
7 3 (0.993%) Back Office
7 3 (0.993%) Local Government
8 2 (0.662%) Advertising
8 2 (0.662%) Publishing
9 1 (0.331%) Billing
9 1 (0.331%) Law
9 1 (0.331%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 59 (19.54%) Service Manager
2 57 (18.87%) Analyst
3 28 (9.272%) Project Manager
4 24 (7.947%) Transition Manager
5 21 (6.954%) Services Delivery Manager
5 21 (6.954%) Delivery Manager
6 20 (6.623%) Business Analyst
7 14 (4.636%) Consultant
8 13 (4.305%) 3rd Line Support
8 13 (4.305%) Project Leader
9 12 (3.974%) Service Analyst
10 11 (3.642%) Configuration Manager
11 10 (3.311%) Technical Project Leader
12 9 (2.980%) IT Services Manager
13 8 (2.649%) Administrator
13 8 (2.649%) Support Engineer
13 8 (2.649%) Contracts Manager
13 8 (2.649%) Infrastructure Manager
13 8 (2.649%) Support Manager
13 8 (2.649%) Desktop Support
Miscellaneous
1 25 (8.278%) Management Information System
2 14 (4.636%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (1.987%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (1.987%) Clustering
3 6 (1.987%) Blackberry
4 5 (1.656%) Freedom of Information
4 5 (1.656%) Freedom of Information Act
5 4 (1.325%) Computer Science
5 4 (1.325%) PMI
6 2 (0.662%) Open Source
6 2 (0.662%) PaaS
6 2 (0.662%) CMDB
6 2 (0.662%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (0.662%) NHS
7 1 (0.331%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.331%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.331%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (0.331%) HP Superdome
7 1 (0.331%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 70 (23.18%) Windows
2 30 (9.934%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (5.298%) UNIX
4 14 (4.636%) Windows 7
5 6 (1.987%) Linux
5 6 (1.987%) Windows XP
5 6 (1.987%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (0.993%) Windows 8
6 3 (0.993%) Windows Vista
6 3 (0.993%) CentOS
7 2 (0.662%) Windows 2000
7 2 (0.662%) AIX
7 2 (0.662%) HPUX
7 2 (0.662%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (100.00%) ITIL
2 82 (27.15%) Service Management
3 76 (25.17%) PRINCE2
4 73 (24.17%) Project Management
5 58 (19.21%) Service Delivery
6 43 (14.24%) Change Management
7 23 (7.616%) Business Analysis
8 22 (7.285%) ITSM
9 21 (6.954%) Incident Management
10 20 (6.623%) Release Management
11 19 (6.291%) Configuration Management
12 18 (5.960%) PRINCE
12 18 (5.960%) Stakeholder Management
13 17 (5.629%) Six Sigma
14 15 (4.967%) Problem Management
15 13 (4.305%) Migration
15 13 (4.305%) Process Architecture
15 13 (4.305%) Capacity Management
16 12 (3.974%) Change Control
17 11 (3.642%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 23 (7.616%) PowerShell
2 20 (6.623%) SQL
3 18 (5.960%) VBScript
4 9 (2.980%) T-SQL
5 8 (2.649%) C#
6 7 (2.318%) VB
7 3 (0.993%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.993%) C
7 3 (0.993%) Java
8 2 (0.662%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.662%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.331%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 62 (20.53%) Security Cleared
2 31 (10.26%) DV Cleared
3 25 (8.278%) SC Cleared
4 22 (7.285%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 17 (5.629%) Degree
6 16 (5.298%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (3.642%) MCSE
8 7 (2.318%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (2.318%) PMP
9 6 (1.987%) MCP
10 5 (1.656%) PMI Certification
10 5 (1.656%) CISSP
10 5 (1.656%) MCITP
10 5 (1.656%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 4 (1.325%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (1.325%) Cisco Certification
11 4 (1.325%) CCNA
12 3 (0.993%) CCA
12 3 (0.993%) Citrix Certification
12 3 (0.993%) CNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (6.954%) SLA
2 6 (1.987%) PCI DSS
3 5 (1.656%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (1.656%) QA
4 2 (0.662%) COBIT
5 1 (0.331%) ISO/IEC 17799
5 1 (0.331%) BS15000
System Software
1 18 (5.960%) XenDesktop
2 17 (5.629%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.636%) VMware ESX
4 10 (3.311%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.656%) XenApp
6 3 (0.993%) Oracle RMAN
6 3 (0.993%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.331%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 3 (0.993%) Backup Exec
1 3 (0.993%) Opalis
1 3 (0.993%) WSUS
1 3 (0.993%) SCOM
1 3 (0.993%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.662%) SCCM
2 2 (0.662%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (0.331%) OpenView
3 1 (0.331%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (0.331%) OVSD
3 1 (0.331%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.331%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (0.331%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 47 (15.56%) Citrix
2 42 (13.91%) Microsoft
3 37 (12.25%) VMware
4 31 (10.26%) Cisco
5 22 (7.285%) Oracle
6 15 (4.967%) AppSense
7 13 (4.305%) SAP
8 10 (3.311%) Remedy
9 7 (2.318%) HP
10 5 (1.656%) Symantec
10 5 (1.656%) Apple
10 5 (1.656%) Novell
11 4 (1.325%) Altiris
11 4 (1.325%) IBM
11 4 (1.325%) Avaya
12 3 (0.993%) Lotus
12 3 (0.993%) Lumension
13 2 (0.662%) Qualys
13 2 (0.662%) LANDesk
13 2 (0.662%) Reuters
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