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This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the England 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkInformation Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location
3 months to 25 Jul 2008Same period last year
Rank3644
Rank change on same period last yearUp+8
Matching contract IT job ads24842881
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled3.311 %2.915 %
As % of the category below6.528 %6.232 %
Daily rates quoted848824
Average minimum daily rate£330£339
Average daily rate£350£355
% change on same period last year-1.48 %
Average maximum daily rate£370£372
UK excluding London average daily rate£333£345
% change on same period last year-3.52 %
Hourly rates quoted302296
Average minimum hourly rate£20.03£21.64
Average hourly rate£20.95£23.55
% change on same period last year-11.06 %
Average maximum hourly rate£21.87£25.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate£20.20£22.41
% change on same period last year-9.85 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
England
Matching contract IT job ads3805046228
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled50.72 %46.77 %
Daily rates quoted1413915557
Average minimum daily rate£390£394
Average daily rate£417£419
% change on same period last year-0.48 %
Average maximum daily rate£445£444
UK excluding London average daily rate£380£376
% change on same period last year+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted22402855
Average minimum hourly rate£27.15£28.88
Average hourly rate£28.92£30.71
% change on same period last year-5.83 %
Average maximum hourly rate£30.69£32.54
UK excluding London average hourly rate£29.33£30.16
% change on same period last year-2.72 %
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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.

ITIL
Demand Trend

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

England ITIL Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

England ITIL Hourly Rate Histogram

ITIL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the England region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+161096£365-0.35 %
South EastUp+9539£331-8.11 %
North WestDown-6192£310+2.83 %
YorkshireDown-5163£295-17.22 %
South WestDown-2141£372+14.62 %
West MidlandsDown-3141£341-1.52 %
East of EnglandDown-5111£342-8.16 %
East MidlandsDown-853£226-28.68 %
North EastUp+2127£364+26.45 %
MidlandsDown-1825£418+5.47 %
South CoastUp+72£285-
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ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

11115 (22.14 %)Windows
21114 (22.13 %)Service Management
3919 (18.25 %)PRINCE2
4736 (14.62 %)ITIL Certification
4736 (14.62 %)Finance
5708 (14.06 %)Microsoft
6681 (13.53 %)Service Delivery
7618 (12.27 %)Project Management
8558 (11.08 %)Active Directory
9503 (9.990 %)Change Management
10496 (9.851 %)UNIX
11493 (9.791 %)Security Cleared
12482 (9.573 %)MS Office
13434 (8.620 %)Government
14392 (7.786 %)MS Excel
15390 (7.746 %)SLA
16376 (7.468 %)HP
17373 (7.408 %)Oracle
18356 (7.071 %)SQL
19350 (6.951 %)Banking
20330 (6.554 %)Microsoft Certification
21326 (6.475 %)Remedy
22322 (6.395 %)MS Exchange
23302 (5.998 %)Telecoms
24297 (5.899 %)Incident Management
25290 (5.760 %)Windows XP
25290 (5.760 %)Cisco
26283 (5.621 %)ITSM
27279 (5.541 %)SC Cleared
28261 (5.184 %)SQL Server

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1104 (2.066 %).NET
256 (1.112 %)WebServices
346 (0.914 %)Middleware
444 (0.874 %)J2EE
542 (0.834 %)XML
641 (0.814 %)HTML
736 (0.715 %)ASP.NET
834 (0.675 %)WebSphere
929 (0.576 %)Application Packaging
1022 (0.437 %).NET Framework
1115 (0.298 %)CSS
1115 (0.298 %)JSP
1212 (0.238 %)ASP
1311 (0.218 %)XSLT
1311 (0.218 %)ODBC
1410 (0.199 %)Servlets
159 (0.179 %)Struts
165 (0.099 %)EJB
165 (0.099 %)SAP XI
174 (0.079 %)X-Windows
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1322 (6.395 %)MS Exchange
2222 (4.409 %)Exchange Server 2003
3108 (2.145 %)SharePoint
493 (1.847 %)Lotus Notes
493 (1.847 %)Exchange Server 2000
581 (1.609 %)IIS
655 (1.092 %)WebLogic
746 (0.914 %)Exchange Server 2007
844 (0.874 %)Apache
930 (0.596 %)BizTalk Server
1027 (0.536 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1126 (0.516 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1215 (0.298 %)Tomcat
1215 (0.298 %)Lotus Domino
1312 (0.238 %)MQSeries
1312 (0.238 %)CMS
1411 (0.218 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1411 (0.218 %)SAS
1411 (0.218 %)TIBCO EMS
159 (0.179 %)GroupWise
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1482 (9.573 %)MS Office
2392 (7.786 %)MS Excel
3133 (2.642 %)MS Project
4112 (2.224 %)MS PowerPoint
5110 (2.185 %)MS Visio
618 (0.357 %)Spreadsheet
78 (0.159 %)Acrobat
84 (0.079 %)InfoPath
84 (0.079 %)CA Clarity
93 (0.060 %)AutoCAD
102 (0.040 %)DeltaView
111 (0.020 %)Paint Shop Pro
111 (0.020 %)ArcView
111 (0.020 %)Photoshop
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
152 (1.033 %)assyst
230 (0.596 %)Remedy ITSM
317 (0.338 %)Remedy AR System
49 (0.179 %)Endur
57 (0.139 %)Oracle 11i
66 (0.119 %)Microsoft CRM
66 (0.119 %)Oracle Applications
66 (0.119 %)SoftGrid
75 (0.099 %)MAXIMO
75 (0.099 %)Oracle EBS
75 (0.099 %)SAP SD
75 (0.099 %)RMDS
84 (0.079 %)SAP ERP
84 (0.079 %)SAP MM
84 (0.079 %)Summit
93 (0.060 %)e-Work
93 (0.060 %)Oracle Financials
93 (0.060 %)WebTrends
93 (0.060 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
101 (0.020 %)Navision
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1240 (4.767 %)Firewall
2239 (4.747 %)WAN
3222 (4.409 %)SAN
4215 (4.270 %)LAN
5209 (4.151 %)TCP/IP
6128 (2.542 %)DNS
799 (1.966 %)VPN
887 (1.728 %)Internet
980 (1.589 %)VoIP
1070 (1.390 %)DHCP
1152 (1.033 %)MPLS
1241 (0.814 %)SMS
1340 (0.794 %)Intranet
1438 (0.755 %)SSL
1536 (0.715 %)Network Security
1630 (0.596 %)Wireless
1728 (0.556 %)IP Telephony
1826 (0.516 %)CTI
1925 (0.497 %)Ethernet
2024 (0.477 %)PBX
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1261 (5.184 %)SQL Server
292 (1.827 %)Crystal Reports
377 (1.529 %)SQL Server 2000
476 (1.509 %)BusinessObjects
565 (1.291 %)SQL Server 2005
648 (0.953 %)Oracle 10g
745 (0.894 %)Oracle 8/8i
843 (0.854 %)Oracle 9i
929 (0.576 %)MS Access
929 (0.576 %)MySQL
1023 (0.457 %)DB2
1122 (0.437 %)Datawarehouse
1122 (0.437 %)RDBMS
1217 (0.338 %)Oracle Reports
1316 (0.318 %)SQL Server 7
1415 (0.298 %)DTS
1514 (0.278 %)ETL
1612 (0.238 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1711 (0.218 %)GIS
189 (0.179 %)EDRMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
129 (0.576 %)Ant
225 (0.497 %)ClearCase
324 (0.477 %)ClearQuest
413 (0.258 %)RequisitePro
413 (0.258 %)Rational Rose
413 (0.258 %)VSS/SourceSafe
511 (0.218 %)MSI
511 (0.218 %)JIRA
69 (0.179 %)Oracle APEX
69 (0.179 %)Subversion
69 (0.179 %)Visual Studio
78 (0.159 %)NUnit
85 (0.099 %)Flash
93 (0.060 %)Eclipse
93 (0.060 %)TestDirector
93 (0.060 %)InstallShield
102 (0.040 %)XDE
102 (0.040 %)WebLogic Workshop
102 (0.040 %)XMLSpy
102 (0.040 %)JDeveloper
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1736 (14.62 %)Finance
2434 (8.620 %)Government
3350 (6.951 %)Banking
4302 (5.998 %)Telecoms
5181 (3.595 %)Investment Banking
691 (1.807 %)Law
781 (1.609 %)Retail
873 (1.450 %)Legal
960 (1.192 %)Financial Institution
1057 (1.132 %)Insurance
1152 (1.033 %)Health
1250 (0.993 %)Education
1348 (0.953 %)Back Office
1445 (0.894 %)Local Government
1536 (0.715 %)Pharmaceutical
1624 (0.477 %)Publishing
1722 (0.437 %)Pensions
1819 (0.377 %)Criminal Justice
1819 (0.377 %)Automotive
1917 (0.338 %)Police
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11349 (26.79 %)Analyst
2525 (10.43 %)Project Manager
3480 (9.533 %)Service Manager
4365 (7.249 %)Support Analyst
5334 (6.634 %)Service Analyst
6265 (5.263 %)Consultant
7208 (4.131 %)Service Desk Analyst
8185 (3.674 %)Delivery Manager
9179 (3.555 %)Business Analyst
10170 (3.376 %)Services Delivery Manager
11169 (3.357 %)Administrator
12152 (3.019 %)Team Leader
13148 (2.939 %)Architect
14136 (2.701 %)Support Engineer
15123 (2.443 %)Helpdesk Analyst
16112 (2.224 %)Desktop Support
17109 (2.165 %)Change Manager
18108 (2.145 %)Applications Support
19107 (2.125 %)Change Analyst
20106 (2.105 %)Helpdesk Support
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
185 (1.688 %)CMDB
282 (1.629 %)NHS
381 (1.609 %)Blackberry
381 (1.609 %)Clustering
460 (1.192 %)Management Information System
554 (1.072 %)Mainframe
650 (0.993 %)PMI
735 (0.695 %)French Language
827 (0.536 %)Derivative
925 (0.497 %)Client/Server
925 (0.497 %)Replication
1024 (0.477 %)Fixed Income
1123 (0.457 %)CLARiiON
1222 (0.437 %)Video Conferencing
1321 (0.417 %)Statistics
1420 (0.397 %)PKI
1517 (0.338 %)AS400
1616 (0.318 %)Thin Client
1616 (0.318 %)Fat Client
1715 (0.298 %)EMC Centera
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11115 (22.14 %)Windows
2496 (9.851 %)UNIX
3290 (5.760 %)Windows XP
4211 (4.191 %)Windows 2000
5196 (3.893 %)Windows Server 2003
6167 (3.317 %)Linux
7151 (2.999 %)Solaris
8143 (2.840 %)Windows NT
949 (0.973 %)AIX
1042 (0.834 %)HPUX
1136 (0.715 %)NetWare
1231 (0.616 %)MVS
1322 (0.437 %)Windows Vista
1420 (0.397 %)VMS
1512 (0.238 %)Mac OS X
1512 (0.238 %)zOS
166 (0.119 %)SUSE
175 (0.099 %)Windows Mobile
183 (0.060 %)OS/390
192 (0.040 %)Fedora
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11114 (22.13 %)Service Management
2919 (18.25 %)PRINCE2
3681 (13.53 %)Service Delivery
4618 (12.27 %)Project Management
5503 (9.990 %)Change Management
6493 (9.791 %)Security Cleared
7297 (5.899 %)Incident Management
8283 (5.621 %)ITSM
9279 (5.541 %)SC Cleared
10252 (5.005 %)Configuration Management
11217 (4.310 %)Problem Management
12201 (3.992 %)Release Management
13153 (3.039 %)PRINCE
14148 (2.939 %)Disaster Recovery
15138 (2.741 %)Migration
16111 (2.205 %)Asset Management
17109 (2.165 %)Business Analysis
18106 (2.105 %)Stakeholder Management
1988 (1.748 %)Risk Management
2084 (1.668 %)Business Continuity
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1356 (7.071 %)SQL
2106 (2.105 %)Java
364 (1.271 %)VB
463 (1.251 %)Shell Script
559 (1.172 %)C
650 (0.993 %)Perl
740 (0.794 %)C#
834 (0.675 %)PL/SQL
929 (0.576 %)VBScript
1022 (0.437 %)JavaScript
1121 (0.417 %)PHP
1121 (0.417 %)Transact-SQL
1220 (0.397 %)VB.NET
1317 (0.338 %)C++
1411 (0.218 %)VBA
1510 (0.199 %)DHTML
167 (0.139 %)JCL
176 (0.119 %)ABAP
184 (0.079 %)Korn
193 (0.060 %)Python
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1736 (14.62 %)ITIL Certification
2330 (6.554 %)Microsoft Certification
3246 (4.886 %)MCSE
4209 (4.151 %)Degree
5151 (2.999 %)Cisco Certification
6133 (2.642 %)PRINCE2 Certification
7113 (2.244 %)MCP
883 (1.648 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
982 (1.629 %)CCNA
1076 (1.509 %)CCNP
1165 (1.291 %)ISEB
1244 (0.874 %)Novell Certification
1341 (0.814 %)CNE
1440 (0.794 %)PMI Certification
1539 (0.775 %)MCSA
1635 (0.695 %)CISSP
1635 (0.695 %)PMP
1730 (0.596 %)CCIE
1822 (0.437 %)CCDA
1822 (0.437 %)CCDP
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1390 (7.746 %)SLA
284 (1.668 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
365 (1.291 %)ISO27001
459 (1.172 %)COBIT
459 (1.172 %)QA
545 (0.894 %)BS15000
638 (0.755 %)ISO9001
732 (0.636 %)ISO9000
816 (0.318 %)ISO17799
816 (0.318 %)BS7799
913 (0.258 %)TickIT
107 (0.139 %)GCP
115 (0.099 %)JSP 440
123 (0.060 %)ISO/IEC 20000
123 (0.060 %)Basel II
132 (0.040 %)EFQM
141 (0.020 %)ISO12207
141 (0.020 %)PCI DSS
141 (0.020 %)GAMP
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1558 (11.08 %)Active Directory
273 (1.450 %)VMware Infrastructure
354 (1.072 %)VMware ESX
354 (1.072 %)NetBackup
434 (0.675 %)Oracle RAC
532 (0.636 %)ISA Server
628 (0.556 %)Backup Exec
719 (0.377 %)MetaFrame
814 (0.278 %)Novell eDirectory
911 (0.218 %)Citrix Presentation Server
911 (0.218 %)Terminal Server
1010 (0.199 %)Terminal Services
1010 (0.199 %)Oracle RMAN
117 (0.139 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
125 (0.099 %)NFS
125 (0.099 %)MailMarshal
134 (0.079 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
134 (0.079 %)Samba
143 (0.060 %)VMware GSX
143 (0.060 %)Xen
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1212 (4.211 %)OpenView
266 (1.311 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
360 (1.192 %)OVOW
446 (0.914 %)ServiceCenter
536 (0.715 %)CiscoWorks
536 (0.715 %)Tivoli
629 (0.576 %)AssetCenter
725 (0.497 %)MOM
823 (0.457 %)SCOM
922 (0.437 %)HP Data Protector
1021 (0.417 %)OVPA
1021 (0.417 %)BMC PATROL
1021 (0.417 %)CONTROL-M
1021 (0.417 %)Unicenter
1118 (0.357 %)OVPI
1217 (0.338 %)WSUS
1316 (0.318 %)OVSD
1415 (0.298 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1513 (0.258 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1513 (0.258 %)Legato
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1708 (14.06 %)Microsoft
2376 (7.468 %)HP
3373 (7.408 %)Oracle
4326 (6.475 %)Remedy
5290 (5.760 %)Cisco
6193 (3.833 %)Citrix
7148 (2.939 %)VMware
8108 (2.145 %)BMC
9102 (2.026 %)SAP
1097 (1.927 %)IBM
1097 (1.927 %)Lotus
1195 (1.887 %)VERITAS
1276 (1.509 %)Business Objects
1367 (1.331 %)Sun
1460 (1.192 %)Novell
1557 (1.132 %)EMC
1649 (0.973 %)Dell
1746 (0.914 %)Red Hat
1746 (0.914 %)Symantec
1844 (0.874 %)Altiris
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