Essex ITIL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Essex 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.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Ascot Avon Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Billingham Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Conwy Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melrose Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Reigate Rhyl Ryde Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Asaph Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	32
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	18	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	4.800 %	7.609 %
Daily rates quoted	9	12
Average minimum daily rate	£205	£229
Average daily rate	£207	£257
% change on same period last year	-19.30 %
Average maximum daily rate	£209	£284
UK excluding London average daily rate	£333	£345
% change on same period last year	-3.52 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.69	£20.50
Average hourly rate	£30.69	£21.63
% change on same period last year	+41.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.69	£22.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.20	£22.41
% change on same period last year	-9.85 %
Processes & Methodologies Essex
Matching contract IT job ads	375	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.500 %	0.372 %
Daily rates quoted	149	129
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£389
Average daily rate	£404	£412
% change on same period last year	-2.01 %
Average maximum daily rate	£421	£436
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	43	69
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.36	£33.11
Average hourly rate	£35.78	£33.52
% change on same period last year	+6.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£37.20	£33.92
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
ITIL East of England

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 Essex region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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 Essex 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.

Location	Rank 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
Basildon	-	2	£110	-
Witham	-5	1	£80	-47.82 %
Colchester	-8	1	-	-

ITIL East of England

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 14 (31.82 %) ITIL Certification 2 7 (15.91 %) Crystal Reports 2 7 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 2 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2 7 (15.91 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (13.64 %) Microsoft 3 6 (13.64 %) SLA 3 6 (13.64 %) Active Directory 4 5 (11.36 %) Cisco 4 5 (11.36 %) Oracle 4 5 (11.36 %) MS Office 5 4 (9.091 %) Telecoms 5 4 (9.091 %) Finance 5 4 (9.091 %) Education 5 4 (9.091 %) Government

5 4 (9.091 %) Firewall 5 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 5 4 (9.091 %) Degree 5 4 (9.091 %) NHS 5 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 5 4 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 5 4 (9.091 %) Sybase 5 4 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 5 4 (9.091 %) LAN 5 4 (9.091 %) IBM 5 4 (9.091 %) VPN 6 3 (6.818 %) HP 6 3 (6.818 %) Compaq 6 3 (6.818 %) Dell

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Essex 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 1 (2.273 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 4 (9.091 %) MS Exchange
Applications 1 5 (11.36 %) MS Office 2 2 (4.545 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 2 (4.545 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.091 %) LAN 1 4 (9.091 %) VPN 1 4 (9.091 %) Firewall 2 3 (6.818 %) Intranet 2 3 (6.818 %) 3G 3 2 (4.545 %) DNS 3 2 (4.545 %) VLAN 3 2 (4.545 %) WAN 4 1 (2.273 %) SAN 4 1 (2.273 %) SMS 4 1 (2.273 %) MPLS 4 1 (2.273 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (15.91 %) Crystal Reports 2 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2000 2 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 2005 2 4 (9.091 %) SQL Server 3 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 9i 3 3 (6.818 %) Oracle 10g
General 1 4 (9.091 %) Telecoms 1 4 (9.091 %) Finance 1 4 (9.091 %) Education 1 4 (9.091 %) Government 2 2 (4.545 %) Local Government 3 1 (2.273 %) Health	Job Titles 1 14 (31.82 %) Team Leader 2 11 (25.00 %) Helpdesk Team Leader 3 5 (11.36 %) Administrator 3 5 (11.36 %) Service Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 4 (9.091 %) Delivery Manager 5 3 (6.818 %) Service Management Consultant 5 3 (6.818 %) Systems Programmer 5 3 (6.818 %) Management Consultant 5 3 (6.818 %) Consultant 5 3 (6.818 %) Programmer 5 3 (6.818 %) LAN Administrator 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (4.545 %) Applications Support 6 2 (4.545 %) Support Technician 6 2 (4.545 %) Applications Manager 6 2 (4.545 %) Helpdesk Support 6 2 (4.545 %) Network Administrator 7 1 (2.273 %) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 4 (9.091 %) NHS 2 3 (6.818 %) Blackberry 2 3 (6.818 %) Mainframe 2 3 (6.818 %) CMDB 3 2 (4.545 %) PMI	Operating Systems 1 7 (15.91 %) Windows 2 3 (6.818 %) zOS 2 3 (6.818 %) MVS 3 1 (2.273 %) UNIX 3 1 (2.273 %) AIX 3 1 (2.273 %) Solaris 3 1 (2.273 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (15.91 %) PRINCE2 1 7 (15.91 %) Service Delivery 2 3 (6.818 %) Change Management 2 3 (6.818 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (6.818 %) Data Security 2 3 (6.818 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (6.818 %) Project Management 2 3 (6.818 %) Service Management 2 3 (6.818 %) Performance Management 3 2 (4.545 %) Time Management 3 2 (4.545 %) ERP 4 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE 4 1 (2.273 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Knowledge Management 4 1 (2.273 %) Matrix Management	Qualifications 1 14 (31.82 %) ITIL Certification 2 4 (9.091 %) Degree 3 2 (4.545 %) PMI Certification 3 2 (4.545 %) CCNP 3 2 (4.545 %) Cisco Certification 4 1 (2.273 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (2.273 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (2.273 %) MCDST 4 1 (2.273 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (13.64 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (13.64 %) Active Directory 2 1 (2.273 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 4 (9.091 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (6.818 %) Unicenter	Vendors 1 6 (13.64 %) Microsoft 2 5 (11.36 %) Oracle 2 5 (11.36 %) Cisco 3 4 (9.091 %) IBM 3 4 (9.091 %) Sybase 4 3 (6.818 %) HP 4 3 (6.818 %) Compaq 4 3 (6.818 %) Dell 5 2 (4.545 %) Juniper 5 2 (4.545 %) Alcatel 5 2 (4.545 %) SAP 6 1 (2.273 %) CA 6 1 (2.273 %) VERITAS