The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 24 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 Gloucestershire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 20 53 26
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -27
Contract jobs citing ITIL 18 14 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 6.642% 2.174% 4.817%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.06% 2.935% 7.664%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 13 8
Average daily rate £380 £410 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.31% +110.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £380 £169
10% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £450 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £26.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
179 477 274
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 66.05% 74.07% 62.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 288 110
Average daily rate £375 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £320 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 20 37
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
ITIL
South West

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Gloucestershire ITIL Hourly Rate Histogram

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheltenham +35 8 £380 -10.58%
Gloucester +27 6 £130 -69.04%
ITIL
South West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 39 (65.00%) Service Management
2 36 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 35 (58.33%) Windows
4 32 (53.33%) DV Cleared
5 22 (36.67%) Oracle
6 19 (31.67%) Linux
7 18 (30.00%) MySQL
7 18 (30.00%) C
8 15 (25.00%) Java
8 15 (25.00%) Benchmarking
8 15 (25.00%) QlikView
8 15 (25.00%) Drools
8 15 (25.00%) Scala
9 12 (20.00%) Management Information System
10 11 (18.33%) VMware
10 11 (18.33%) Citrix
11 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
11 9 (15.00%) ITSM
11 9 (15.00%) XenApp
12 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
12 8 (13.33%) VMware ESX
12 8 (13.33%) Finance
12 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
12 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
13 7 (11.67%) Service Delivery
13 7 (11.67%) Degree
13 7 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
14 6 (10.00%) ITIL V3
14 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
14 6 (10.00%) HNC

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 15 (25.00%) Drools
2 5 (8.333%) Web Services
3 3 (5.000%) Software Packaging
3 3 (5.000%) Application Packaging
3 3 (5.000%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.333%) Oracle Application Server
1 2 (3.333%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.667%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.333%) MS Office
2 3 (5.000%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.333%) HTTP
1 2 (3.333%) DSL
2 1 (1.667%) Firewall
2 1 (1.667%) BGP
2 1 (1.667%) WAN
2 1 (1.667%) BIG-IP
2 1 (1.667%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (1.667%) FWSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (30.00%) MySQL
2 15 (25.00%) QlikView
3 5 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (5.000%) MSI
1 3 (5.000%) Git (software)
1 3 (5.000%) Hudson
2 2 (3.333%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (13.33%) Finance
2 3 (5.000%) Telecoms
3 2 (3.333%) Legal
4 1 (1.667%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 7 (11.67%) Software Manager
1 7 (11.67%) Applications Manager
2 6 (10.00%) Administrator
2 6 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
3 5 (8.333%) Designer
4 4 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
4 4 (6.667%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 4 (6.667%) Developer
4 4 (6.667%) Desktop Support
4 4 (6.667%) Solutions Designer
4 4 (6.667%) Applications Developer
4 4 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Applications Packager
5 3 (5.000%) Support Technician
5 3 (5.000%) Software Engineer
5 3 (5.000%) Analyst
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Support Technician
5 3 (5.000%) Desktop Technician
6 2 (3.333%) Windows Support Engineer
6 2 (3.333%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 8 (13.33%) Client/Server
3 5 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (5.000%) Blackberry
5 2 (3.333%) CMDB
6 1 (1.667%) Statistics
6 1 (1.667%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 35 (58.33%) Windows
2 19 (31.67%) Linux
3 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
4 5 (8.333%) UNIX
4 5 (8.333%) Solaris
4 5 (8.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (1.667%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (65.00%) Service Management
2 15 (25.00%) Benchmarking
3 9 (15.00%) ITSM
4 7 (11.67%) Service Delivery
4 7 (11.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 6 (10.00%) ITIL V3
6 5 (8.333%) Software Deployment
7 4 (6.667%) Problem Management
7 4 (6.667%) Project Management
8 3 (5.000%) Change Management
8 3 (5.000%) Agile Software Development
8 3 (5.000%) Asset Management
8 3 (5.000%) Content Management
8 3 (5.000%) Test Scripting
9 2 (3.333%) Data Security
9 2 (3.333%) Business Continuity
9 2 (3.333%) Project Planning
9 2 (3.333%) Configuration Management
10 1 (1.667%) Disaster Recovery
10 1 (1.667%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 18 (30.00%) C
2 15 (25.00%) Java
2 15 (25.00%) Scala
3 3 (5.000%) PHP
3 3 (5.000%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 36 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 32 (53.33%) DV Cleared
3 7 (11.67%) Degree
4 6 (10.00%) HNC
5 5 (8.333%) SC Cleared
6 3 (5.000%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.000%) MCP
6 3 (5.000%) MCITP
7 1 (1.667%) CCNA
7 1 (1.667%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.667%) CISSP
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.667%) CEH
7 1 (1.667%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.333%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (15.00%) Active Directory
1 9 (15.00%) XenApp
2 8 (13.33%) VMware ESX
2 8 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (8.333%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (5.000%) NetBackup
1 3 (5.000%) Red Hat Satellite
1 3 (5.000%) Puppet
2 2 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Oracle
2 11 (18.33%) VMware
2 11 (18.33%) Citrix
3 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 4 (6.667%) Apple
5 3 (5.000%) Mercator
5 3 (5.000%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.333%) Altiris
7 1 (1.667%) Cisco
7 1 (1.667%) Adobe
7 1 (1.667%) Dell
7 1 (1.667%) Juniper
7 1 (1.667%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.667%) F5
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