Gloucestershire Service Delivery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Services Delivery skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Dartford Deeside Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch Rickmansworth Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	34	33
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	19	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.884 %	5.067 %
Daily rates quoted	1	4
Average minimum daily rate	£200	£160
Average daily rate	£213	£168
% change on same period last year	+26.21 %
Average maximum daily rate	£225	£176
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£368
% change on same period last year	-5.20 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.00	£14.67
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£17.33
% change on same period last year	+101.92 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£45.00	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.24	£29.76
% change on same period last year	-28.64 %
Processes & Methodologies Gloucestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	389	375
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.519 %	0.379 %
Daily rates quoted	136	127
Average minimum daily rate	£366	£381
Average daily rate	£378	£396
% change on same period last year	-4.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£390	£411
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£376
% change on same period last year	+1.21 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.04	£29.04
Average hourly rate	£31.53	£29.74
% change on same period last year	+6.02 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£36.01	£30.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.33	£30.16
% change on same period last year	-2.72 %
Service Delivery South West

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.

Service Delivery
Demand Trend

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Service Delivery
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery within the Gloucestershire 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
Cheltenham	+11	11	-	-
Gloucester	+1	4	£213	-

Service Delivery South West

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery.

1 28 (62.22 %) DV Cleared 1 28 (62.22 %) Security Cleared 2 26 (57.78 %) PRINCE2 3 24 (53.33 %) Configuration Management 3 24 (53.33 %) Project Management 4 20 (44.44 %) ISEB 5 9 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (15.56 %) ITIL 7 5 (11.11 %) Finance 7 5 (11.11 %) Service Management 8 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server 9 3 (6.667 %) Altiris 9 3 (6.667 %) SoftGrid 9 3 (6.667 %) Electric 9 3 (6.667 %) SCOM

9 3 (6.667 %) CMDB 9 3 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 9 3 (6.667 %) C 9 3 (6.667 %) HNC 9 3 (6.667 %) SLA 9 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 9 3 (6.667 %) Remedy 9 3 (6.667 %) DSL 10 2 (4.444 %) ITSM 10 2 (4.444 %) BusinessObjects 10 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 10 2 (4.444 %) MS Visio 10 2 (4.444 %) C# 10 2 (4.444 %) SQL 10 2 (4.444 %) Transact-SQL

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (4.444 %) .NET 1 2 (4.444 %) ASP 1 2 (4.444 %) ASP.NET 2 1 (2.222 %) J2EE	Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) MS Visio
Business Applications 1 3 (6.667 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 3 (6.667 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (8.889 %) SQL Server 2 3 (6.667 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (4.444 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (4.444 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (4.444 %) BusinessObjects XI	General 1 5 (11.11 %) Finance 2 3 (6.667 %) Electric 3 1 (2.222 %) Law 3 1 (2.222 %) Retail 3 1 (2.222 %) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles 1 16 (35.56 %) Project Support Officer 1 16 (35.56 %) Project Officer 2 6 (13.33 %) Delivery Manager 2 6 (13.33 %) Service Manager 3 5 (11.11 %) Junior 4 4 (8.889 %) Project Manager 4 4 (8.889 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 4 (8.889 %) Junior Project Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) PRINCE2 Project Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) Software Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) IT Manager 5 3 (6.667 %) Support Analyst 5 3 (6.667 %) Applications Support 5 3 (6.667 %) Analyst 5 3 (6.667 %) Applications Support Analyst 6 2 (4.444 %) VB Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) ASP Developer 6 2 (4.444 %) IT Services Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) Test Manager 6 2 (4.444 %) Developer	Miscellaneous 1 3 (6.667 %) CMDB 2 1 (2.222 %) NHS
Processes & Methodologies 1 28 (62.22 %) DV Cleared 1 28 (62.22 %) Security Cleared 2 26 (57.78 %) PRINCE2 3 24 (53.33 %) Configuration Management 3 24 (53.33 %) Project Management 4 9 (20.00 %) SC Cleared 5 7 (15.56 %) ITIL 6 5 (11.11 %) Service Management 7 2 (4.444 %) ITSM 7 2 (4.444 %) Incident Management 7 2 (4.444 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (2.222 %) RUP 8 1 (2.222 %) DSDM 8 1 (2.222 %) Migration 8 1 (2.222 %) Logistics 8 1 (2.222 %) Software Engineering 8 1 (2.222 %) Supplier Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (6.667 %) C 2 2 (4.444 %) C# 2 2 (4.444 %) SQL 2 2 (4.444 %) Transact-SQL 2 2 (4.444 %) VB 2 2 (4.444 %) VB6
Qualifications 1 20 (44.44 %) ISEB 2 3 (6.667 %) HNC 3 1 (2.222 %) ITIL Certification 3 1 (2.222 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (6.667 %) SLA
Systems Management 1 3 (6.667 %) SCOM	Vendors 1 3 (6.667 %) Microsoft 1 3 (6.667 %) Remedy 1 3 (6.667 %) Altiris 2 2 (4.444 %) Oracle 2 2 (4.444 %) Business Objects