Hampshire Service Delivery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Services Delivery skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 7 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Dartford Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peacehaven Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Redditch 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 Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	72	92
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	30	34
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.036 %
As % of the category below	2.331 %	2.132 %
Daily rates quoted	10	7
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£284
Average daily rate	£372	£304
% change on same period last year	+22.24 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£324
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£385
% change on same period last year	-8.45 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.00	£18.50
Average hourly rate	£26.50	£19.75
% change on same period last year	+34.17 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£29.00	£21.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.36	£30.76
% change on same period last year	-30.54 %
Processes & Methodologies Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1287	1595
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.694 %	1.690 %
Daily rates quoted	342	498
Average minimum daily rate	£361	£357
Average daily rate	£385	£379
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£410	£401
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Hourly rates quoted	216	314
Average minimum hourly rate	£31.72	£30.60
Average hourly rate	£33.78	£32.32
% change on same period last year	+4.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.84	£34.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.47	£30.33
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Service Delivery South East

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 Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 July 2008.

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 Hampshire region.

Service Delivery
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing Service Delivery within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 7 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
Southampton	+7	4	-	-
Portsmouth	-	4	£400	-
Eastleigh	-	1	£127	-
Basingstoke	+15	1	-	-

Service Delivery South East

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 15 (23.44 %) ITIL 1 15 (23.44 %) Project Management 2 12 (18.75 %) SQL 3 11 (17.19 %) Windows 4 10 (15.63 %) Finance 4 10 (15.63 %) SLA 4 10 (15.63 %) Microsoft 4 10 (15.63 %) Internet 5 8 (12.50 %) Unix 5 8 (12.50 %) Linux 5 8 (12.50 %) Java 5 8 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 7 (10.94 %) SC Cleared 6 7 (10.94 %) C++ 6 7 (10.94 %) LAN

6 7 (10.94 %) Change Management 7 6 (9.375 %) Shell Script 7 6 (9.375 %) MPLS 7 6 (9.375 %) Service Management 7 6 (9.375 %) ATM 7 6 (9.375 %) WAN 7 6 (9.375 %) VPN 7 6 (9.375 %) AIX 7 6 (9.375 %) Windows NT 7 6 (9.375 %) Network Design 8 5 (7.813 %) VLAN 8 5 (7.813 %) WebSphere 8 5 (7.813 %) MQSeries 8 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (7.813 %) DB2

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire 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 5 (7.813 %) WebSphere 2 1 (1.563 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (7.813 %) WebSphere Application Server 1 5 (7.813 %) MQSeries 2 2 (3.125 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (1.563 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (1.563 %) Apache
Applications 1 3 (4.688 %) MS Project 1 3 (4.688 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.125 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.563 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 10 (15.63 %) Internet 2 7 (10.94 %) LAN 3 6 (9.375 %) ATM 3 6 (9.375 %) WAN 3 6 (9.375 %) MPLS 3 6 (9.375 %) VPN 4 5 (7.813 %) SSL 4 5 (7.813 %) Firewall 4 5 (7.813 %) Frame Relay 4 5 (7.813 %) VLAN 4 5 (7.813 %) Broadband 5 2 (3.125 %) WLAN 5 2 (3.125 %) Intranet 6 1 (1.563 %) VoIP 6 1 (1.563 %) SMTP 6 1 (1.563 %) HTTP 6 1 (1.563 %) TCP/IP 6 1 (1.563 %) IMAP 6 1 (1.563 %) SAN 6 1 (1.563 %) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (7.813 %) DB2 2 2 (3.125 %) MS Access 2 2 (3.125 %) MySQL 3 1 (1.563 %) SQL Server 3 1 (1.563 %) Datawarehouse 3 1 (1.563 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 3 (4.688 %) ClearCase 2 2 (3.125 %) ClearQuest 3 1 (1.563 %) InstallShield 3 1 (1.563 %) Visual Studio
General 1 10 (15.63 %) Finance 2 5 (7.813 %) Government 2 5 (7.813 %) Banking 3 4 (6.250 %) Retail 3 4 (6.250 %) Telecoms 4 2 (3.125 %) Health 5 1 (1.563 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.563 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 11 (17.19 %) Service Manager 2 9 (14.06 %) Project Manager 2 9 (14.06 %) Delivery Manager 2 9 (14.06 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 8 (12.50 %) Consultant 4 7 (10.94 %) Analyst 5 6 (9.375 %) Network Consultant 5 6 (9.375 %) Team Leader 6 4 (6.250 %) Developer 7 3 (4.688 %) Coordinator 7 3 (4.688 %) .NET Team Leader 8 2 (3.125 %) Web Team Leader 8 2 (3.125 %) E-Commerce Manager 8 2 (3.125 %) Environment Manager 8 2 (3.125 %) QA Analyst 8 2 (3.125 %) Desktop Support 8 2 (3.125 %) Applications Developer 8 2 (3.125 %) IT Manager 8 2 (3.125 %) C++ Developer 8 2 (3.125 %) Project Coordinator
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.250 %) Data Protection Act 2 3 (4.688 %) NHS 3 2 (3.125 %) Informatics 3 2 (3.125 %) Data Extraction 4 1 (1.563 %) DTV 4 1 (1.563 %) IVR	Operating Systems 1 11 (17.19 %) Windows 2 8 (12.50 %) Unix 2 8 (12.50 %) Linux 3 6 (9.375 %) Windows NT 3 6 (9.375 %) AIX 4 1 (1.563 %) Solaris 4 1 (1.563 %) OS/390 4 1 (1.563 %) MVS 4 1 (1.563 %) Debian
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (23.44 %) ITIL 1 15 (23.44 %) Project Management 2 8 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 7 (10.94 %) SC Cleared 3 7 (10.94 %) Change Management 4 6 (9.375 %) Service Management 4 6 (9.375 %) Network Design 5 5 (7.813 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (7.813 %) Configuration Management 6 4 (6.250 %) Data Protection 6 4 (6.250 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (6.250 %) E-Commerce 6 4 (6.250 %) Migration 7 2 (3.125 %) Stakeholder Management 7 2 (3.125 %) Problem Management 7 2 (3.125 %) Risk Analysis 7 2 (3.125 %) Matrix Management 7 2 (3.125 %) CMMI 7 2 (3.125 %) Regression Testing 7 2 (3.125 %) Technical Architecture	Programming Languages 1 12 (18.75 %) SQL 2 8 (12.50 %) Java 3 7 (10.94 %) C++ 4 6 (9.375 %) Shell Script 5 4 (6.250 %) C 6 3 (4.688 %) VC++ 7 2 (3.125 %) PL/SQL 8 1 (1.563 %) Python 8 1 (1.563 %) C# 8 1 (1.563 %) Perl 8 1 (1.563 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 4 (6.250 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (3.125 %) Degree 3 1 (1.563 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.563 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 10 (15.63 %) SLA 2 3 (4.688 %) QA
System Software 1 1 (1.563 %) Active Directory 1 1 (1.563 %) Squid	Systems Management 1 1 (1.563 %) Tivoli 1 1 (1.563 %) CONTROL-M
Vendors 1 10 (15.63 %) Microsoft 2 5 (7.813 %) Oracle 3 4 (6.250 %) ATG 4 2 (3.125 %) Finjan 4 2 (3.125 %) SAP 4 2 (3.125 %) Cisco 4 2 (3.125 %) HP 5 1 (1.563 %) EMC 5 1 (1.563 %) Nokia 5 1 (1.563 %) Novell 5 1 (1.563 %) Red Hat 5 1 (1.563 %) Sony 5 1 (1.563 %) IBM 5 1 (1.563 %) Anite