Hemel Hempstead Service Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Service Management skills within the Hemel Hempstead 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 Management over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dunstable Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Reading Rhyl Rotherham Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Sunderland Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	11
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	7	15
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	11.86 %	17.05 %
Daily rates quoted	2	6
Average minimum daily rate	£275	£303
Average daily rate	£313	£308
% change on same period last year	+1.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£314
UK excluding London average daily rate	£370	£356
% change on same period last year	+4.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.29	£28.19
% change on same period last year	-20.93 %
Processes & Methodologies Hemel Hempstead
Matching contract IT job ads	59	88
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.079 %	0.088 %
Daily rates quoted	9	27
Average minimum daily rate	£247	£334
Average daily rate	£274	£338
% change on same period last year	-19.13 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£343
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£38.57	£10.00
Average hourly rate	£43.57	£11.50
% change on same period last year	+278.88 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£48.57	£13.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
Service Management Herefordshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Management across the Hemel Hempstead region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region citing Service Management 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 Management.

1 11 (68.75 %) ITIL 2 8 (50.00 %) SQL 3 6 (37.50 %) HP 4 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 4 5 (31.25 %) assyst 5 3 (18.75 %) CMDB 5 3 (18.75 %) Problem Management 5 3 (18.75 %) Crystal Reports 5 3 (18.75 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 5 3 (18.75 %) Altiris 6 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 6 2 (12.50 %) OpenView 6 2 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Configuration Management

6 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 6 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 6 2 (12.50 %) Windows 6 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 6 2 (12.50 %) Incident Management 6 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 7 1 (6.250 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 7 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio 7 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects 7 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects 7 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 7 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification 7 1 (6.250 %) NNM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region citing Service Management 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 Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications 1 2 (12.50 %) MS Office 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Excel 2 1 (6.250 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (31.25 %) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (31.25 %) SQL Server 2 3 (18.75 %) Crystal Reports 2 3 (18.75 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (6.250 %) BusinessObjects	Job Titles 1 9 (56.25 %) Analyst 2 6 (37.50 %) Applications Support 3 4 (25.00 %) Applications Support Analyst 3 4 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (18.75 %) Configuration Analyst 5 2 (12.50 %) Consultant 5 2 (12.50 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 6 1 (6.250 %) Service Manager 6 1 (6.250 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (6.250 %) Management Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Project Planner 6 1 (6.250 %) Applications Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Configuration Manager 6 1 (6.250 %) Support Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) OpenView Engineer 6 1 (6.250 %) OpenView Analyst 6 1 (6.250 %) Service Management Consultant 6 1 (6.250 %) Applications Support Consultant
Miscellaneous 1 3 (18.75 %) CMDB	Operating Systems 1 2 (12.50 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (68.75 %) ITIL 2 3 (18.75 %) Problem Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (12.50 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (12.50 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (12.50 %) Incident Management 3 2 (12.50 %) Change Management 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 8 (50.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 3 (18.75 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (6.250 %) ISEB 2 1 (6.250 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Systems Management 1 2 (12.50 %) OpenView 1 2 (12.50 %) OpenView Configuration Management 2 1 (6.250 %) NNM 2 1 (6.250 %) OVOW
Vendors 1 6 (37.50 %) HP 2 3 (18.75 %) Altiris 3 2 (12.50 %) Oracle 4 1 (6.250 %) Business Objects