Herefordshire ITIL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Herefordshire 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 last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Ascot Ashton-under-Lyne Avon Aylesford Bacup Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Billingham Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cannock Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Colchester Corby County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Dunstable Durham East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Farnborough Flintshire Folkestone Gateshead Gatwick Glamorgan Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Ilford Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Melton Mowbray Merseyside Middlesbrough 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 Paisley Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Rochdale Romford Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Stirling Stirlingshire Stockton-on-Tees Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tamworth Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Ware Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 16 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	7	5
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	15	31
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.035 %
As % of the category below	25.86 %	30.39 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£175	£400
Average daily rate	£175	£410
% change on same period last year	-57.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£175	£420
UK excluding London average daily rate	£337	£353
% change on same period last year	-4.62 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£26.25
Average hourly rate	-	£28.13
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.89	£25.06
% change on same period last year	-16.65 %
Processes & Methodologies Herefordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	58	102
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.074 %	0.115 %
Daily rates quoted	14	16
Average minimum daily rate	£251	£407
Average daily rate	£265	£411
% change on same period last year	-35.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£279	£416
UK excluding London average daily rate	£386	£376
% change on same period last year	+2.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	9
Average minimum hourly rate	£25.25	£16.07
Average hourly rate	£27.63	£17.82
% change on same period last year	+55.01 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	£19.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.61	£29.48
% change on same period last year	-2.93 %
ITIL West Midlands

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 starting in 2004 of contract IT jobs ads citing ITIL across the Herefordshire 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 contract IT jobs ads citing ITIL across the Herefordshire region.

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Herefordshire region over the past 3 months.

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Herefordshire region over the past 3 months.

Rank	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
1	Hemel Hempstead	+1	14	£175	-57.31 %
2	Harpenden	-	1	-	-

ITIL West Midlands

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Herefordshire region citing ITIL also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ITIL.

1 9 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (29.63 %) ITIL Certification 2 8 (29.63 %) Service Management 3 6 (22.22 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (22.22 %) Project Management 3 6 (22.22 %) HP 3 6 (22.22 %) MS Office 4 4 (14.81 %) MS Visio 4 4 (14.81 %) SLA 5 3 (11.11 %) Northgate 5 3 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 5 3 (11.11 %) Government 5 3 (11.11 %) Citrix 5 3 (11.11 %) MS Excel 5 3 (11.11 %) Windows

5 3 (11.11 %) MS Project 5 3 (11.11 %) Project Planning 6 2 (7.407 %) Degree 6 2 (7.407 %) CMDB 6 2 (7.407 %) Local Government 6 2 (7.407 %) SQL 6 2 (7.407 %) Lotus Domino 6 2 (7.407 %) IBM 6 2 (7.407 %) Lotus 6 2 (7.407 %) Windows Server 2003 6 2 (7.407 %) Change Management 7 1 (3.704 %) WMI 7 1 (3.704 %) WebSphere 7 1 (3.704 %) Business Continuity 7 1 (3.704 %) Management Information System

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months contract IT jobs across the Herefordshire region citing ITIL also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing ITIL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.704 %) ADSI 1 1 (3.704 %) WMI 1 1 (3.704 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (7.407 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (3.704 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.704 %) WebSphere Application Server
Applications 1 6 (22.22 %) MS Office 2 4 (14.81 %) MS Visio 3 3 (11.11 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (11.11 %) MS Excel 3 3 (11.11 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.704 %) X.400 1 1 (3.704 %) X.500
General 1 3 (11.11 %) Government 2 2 (7.407 %) Local Government 3 1 (3.704 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 7 (25.93 %) Service Manager 2 6 (22.22 %) Analyst 3 4 (14.81 %) Change Manager 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Coordinator 4 3 (11.11 %) Senior Analyst 4 3 (11.11 %) Coordinator 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Manager 4 3 (11.11 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Configuration Analyst 5 2 (7.407 %) Transition Manager 5 2 (7.407 %) Support Engineer 6 1 (3.704 %) 2nd Line Support 6 1 (3.704 %) Services Delivery Manager 6 1 (3.704 %) Senior Support Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Data Analyst 6 1 (3.704 %) Management Consultant 6 1 (3.704 %) Project Planner 6 1 (3.704 %) IT Manager 6 1 (3.704 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.704 %) Development Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (7.407 %) CMDB 2 1 (3.704 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 3 (11.11 %) Windows 2 2 (7.407 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.704 %) Unix 3 1 (3.704 %) Solaris 3 1 (3.704 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (33.33 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (29.63 %) Service Management 3 6 (22.22 %) Service Delivery 3 6 (22.22 %) Project Management 4 3 (11.11 %) Project Planning 5 2 (7.407 %) Change Management 6 1 (3.704 %) Migration 6 1 (3.704 %) Business Continuity	Programming Languages 1 2 (7.407 %) SQL 2 1 (3.704 %) VBScript 2 1 (3.704 %) VB 2 1 (3.704 %) C
Qualifications 1 8 (29.63 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (7.407 %) Degree 3 1 (3.704 %) MCP 3 1 (3.704 %) ISEB 3 1 (3.704 %) Microsoft Certification 3 1 (3.704 %) PRINCE2 Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (14.81 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (3.704 %) Active Directory 1 1 (3.704 %) MetaFrame 1 1 (3.704 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 1 (3.704 %) OpenView 1 1 (3.704 %) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors 1 6 (22.22 %) HP 2 3 (11.11 %) Citrix 2 3 (11.11 %) Northgate 3 2 (7.407 %) IBM 3 2 (7.407 %) Lotus 4 1 (3.704 %) Oracle 4 1 (3.704 %) Cisco