The first table below looks at the demand for Change Control skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Control over the 3 months to 23 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 Hertfordshire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Control
Rank 56 47 46
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -1
Contract jobs citing Change Control 7 24 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.099% 2.472% 2.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.532% 3.744% 3.267%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 3
Average daily rate £225 £250 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.00% -41.17%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £34.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
+16.00% -9.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
457 641 551
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 71.74% 66.01% 62.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 256 287 240
Average daily rate £400 £375 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 54 78
Average hourly rate £21.50 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-38.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.05 £11.93 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £49.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Change Control
East of England

Change Control
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Change Control Jobs Demand Trend

Change Control
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Change Control Daily Rate Trend

Change Control
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Control across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Change Control Daily Rate Histogram

Change Control
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Change Control Hourly Rate Trend

Change Control
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Change Control within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Rickmansworth - 2 £225 -
St Albans -1 1 £400 +60.00%
Watford - 1 - -
Change Control
East of England

Change Control
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Change Control 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 Change Control.

1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 17 (56.67%) IBM
2 17 (56.67%) Project Management
3 13 (43.33%) Waterfall
4 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (40.00%) Java
4 12 (40.00%) J2EE
4 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce
4 12 (40.00%) Retail
4 12 (40.00%) WebSphere
4 12 (40.00%) Time Management
5 11 (36.67%) Games
6 8 (26.67%) NetBackup
6 8 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
7 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
7 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
7 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
7 6 (20.00%) SLA
8 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
8 5 (16.67%) Windows
8 5 (16.67%) Quality Management
8 5 (16.67%) Symantec
8 5 (16.67%) Backup Exec
8 5 (16.67%) Programme Office Management
8 5 (16.67%) Build Automation
9 4 (13.33%) Fat Client
9 4 (13.33%) Network Security
9 4 (13.33%) Thin Client

Change Control
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Change Control 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 Change Control. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (40.00%) J2EE
1 12 (40.00%) WebSphere
2 2 (6.667%) CSS
3 1 (3.333%) .NET
3 1 (3.333%) HTML
3 1 (3.333%) XML
3 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
3 1 (3.333%) .NET Framework
3 1 (3.333%) LINQ
3 1 (3.333%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 1 (3.333%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (3.333%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 3 (10.00%) MS Project
2 3 (10.00%) MS Office
2 3 (10.00%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 4 (13.33%) Network Security
2 3 (10.00%) SAN
3 2 (6.667%) BIG-IP
4 1 (3.333%) MPLS
4 1 (3.333%) LAN
4 1 (3.333%) WAN
4 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
4 1 (3.333%) VPN
4 1 (3.333%) WAAS
4 1 (3.333%) NAS
4 1 (3.333%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (3.333%) Firewall
4 1 (3.333%) IPsec
4 1 (3.333%) FWSM
4 1 (3.333%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (60.00%) Finance
2 12 (40.00%) Retail
3 11 (36.67%) Games
4 6 (20.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Project Manager
2 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Project Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Project Support Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Architect
5 1 (3.333%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.333%) Technical Architect
5 1 (3.333%) Web Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Service Manager
5 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix Support
5 1 (3.333%) .NET Web Developer
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Fat Client
1 4 (13.33%) Thin Client
2 1 (3.333%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (16.67%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (6.667%) AIX
3 2 (6.667%) Solaris
3 2 (6.667%) Linux
3 2 (6.667%) UNIX
4 1 (3.333%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Project Management
2 13 (43.33%) Waterfall
3 12 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 12 (40.00%) Time Management
4 8 (26.67%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (20.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (20.00%) Change Management
6 5 (16.67%) Quality Management
6 5 (16.67%) Programme Office Management
6 5 (16.67%) Build Automation
7 3 (10.00%) Release Management
7 3 (10.00%) Load Balancing
8 2 (6.667%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (6.667%) ITIL
8 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
9 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
9 1 (3.333%) CRM
9 1 (3.333%) Security Architecture
9 1 (3.333%) QMS
Programming Languages
1 12 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (6.667%) SQL
3 1 (3.333%) T-SQL
3 1 (3.333%) VB
3 1 (3.333%) C#
3 1 (3.333%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (6.667%) MCSE
2 2 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.333%) CCSP
3 1 (3.333%) CCNP
3 1 (3.333%) CCNA
3 1 (3.333%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 1 (3.333%) Degree
3 1 (3.333%) CCSA
3 1 (3.333%) JNCIA
3 1 (3.333%) CCSE
3 1 (3.333%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.00%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.667%) XenApp
3 2 (6.667%) XenDesktop
4 1 (3.333%) MetaFrame
4 1 (3.333%) NFS
4 1 (3.333%) vSphere
4 1 (3.333%) XenServer
4 1 (3.333%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.333%) ProxySG
4 1 (3.333%) Snort
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) NetBackup
2 5 (16.67%) Backup Exec
3 1 (3.333%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (3.333%) SCOM
3 1 (3.333%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) IBM
2 5 (16.67%) Symantec
3 4 (13.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (13.33%) Citrix
4 3 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (10.00%) EMC
4 3 (10.00%) Cisco
4 3 (10.00%) Crossbeam
4 3 (10.00%) VMware
4 3 (10.00%) F5
5 2 (6.667%) Wyse
5 2 (6.667%) Red Hat
5 2 (6.667%) Nokia
6 1 (3.333%) Juniper
6 1 (3.333%) HP
6 1 (3.333%) Veritas
6 1 (3.333%) Lotus
6 1 (3.333%) NetApp
6 1 (3.333%) Oracle
6 1 (3.333%) SAP
Hertfordshire
Key skills: Expertise in Solaris version 10 and Red Hat Linux Stong business applications experience around Oracle, J2EE applications containers Demonstrable experience of working within a ITIL environment.
Robert Walters
Salary: £350 - £375 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013