Kent ITIL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Kent 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 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grangemouth Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redhill Reigate Rhyl Rugby Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	37	36
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching contract IT job ads	8	19
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.019 %
As % of the category below	4.494 %	6.884 %
Daily rates quoted	4	6
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£264
Average daily rate	£301	£265
% change on same period last year	+13.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£301	£266
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£332
% change on same period last year	+0.93 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.00	£22.17
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£23.33
% change on same period last year	-33.57 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£16.00	£24.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.07	£24.26
% change on same period last year	-17.24 %
Processes & Methodologies Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	178	276
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.237 %	0.275 %
Daily rates quoted	58	57
Average minimum daily rate	£315	£307
Average daily rate	£334	£325
% change on same period last year	+2.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£342
UK excluding London average daily rate	£379	£376
% change on same period last year	+0.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	50
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.56	£34.78
Average hourly rate	£25.33	£40.06
% change on same period last year	-36.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.11	£45.33
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.35	£30.32
% change on same period last year	+0.10 %
ITIL 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.

ITIL
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Kent 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 IT contract jobs citing ITIL across the Kent region.

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

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

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Kent region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Maidstone	-3	2	£368	-
Folkestone	+2	1	£110	+69.23 %
Dartford	-2	1	-	-

ITIL South East

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing ITIL 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 ITIL.

1 14 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (39.29 %) VoIP 2 11 (39.29 %) VMware 3 10 (35.71 %) WAN 4 9 (32.14 %) LAN 5 8 (28.57 %) Active Directory 6 7 (25.00 %) Thin Client 6 7 (25.00 %) Fat Client 7 6 (21.43 %) ITIL Certification 7 6 (21.43 %) Project Management 7 6 (21.43 %) Windows 8 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE2 8 5 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 8 5 (17.86 %) VPN 8 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE

8 5 (17.86 %) VMware Infrastructure 8 5 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 9 4 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 9 4 (14.29 %) Resource Management 9 4 (14.29 %) SAN 9 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 9 4 (14.29 %) MS Office 10 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 10 3 (10.71 %) Change Management 10 3 (10.71 %) Government 10 3 (10.71 %) Local Government 11 2 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 11 2 (7.143 %) Incident Management 11 2 (7.143 %) ServiceCenter 11 2 (7.143 %) Pharmaceutical

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing ITIL 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 ITIL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (3.571 %) .NET 1 1 (3.571 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 5 (17.86 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (17.86 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 4 (14.29 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 1 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes 3 1 (3.571 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 4 (14.29 %) MS Office 2 2 (7.143 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.571 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (3.571 %) Summit
Communications & Networking 1 11 (39.29 %) VoIP 2 10 (35.71 %) WAN 3 9 (32.14 %) LAN 4 5 (17.86 %) VPN 5 4 (14.29 %) SAN 6 3 (10.71 %) TCP/IP 7 2 (7.143 %) DNS 8 1 (3.571 %) S/MIME 8 1 (3.571 %) SMTP 8 1 (3.571 %) Ethernet 8 1 (3.571 %) Firewall	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL Server
General 1 3 (10.71 %) Government 1 3 (10.71 %) Local Government 2 2 (7.143 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (3.571 %) Health 3 1 (3.571 %) Manufacturing	Job Titles 1 8 (28.57 %) Project Manager 2 5 (17.86 %) Analyst 3 4 (14.29 %) Support Analyst 3 4 (14.29 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 3 (10.71 %) Technical Manager 4 3 (10.71 %) Helpdesk Support 4 3 (10.71 %) Service Desk Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Service Manager 4 3 (10.71 %) Service Analyst 4 3 (10.71 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 4 3 (10.71 %) Technical Project Manager 5 2 (7.143 %) Administrator 5 2 (7.143 %) Operations Manager 5 2 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Analyst 5 2 (7.143 %) Technical Lead 5 2 (7.143 %) Helpdesk Support Analyst 6 1 (3.571 %) Project Administrator 6 1 (3.571 %) Lotus Notes Administrator 6 1 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Specialist 6 1 (3.571 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (25.00 %) Thin Client 1 7 (25.00 %) Fat Client 2 1 (3.571 %) Management Information System	Operating Systems 1 6 (21.43 %) Windows 2 2 (7.143 %) Windows Server 2003 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (3.571 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (21.43 %) Project Management 2 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE2 2 5 (17.86 %) PRINCE 3 4 (14.29 %) Resource Management 4 3 (10.71 %) Change Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Service Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Configuration Management 5 2 (7.143 %) Business Intelligence 5 2 (7.143 %) Incident Management 6 1 (3.571 %) Business Desktop Deployment 6 1 (3.571 %) Data Migration 6 1 (3.571 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (3.571 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (3.571 %) Service Delivery 6 1 (3.571 %) Migration 6 1 (3.571 %) Asset Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (3.571 %) SQL 1 1 (3.571 %) VBScript 1 1 (3.571 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 6 (21.43 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (7.143 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (3.571 %) MCP 3 1 (3.571 %) MCSE 3 1 (3.571 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (7.143 %) SLA
System Software 1 8 (28.57 %) Active Directory 2 5 (17.86 %) VMware Infrastructure	Systems Management 1 2 (7.143 %) ServiceCenter 2 1 (3.571 %) Tivoli NetView 2 1 (3.571 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 1 (3.571 %) BMC Marimba
Vendors 1 14 (50.00 %) Microsoft 2 11 (39.29 %) VMware 3 4 (14.29 %) Cisco 4 2 (7.143 %) HP 5 1 (3.571 %) Citrix 5 1 (3.571 %) Lotus 5 1 (3.571 %) McAfee Security