Lancashire ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Lancashire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark 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 Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	21
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching contract IT job ads	5	24
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	2.632 %	8.824 %
Daily rates quoted	0	7
Average minimum daily rate	-	£240
Average daily rate	-	£254
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£267
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.40	-
Average hourly rate	£15.07	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£15.73	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.45	£24.10
% change on same period last year	-15.12 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	190	272
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.270 %	0.275 %
Daily rates quoted	34	54
Average minimum daily rate	£343	£331
Average daily rate	£365	£341
% change on same period last year	+7.15 %
Average maximum daily rate	£387	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	51	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.10	£25.40
Average hourly rate	£27.27	£27.08
% change on same period last year	+0.70 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.45	£28.77
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
ITIL North West

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 Lancashire 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 Lancashire region.

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 7 October 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
Blackburn	-1	1	-	-
Preston	-2	1	-	-
Lancaster	+7	1	-	-

ITIL North West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 7 (41.18 %) Government 2 5 (29.41 %) Active Directory 3 4 (23.53 %) ITIL Certification 3 4 (23.53 %) Windows 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 4 3 (17.65 %) UNIX 4 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 11i 4 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 4 3 (17.65 %) Service Delivery 4 3 (17.65 %) Local Government 4 3 (17.65 %) Finance 5 2 (11.76 %) Security Cleared 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (11.76 %) Banking 5 2 (11.76 %) Release Management

5 2 (11.76 %) Insurance 5 2 (11.76 %) Security Management 5 2 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 5 2 (11.76 %) Change Management 5 2 (11.76 %) Service Management 5 2 (11.76 %) RUP 5 2 (11.76 %) Windows XP 5 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 5 2 (11.76 %) VB.NET 5 2 (11.76 %) .NET 5 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET 6 1 (5.882 %) SQL 6 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (5.882 %) MS Office 6 1 (5.882 %) LAN

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (11.76 %) .NET 1 2 (11.76 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Office 1 1 (5.882 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 11i	Communications & Networking 1 1 (5.882 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server 2005 1 2 (11.76 %) SQL Server	General 1 7 (41.18 %) Government 2 3 (17.65 %) Local Government 2 3 (17.65 %) Finance 3 2 (11.76 %) Banking 3 2 (11.76 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 4 (23.53 %) Analyst 2 3 (17.65 %) Architect 2 3 (17.65 %) 2nd Line Support 2 3 (17.65 %) Service Manager 2 3 (17.65 %) Systems Architect 3 2 (11.76 %) 2nd Line Support Technician 3 2 (11.76 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Service Analyst 3 2 (11.76 %) Analyst Programmer 3 2 (11.76 %) Support Technician 3 2 (11.76 %) Programmer 4 1 (5.882 %) Support Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Project Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Desktop Support 4 1 (5.882 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Change Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 1 (5.882 %) Security Manager 4 1 (5.882 %) .NET Programmer 4 1 (5.882 %) VB.NET Analyst Programmer	Operating Systems 1 4 (23.53 %) Windows 2 3 (17.65 %) UNIX 3 2 (11.76 %) Windows XP 4 1 (5.882 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (5.882 %) Windows NT 4 1 (5.882 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (17.65 %) Service Delivery 2 2 (11.76 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (11.76 %) Release Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Security Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Stakeholder Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Change Management 2 2 (11.76 %) Service Management 2 2 (11.76 %) RUP 3 1 (5.882 %) Information Security Management 3 1 (5.882 %) Information Security 3 1 (5.882 %) Risk Management 3 1 (5.882 %) Supplier Management 3 1 (5.882 %) ISMS	Programming Languages 1 2 (11.76 %) VB.NET 2 1 (5.882 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (23.53 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (5.882 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (5.882 %) SLA 1 1 (5.882 %) BS25999
System Software 1 5 (29.41 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 3 (17.65 %) Oracle 1 3 (17.65 %) Microsoft 2 1 (5.882 %) IBM 2 1 (5.882 %) Remedy 2 1 (5.882 %) HP