The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 21 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 Leeds 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 20 18 13
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 57 64 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.530% 7.191% 8.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.25% 10.05% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 21 23
Average daily rate £375 £275 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+36.36% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £215 £136
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £374 £478
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.68% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 8
Average hourly rate £16.50 £12.00 £19.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -39.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
556 637 410
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.45% 71.57% 67.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 374 205
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £242 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £452 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 16 19
Average hourly rate £33.50 £19.25 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+74.02% +10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.70 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
ITIL
West Yorkshire

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Leeds ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 41 (30.60%) Service Management
2 38 (28.36%) PRINCE2
3 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
4 25 (18.66%) Windows
5 23 (17.16%) ITIL Certification
5 23 (17.16%) Change Management
6 22 (16.42%) Finance
7 19 (14.18%) MS Office
8 16 (11.94%) Active Directory
8 16 (11.94%) Project Management
9 15 (11.19%) Java
9 15 (11.19%) SLA
10 14 (10.45%) .NET
10 14 (10.45%) Oracle
11 13 (9.701%) Windows 7
12 11 (8.209%) Process Management
12 11 (8.209%) Degree
13 10 (7.463%) Incident Management
13 10 (7.463%) ITSM
13 10 (7.463%) VMware
13 10 (7.463%) Cisco
13 10 (7.463%) WAN
13 10 (7.463%) LAN
14 9 (6.716%) E-Commerce
14 9 (6.716%) C#
14 9 (6.716%) Web Services
14 9 (6.716%) UNIX
14 9 (6.716%) Windows Server 2008
15 8 (5.970%) ITIL V3
15 8 (5.970%) Problem Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (10.45%) .NET
2 9 (6.716%) Web Services
3 8 (5.970%) ASP.NET
4 6 (4.478%) .NET Framework
4 6 (4.478%) XML
5 5 (3.731%) J2EE
6 2 (1.493%) Sinatra
6 2 (1.493%) Regular Expression
6 2 (1.493%) RESTful
6 2 (1.493%) Lucene
6 2 (1.493%) Ajax
6 2 (1.493%) Ruby on Rails
6 2 (1.493%) LINQ
6 2 (1.493%) WebSphere
6 2 (1.493%) CSS
6 2 (1.493%) XHTML
7 1 (0.746%) Middleware
7 1 (0.746%) ASP
7 1 (0.746%) Application Packaging
7 1 (0.746%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (5.970%) Apache
2 6 (4.478%) GlassFish
2 6 (4.478%) MS Exchange
3 5 (3.731%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.985%) FileNet
4 4 (2.985%) CMS
4 4 (2.985%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (2.985%) WebLogic
5 3 (2.239%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.493%) Liferay
6 2 (1.493%) Apache Solr
6 2 (1.493%) SAS
7 1 (0.746%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (0.746%) Lotus Notes
7 1 (0.746%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.746%) IIS
7 1 (0.746%) WorkSite
Applications
1 19 (14.18%) MS Office
2 8 (5.970%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.239%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 5 (3.731%) ResourceLink
2 3 (2.239%) Line 500
3 2 (1.493%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (7.463%) WAN
1 10 (7.463%) LAN
2 7 (5.224%) Internet
3 5 (3.731%) SAN
4 4 (2.985%) Firewall
4 4 (2.985%) VPN
5 3 (2.239%) DNS
6 2 (1.493%) NAS
6 2 (1.493%) TCP/IP
7 1 (0.746%) EIGRP
7 1 (0.746%) BGP
7 1 (0.746%) MPLS
7 1 (0.746%) OSPF
7 1 (0.746%) Intranet
7 1 (0.746%) VoIP
7 1 (0.746%) SMTP
7 1 (0.746%) DHCP
7 1 (0.746%) FTP
7 1 (0.746%) HTTP
7 1 (0.746%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (5.224%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.478%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (2.985%) Oracle 10g
4 3 (2.239%) Crystal Reports
5 2 (1.493%) RavenDB
5 2 (1.493%) SQL Server 2005
6 1 (0.746%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.746%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 5 (3.731%) Introscope
2 2 (1.493%) Hudson
2 2 (1.493%) Jenkins
2 2 (1.493%) Git (software)
2 2 (1.493%) CruiseControl
2 2 (1.493%) Subversion
2 2 (1.493%) Maven
2 2 (1.493%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.493%) Ant
3 1 (0.746%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 22 (16.42%) Finance
2 7 (5.224%) Games
3 5 (3.731%) Retail
3 5 (3.731%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.985%) Financial Institution
5 3 (2.239%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.493%) Legal
6 2 (1.493%) Marketing
7 1 (0.746%) Back Office
7 1 (0.746%) Law
Job Titles
1 39 (29.10%) Analyst
2 16 (11.94%) Service Analyst
2 16 (11.94%) Service Manager
3 14 (10.45%) Project Manager
4 11 (8.209%) Support Analyst
5 10 (7.463%) Consultant
6 9 (6.716%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (5.970%) Architect
8 7 (5.224%) Network Engineer
8 7 (5.224%) Release Analyst
9 6 (4.478%) Technical Analyst
9 6 (4.478%) Desktop Support
10 5 (3.731%) Technical Consultant
10 5 (3.731%) Applications Support
10 5 (3.731%) Cisco Engineer
11 4 (2.985%) FileNet Consultant
11 4 (2.985%) 2nd Line Support
11 4 (2.985%) Technical Specialist
11 4 (2.985%) Delivery Manager
11 4 (2.985%) Contracts Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.224%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.478%) NHS
3 2 (1.493%) Open Source
3 2 (1.493%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.493%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.493%) E-Learning
3 2 (1.493%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.493%) CMDB
4 1 (0.746%) Blackberry
4 1 (0.746%) Firmware
4 1 (0.746%) Thin Client
4 1 (0.746%) Client/Server
4 1 (0.746%) Fat Client
4 1 (0.746%) EMC Centera
4 1 (0.746%) iPhone
4 1 (0.746%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.66%) Windows
2 13 (9.701%) Windows 7
3 9 (6.716%) UNIX
3 9 (6.716%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (5.970%) Windows XP
5 7 (5.224%) Windows Server 2003
6 6 (4.478%) Solaris
7 4 (2.985%) Linux
8 3 (2.239%) Windows Vista
9 1 (0.746%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.746%) Windows 2000
9 1 (0.746%) AIX
9 1 (0.746%) Debian
9 1 (0.746%) CentOS
9 1 (0.746%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.746%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.746%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (30.60%) Service Management
2 38 (28.36%) PRINCE2
3 23 (17.16%) Change Management
4 16 (11.94%) Project Management
5 11 (8.209%) Process Management
6 10 (7.463%) Incident Management
6 10 (7.463%) ITSM
7 9 (6.716%) E-Commerce
8 8 (5.970%) ITIL V3
8 8 (5.970%) Problem Management
8 8 (5.970%) Configuration Management
9 7 (5.224%) Service Delivery
9 7 (5.224%) Mobile Device Management
10 6 (4.478%) Infrastructure Management
10 6 (4.478%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (4.478%) Project Planning
11 5 (3.731%) Agile Software Development
11 5 (3.731%) Test Management
11 5 (3.731%) Network Architecture
12 4 (2.985%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.19%) Java
2 9 (6.716%) C#
3 8 (5.970%) SQL
4 7 (5.224%) T-SQL
5 5 (3.731%) PowerShell
6 4 (2.985%) Perl
7 2 (1.493%) Ruby
7 2 (1.493%) C++
7 2 (1.493%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.746%) VBScript
8 1 (0.746%) VB
8 1 (0.746%) PHP
Qualifications
1 23 (17.16%) ITIL Certification
2 11 (8.209%) Degree
3 8 (5.970%) CCNP
3 8 (5.970%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (4.478%) CCSA
4 6 (4.478%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (2.985%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.985%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.985%) MCP
6 3 (2.239%) PMP
6 3 (2.239%) PMI Certification
6 3 (2.239%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 3 (2.239%) MCSE
6 3 (2.239%) MCDST
6 3 (2.239%) MOS
7 2 (1.493%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.493%) BC Cleared
8 1 (0.746%) A+ Certification
8 1 (0.746%) CCNA
8 1 (0.746%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (11.19%) SLA
2 5 (3.731%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (11.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (4.478%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (2.239%) vSphere
4 1 (0.746%) Xen
4 1 (0.746%) Oracle RMAN
4 1 (0.746%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 5 (3.731%) Splunk
1 5 (3.731%) CA Wily
2 2 (1.493%) SCOM
2 2 (1.493%) MOM
3 1 (0.746%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (0.746%) ZENworks
3 1 (0.746%) Business Desktop Deployment
3 1 (0.746%) NetBackup
3 1 (0.746%) Oracle Identity Management
3 1 (0.746%) PureDisk
3 1 (0.746%) Oracle Identity Manager
Vendors
1 27 (20.15%) Microsoft
2 14 (10.45%) Oracle
3 10 (7.463%) VMware
3 10 (7.463%) Cisco
4 6 (4.478%) Sun
5 5 (3.731%) Red Hat
5 5 (3.731%) JBoss
5 5 (3.731%) IBM
5 5 (3.731%) Terracotta
6 3 (2.239%) Sage
6 3 (2.239%) Citrix
7 2 (1.493%) hybris
7 2 (1.493%) CheckPoint
7 2 (1.493%) TIBCO
7 2 (1.493%) Remedy
8 1 (0.746%) Apple
8 1 (0.746%) HP
8 1 (0.746%) EMC
8 1 (0.746%) Juniper
8 1 (0.746%) Interwoven
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