Leeds Service Delivery Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Services Delivery skills within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Ascot Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Dartford Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Horsham Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewisham Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peacehaven Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Redditch Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Swansea Swindon Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tonbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	65	46
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching contract IT job ads	14	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	1.944 %	4.029 %
Daily rates quoted	4	5
Average minimum daily rate	£310	£334
Average daily rate	£339	£344
% change on same period last year	-1.52 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£354
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£383
% change on same period last year	-8.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.00	-
Average hourly rate	£17.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.36	£31.10
% change on same period last year	-31.31 %
Processes & Methodologies Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	720	546
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.949 %	0.579 %
Daily rates quoted	205	107
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£337
Average daily rate	£363	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.89 %
Average maximum daily rate	£385	£369
UK excluding London average daily rate	£384	£374
% change on same period last year	+2.50 %
Hourly rates quoted	16	22
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.87	£22.54
Average hourly rate	£22.92	£23.49
% change on same period last year	-2.42 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.98	£24.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.40	£30.19
% change on same period last year	-2.62 %
Service Delivery West Yorkshire

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.

Service Delivery
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery.

1 19 (52.78 %) ITIL 2 13 (36.11 %) Project Management 3 10 (27.78 %) Service Management 4 8 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 5 7 (19.44 %) NHS 6 6 (16.67 %) SLA 7 5 (13.89 %) ITSM 7 5 (13.89 %) Finance 7 5 (13.89 %) PRINCE 8 4 (11.11 %) Release Management 8 4 (11.11 %) Oracle 8 4 (11.11 %) Legal 9 3 (8.333 %) Government 9 3 (8.333 %) MS Project 9 3 (8.333 %) Windows

9 3 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 10 2 (5.556 %) Telecoms 10 2 (5.556 %) Agile Software Development 10 2 (5.556 %) HP 10 2 (5.556 %) Microsoft 10 2 (5.556 %) Siebel 10 2 (5.556 %) MS Visio 10 2 (5.556 %) Unix 10 2 (5.556 %) .NET 10 2 (5.556 %) Health 10 2 (5.556 %) Electric 10 2 (5.556 %) Stakeholder Management 10 2 (5.556 %) Change Management 10 2 (5.556 %) Six Sigma 11 1 (2.778 %) BPR

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (5.556 %) .NET 2 1 (2.778 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (2.778 %) WebLogic 1 1 (2.778 %) Apache 1 1 (2.778 %) SharePoint 1 1 (2.778 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 3 (8.333 %) MS Project 2 2 (5.556 %) MS Visio 3 1 (2.778 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.778 %) MS Office 3 1 (2.778 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (2.778 %) BusinessWorks 1 1 (2.778 %) TIBCO iProcess
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.778 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle 9i 1 1 (2.778 %) RDBMS 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle 10g 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 7 1 1 (2.778 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 5 (13.89 %) Finance 2 4 (11.11 %) Legal 3 3 (8.333 %) Government 4 2 (5.556 %) Health 4 2 (5.556 %) Electric 4 2 (5.556 %) Telecoms	Job Titles 1 18 (50.00 %) Service Manager 2 8 (22.22 %) Delivery Manager 3 7 (19.44 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 6 (16.67 %) Project Manager 5 5 (13.89 %) Relationships Manager 6 3 (8.333 %) Transition Manager 6 3 (8.333 %) Support Manager 7 2 (5.556 %) Tester 7 2 (5.556 %) Analyst 7 2 (5.556 %) Delivery Project Manager 7 2 (5.556 %) Project Officer 7 2 (5.556 %) Functional Tester 7 2 (5.556 %) NHS Project Manager 8 1 (2.778 %) PMO Analyst 8 1 (2.778 %) Communications Manager 8 1 (2.778 %) Applications Manager 8 1 (2.778 %) Infrastructure Team Leader 8 1 (2.778 %) Sun Engineer 8 1 (2.778 %) Senior Service Manager 8 1 (2.778 %) Customer Services Manager
Miscellaneous 1 7 (19.44 %) NHS 2 1 (2.778 %) Clustering 2 1 (2.778 %) Asset Management 2 1 (2.778 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 3 (8.333 %) Windows 2 2 (5.556 %) Unix 3 1 (2.778 %) HPUX 3 1 (2.778 %) Linux 3 1 (2.778 %) Windows NT 3 1 (2.778 %) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies 1 19 (52.78 %) ITIL 2 13 (36.11 %) Project Management 3 10 (27.78 %) Service Management 4 8 (22.22 %) PRINCE2 5 5 (13.89 %) PRINCE 5 5 (13.89 %) ITSM 6 4 (11.11 %) Release Management 7 2 (5.556 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (5.556 %) Stakeholder Management 7 2 (5.556 %) Change Management 7 2 (5.556 %) Six Sigma 8 1 (2.778 %) BPR 8 1 (2.778 %) SOA 8 1 (2.778 %) Programme Management 8 1 (2.778 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (2.778 %) Supplier Management 8 1 (2.778 %) Business Development 8 1 (2.778 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (2.778 %) Risk Analysis 8 1 (2.778 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 1 (2.778 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (2.778 %) ITIL Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (16.67 %) SLA
System Software 1 1 (2.778 %) Oracle RAC	Vendors 1 4 (11.11 %) Oracle 2 2 (5.556 %) Siebel 2 2 (5.556 %) Microsoft 2 2 (5.556 %) HP 3 1 (2.778 %) EMC 3 1 (2.778 %) TIBCO 3 1 (2.778 %) Wyse 3 1 (2.778 %) Sun