The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL 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 Leicester 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
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 19 16 23
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +7
Contract jobs citing ITIL 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 2.020% 1.136% 2.830%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.985% 1.852% 3.659%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £413 £313 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.00% -30.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+5.46% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
67 54 82
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leicester 67.68% 61.36% 77.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 22 19
Average daily rate £350 £330 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.06% -26.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £275 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £473 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 18
Average hourly rate £35.00 £8.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+311.76% -73.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
ITIL
Leicestershire

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester 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 Leicester region.

Leicester ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leicester ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 4 (44.44%) Windows
1 4 (44.44%) Change Management
1 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 3 (33.33%) SLA
2 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
4 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (11.11%) Finance
4 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
4 1 (11.11%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) MS Office
4 1 (11.11%) MCP
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
4 1 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
4 1 (11.11%) MCSA

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leicester 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 Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Remedy ITSM
General
1 1 (11.11%) Retail
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Service Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Services Delivery Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Support Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support
3 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Change Management
1 4 (44.44%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
2 2 (22.22%) ITSM
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Management
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Six Sigma
3 1 (11.11%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (22.22%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) MCP
2 1 (11.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Citrix
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Peregrine
2 1 (11.11%) Lotus
2 1 (11.11%) Remedy