The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL V2 skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL V2 over the 3 months to 26 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 London 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
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Infrastructure Library Version 2
Rank 368 353 438
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +85
Contract jobs citing ITIL V2 9 62 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.042% 0.230% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.056% 0.320% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 24 2
Average daily rate £438 £475 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +22.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £402 £378
10% offered a daily rate of more than £538 £579 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £293 £200
% change year-on-year
+17.52% +46.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 - £19.75
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
ITIL V2
England

ITIL V2
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V2 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London ITIL V2 Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL V2
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL V2 across the London region.

London ITIL V2 Daily Rate Trend

ITIL V2
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL V2 across the London region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

London ITIL V2 Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL V2
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL V2 across the London region.

London ITIL V2 Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL V2
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL V2 within the London region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
City of London +4 2 £338 -25.00%
ITIL V2
England

ITIL V2
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ITIL V2 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 V2.

1 18 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
3 6 (33.33%) Change Management
3 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL V3
4 5 (27.78%) Release Management
5 4 (22.22%) Supplier Management
5 4 (22.22%) Finance
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (22.22%) Remedy
5 4 (22.22%) Project Management
6 3 (16.67%) Citrix
6 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
6 3 (16.67%) Cisco
7 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
7 2 (11.11%) vCloud
7 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (11.11%) vSphere
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) VMware
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 2 (11.11%) JIRA
7 2 (11.11%) QA
7 2 (11.11%) HP
7 2 (11.11%) EMC

ITIL V2
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ITIL V2 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 V2. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) Web Services
2 1 (5.556%) JMS
2 1 (5.556%) Middleware
2 1 (5.556%) Spring
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere
2 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.556%) Java EE
2 1 (5.556%) HTML
2 1 (5.556%) .NET
2 1 (5.556%) COM
2 1 (5.556%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
2 1 (5.556%) Documentum
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 1 (5.556%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Application Server
2 1 (5.556%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.556%) IIS
2 1 (5.556%) Apache
2 1 (5.556%) Tomcat
2 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Project
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
2 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
2 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) WebTrends
1 1 (5.556%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.556%) HTTP
1 1 (5.556%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 4 (22.22%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
2 1 (5.556%) Investment Banking
2 1 (5.556%) French Language
2 1 (5.556%) Financial Institution
2 1 (5.556%) Electronics
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (22.22%) Operations Manager
1 4 (22.22%) Change Manager
2 3 (16.67%) Analyst
2 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Configuration Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Developer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Process Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Change Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Transition Manager
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (5.556%) WebSphere Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Senior Service Manager
4 1 (5.556%) ITIL Service Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Service Continuity Manager
4 1 (5.556%) ITSM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
1 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
1 1 (5.556%) Clustering
1 1 (5.556%) CMDB
1 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
2 1 (5.556%) Solaris
2 1 (5.556%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Windows XP
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) ITIL
2 7 (38.89%) Service Delivery
3 6 (33.33%) Change Management
3 6 (33.33%) PRINCE2
3 6 (33.33%) ITIL V3
4 5 (27.78%) Release Management
5 4 (22.22%) Change Control
5 4 (22.22%) Project Management
5 4 (22.22%) Supplier Management
6 3 (16.67%) Service Management
7 2 (11.11%) Migration
7 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (11.11%) ITSM
7 2 (11.11%) Incident Management
7 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
7 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
8 1 (5.556%) Use Case
8 1 (5.556%) Validation
8 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
8 1 (5.556%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.556%) Java
1 1 (5.556%) JavaScript
1 1 (5.556%) SQL
1 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
1 1 (5.556%) Jython
1 1 (5.556%) Korn
1 1 (5.556%) C-shell
1 1 (5.556%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (5.556%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.556%) MBA
3 1 (5.556%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
1 2 (11.11%) vSphere
1 2 (11.11%) vCloud
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 4 (22.22%) Remedy
2 3 (16.67%) Citrix
2 3 (16.67%) Cisco
3 2 (11.11%) HP
3 2 (11.11%) EMC
3 2 (11.11%) VMware
3 2 (11.11%) NetApp
3 2 (11.11%) Symantec
4 1 (5.556%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.556%) Avaya
4 1 (5.556%) BMC
4 1 (5.556%) IBM
4 1 (5.556%) Oracle
4 1 (5.556%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.556%) JBoss
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