Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ITIL 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 over the 3 months to 19 March 2010 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

 Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank554655
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Up+9
Matching contract IT job ads7865371055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London3.034 %3.253 %2.879 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category4.937 %5.741 %5.479 %
Daily rates quoted440199386
Average daily rate£375£350£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.140 %-
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£210£204£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£525
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£350£340
% change year-on-year
-14.28 %+2.940 %
Hourly rates quoted4747100
Average hourly rate£19.50£22.50£22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %+2.270 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£14.60£13.90£15.95
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£37.50£42.00£37.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate£14.00£16.35£16.75
% change year-on-year
-14.34 %-2.410 %
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
15919935419257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London61.46 %56.67 %52.55 %
Daily rates quoted875038898026
Average daily rate£450£410£438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.750 %-6.280 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£288£250£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£600£575£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£360£375
% change year-on-year
-2.770 %-4.000 %
Hourly rates quoted287293718
Average hourly rate£30.00£26.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.38 %-5.450 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£15.00£13.00£15.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£44.00£46.76£42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£27.50£30.00
% change year-on-year
-10.90 %-8.330 %
ITIL EnglandITIL
England

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.

ITIL
Demand Trend

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

London ITIL Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010.

London ITIL Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 19 March 2010. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
City of LondonDown-1241£390+20.00 %
Canary WharfDown-1021£473+5.11 %
Docklands, LondonDown-716£332+1.37 %
CroydonUp+118£400-
UxbridgeDown-114£448+11.87 %
EnfieldNew entry-1£300-
SidcupNew entry-1--
BromleyNew entry-1£500-
ChessingtonNew entry-1--
EalingNew entry-1--
PaddingtonNew entry-1£400-
WimbledonNew entry-1--
ITIL EnglandITIL
England

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

1404 (28.11 %)Windows
2368 (25.61 %)Finance
3322 (22.41 %)Service Management
4303 (21.09 %)Banking
5282 (19.62 %)PRINCE2
6236 (16.42 %)Microsoft
7193 (13.43 %)Project Management
8192 (13.36 %)Service Delivery
9189 (13.15 %)ITIL Certification
10164 (11.41 %)UNIX
11160 (11.13 %)Active Directory
12159 (11.06 %)Investment Banking
13150 (10.44 %)MS Office
14144 (10.02 %)Government
15134 (9.325 %)SQL
15134 (9.325 %)Windows Server 2003
15134 (9.325 %)Security Cleared
16132 (9.186 %)Citrix
16132 (9.186 %)Oracle
17123 (8.559 %)MS Excel
18121 (8.420 %)Remedy
19120 (8.351 %)MS Exchange
20113 (7.864 %)Cisco
21110 (7.655 %)SLA
22106 (7.376 %)Linux
23105 (7.307 %)SQL Server
2498 (6.820 %)Microsoft Certification
2595 (6.611 %)VMware
2688 (6.124 %)Change Management
2785 (5.915 %)Firewall

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, IT contractor jobs across the London 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.

London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
177 (5.358 %).NET
230 (2.088 %)ASP.NET
329 (2.018 %)Web Services
329 (2.018 %)Middleware
423 (1.601 %)WCF
522 (1.531 %)WebSphere
619 (1.322 %)HTML
717 (1.183 %)XML
717 (1.183 %).NET Framework
810 (0.696 %)WF
810 (0.696 %)J2EE
98 (0.557 %)ASP
107 (0.487 %)JMS
107 (0.487 %)WinForms
107 (0.487 %)FIX Protocol
107 (0.487 %)Silverlight
107 (0.487 %)WPF
116 (0.418 %)CSS
125 (0.348 %)ADSI
125 (0.348 %)JDBC
London IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1120 (8.351 %)MS Exchange
272 (5.010 %)IIS
353 (3.688 %)SharePoint
449 (3.410 %)Exchange Server 2007
544 (3.062 %)Exchange Server 2003
640 (2.784 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
724 (1.670 %)Apache
818 (1.253 %)Lotus Notes
915 (1.044 %)Tomcat
1013 (0.905 %)Confluence
1111 (0.765 %)CMS
1210 (0.696 %)WebSphere MQ
139 (0.626 %)WebLogic
147 (0.487 %)SharePoint Portal Server
156 (0.418 %)Office Project Server
156 (0.418 %)Oracle Workflow
156 (0.418 %)WebSphere Application Server
164 (0.278 %)Exchange Server 5.5
164 (0.278 %)Drupal
164 (0.278 %)SharePoint Server 2007
London IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1150 (10.44 %)MS Office
2123 (8.559 %)MS Excel
374 (5.150 %)MS Project
454 (3.758 %)MS PowerPoint
538 (2.644 %)MS Visio
67 (0.487 %)InfoPath
73 (0.209 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.139 %)AutoCAD
82 (0.139 %)Photoshop
91 (0.070 %)Acrobat
91 (0.070 %)RoboHelp
91 (0.070 %)DeltaView
91 (0.070 %)Casewise Corporate Modeler Suite
London IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
125 (1.740 %)Remedy ITSM
28 (0.557 %)BusinessWorks
37 (0.487 %)TIBCO iProcess
46 (0.418 %)Remedy AR System
46 (0.418 %)ION MarketView
55 (0.348 %)WebTrends
55 (0.348 %)Oracle Applications
64 (0.278 %)assyst
64 (0.278 %)Summit
64 (0.278 %)3000 Xtra
64 (0.278 %)SoftGrid
64 (0.278 %)SAP R/3
73 (0.209 %)Maximo
82 (0.139 %)SAP Oil and Gas
82 (0.139 %)Dynamics CRM
82 (0.139 %)Cerner Millennium
82 (0.139 %)SAP GRC
91 (0.070 %)SAP FI
91 (0.070 %)CODA-Financials
91 (0.070 %)Microsoft CRM
London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
185 (5.915 %)Firewall
273 (5.080 %)SAN
372 (5.010 %)WAN
470 (4.871 %)Internet
562 (4.315 %)LAN
562 (4.315 %)DNS
659 (4.106 %)TCP/IP
757 (3.967 %)VPN
839 (2.714 %)DHCP
925 (1.740 %)Intranet
1023 (1.601 %)MPLS
1115 (1.044 %)SSL
1214 (0.974 %)Cisco PIX
1214 (0.974 %)Network Security
1214 (0.974 %)Cisco ASA
1313 (0.905 %)IP Telephony
1410 (0.696 %)NAS
1410 (0.696 %)Wireless
1410 (0.696 %)EIGRP
1410 (0.696 %)HTTP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1105 (7.307 %)SQL Server
247 (3.271 %)SQL Server 2005
330 (2.088 %)Oracle 10g
427 (1.879 %)BusinessObjects
523 (1.601 %)MySQL
619 (1.322 %)Oracle 9i
716 (1.113 %)Oracle 11g
716 (1.113 %)Oracle 8/8i
814 (0.974 %)SQL Server 2000
911 (0.765 %)MS Access
911 (0.765 %)RDBMS
108 (0.557 %)Sybase ASE
108 (0.557 %)SQL Server 2008
108 (0.557 %)Datawarehouse
117 (0.487 %)TOAD
117 (0.487 %)Crystal Reports
117 (0.487 %)BusinessObjects XI
126 (0.418 %)DB2
126 (0.418 %)ETL
135 (0.348 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
London IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
135 (2.436 %)JIRA
224 (1.670 %)Subversion
320 (1.392 %)ClearCase
410 (0.696 %)NUnit
57 (0.487 %)Visual Studio
66 (0.418 %)Oracle Forms
75 (0.348 %)VSS/SourceSafe
75 (0.348 %)InstallShield
75 (0.348 %)Team Foundation Server
84 (0.278 %)JMeter
84 (0.278 %)Ant
84 (0.278 %)LoadRunner
93 (0.209 %)Maven
102 (0.139 %)FrontPage
102 (0.139 %)CruiseControl
102 (0.139 %)Oracle APEX
102 (0.139 %)Build Forge
102 (0.139 %)PVCS
102 (0.139 %)OpenDeploy
102 (0.139 %)QuickTest Pro
London IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1368 (25.61 %)Finance
2303 (21.09 %)Banking
3159 (11.06 %)Investment Banking
4144 (10.02 %)Government
546 (3.201 %)Front Office
642 (2.923 %)Education
737 (2.575 %)Law
832 (2.227 %)Telecoms
926 (1.809 %)Financial Institution
1024 (1.670 %)Retail
1123 (1.601 %)Health
1123 (1.601 %)Legal
1220 (1.392 %)Back Office
1312 (0.835 %)Retail Banking
1411 (0.765 %)Construction
156 (0.418 %)Corporate Banking
156 (0.418 %)Criminal Justice
165 (0.348 %)Home Office
165 (0.348 %)Local Government
174 (0.278 %)Insurance
London IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1392 (27.28 %)Analyst
2143 (9.951 %)Service Manager
3113 (7.864 %)Project Manager
498 (6.820 %)Support Analyst
570 (4.871 %)Service Analyst
661 (4.245 %)Developer
758 (4.036 %)Consultant
758 (4.036 %)Applications Support
758 (4.036 %)Service Desk Analyst
857 (3.967 %)Business Analyst
956 (3.897 %)Administrator
1049 (3.410 %)Delivery Manager
1139 (2.714 %)Services Delivery Manager
1238 (2.644 %)Desktop Analyst
1335 (2.436 %)Architect
1433 (2.296 %)Release Manager
1532 (2.227 %)Infrastructure Manager
1629 (2.018 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1728 (1.949 %)Support Engineer
1728 (1.949 %)Systems Administrator
London IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
169 (4.802 %)Derivative
265 (4.523 %)Blackberry
363 (4.384 %)Fixed Income
451 (3.549 %)Clustering
533 (2.296 %)NHS
630 (2.088 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
725 (1.740 %)Equities
823 (1.601 %)French Language
916 (1.113 %)CMDB
1015 (1.044 %)Management Information System
1111 (0.765 %)PMI
1111 (0.765 %)Credit Derivative
1111 (0.765 %)PDA
1210 (0.696 %)Replication
139 (0.626 %)Computer Science
139 (0.626 %)German Language
139 (0.626 %)PKI
147 (0.487 %)FMCG
147 (0.487 %)Wiki
147 (0.487 %)Statistics
London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1404 (28.11 %)Windows
2164 (11.41 %)UNIX
3134 (9.325 %)Windows Server 2003
4106 (7.376 %)Linux
582 (5.706 %)Windows XP
666 (4.593 %)Windows Server 2008
761 (4.245 %)Solaris
841 (2.853 %)Windows 2000
924 (1.670 %)Red Hat Linux
1023 (1.601 %)AIX
1114 (0.974 %)Windows Vista
1114 (0.974 %)Mac OS X
1212 (0.835 %)Windows 2000 Server
139 (0.626 %)HPUX
139 (0.626 %)SUSE
148 (0.557 %)Windows 7
157 (0.487 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
166 (0.418 %)Windows NT
175 (0.348 %)VMS
182 (0.139 %)OpenVMS
London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1322 (22.41 %)Service Management
2282 (19.62 %)PRINCE2
3193 (13.43 %)Project Management
4192 (13.36 %)Service Delivery
588 (6.124 %)Change Management
684 (5.846 %)Incident Management
778 (5.428 %)Release Management
859 (4.106 %)Configuration Management
958 (4.036 %)Problem Management
1050 (3.479 %)Agile Software Development
1149 (3.410 %)ITSM
1245 (3.132 %)Workflow
1340 (2.784 %)Stakeholder Management
1438 (2.644 %)Asset Management
1535 (2.436 %)Programme Management
1631 (2.157 %)Project Planning
1631 (2.157 %)Migration
1631 (2.157 %)Risk Management
1728 (1.949 %)Business Analysis
1826 (1.809 %)Document Management
London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1134 (9.325 %)SQL
254 (3.758 %)Java
351 (3.549 %)C#
435 (2.436 %)Perl
528 (1.949 %)Shell Script
625 (1.740 %)C
720 (1.392 %)VB
819 (1.322 %)PL/SQL
918 (1.253 %)PHP
1015 (1.044 %)JavaScript
119 (0.626 %)VBScript
128 (0.557 %)VBA
136 (0.418 %)Korn
136 (0.418 %)Bash shell
136 (0.418 %)T-SQL
145 (0.348 %)Python
154 (0.278 %)PowerShell
154 (0.278 %)C++
162 (0.139 %)VB6
171 (0.070 %)Tcl
London IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1189 (13.15 %)ITIL Certification
2134 (9.325 %)Security Cleared
398 (6.820 %)Microsoft Certification
474 (5.150 %)MCSE
568 (4.732 %)SC Cleared
665 (4.523 %)Degree
761 (4.245 %)Cisco Certification
855 (3.827 %)PRINCE2 Certification
946 (3.201 %)DV Cleared
1040 (2.784 %)CCNP
1134 (2.366 %)MCP
1227 (1.879 %)CCNA
1323 (1.601 %)PMI Certification
1418 (1.253 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1517 (1.183 %)MCITP
1613 (0.905 %)PMP
1613 (0.905 %)MCSA
1712 (0.835 %)CTC Cleared
1712 (0.835 %)CCIE
1712 (0.835 %)CISSP
London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1110 (7.655 %)SLA
244 (3.062 %)QA
332 (2.227 %)COBIT
420 (1.392 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
513 (0.905 %)Basel II
513 (0.905 %)ISO27001
66 (0.418 %)ISO17799
73 (0.209 %)ISO/IEC 20000
82 (0.139 %)ISO9000
82 (0.139 %)ISO9001
91 (0.070 %)BS7799
91 (0.070 %)PCI DSS
London IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1160 (11.13 %)Active Directory
253 (3.688 %)VMware Infrastructure
314 (0.974 %)VMware ESX
413 (0.905 %)Oracle RAC
512 (0.835 %)ISA Server
610 (0.696 %)vSphere
78 (0.557 %)NFS
86 (0.418 %)Oracle RMAN
95 (0.348 %)Terminal Services
104 (0.278 %)Xen
104 (0.278 %)Squid
104 (0.278 %)XenApp
104 (0.278 %)Terminal Server
112 (0.139 %)qmail
112 (0.139 %)VMware GSX
112 (0.139 %)MetaFrame
121 (0.070 %)VMware Workstation
121 (0.070 %)XenServer
121 (0.070 %)Veritas Volume Manager
121 (0.070 %)Hyper-V
London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (1.322 %)OpenView
214 (0.974 %)MOM
311 (0.765 %)AutoSys
311 (0.765 %)BMC PATROL
311 (0.765 %)NetBackup
311 (0.765 %)WSUS
410 (0.696 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
59 (0.626 %)MSI
59 (0.626 %)SCCM
68 (0.557 %)Netcool/Webtop
68 (0.557 %)CiscoWorks
68 (0.557 %)Netcool
68 (0.557 %)Legato
77 (0.487 %)Unicenter
77 (0.487 %)MIMEsweeper
86 (0.418 %)ServiceCenter
86 (0.418 %)SCOM
86 (0.418 %)Data Guard
86 (0.418 %)Backup Exec
86 (0.418 %)CONTROL-M
London IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1236 (16.42 %)Microsoft
2132 (9.186 %)Citrix
2132 (9.186 %)Oracle
3121 (8.420 %)Remedy
4113 (7.864 %)Cisco
595 (6.611 %)VMware
675 (5.219 %)HP
743 (2.992 %)IBM
834 (2.366 %)SAP
931 (2.157 %)BMC
1028 (1.949 %)CheckPoint
1127 (1.879 %)Business Objects
1225 (1.740 %)Sybase
1324 (1.670 %)TIBCO
1422 (1.531 %)Red Hat
1519 (1.322 %)McAfee
1618 (1.253 %)SolarWinds
1618 (1.253 %)Sun
1618 (1.253 %)Lotus
1717 (1.183 %)Symantec