The first table below looks at the demand for TickIT 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 TickIT 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 Quality Assurance & Compliance 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
TickIT
Rank - 408 432
Contract jobs citing TickIT 0 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London - 0.007% 0.009%
As % of the Quality Assurance & Compliance category - 0.095% 0.125%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £291 £350 £400
% change year-on-year
-16.78% -12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £31.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £32.50
All Quality Assurance & Compliance
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Quality Assurance & Compliance category
1608 2102 2401
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.431% 7.805% 7.595%
Number of daily rates quoted 1111 1303 1578
Average daily rate £450 £463 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £283 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £643 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £375
% change year-on-year
- -6.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 64 53
Average hourly rate £32.75 £17.87 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+83.31% -3.43%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.93 £11.70 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.60 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £16.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -46.66%
TickIT
England

TickIT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing TickIT across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Quality Assurance & Compliance category.

London TickIT Jobs Demand Trend

TickIT
Daily Rate Trend

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

London TickIT Daily Rate Trend

TickIT
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London TickIT Hourly Rate Trend

TickIT
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing TickIT 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 TickIT.

1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) eTOM
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Management

TickIT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing TickIT 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 TickIT. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (100.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) CMMI
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) eTOM
1 1 (100.00%) Service Desk Management
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware