The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 17 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 Luton 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 14 9 10
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 3 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 4.000% 7.463% 3.636%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.455% 9.434% 5.263%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 2
Average daily rate £463 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+68.27% -15.38%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+3.70% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
55 53 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Luton 73.33% 79.10% 69.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 35 23
Average daily rate £375 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £191 £271
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £35.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +222.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Service Delivery
Bedfordshire

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Luton Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Luton Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Windows
3 2 (33.33%) C#
3 2 (33.33%) .NET
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 2 (33.33%) Web Services
3 2 (33.33%) XML
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (33.33%) Internet
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Retail
4 1 (16.67%) Exstream
4 1 (16.67%) PrintSoft PReS
4 1 (16.67%) DOC1
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) Finance
4 1 (16.67%) MS Project
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) HTTP
4 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 1 (16.67%) HP

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Luton 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 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) Web Services
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Project
1 1 (16.67%) DOC1
1 1 (16.67%) PrintSoft PReS
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Agresso
1 1 (16.67%) Exstream
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Internet
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Project Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Lead Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Accountant
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
Operating Systems
1 2 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Matrix Management
4 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) HP