The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Maidstone region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 22 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 Maidstone 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 10 12 8
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 2 2 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidstone 5.882% 5.556% 17.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.091% 8.333% 35.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £240 £296 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.98% +9.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.68% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Maidstone
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
22 24 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Maidstone 64.71% 66.67% 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 19 7
Average daily rate £300 £325 £270
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +20.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £265 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £360 £488 £360
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
Average hourly rate £9.00 - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
ITIL
Kent

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone 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 Maidstone region.

Maidstone ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidstone 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Finance

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Maidstone 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 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Support
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000 Server
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware