The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL 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 Merseyside 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
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 26 29 13
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -16
Contract jobs citing ITIL 4 10 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.914% 3.846% 7.393%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.797% 6.494% 12.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 10
Average daily rate £450 £300 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.00% -6.97%
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.65% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -3.22%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+14.06% +3.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
143 154 157
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 68.42% 59.23% 61.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 84 77
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £485 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 14
Average hourly rate - £21.86 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

Merseyside ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

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 Merseyside region over the 3 months to 17 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
Liverpool +2 3 £450 +50.00%
Wirral - 1 £450 -
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Citrix
2 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 5 (33.33%) XenApp
3 4 (26.67%) AppSense
3 4 (26.67%) Service Management
3 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 4 (26.67%) CCA
3 4 (26.67%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (13.33%) SQL
4 2 (13.33%) MS Office
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (13.33%) HP
4 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (13.33%) Release Management
4 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
4 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
5 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
5 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.667%) NETGEAR
5 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
5 1 (6.667%) Brocade
5 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
5 1 (6.667%) Fat Client

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 (6.667%) SharePoint
1 1 (6.667%) MS Exchange
1 1 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (6.667%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) TCP/IP
1 2 (13.33%) SAN
2 1 (6.667%) Internet
2 1 (6.667%) MPLS
2 1 (6.667%) Firewall
2 1 (6.667%) IP Telephony
2 1 (6.667%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (6.667%) VPN
2 1 (6.667%) ADSL
2 1 (6.667%) LAN
2 1 (6.667%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Project Engineer
1 4 (26.67%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (13.33%) Release Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Programme Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) Service Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (6.667%) Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.667%) Services Delivery Analyst
3 1 (6.667%) SAN Specialist
3 1 (6.667%) Services Director
3 1 (6.667%) Service Delivery Director
3 1 (6.667%) Head of Service Delivery
3 1 (6.667%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) NHS
1 1 (6.667%) Thin Client
1 1 (6.667%) Blackberry
1 1 (6.667%) Management Information System
1 1 (6.667%) Clustering
1 1 (6.667%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) AIX
2 1 (6.667%) Tru64
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Migration
2 4 (26.67%) Service Management
2 4 (26.67%) Service Delivery
3 2 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) Configuration Management
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Supplier Management
3 2 (13.33%) Release Management
3 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
4 1 (6.667%) Service Desk Management
4 1 (6.667%) Incident Management
4 1 (6.667%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.667%) Information Security
4 1 (6.667%) Programme Management
4 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (6.667%) Logistics
4 1 (6.667%) Change Management
4 1 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (6.667%) ITSM
4 1 (6.667%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (26.67%) CCA
2 4 (26.67%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.667%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 1 (6.667%) MCP
System Software
1 5 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (6.667%) XenDesktop
2 1 (6.667%) vSphere
2 1 (6.667%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.667%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Citrix
2 4 (26.67%) AppSense
3 2 (13.33%) HP
4 1 (6.667%) Dell
4 1 (6.667%) Cisco
4 1 (6.667%) IBM
4 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
4 1 (6.667%) NetApp
4 1 (6.667%) Wyse
4 1 (6.667%) VMware
4 1 (6.667%) Brocade
4 1 (6.667%) NETGEAR