Merseyside ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Merseyside region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 5 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Bellshill Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coatbridge Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Motherwell Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Lanarkshire North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding Staffordshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	16	21
Rank change on same period last year	+5
Matching contract IT job ads	28	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.046 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	14.00 %	8.840 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£269	£345
Average daily rate	£289	£345
% change on same period last year	-16.23 %
Average maximum daily rate	£309	£345
UK excluding London average daily rate	£339	£341
% change on same period last year	-0.47 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.00	£14.00
Average hourly rate	£24.88	£14.00
% change on same period last year	+77.67 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.75	£14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.95	£22.12
% change on same period last year	-14.34 %
Processes & Methodologies Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	200	181
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.326 %	0.198 %
Daily rates quoted	49	40
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£359
Average daily rate	£408	£394
% change on same period last year	+3.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£429
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.00 %
Hourly rates quoted	23	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£29.31	£23.15
Average hourly rate	£31.44	£25.27
% change on same period last year	+24.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£33.56	£27.39
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.25	£29.44
% change on same period last year	-4.04 %
ITIL North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily 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 Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 5 December 2008.

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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 5 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Liverpool	0	18	£300	-13.04 %
Wirral	-	2	£175	-
Prescot	+1	2	£335	-

ITIL North West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, 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 9 (27.27 %) Service Delivery 2 8 (24.24 %) Windows 2 8 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 3 7 (21.21 %) ITIL Certification 4 6 (18.18 %) Service Management 5 5 (15.15 %) SLA 5 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory 5 5 (15.15 %) PRINCE 5 5 (15.15 %) MS Office 5 5 (15.15 %) PVCS 6 4 (12.12 %) VMS 6 4 (12.12 %) Configuration Management 7 3 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 7 3 (9.091 %) Problem Management 7 3 (9.091 %) Project Management

7 3 (9.091 %) Citrix 7 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 7 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 7 3 (9.091 %) Novell 7 3 (9.091 %) WAN 7 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 7 3 (9.091 %) LAN 7 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT 8 2 (6.061 %) MS Project 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL 8 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 8 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 8 2 (6.061 %) VPN 8 2 (6.061 %) Novell eDirectory 8 2 (6.061 %) Release Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 December 2008, 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 Development 1 1 (3.030 %) .NET 1 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET 1 1 (3.030 %) SOAP 1 1 (3.030 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (9.091 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.030 %) IIS 2 1 (3.030 %) SharePoint
Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) MS Office 2 2 (6.061 %) MS Project 3 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel 3 1 (3.030 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 3 (9.091 %) LAN 1 3 (9.091 %) WAN 2 2 (6.061 %) VPN 2 2 (6.061 %) Network Security 3 1 (3.030 %) DNS 3 1 (3.030 %) SAN 3 1 (3.030 %) Firewall 3 1 (3.030 %) VLAN 3 1 (3.030 %) FTP 3 1 (3.030 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (3.030 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.030 %) RDBMS 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (3.030 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 5 (15.15 %) PVCS	General 1 3 (9.091 %) Manufacturing 2 2 (6.061 %) Retail 2 2 (6.061 %) Finance 2 2 (6.061 %) Legal 3 1 (3.030 %) Government 3 1 (3.030 %) Health
Job Titles 1 17 (51.52 %) Analyst 2 8 (24.24 %) Service Analyst 2 8 (24.24 %) Service Desk Analyst 3 4 (12.12 %) Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Change Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Change Manager 5 2 (6.061 %) Release Manager 5 2 (6.061 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) Coordinator 5 2 (6.061 %) Project Manager 5 2 (6.061 %) Business Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Architect 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Computer Operator 6 1 (3.030 %) Consultant 6 1 (3.030 %) Service Manager 6 1 (3.030 %) Infrastructure Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Services Delivery Manager 6 1 (3.030 %) 1st Line Support	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Management Information System 1 2 (6.061 %) Statistics 2 1 (3.030 %) Replication 2 1 (3.030 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.030 %) PMI 2 1 (3.030 %) NHS 2 1 (3.030 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 8 (24.24 %) Windows 2 4 (12.12 %) VMS 3 3 (9.091 %) Windows NT 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows XP 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003 4 1 (3.030 %) UNIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (27.27 %) Service Delivery 2 8 (24.24 %) PRINCE2 3 6 (18.18 %) Service Management 4 5 (15.15 %) PRINCE 5 4 (12.12 %) Configuration Management 6 3 (9.091 %) Project Management 6 3 (9.091 %) Problem Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Release Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Supplier Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Incident Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Six Sigma 7 2 (6.061 %) Change Management 8 1 (3.030 %) Migration 8 1 (3.030 %) Business Continuity 8 1 (3.030 %) Business Analysis 8 1 (3.030 %) Load Balancing 8 1 (3.030 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL 2 1 (3.030 %) VB 2 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.030 %) C 2 1 (3.030 %) C# 2 1 (3.030 %) C++	Qualifications 1 7 (21.21 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) MCP 2 1 (3.030 %) HND 2 1 (3.030 %) MCSE 2 1 (3.030 %) CCNA 2 1 (3.030 %) Cisco Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) CNA 2 1 (3.030 %) Novell Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (15.15 %) SLA 2 2 (6.061 %) QA	System Software 1 5 (15.15 %) Active Directory 2 2 (6.061 %) Novell eDirectory 3 1 (3.030 %) Terminal Services 3 1 (3.030 %) ISA Server
Vendors 1 3 (9.091 %) Cisco 1 3 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 3 (9.091 %) Citrix 1 3 (9.091 %) Novell 2 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 3 1 (3.030 %) SAP 3 1 (3.030 %) Sun 3 1 (3.030 %) CA