The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 21 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 Middlesex 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 2 18 23
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 43 13 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 20.87% 4.180% 4.046%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 28.67% 6.132% 4.982%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 6 7
Average daily rate £450 £340 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.27% -10.52%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £475 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £320 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.68% -1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+16.12% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Middlesex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
150 212 281
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 72.82% 68.17% 81.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 111 119
Average daily rate £383 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £255 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £545 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 11
Average hourly rate £16.00 £39.00 £37.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-58.97% +4.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £27.00 £29.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.60 £50.50 £38.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Middlesex region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Middlesex ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 32 (54.24%) SAP
2 18 (30.51%) Service Delivery
3 15 (25.42%) Degree
4 14 (23.73%) Windows
5 12 (20.34%) Service Management
6 10 (16.95%) Project Management
7 8 (13.56%) Incident Management
8 7 (11.86%) Problem Management
8 7 (11.86%) High Availability
8 7 (11.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (11.86%) SAN
8 7 (11.86%) UNIX
8 7 (11.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
9 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
9 6 (10.17%) Finance
9 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
9 6 (10.17%) Remedy
10 5 (8.475%) SAP Certification
10 5 (8.475%) ITIL Certification
10 5 (8.475%) PRINCE2
10 5 (8.475%) Management Information System
11 4 (6.780%) MS Project
11 4 (6.780%) MS Office
11 4 (6.780%) Windows XP
11 4 (6.780%) TCP/IP
11 4 (6.780%) MS Excel
11 4 (6.780%) MS Exchange
11 4 (6.780%) Microsoft
11 4 (6.780%) Active Directory
11 4 (6.780%) ITIL V3

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex 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 (1.695%) Middleware
1 1 (1.695%) ASP
1 1 (1.695%) XML
1 1 (1.695%) SAP Basis
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.780%) MS Exchange
1 4 (6.780%) SAP Portal
2 3 (5.085%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (3.390%) MS Project Server
4 1 (1.695%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (1.695%) Site Server
4 1 (1.695%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (1.695%) Apache
4 1 (1.695%) WebLogic
4 1 (1.695%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (6.780%) MS Project
1 4 (6.780%) MS Office
1 4 (6.780%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (11.86%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 3 (5.085%) SAP FI
2 3 (5.085%) SAP FI/CO
2 3 (5.085%) SAP CO
3 2 (3.390%) SAP SM
4 1 (1.695%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (1.695%) SAP MDM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.86%) SAN
2 4 (6.780%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.695%) VPN
3 1 (1.695%) DNS
3 1 (1.695%) DHCP
3 1 (1.695%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.085%) BusinessObjects
2 2 (3.390%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.695%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.695%) SAP BW
General
1 6 (10.17%) Finance
2 3 (5.085%) Local Government
3 2 (3.390%) Publishing
4 1 (1.695%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.695%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.695%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Service Manager
2 11 (18.64%) Analyst
3 10 (16.95%) Services Delivery Manager
3 10 (16.95%) Delivery Manager
3 10 (16.95%) SAP Manager
4 5 (8.475%) SAP Support
4 5 (8.475%) Applications Manager
4 5 (8.475%) Incident Manager
5 4 (6.780%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (6.780%) Security Analyst
5 4 (6.780%) Support Analyst
6 3 (5.085%) SAP Analyst
6 3 (5.085%) SAP Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (5.085%) Project Manager
6 3 (5.085%) Desktop Support
6 3 (5.085%) SAP Support Analyst
7 2 (3.390%) Problem Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Business Objects Analyst
7 2 (3.390%) Transition Manager
7 2 (3.390%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.475%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.085%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.695%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.695%) iPhone
3 1 (1.695%) iPad
3 1 (1.695%) PMI
3 1 (1.695%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.73%) Windows
2 7 (11.86%) UNIX
3 4 (6.780%) Windows XP
4 3 (5.085%) Windows 7
4 3 (5.085%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.390%) Linux
5 2 (3.390%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (1.695%) Windows Vista
6 1 (1.695%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.695%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (30.51%) Service Delivery
2 12 (20.34%) Service Management
3 10 (16.95%) Project Management
4 8 (13.56%) Incident Management
5 7 (11.86%) Problem Management
5 7 (11.86%) High Availability
6 6 (10.17%) Data Analysis
6 6 (10.17%) Data Modelling
7 5 (8.475%) PRINCE2
8 4 (6.780%) ITIL V3
9 3 (5.085%) SAP Security
9 3 (5.085%) ISMS
9 3 (5.085%) Supplier Management
9 3 (5.085%) Business Intelligence
9 3 (5.085%) Information Security
9 3 (5.085%) Risk Management
9 3 (5.085%) Information Security Management
9 3 (5.085%) Security Management
9 3 (5.085%) Programme Management
10 2 (3.390%) Information Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.695%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.695%) Perl
1 1 (1.695%) SQL
1 1 (1.695%) VBScript
1 1 (1.695%) VB
Qualifications
1 15 (25.42%) Degree
2 5 (8.475%) SAP Certification
2 5 (8.475%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (3.390%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (1.695%) CCNA
4 1 (1.695%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (1.695%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.695%) MCSE
4 1 (1.695%) MCSD
4 1 (1.695%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (5.085%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.390%) SLA
4 1 (1.695%) COBIT
System Software
1 4 (6.780%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.695%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.695%) vSphere
2 1 (1.695%) XenDesktop
2 1 (1.695%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.695%) SCCM
1 1 (1.695%) SCOM
1 1 (1.695%) WSUS
1 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 32 (54.24%) SAP
2 6 (10.17%) Remedy
3 4 (6.780%) Microsoft
4 3 (5.085%) Business Objects
5 2 (3.390%) Oracle
5 2 (3.390%) HP
6 1 (1.695%) Lumension
6 1 (1.695%) Sun
6 1 (1.695%) Cisco
6 1 (1.695%) IBM
6 1 (1.695%) Citrix
6 1 (1.695%) NetApp
6 1 (1.695%) Symantec
6 1 (1.695%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (1.695%) VMware
6 1 (1.695%) AppSense