The first table below looks at the demand for ITSM 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 ITSM 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
IT Service Management (ITSM)
Rank 26 28 32
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Contract jobs citing ITSM 1 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Middlesex 0.485% 0.965% 1.445%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.667% 1.415% 1.779%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
Average daily rate £375 £350 £378
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -7.28%
UK excluding London average daily rate £393 £363 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.27% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £13.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+12.96% -22.85%
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%
ITSM
South East

ITSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex ITSM Jobs Demand Trend

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Middlesex ITSM Daily Rate Trend

ITSM
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Middlesex ITSM Hourly Rate Trend

ITSM
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing ITSM 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 ITSM.

1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) Fedora
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) CCTV
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 1 (50.00%) HP SIM

ITSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Middlesex region citing ITSM 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 ITSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Compliance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Fedora
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (50.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) VMware