Midlands ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Midlands 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Andover Avon Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Falkirk Farnborough Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grangemouth Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Jersey Kent Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Southwark Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	35
Rank change on same period last year	-10
Matching contract IT job ads	14	49
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.049 %
As % of the category below	2.703 %	5.947 %
Daily rates quoted	5	12
Average minimum daily rate	£320	£335
Average daily rate	£345	£342
% change on same period last year	+0.87 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£316
% change on same period last year	+5.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	5
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£16.12
Average hourly rate	-	£17.32
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£18.52
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.45	£24.10
% change on same period last year	-15.12 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	518	824
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.736 %	0.832 %
Daily rates quoted	81	142
Average minimum daily rate	£387	£376
Average daily rate	£410	£400
% change on same period last year	+2.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£433	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.63 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	44
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.43	£23.99
Average hourly rate	£25.14	£24.58
% change on same period last year	+2.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.86	£25.18
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.32	£30.04
% change on same period last year	-2.39 %
ITIL England

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 Midlands 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 Midlands region.

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 10 (23.26 %) PRINCE2 2 9 (20.93 %) SAP 3 8 (18.60 %) Government 3 8 (18.60 %) SC Cleared 3 8 (18.60 %) Security Cleared 4 6 (13.95 %) Finance 4 6 (13.95 %) Active Directory 4 6 (13.95 %) Incident Management 5 5 (11.63 %) Information Security 5 5 (11.63 %) COBIT 5 5 (11.63 %) ITIL Certification 5 5 (11.63 %) Windows 5 5 (11.63 %) Change Management 5 5 (11.63 %) Project Management 6 4 (9.302 %) Service Management

6 4 (9.302 %) Microsoft Certification 6 4 (9.302 %) SAN 6 4 (9.302 %) MS Visio 6 4 (9.302 %) Problem Management 6 4 (9.302 %) ISO27001 7 3 (6.977 %) Migration 7 3 (6.977 %) Cisco Certification 7 3 (6.977 %) Casewise 7 3 (6.977 %) PMP 7 3 (6.977 %) PMI Certification 7 3 (6.977 %) CCNP 7 3 (6.977 %) MCSE 7 3 (6.977 %) ERP 7 3 (6.977 %) Windows XP 8 2 (4.651 %) ITSM

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 (2.326 %) Middleware 1 1 (2.326 %) Application Packaging	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.651 %) WebLogic 2 1 (2.326 %) IIS 2 1 (2.326 %) Apache
Applications 1 4 (9.302 %) MS Visio 2 1 (2.326 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (2.326 %) SAP HR 1 1 (2.326 %) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking 1 4 (9.302 %) SAN 2 2 (4.651 %) LAN 2 2 (4.651 %) WAN 2 2 (4.651 %) DHCP 3 1 (2.326 %) SSL 3 1 (2.326 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.326 %) BusinessObjects 1 1 (2.326 %) SAP BW 1 1 (2.326 %) GIS
Development Applications 1 2 (4.651 %) MSI	General 1 8 (18.60 %) Government 2 6 (13.95 %) Finance 3 2 (4.651 %) Education 4 1 (2.326 %) Banking 4 1 (2.326 %) Retail 4 1 (2.326 %) Local Government 4 1 (2.326 %) Retail Banking
Job Titles 1 10 (23.26 %) Analyst 2 7 (16.28 %) Project Manager 3 6 (13.95 %) Service Manager 4 5 (11.63 %) Infrastructure Manager 5 4 (9.302 %) Team Leader 5 4 (9.302 %) Support Team Leader 5 4 (9.302 %) Risk Analyst 5 4 (9.302 %) Applications Support 5 4 (9.302 %) Security Analyst 5 4 (9.302 %) Incident Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) Process Engineer 6 3 (6.977 %) SAP Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) SAP Team Leader 6 3 (6.977 %) Desktop Engineer 6 3 (6.977 %) Support Analyst 6 3 (6.977 %) Business Analyst 6 3 (6.977 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) Technical Project Manager 6 3 (6.977 %) Technical Manager 7 2 (4.651 %) Infrastructure Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.326 %) VLE
Operating Systems 1 5 (11.63 %) Windows 2 3 (6.977 %) Windows XP 3 2 (4.651 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (4.651 %) UNIX 4 1 (2.326 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (2.326 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (23.26 %) PRINCE2 2 8 (18.60 %) SC Cleared 2 8 (18.60 %) Security Cleared 3 6 (13.95 %) Incident Management 4 5 (11.63 %) Information Security 4 5 (11.63 %) Project Management 4 5 (11.63 %) Change Management 5 4 (9.302 %) Service Management 5 4 (9.302 %) Problem Management 6 3 (6.977 %) Migration 6 3 (6.977 %) ERP 7 2 (4.651 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (4.651 %) ITSM 7 2 (4.651 %) SAP Implementation 7 2 (4.651 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (4.651 %) Logistics 8 1 (2.326 %) BC Cleared 8 1 (2.326 %) Test Scripting 8 1 (2.326 %) Performance Management 8 1 (2.326 %) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (4.651 %) SQL 2 1 (2.326 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 5 (11.63 %) ITIL Certification 2 4 (9.302 %) Microsoft Certification 3 3 (6.977 %) PMP 3 3 (6.977 %) PMI Certification 3 3 (6.977 %) MCSE 3 3 (6.977 %) CCNP 3 3 (6.977 %) Cisco Certification 4 2 (4.651 %) Degree 4 2 (4.651 %) PRINCE2 Certification 5 1 (2.326 %) MCP 5 1 (2.326 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (11.63 %) COBIT 2 4 (9.302 %) ISO27001 3 2 (4.651 %) SLA	System Software 1 6 (13.95 %) Active Directory 2 2 (4.651 %) VMware ESX 2 2 (4.651 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (2.326 %) Oracle RAC 3 1 (2.326 %) ISA Server
Systems Management 1 1 (2.326 %) CA SiteMinder	Vendors 1 9 (20.93 %) SAP 2 3 (6.977 %) Casewise 3 2 (4.651 %) VMware 3 2 (4.651 %) Oracle 3 2 (4.651 %) IBM 3 2 (4.651 %) Microsoft 3 2 (4.651 %) HP 3 2 (4.651 %) Citrix 3 2 (4.651 %) BEA 4 1 (2.326 %) BMC 4 1 (2.326 %) Netegrity 4 1 (2.326 %) Remedy 4 1 (2.326 %) Business Objects