The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery 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 Midlands 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
Services Delivery
Rank 24 29 28
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -1
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 2 2 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.170% 0.735% 1.176%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.786% 1.515% 1.826%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £550 £200 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+175.00% -40.29%
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.03% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.50 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
112 132 219
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 65.50% 48.53% 64.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 58 52
Average daily rate £450 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £250 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £645 £550 £555
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 7 58
Average hourly rate £32.00 £21.00 £24.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+52.38% -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Service Delivery
England

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Midlands Service Delivery Daily Rate Histogram

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Midlands Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery.

1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
1 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
1 7 (77.78%) MS Exchange
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
1 7 (77.78%) IBM
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
1 7 (77.78%) HP
1 7 (77.78%) NetApp
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
1 7 (77.78%) Exchange Server 2003
1 7 (77.78%) Exchange Server 2007
1 7 (77.78%) SCOM
2 1 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (11.11%) Spotfire
2 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
2 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) SAP BI
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Business Objects
2 1 (11.11%) SAP

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (77.78%) SharePoint
1 7 (77.78%) MS Exchange
1 7 (77.78%) Exchange Server 2003
1 7 (77.78%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (11.11%) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Spotfire
1 1 (11.11%) SAP BW
1 1 (11.11%) SAP BI
1 1 (11.11%) BusinessObjects
1 1 (11.11%) Data Mining
1 1 (11.11%) SAP HANA
General
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Technical Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Technical Architect
2 3 (33.33%) Lead Architect
3 1 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Head of Architecture
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Quantitative Analysis
2 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
2 1 (11.11%) Configuration Management
2 1 (11.11%) SOA
2 1 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (11.11%) Data Architecture
2 1 (11.11%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (11.11%) Business Analytics
2 1 (11.11%) Analytics
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 7 (77.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
1 7 (77.78%) IBM
1 7 (77.78%) HP
1 7 (77.78%) NetApp
1 7 (77.78%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) TIBCO
2 1 (11.11%) MicroStrategy
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Business Objects
2 1 (11.11%) SAP
2 1 (11.11%) Tableau