Midlands Service Delivery Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Services Delivery 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 Service Delivery over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Services Delivery
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Banbury Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burgess Hill Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chesham Cheshire Chester City of London Clapham Crawley Crewe Deeside Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dunbar Dundee Dunstable East Lothian East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Flintshire Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Matlock Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redditch Rickmansworth Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wolverhampton Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	55	66
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching contract IT job ads	5	13
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.973 %	1.566 %
Daily rates quoted	1	7
Average minimum daily rate	£550	£357
Average daily rate	£600	£373
% change on same period last year	+60.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£650	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£406	£338
% change on same period last year	+20.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.94	£23.01
% change on same period last year	-13.32 %
Processes & Methodologies Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	514	830
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.724 %	0.839 %
Daily rates quoted	77	143
Average minimum daily rate	£388	£375
Average daily rate	£412	£399
% change on same period last year	+3.25 %
Average maximum daily rate	£436	£424
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	48
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.43	£23.73
Average hourly rate	£25.14	£24.26
% change on same period last year	+3.62 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.86	£24.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
Service Delivery 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.

Service Delivery
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Service Delivery
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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 3 (27.27 %) SLA 1 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 2 2 (18.18 %) NHS 2 2 (18.18 %) Performance Management 3 1 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Continuity 3 1 (9.091 %) Pensions 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 3 1 (9.091 %) NPfIT 3 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Construction 3 1 (9.091 %) Government 3 1 (9.091 %) Health

3 1 (9.091 %) Migration 3 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 3 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 3 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) MS Excel	General 1 3 (27.27 %) Telecoms 1 3 (27.27 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Construction 2 1 (9.091 %) Government 2 1 (9.091 %) Health 2 1 (9.091 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 4 (36.36 %) Service Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) Delivery Manager 2 3 (27.27 %) Services Delivery Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Implementation Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Contracts Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Helpdesk Administrator 3 1 (9.091 %) Senior Infrastructure Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) Customer Services Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) NHS Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Specialist 3 1 (9.091 %) Implementation Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Technical Designer 3 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 3 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) NHS 2 1 (9.091 %) NPfIT
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) Performance Management 2 1 (9.091 %) SC Cleared 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Change Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Migration 2 1 (9.091 %) Stakeholder Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Business Continuity	Qualifications 1 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (27.27 %) SLA