The first table below looks at the demand for Change Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Change Management over the 3 months to 23 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 Milton Keynes 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Change Management
Rank 22 24 33
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +9
Contract jobs citing Change Management 34 41 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 6.415% 5.799% 3.922%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.877% 8.817% 6.997%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 8
Average daily rate £300 £315 £398
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% -20.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £160 £329
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £362 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £360
% change year-on-year
- +4.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 12
Average hourly rate £10.50 £14.50 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.58% -3.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.80 £15.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
+152.00% -40.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
383 465 343
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 72.26% 65.77% 56.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 212 153
Average daily rate £350 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £405 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 25 31
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.75 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.86% -1.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £17.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Change Management
Buckinghamshire

Change Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes Change Management Jobs Demand Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Change Management across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Change Management Daily Rate Trend

Change Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Change Management across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Milton Keynes Change Management Daily Rate Histogram

Change Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Change Management across the Milton Keynes region.

Milton Keynes Change Management Hourly Rate Trend

Change Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Change Management 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 Change Management.

1 24 (47.06%) ITIL
2 19 (37.25%) Security Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) Citrix
3 11 (21.57%) ITIL V3
4 10 (19.61%) Windows
4 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
4 10 (19.61%) Windows Server 2008
5 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
6 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
6 8 (15.69%) Incident Management
6 8 (15.69%) VMware
6 8 (15.69%) Cisco
6 8 (15.69%) Service Management
6 8 (15.69%) Finance
7 7 (13.73%) Service Delivery
7 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 7 (13.73%) SQL
7 7 (13.73%) Process Architecture
8 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
8 6 (11.76%) Backup Exec
8 6 (11.76%) OVSD
8 6 (11.76%) MCSE
8 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (11.76%) MS Exchange
8 6 (11.76%) UNIX
9 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (9.804%) SLA
9 5 (9.804%) HP
9 5 (9.804%) Banking
9 5 (9.804%) Exchange Server 2003

Change Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Change Management 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 Change Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (5.882%) .NET
1 3 (5.882%) XML
1 3 (5.882%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 5 (9.804%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (5.882%) SharePoint
4 2 (3.922%) Lync
4 2 (3.922%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.961%) IIS
5 1 (1.961%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (5.882%) MS Office
1 3 (5.882%) MS Excel
1 3 (5.882%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.961%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.922%) Broadband
1 2 (3.922%) SAN
2 1 (1.961%) Firewall
2 1 (1.961%) DMZ
2 1 (1.961%) DHCP
2 1 (1.961%) DNS
2 1 (1.961%) NAS
2 1 (1.961%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.922%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (3.922%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (15.69%) Finance
2 5 (9.804%) Banking
3 4 (7.843%) Retail
4 3 (5.882%) Automotive
4 3 (5.882%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.961%) Back Office
5 1 (1.961%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 24 (47.06%) Analyst
2 8 (15.69%) Support Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (9.804%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.843%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 4 (7.843%) Technical Analyst
5 4 (7.843%) Change Analyst
5 4 (7.843%) Change Manager
6 3 (5.882%) Business Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) Developer
6 3 (5.882%) Help Desk Analyst
6 3 (5.882%) Consultant
6 3 (5.882%) Graduate
6 3 (5.882%) Storage Consultant
6 3 (5.882%) Help Desk Trainee
6 3 (5.882%) Trainee
6 3 (5.882%) EMC Storage Consultant
6 3 (5.882%) Deployment Analyst
7 2 (3.922%) Programme Analyst
7 2 (3.922%) Programme Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.843%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.882%) EMC Centera
3 2 (3.922%) CMDB
3 2 (3.922%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.922%) NHS
4 1 (1.961%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.961%) Clustering
4 1 (1.961%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
1 10 (19.61%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (11.76%) UNIX
3 5 (9.804%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (7.843%) Linux
5 2 (3.922%) Windows 8
5 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (3.922%) Windows NT
5 2 (3.922%) Windows 2000
6 1 (1.961%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (47.06%) ITIL
2 11 (21.57%) ITIL V3
3 8 (15.69%) Incident Management
3 8 (15.69%) Service Management
4 7 (13.73%) Service Delivery
4 7 (13.73%) Process Architecture
5 4 (7.843%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (7.843%) Project Management
6 3 (5.882%) BPR
6 3 (5.882%) Configuration Management
6 3 (5.882%) PRINCE2
6 3 (5.882%) Business Analysis
6 3 (5.882%) Performance Testing
7 2 (3.922%) Business Transformation
7 2 (3.922%) Release Management
7 2 (3.922%) Programme Management
7 2 (3.922%) CRM
7 2 (3.922%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.961%) Migration
8 1 (1.961%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) SQL
2 2 (3.922%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (37.25%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.61%) SC Cleared
3 9 (17.65%) DV Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) MCSE
4 6 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (7.843%) MCP
6 2 (3.922%) Degree
6 2 (3.922%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.961%) PMP
7 1 (1.961%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (9.804%) SLA
2 3 (5.882%) ISO 14001
2 3 (5.882%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.922%) FATCA
System Software
1 8 (15.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (11.76%) Hyper-V
3 2 (3.922%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.961%) VMware ESX
4 1 (1.961%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 6 (11.76%) Backup Exec
1 6 (11.76%) OVSD
2 3 (5.882%) OpenView
3 2 (3.922%) SCOM
4 1 (1.961%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (1.961%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.961%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Citrix
2 8 (15.69%) VMware
2 8 (15.69%) Cisco
3 7 (13.73%) Microsoft
4 5 (9.804%) HP
5 4 (7.843%) Oracle
6 3 (5.882%) EMC
6 3 (5.882%) Verint
7 2 (3.922%) Intel
8 1 (1.961%) CA
8 1 (1.961%) Symantec
8 1 (1.961%) SolarWinds
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Change, ITIL V3, HP Service Management, SC My client is looking for an SC cleared Change Analyst to maintain and support the clients ICT Operating model including Policy,...
Lorien Resourcing
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
They need someone with a background in service management, who has worked in an ITIL environment... Objectives *To maintain and support the ICT Operating model including Policy, Process...
LA International
Rate: £250 - £300 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Change Analyst, ITIL v3, HP Service Manager, SC Security Cleared is required by our government, public sector organisation based in Milton Keynes, Bucks, South East with occasional travel...
Smart Sourcing
Rate: Unspecified daily rate c.£250-350 daily
Posted: 21 May 2013