Milton Keynes ITSM Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for IT Service Management (ITSM) skills within the Milton Keynes region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITSM over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

IT Service Management (ITSM)
Location Basildon Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cheltenham City of London Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Gloucestershire Home Counties Leeds Liverpool London Luton Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Plymouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwickshire West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	29	60
Rank change on same period last year	+31
Matching contract IT job ads	43	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.061 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	7.570 %	1.255 %
Daily rates quoted	16	1
Average minimum daily rate	£293	£193
Average daily rate	£301	£193
% change on same period last year	+56.02 %
Average maximum daily rate	£310	£193
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£381
% change on same period last year	-8.77 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	4
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.11	£18.45
Average hourly rate	£18.17	£18.53
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.23	£18.61
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.75	£28.37
% change on same period last year	-33.91 %
Processes & Methodologies Milton Keynes
Matching contract IT job ads	568	478
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.800 %	0.483 %
Daily rates quoted	228	158
Average minimum daily rate	£302	£344
Average daily rate	£326	£364
% change on same period last year	-10.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£349	£383
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£370
% change on same period last year	+1.87 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	47
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.51	£26.04
Average hourly rate	£22.68	£26.66
% change on same period last year	-14.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.85	£27.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.44	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-1.89 %
ITSM Buckinghamshire

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.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITSM across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITSM across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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 86 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 72 (83.72 %) Security Cleared 3 50 (58.14 %) OVOW 4 49 (56.98 %) OpenView 5 48 (55.81 %) SC Cleared 6 45 (52.33 %) Microsoft Certification 7 39 (45.35 %) Cisco 8 37 (43.02 %) HP 9 35 (40.70 %) CNE 9 35 (40.70 %) Novell Certification 9 35 (40.70 %) MCSE 10 29 (33.72 %) Windows 11 26 (30.23 %) Government 12 18 (20.93 %) Telecoms 12 18 (20.93 %) SAN

13 16 (18.60 %) SQL 14 14 (16.28 %) Windows Server 2003 15 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 15 12 (13.95 %) MCDBA 16 11 (12.79 %) OLAP 16 11 (12.79 %) Transact-SQL 16 11 (12.79 %) DTS 16 11 (12.79 %) Firewall 17 10 (11.63 %) Clustering 17 10 (11.63 %) Business Intelligence 17 10 (11.63 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 10 (11.63 %) Operations Management 18 9 (10.47 %) CiscoWorks 19 8 (9.302 %) MS Exchange 19 8 (9.302 %) Problem Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes 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.

Application Platforms 1 8 (9.302 %) MS Exchange 2 4 (4.651 %) Exchange Server 5.5 2 4 (4.651 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 18 (20.93 %) SAN 2 11 (12.79 %) Firewall 3 7 (8.140 %) LAN 4 5 (5.814 %) WAN 4 5 (5.814 %) Intrusion Detection 4 5 (5.814 %) TCP/IP 5 4 (4.651 %) Cisco PIX 6 3 (3.488 %) Ethernet 7 1 (1.163 %) HTTP 7 1 (1.163 %) Intranet 7 1 (1.163 %) Extranet 7 1 (1.163 %) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (13.95 %) SQL Server 2 11 (12.79 %) OLAP 2 11 (12.79 %) DTS 3 10 (11.63 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 4 4 (4.651 %) Oracle 8/8i 5 1 (1.163 %) SQL Server 2000	General 1 26 (30.23 %) Government 2 18 (20.93 %) Telecoms 3 2 (2.326 %) Finance 4 1 (1.163 %) Automotive
Job Titles 1 27 (31.40 %) Analyst 2 10 (11.63 %) Support Analyst 3 7 (8.140 %) Database Specialist 3 7 (8.140 %) Messaging Specialist 4 6 (6.977 %) 1st Line Support 4 6 (6.977 %) 1st Line Support Analyst 5 5 (5.814 %) Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) Database Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) SQL Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) Network Specialist 5 5 (5.814 %) SAN Specialist 5 5 (5.814 %) SQL Database Developer 5 5 (5.814 %) ITIL Manager 6 4 (4.651 %) OpenView Specialist 7 3 (3.488 %) Server Specialist 7 3 (3.488 %) Delivery Manager 7 3 (3.488 %) Network Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Services Delivery Manager 7 3 (3.488 %) Service Desk Analyst 7 3 (3.488 %) Service Manager	Miscellaneous 1 10 (11.63 %) Clustering 2 1 (1.163 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 29 (33.72 %) Windows 2 14 (16.28 %) Windows Server 2003 3 7 (8.140 %) Windows 2000 4 5 (5.814 %) Windows NT 5 3 (3.488 %) Windows XP 6 1 (1.163 %) Windows Vista 6 1 (1.163 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 86 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 72 (83.72 %) Security Cleared 3 48 (55.81 %) SC Cleared 4 10 (11.63 %) Operations Management 4 10 (11.63 %) Business Intelligence 5 8 (9.302 %) Problem Management 6 6 (6.977 %) Service Management 6 6 (6.977 %) Service Delivery 7 5 (5.814 %) DV Cleared 8 4 (4.651 %) Data Migration 8 4 (4.651 %) Migration 9 1 (1.163 %) Configuration Management
Programming Languages 1 16 (18.60 %) SQL 2 11 (12.79 %) Transact-SQL 3 3 (3.488 %) C	Qualifications 1 45 (52.33 %) Microsoft Certification 2 35 (40.70 %) CNE 2 35 (40.70 %) Novell Certification 2 35 (40.70 %) MCSE 3 12 (13.95 %) MCDBA 4 7 (8.140 %) SCSP 5 6 (6.977 %) ITIL Certification 6 5 (5.814 %) CCNA 6 5 (5.814 %) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (2.326 %) SLA	System Software 1 4 (4.651 %) Active Directory 1 4 (4.651 %) Terminal Server 2 3 (3.488 %) MailMarshal
Systems Management 1 50 (58.14 %) OVOW 2 49 (56.98 %) OpenView 3 9 (10.47 %) CiscoWorks 4 7 (8.140 %) Norton AntiVirus 5 6 (6.977 %) OVSD 5 6 (6.977 %) OVPI 5 6 (6.977 %) HP Data Protector 6 5 (5.814 %) NNM 7 4 (4.651 %) OVPA 8 1 (1.163 %) OVIS	Vendors 1 39 (45.35 %) Cisco 2 37 (43.02 %) HP 3 7 (8.140 %) Microsoft 3 7 (8.140 %) Symantec 3 7 (8.140 %) McAfee Security 4 4 (4.651 %) Oracle 4 4 (4.651 %) Citrix 5 3 (3.488 %) SAP 6 1 (1.163 %) SurfControl 6 1 (1.163 %) Finjan 6 1 (1.163 %) CheckPoint