The first table below looks at the demand for OVSD 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 OVSD over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Systems Management 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP OpenView Service Desk (OVSD)
Rank 52 53 59
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +6
Contract jobs citing OVSD 11 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 1.803% 1.376% 0.951%
As % of the Systems Management category 12.94% 11.84% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 5
Average daily rate £294 £195 £142
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+50.64% +37.32%
UK excluding London average daily rate £90 £142 £99
% change year-on-year
-36.61% +43.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £11.00 £10.50 £13.25
% change year-on-year
+4.76% -20.75%
All Systems Management
Milton Keynes
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
85 76 54
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 13.93% 11.62% 8.558%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 30 24
Average daily rate £315 £275 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.54% +27.90%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £165 £142
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £321 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +1.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £14.96 £32.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.96% +170.83%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
OVSD
Buckinghamshire

OVSD
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes OVSD Jobs Demand Trend

OVSD
Daily Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes OVSD Daily Rate Trend

OVSD
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Milton Keynes OVSD Hourly Rate Trend

OVSD
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OVSD 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 OVSD.

1 14 (100.00%) ITIL
2 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
3 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
4 10 (71.43%) OpenView
4 10 (71.43%) HP
5 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
5 9 (64.29%) Service Delivery
6 7 (50.00%) ITSM
6 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
6 7 (50.00%) PRINCE2
6 7 (50.00%) Service Management
7 6 (42.86%) Project Management
7 6 (42.86%) Change Management
7 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
8 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 5 (35.71%) MS Office
9 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
9 4 (28.57%) Business Development
9 4 (28.57%) Product Management
10 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
10 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (21.43%) ISO 14001
10 3 (21.43%) Windows
11 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (14.29%) UNIX
11 2 (14.29%) MS Project
11 2 (14.29%) Oracle
11 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
11 2 (14.29%) VMware
11 2 (14.29%) Backup Exec

OVSD
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing OVSD 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 OVSD. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (7.143%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 7 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (35.71%) MS Office
3 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 2 (14.29%) MS Project
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.143%) Crystal Reports
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Architect
2 3 (21.43%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (14.29%) Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Services Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 2 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Data Centre Team Leader
4 1 (7.143%) Data Manager
4 1 (7.143%) Data Centre Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (21.43%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) UNIX
2 2 (14.29%) Windows 8
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Vista
3 1 (7.143%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) ITIL
2 9 (64.29%) Service Delivery
3 7 (50.00%) ITSM
3 7 (50.00%) PRINCE2
3 7 (50.00%) Service Management
4 6 (42.86%) Project Management
4 6 (42.86%) Change Management
5 4 (28.57%) Business Development
5 4 (28.57%) Product Management
6 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
7 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
8 1 (7.143%) ITIL V3
8 1 (7.143%) Migration
Qualifications
1 13 (92.86%) Security Cleared
2 11 (78.57%) SC Cleared
3 6 (42.86%) DV Cleared
4 5 (35.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) ISO 14001
2 1 (7.143%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 2 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.143%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (71.43%) OpenView
2 2 (14.29%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) HP
2 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
3 2 (14.29%) Oracle
3 2 (14.29%) VMware
4 1 (7.143%) Cisco
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