The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 17 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 North East 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 9 19 17
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -2
Contract jobs citing ITIL 28 29 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 10.61% 6.067% 6.502%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.28% 9.603% 11.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 7
Average daily rate £238 £325 £175
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.92% +85.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £260 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £342 £250
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.65% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 1
Average hourly rate £18.90 £17.75 £10.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.47% +65.11%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+14.06% +3.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
172 302 255
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 65.15% 63.18% 57.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 166 108
Average daily rate £341 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.71% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £499 £575 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 14 13
Average hourly rate £18.90 £23.50 £21.86
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.57% +7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.54 £12.00 £10.49
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £40.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
ITIL
England

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL across the North East region.

North East ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the North East region.

North East ITIL Hourly Rate Trend

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the North East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Tyne and Wear +15 22 £225 -18.18%
Durham -6 1 - -
Teesside - 1 £250 -
ITIL
England

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ITIL 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 ITIL.

1 26 (46.43%) Service Management
2 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 16 (28.57%) Windows
4 12 (21.43%) Project Management
4 12 (21.43%) Service Delivery
5 10 (17.86%) PRINCE2
5 10 (17.86%) SLA
5 10 (17.86%) Cisco
6 9 (16.07%) MS Office
6 9 (16.07%) MS Excel
6 9 (16.07%) Management Information System
7 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 7 (12.50%) Problem Management
7 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
8 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
8 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
8 6 (10.71%) Incident Management
8 6 (10.71%) ITSM
8 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (8.929%) VMware
9 5 (8.929%) Document Management
9 5 (8.929%) Data Protection
9 5 (8.929%) Linux
9 5 (8.929%) ITIL Certification
9 5 (8.929%) SAN
9 5 (8.929%) Windows 7
9 5 (8.929%) VMware Infrastructure
9 5 (8.929%) Capacity Management
10 4 (7.143%) Security Cleared
10 4 (7.143%) Information Governance

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing ITIL 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 ITIL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (3.571%) Middleware
2 1 (1.786%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.786%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.571%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.786%) MS Exchange
2 1 (1.786%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (1.786%) ESB
2 1 (1.786%) Lync
2 1 (1.786%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.786%) IIS
2 1 (1.786%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (16.07%) MS Office
1 9 (16.07%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.786%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.929%) SAN
2 4 (7.143%) Wireless
3 2 (3.571%) VLAN
3 2 (3.571%) LAN
3 2 (3.571%) Fibre Channel
3 2 (3.571%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.786%) Firewall
4 1 (1.786%) WLAN
4 1 (1.786%) WAN
4 1 (1.786%) HTTP
4 1 (1.786%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.786%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.786%) Oracle 10g
General
1 4 (7.143%) Legal
2 1 (1.786%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.786%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (35.71%) Analyst
2 10 (17.86%) Service Manager
3 9 (16.07%) Service Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (10.71%) 2nd Line Support
5 5 (8.929%) Project Manager
5 5 (8.929%) Services Delivery Manager
5 5 (8.929%) Service Desk Manager
5 5 (8.929%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (7.143%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Support
7 3 (5.357%) Help Desk Analyst
7 3 (5.357%) Administrator
7 3 (5.357%) Infrastructure Project Manager
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Project Manager
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (5.357%) Infrastructure Manager
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Manager
7 3 (5.357%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.07%) Management Information System
2 3 (5.357%) Clustering
2 3 (5.357%) Mainframe
2 3 (5.357%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (1.786%) Client/Server
3 1 (1.786%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.786%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.786%) Mathematics
3 1 (1.786%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 16 (28.57%) Windows
2 5 (8.929%) Linux
2 5 (8.929%) Windows 7
3 4 (7.143%) UNIX
4 3 (5.357%) Windows 8
4 3 (5.357%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (5.357%) AIX
5 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (3.571%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.786%) Solaris
6 1 (1.786%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (46.43%) Service Management
2 12 (21.43%) Service Delivery
2 12 (21.43%) Project Management
3 10 (17.86%) PRINCE2
4 7 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 7 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (12.50%) Problem Management
5 6 (10.71%) Asset Management
5 6 (10.71%) Incident Management
5 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (10.71%) ITSM
6 5 (8.929%) Document Management
6 5 (8.929%) Data Protection
6 5 (8.929%) Capacity Management
7 4 (7.143%) Information Governance
7 4 (7.143%) Time Management
7 4 (7.143%) PRINCE
8 3 (5.357%) Performance Testing
8 3 (5.357%) Project Planning
8 3 (5.357%) ITIL V3
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.571%) JavaScript
2 1 (1.786%) Shell Script
2 1 (1.786%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (8.929%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.143%) SC Cleared
2 4 (7.143%) Security Cleared
3 3 (5.357%) BC Cleared
3 3 (5.357%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.357%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 2 (3.571%) A+ Certification
4 2 (3.571%) MCP
4 2 (3.571%) CCNA
4 2 (3.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (3.571%) Degree
4 2 (3.571%) APMP
4 2 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.786%) CISA
5 1 (1.786%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (17.86%) SLA
2 1 (1.786%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (8.929%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (7.143%) VMware ESX
4 2 (3.571%) vSphere
4 2 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.786%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.786%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.786%) XenApp
5 1 (1.786%) XenServer
5 1 (1.786%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (1.786%) EMC NetWorker
1 1 (1.786%) SCCM
1 1 (1.786%) SCOM
1 1 (1.786%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 18 (32.14%) Microsoft
2 10 (17.86%) Cisco
3 5 (8.929%) VMware
4 4 (7.143%) Dell
5 3 (5.357%) HP
6 2 (3.571%) Oracle
6 2 (3.571%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.786%) Citrix
7 1 (1.786%) SAP
7 1 (1.786%) JBoss
7 1 (1.786%) AppSense
7 1 (1.786%) Brocade
Tyne and Wear
REF - CF361708. My client is an leading organisation based in the North East of England and due to growth and internal changes, they are looking to recruit a...
Nigel Wright Consultancy
Rate: Up to £320 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
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Octad
Rate: From £250 to £280 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Windows and SAN AdministratorNewcastle upon TyneI have an exciting contracting opportunity for a global organisation with offices in Newcastle upon Tyne, responsible for the resolution of Windows / SAN...
Rate: £200.00 - £250.00 per day + On-call allowance
Posted: 25 April 2013
Newcastle
Project Manager - Software Development - Finance required for a contract in Newcastle City CentreMy client is looking for an experienced Project Manager to join them on a contract basis...
Michael Rothstein
Rate: Excellent
Posted: 16 May 2013
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
The IT Administrator will ideally have an understanding of ITIL best practice and be comfortable working in a Enterprise level environment - this role will involve supporting more than...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Rate: £7 - £8 per hour
Posted: 14 May 2013