North West ITIL Certification Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification in IT contracts within the North West region compared to all other Qualifications we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Jersey Kent Kidlington Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	110
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching contract IT job ads	36	28
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.048 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	9.278 %	6.364 %
Daily rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£360
Average daily rate	£322	£367
% change on same period last year	-12.28 %
Average maximum daily rate	£339	£374
UK excluding London average daily rate	£344	£351
% change on same period last year	-2.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£8.00
Average hourly rate	£20.25	£9.25
% change on same period last year	+118.91 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.00	£10.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.03	£20.07
% change on same period last year	-0.21 %
Qualifications North West
Matching contract IT job ads	388	440
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.517 %	0.445 %
Daily rates quoted	83	103
Average minimum daily rate	£289	£369
Average daily rate	£304	£386
% change on same period last year	-21.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£319	£404
UK excluding London average daily rate	£330	£338
% change on same period last year	-2.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	50	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.87	£22.56
Average hourly rate	£29.08	£24.18
% change on same period last year	+20.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.30	£25.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.98	£25.56
% change on same period last year	-2.29 %
ITIL Certification 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.

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL Certification
Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	+3	16	£367	+13.75 %
Manchester	-8	14	£220	-68.57 %
Merseyside	+3	3	-	-

ITIL Certification England

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification.

1 57 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 12 (21.05 %) Service Management 2 12 (21.05 %) Finance 2 12 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (21.05 %) Project Management 3 10 (17.54 %) Service Delivery 4 8 (14.04 %) SLA 5 7 (12.28 %) Process Management 6 6 (10.53 %) PRINCE 6 6 (10.53 %) Risk Management 7 5 (8.772 %) Banking 7 5 (8.772 %) Problem Management 7 5 (8.772 %) UNIX 7 5 (8.772 %) Change Management 7 5 (8.772 %) Government

8 4 (7.018 %) NHS 8 4 (7.018 %) Windows 8 4 (7.018 %) Oracle 8 4 (7.018 %) Release Management 9 3 (5.263 %) Business Continuity 9 3 (5.263 %) Operations Management 9 3 (5.263 %) IBM Mainframe 9 3 (5.263 %) IBM 9 3 (5.263 %) Microsoft 9 3 (5.263 %) Oracle 11i 9 3 (5.263 %) zOS 9 3 (5.263 %) Citrix 9 3 (5.263 %) NPfIT 9 3 (5.263 %) Mainframe 9 3 (5.263 %) Stakeholder Management

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West region citing ITIL Certification 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 Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (1.754 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (1.754 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 1 (1.754 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 3 (5.263 %) Oracle 11i	Communications & Networking 1 2 (3.509 %) WAN 1 2 (3.509 %) Firewall 2 1 (1.754 %) Network Security 2 1 (1.754 %) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.754 %) DB2	General 1 12 (21.05 %) Finance 2 5 (8.772 %) Government 2 5 (8.772 %) Banking 3 2 (3.509 %) Pharmaceutical 4 1 (1.754 %) Manufacturing
Job Titles 1 14 (24.56 %) Project Manager 2 13 (22.81 %) Service Manager 3 10 (17.54 %) Analyst 4 6 (10.53 %) Services Delivery Manager 4 6 (10.53 %) Delivery Manager 5 4 (7.018 %) Technical Project Manager 5 4 (7.018 %) Technical Manager 5 4 (7.018 %) Problem Analyst 6 3 (5.263 %) Architect 6 3 (5.263 %) Team Leader 6 3 (5.263 %) Systems Architect 6 3 (5.263 %) Consultant 7 2 (3.509 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 7 2 (3.509 %) Release Manager 7 2 (3.509 %) Service Analyst 7 2 (3.509 %) Senior Manager 7 2 (3.509 %) Infrastructure Manager 7 2 (3.509 %) Server Analyst 7 2 (3.509 %) Senior Service Manager 8 1 (1.754 %) Service Integration Manager	Miscellaneous 1 4 (7.018 %) NHS 2 3 (5.263 %) Mainframe 2 3 (5.263 %) NPfIT 2 3 (5.263 %) IBM Mainframe 3 1 (1.754 %) PMI 3 1 (1.754 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.754 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 5 (8.772 %) UNIX 2 4 (7.018 %) Windows 3 3 (5.263 %) zOS 4 2 (3.509 %) Windows Server 2003 4 2 (3.509 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (3.509 %) Windows XP 5 1 (1.754 %) NetWare 5 1 (1.754 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 57 (100.00 %) ITIL 2 12 (21.05 %) PRINCE2 2 12 (21.05 %) Project Management 2 12 (21.05 %) Service Management 3 10 (17.54 %) Service Delivery 4 7 (12.28 %) Process Management 5 6 (10.53 %) PRINCE 5 6 (10.53 %) Risk Management 6 5 (8.772 %) Change Management 6 5 (8.772 %) Problem Management 7 4 (7.018 %) Release Management 8 3 (5.263 %) Operations Management 8 3 (5.263 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (5.263 %) Business Continuity 9 2 (3.509 %) Risk Assessment 9 2 (3.509 %) Asset Management 9 2 (3.509 %) Supplier Management 10 1 (1.754 %) Knowledge Management 10 1 (1.754 %) Incident Management 10 1 (1.754 %) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications 1 2 (3.509 %) MCSE 1 2 (3.509 %) Microsoft Certification 1 2 (3.509 %) PRINCE2 Practitioner 2 1 (1.754 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (1.754 %) ISEB 2 1 (1.754 %) CISSP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (14.04 %) SLA 2 1 (1.754 %) BS7799 2 1 (1.754 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 1 (1.754 %) ISO27001 2 1 (1.754 %) ISO17799
System Software 1 1 (1.754 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 4 (7.018 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.263 %) IBM 2 3 (5.263 %) Microsoft 2 3 (5.263 %) Citrix 3 2 (3.509 %) SAP 4 1 (1.754 %) Avaya