The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 44 44 55
Rank change year-on-year
0 +11
Contract jobs citing Service Delivery 26 40 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 3.114% 3.587% 2.879%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.710% 5.698% 4.335%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 11 12
Average daily rate £475 £275 £406
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+72.72% -32.30%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £288 £220 £232
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £363 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £355 £338 £350
% change year-on-year
+5.30% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £15.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.00 £17.25 £17.00
% change year-on-year
-13.04% +1.47%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Service Delivery
Berkshire

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Service Delivery across the Reading region.

Reading Service Delivery Daily Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Service Delivery across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Service Delivery Daily Rate Histogram

Service Delivery
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Service Delivery across the Reading region.

Reading Service Delivery Hourly Rate Trend

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery.

1 14 (27.45%) Telecoms
2 12 (23.53%) Oracle
2 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 11 (21.57%) Technical Architecture
4 10 (19.61%) TOGAF
4 10 (19.61%) ITIL
4 10 (19.61%) Information Security
5 9 (17.65%) Windows
6 8 (15.69%) Finance
6 8 (15.69%) Tivoli
6 8 (15.69%) PCI DSS
7 7 (13.73%) Incident Management
7 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
7 7 (13.73%) SQL
8 6 (11.76%) UNIX
8 6 (11.76%) SLA
8 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 6 (11.76%) CA
8 6 (11.76%) Firewall
8 6 (11.76%) GIS
8 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 6 (11.76%) Ethical Hacking
8 6 (11.76%) CESG
8 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
8 6 (11.76%) Network Security
9 5 (9.804%) Intrusion Detection
9 5 (9.804%) Data Analysis
9 5 (9.804%) Project Management
9 5 (9.804%) Migration
9 5 (9.804%) MS Excel

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Service Delivery 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 Service Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (7.843%) Web Services
1 4 (7.843%) J2EE
2 2 (3.922%) Flash
2 2 (3.922%) .NET
2 2 (3.922%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (5.882%) Apache
1 3 (5.882%) WebLogic
2 2 (3.922%) IIS
2 2 (3.922%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.922%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.922%) Oracle HTTP Server
2 2 (3.922%) IBM HTTP Server
3 1 (1.961%) Resin
3 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.961%) ArcGIS
3 1 (1.961%) WebLogic Portal
3 1 (1.961%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 5 (9.804%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.843%) MS PowerPoint
3 3 (5.882%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.961%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (11.76%) Firewall
1 6 (11.76%) Network Security
2 5 (9.804%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (7.843%) SAN
3 4 (7.843%) GSM
3 4 (7.843%) LAN
3 4 (7.843%) UMTS
3 4 (7.843%) BSS
4 3 (5.882%) Internet
4 3 (5.882%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.882%) CDMA
4 3 (5.882%) GPRS
5 2 (3.922%) HTTP
5 2 (3.922%) Radio Access Network
6 1 (1.961%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.961%) SS7
6 1 (1.961%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.76%) GIS
2 3 (5.882%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.961%) Data Mining
3 1 (1.961%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MSI
1 1 (1.961%) InstallShield
General
1 14 (27.45%) Telecoms
2 8 (15.69%) Finance
3 4 (7.843%) Back Office
4 3 (5.882%) Marketing
5 1 (1.961%) Retail
5 1 (1.961%) Aerospace
5 1 (1.961%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 19 (37.25%) Architect
2 8 (15.69%) Service Manager
3 6 (11.76%) Services Delivery Manager
3 6 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Analyst
3 6 (11.76%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (7.843%) OSS Architect
5 3 (5.882%) Technical Security Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Security Architect
5 3 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 3 (5.882%) Consultant
5 3 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
5 3 (5.882%) Security Analyst
6 2 (3.922%) Sales Manager
6 2 (3.922%) Data Architect
6 2 (3.922%) Account Manager
6 2 (3.922%) Storage Specialist
6 2 (3.922%) WebSphere Consultant
6 2 (3.922%) Implementation Manager
6 2 (3.922%) Service Implementation Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (13.73%) Management Information System
2 6 (11.76%) CESG
3 3 (5.882%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.882%) RMADS
3 3 (5.882%) CESG CLAS
3 3 (5.882%) Clustering
3 3 (5.882%) Replication
4 2 (3.922%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.922%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.922%) CLARiiON
4 2 (3.922%) Symmetrix
4 2 (3.922%) EMC Centera
4 2 (3.922%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.961%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.961%) Open Source
5 1 (1.961%) FMCG
5 1 (1.961%) Data Extraction
5 1 (1.961%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.65%) Windows
2 6 (11.76%) UNIX
3 4 (7.843%) Linux
3 4 (7.843%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.922%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.961%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (21.57%) Technical Architecture
2 10 (19.61%) TOGAF
2 10 (19.61%) ITIL
2 10 (19.61%) Information Security
3 7 (13.73%) Incident Management
4 6 (11.76%) Ethical Hacking
5 5 (9.804%) Data Analysis
5 5 (9.804%) Project Management
5 5 (9.804%) Migration
6 4 (7.843%) Change Management
6 4 (7.843%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (7.843%) Service Management
6 4 (7.843%) Time Management
6 4 (7.843%) Data Migration
6 4 (7.843%) Information Architecture
7 3 (5.882%) Change Control
7 3 (5.882%) Business Transformation
7 3 (5.882%) Security Architecture
7 3 (5.882%) Release Management
7 3 (5.882%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.73%) SQL
2 2 (3.922%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.961%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.961%) VBScript
3 1 (1.961%) VB
3 1 (1.961%) C
3 1 (1.961%) Java
3 1 (1.961%) Perl
3 1 (1.961%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
3 4 (7.843%) Degree
4 3 (5.882%) CISA
4 3 (5.882%) CISM
4 3 (5.882%) CISSP
5 2 (3.922%) PMP
5 2 (3.922%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.961%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.961%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.961%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.961%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.961%) HNC
6 1 (1.961%) HND
6 1 (1.961%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (15.69%) PCI DSS
2 6 (11.76%) SLA
2 6 (11.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.961%) QA
3 1 (1.961%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (3.922%) Active Directory
1 2 (3.922%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (3.922%) SRDF
1 2 (3.922%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (1.961%) NDS
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Tivoli
2 2 (3.922%) Foglight
2 2 (3.922%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 2 (3.922%) HP SIM
3 1 (1.961%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (1.961%) Netcool
3 1 (1.961%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 12 (23.53%) Oracle
2 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 6 (11.76%) CA
3 4 (7.843%) IBM
4 3 (5.882%) Cisco
4 3 (5.882%) JBoss
5 2 (3.922%) HP
5 2 (3.922%) EMC
5 2 (3.922%) VMware
5 2 (3.922%) Remedy
5 2 (3.922%) Qualys
6 1 (1.961%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 1 (1.961%) Greenplum
6 1 (1.961%) Huawei
6 1 (1.961%) NetCracker
6 1 (1.961%) Altiris
6 1 (1.961%) ESRI
6 1 (1.961%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.961%) Cramer
6 1 (1.961%) OPNET
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