The first table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Renfrewshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Management 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 Renfrewshire 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
Service Management
Rank 16 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Service Management 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 9.524% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 12.50% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £355 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.84% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.33 £17.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year
-6.71% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Renfrewshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
48 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Renfrewshire 76.19% 16.67% 60.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 3 2
Average daily rate £370 £280 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.14% +17.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £267 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £328 £268
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Service Management
Scotland

Service Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Renfrewshire Service Management Jobs Demand Trend

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire Service Management Daily Rate Trend

Service Management
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Renfrewshire Service Management Daily Rate Histogram

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Renfrewshire Service Management Hourly Rate Trend

Service Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Renfrewshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Erskine - 6 £355 -
Service Management
Scotland

Service Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
2 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Solaris
3 5 (50.00%) VBScript
4 4 (40.00%) .NET
4 4 (40.00%) MS Office
4 4 (40.00%) XML
4 4 (40.00%) MCP
4 4 (40.00%) XML Schema
4 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
4 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
4 4 (40.00%) HP
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 4 (40.00%) Migration
4 4 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
4 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
4 4 (40.00%) Taxonomies
4 4 (40.00%) Cryptography
4 4 (40.00%) Document Management
5 3 (30.00%) VMware
5 3 (30.00%) Jython
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
5 3 (30.00%) CMDB

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
1 4 (40.00%) XML
1 4 (40.00%) XML Schema
1 4 (40.00%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint
1 4 (40.00%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (10.00%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) MySQL
1 3 (30.00%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (20.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Build Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Desktop Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Build Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Management Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Taxonomies
1 4 (40.00%) Cryptography
2 3 (30.00%) CMDB
3 2 (20.00%) SaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Visualisation
4 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (60.00%) Windows XP
3 5 (50.00%) Solaris
4 4 (40.00%) Windows 7
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Vista
5 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (10.00%) Linux
7 1 (10.00%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Security Architecture
2 4 (40.00%) Migration
2 4 (40.00%) Document Management
3 3 (30.00%) Configuration Management
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (10.00%) Release Management
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 5 (50.00%) VBScript
2 4 (40.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (30.00%) Jython
4 1 (10.00%) Bourne shell
4 1 (10.00%) Korn
4 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
4 1 (10.00%) C#
4 1 (10.00%) Java
4 1 (10.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 10 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) MCP
2 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) BC Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) CISSP
3 1 (10.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) HP SiteScope
1 3 (30.00%) HP UCMDB
2 1 (10.00%) OpenView
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (10.00%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) HP
3 3 (30.00%) VMware
3 3 (30.00%) EMC
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
4 1 (10.00%) Lumension
4 1 (10.00%) McAfee
4 1 (10.00%) IBM