The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland 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 Scotland 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 49 25 44
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +19
Contract jobs citing ITIL 78 111 79
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 3.198% 4.190% 2.816%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.690% 6.484% 4.209%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 59 38
Average daily rate £313 £300 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% -17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £170 £136
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £425 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £323 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.65% -0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 9
Average hourly rate £13.50 £11.60 £9.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.37% +22.10%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.25 £16.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+14.06% +3.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1663 1712 1877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.18% 64.63% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 879 976
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 64 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.40 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
ITIL
UK

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland ITIL Daily Rate Trend

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ITIL across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland ITIL Daily Rate Histogram

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland 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
Glasgow -11 35 £275 -
Edinburgh -2 18 £400 +23.07%
Aberdeen -11 13 £413 +83.33%
Renfrewshire -9 2 £331 +18.21%
West Dunbartonshire - 1 - -
Dundee - 1 £150 -
ITIL
UK

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 75 (45.45%) Windows
2 52 (31.52%) Finance
3 39 (23.64%) Oracle
4 36 (21.82%) Service Management
5 33 (20.00%) Project Management
6 29 (17.58%) Active Directory
7 26 (15.76%) Microsoft
8 25 (15.15%) UNIX
8 25 (15.15%) Windows XP
9 24 (14.55%) Linux
9 24 (14.55%) SQL
10 23 (13.94%) ITIL Certification
10 23 (13.94%) Problem Management
11 22 (13.33%) SLA
12 20 (12.12%) MS Excel
12 20 (12.12%) SQL Server
13 19 (11.52%) PRINCE2
13 19 (11.52%) Cisco
13 19 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
13 19 (11.52%) Banking
14 18 (10.91%) Incident Management
14 18 (10.91%) Change Management
14 18 (10.91%) Windows 7
15 17 (10.30%) Windows Server 2003
16 16 (9.697%) RDBMS
16 16 (9.697%) MS Office
16 16 (9.697%) Windows Server 2008
17 15 (9.091%) MCP
18 14 (8.485%) MS Exchange
18 14 (8.485%) HP

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 7 (4.242%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.818%) Middleware
3 2 (1.212%) J2EE
3 2 (1.212%) Application Packaging
4 1 (0.606%) soapUI
4 1 (0.606%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.606%) Web Services
4 1 (0.606%) XML
4 1 (0.606%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 14 (8.485%) MS Exchange
2 8 (4.848%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (4.848%) SharePoint
2 8 (4.848%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (4.242%) Lotus Notes
4 6 (3.636%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (1.818%) SAS
5 3 (1.818%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.818%) IIS
6 2 (1.212%) WebSphere Application Server
6 2 (1.212%) Apache
6 2 (1.212%) Tomcat
6 2 (1.212%) Documentum
7 1 (0.606%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (0.606%) WebSphere MQ
7 1 (0.606%) WebLogic Portal
7 1 (0.606%) Oracle Workflow
7 1 (0.606%) Lotus Domino
Applications
1 20 (12.12%) MS Excel
2 16 (9.697%) MS Office
3 3 (1.818%) MS Project
4 1 (0.606%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (4.848%) SAP HR
2 2 (1.212%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.212%) assyst
2 2 (1.212%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (0.606%) SAP GTS
3 1 (0.606%) Agresso
3 1 (0.606%) SAP CCM
3 1 (0.606%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 13 (7.879%) Firewall
2 10 (6.061%) LAN
3 8 (4.848%) VPN
4 7 (4.242%) WAN
4 7 (4.242%) TCP/IP
4 7 (4.242%) Wireless
5 6 (3.636%) Internet
6 5 (3.030%) MPLS
6 5 (3.030%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (2.424%) NetScreen
7 4 (2.424%) BGP
7 4 (2.424%) DNS
7 4 (2.424%) DHCP
8 3 (1.818%) WLAN
8 3 (1.818%) SAN
8 3 (1.818%) EIGRP
9 2 (1.212%) Intranet
9 2 (1.212%) SMS
9 2 (1.212%) VoIP
9 2 (1.212%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (12.12%) SQL Server
2 16 (9.697%) RDBMS
3 5 (3.030%) MySQL
3 5 (3.030%) DB2
4 4 (2.424%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.212%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.212%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (1.212%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.606%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.606%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.606%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (0.606%) Ant
1 1 (0.606%) JUnit
1 1 (0.606%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (0.606%) MSI
1 1 (0.606%) Maven
1 1 (0.606%) Git (software)
1 1 (0.606%) Jenkins
General
1 52 (31.52%) Finance
2 19 (11.52%) Banking
3 8 (4.848%) Telecoms
4 3 (1.818%) German Language
4 3 (1.818%) Retail
4 3 (1.818%) Retail Banking
5 2 (1.212%) Back Office
5 2 (1.212%) French Language
6 1 (0.606%) Norwegian Language
6 1 (0.606%) Portuguese Language
6 1 (0.606%) Private Banking
6 1 (0.606%) Dutch Language
Job Titles
1 58 (35.15%) Analyst
2 40 (24.24%) Support Analyst
3 19 (11.52%) Applications Support
4 18 (10.91%) Applications Support Analyst
5 16 (9.697%) Project Manager
6 10 (6.061%) Desktop Support
7 9 (5.455%) Administrator
8 8 (4.848%) Team Leader
8 8 (4.848%) Support Team Leader
8 8 (4.848%) SAP Support
8 8 (4.848%) SAP Team Leader
8 8 (4.848%) SAP Support Analyst
8 8 (4.848%) SAP Analyst
8 8 (4.848%) SAP HR Analyst
9 7 (4.242%) Service Manager
9 7 (4.242%) Network Engineer
10 6 (3.636%) Consultant
10 6 (3.636%) Architect
10 6 (3.636%) Desktop Technician
10 6 (3.636%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.242%) Thin Client
1 7 (4.242%) Fat Client
2 6 (3.636%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.030%) CMDB
4 2 (1.212%) NHS
4 2 (1.212%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (1.212%) Handset
4 2 (1.212%) Clustering
4 2 (1.212%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.606%) LIMS
5 1 (0.606%) Mainframe
5 1 (0.606%) Smartcard
5 1 (0.606%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.606%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.606%) PMI
5 1 (0.606%) EPoS
5 1 (0.606%) EMV
5 1 (0.606%) PDA
5 1 (0.606%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 75 (45.45%) Windows
2 25 (15.15%) UNIX
2 25 (15.15%) Windows XP
3 24 (14.55%) Linux
4 18 (10.91%) Windows 7
5 17 (10.30%) Windows Server 2003
6 16 (9.697%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (5.455%) Solaris
8 7 (4.242%) HPUX
9 6 (3.636%) AIX
10 2 (1.212%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.606%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (21.82%) Service Management
2 33 (20.00%) Project Management
3 23 (13.94%) Problem Management
4 19 (11.52%) PRINCE2
5 18 (10.91%) Change Management
5 18 (10.91%) Incident Management
6 11 (6.667%) Service Delivery
7 10 (6.061%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (5.455%) User Acceptance Testing
8 9 (5.455%) Configuration Management
9 8 (4.848%) Release Management
9 8 (4.848%) Test Scripting
10 6 (3.636%) Wealth Management
10 6 (3.636%) Migration
11 5 (3.030%) Risk Analysis
11 5 (3.030%) Time Management
12 4 (2.424%) ITIL V3
12 4 (2.424%) ITIL V2
12 4 (2.424%) Change Control
12 4 (2.424%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 24 (14.55%) SQL
2 11 (6.667%) Java
3 3 (1.818%) C
4 2 (1.212%) Perl
5 1 (0.606%) VBScript
5 1 (0.606%) VBA
5 1 (0.606%) Korn
5 1 (0.606%) PowerShell
5 1 (0.606%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 23 (13.94%) ITIL Certification
2 19 (11.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 15 (9.091%) MCP
4 12 (7.273%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (6.061%) Degree
6 8 (4.848%) MCSA
7 6 (3.636%) CCNP
8 5 (3.030%) CCNA
8 5 (3.030%) CISSP
8 5 (3.030%) MCDST
8 5 (3.030%) Security Cleared
9 4 (2.424%) SC Cleared
9 4 (2.424%) CCSP
9 4 (2.424%) MCSE
10 3 (1.818%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.818%) MCITP
11 2 (1.212%) PMP
11 2 (1.212%) MOS
11 2 (1.212%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (0.606%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (13.33%) SLA
2 6 (3.636%) QA
3 4 (2.424%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.818%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.606%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.606%) ISO/IEC 17799
5 1 (0.606%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 29 (17.58%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.061%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.636%) vSphere
4 5 (3.030%) VMware ESX
5 4 (2.424%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.212%) XenApp
6 2 (1.212%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (1.212%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (0.606%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (3.636%) SCCM
1 6 (3.636%) SCOM
2 2 (1.212%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (1.212%) MOM
2 2 (1.212%) Backup Exec
2 2 (1.212%) WSUS
2 2 (1.212%) FortiGate
3 1 (0.606%) HP UCMDB
3 1 (0.606%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (0.606%) HP SiteScope
3 1 (0.606%) HP Operations Orchestration
Vendors
1 39 (23.64%) Oracle
2 26 (15.76%) Microsoft
3 19 (11.52%) Cisco
4 14 (8.485%) HP
4 14 (8.485%) VMware
5 13 (7.879%) Sybase
6 9 (5.455%) SAP
6 9 (5.455%) Juniper
7 8 (4.848%) Nortel
7 8 (4.848%) Lotus
8 6 (3.636%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.636%) Citrix
8 6 (3.636%) Avaya
9 5 (3.030%) TIBCO
10 4 (2.424%) Mitel
10 4 (2.424%) Riverbed
10 4 (2.424%) Aruba
10 4 (2.424%) Postini
10 4 (2.424%) Avaloq
10 4 (2.424%) IBM
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