The first table below looks at the demand for Asset Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Asset Management 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 South Wales 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
Asset Management
Rank 35 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Contract jobs citing Asset Management 4 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 1.307% 0.775% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.961% 1.163% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £390 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.97% +11.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £16.10
% change year-on-year
-8.82% +5.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
204 258 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 66.67% 66.67% 60.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 142 122
Average daily rate £375 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Asset Management
Wales

Asset Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales Asset Management Jobs Demand Trend

Asset Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

South Wales Asset Management Daily Rate Trend

Asset Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South Wales Asset Management Hourly Rate Trend

Asset Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Asset Management within the South Wales 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
Torfaen - 4 - -
Asset Management
Wales

Asset Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Asset 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 Asset Management.

1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
1 6 (54.55%) Windows 7
2 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
2 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (36.36%) MCP
2 4 (36.36%) LAN
2 4 (36.36%) VoIP
2 4 (36.36%) WAN
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
2 4 (36.36%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) SLA
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Network Design
2 4 (36.36%) Intrusion Detection
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
2 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
2 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
2 4 (36.36%) SCCM
2 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
2 4 (36.36%) Firewall
2 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
2 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) Riverbed
3 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
3 2 (18.18%) McAfee

Asset Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region citing Asset 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 Asset Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) LAN
1 4 (36.36%) VoIP
1 4 (36.36%) WAN
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
1 4 (36.36%) DNS
1 4 (36.36%) Firewall
1 4 (36.36%) Intrusion Detection
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) IT Manager
1 4 (36.36%) Administrator
1 4 (36.36%) Infrastructure Manager
1 4 (36.36%) LAN Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Author
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Author
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Management Information System
1 4 (36.36%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows 7
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Network Design
1 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
1 4 (36.36%) Data Protection
1 4 (36.36%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (36.36%) Migration
2 1 (9.091%) Business Continuity
2 1 (9.091%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) MCP
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (36.36%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) Active Directory
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco
1 4 (36.36%) Riverbed
2 2 (18.18%) McAfee
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) Microsoft