The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term CMDB in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CMDB over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South West 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Configuration Management Database (CMDB)
Rank 98 125 110
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -15
Contract jobs citing CMDB 3 7 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.149% 0.224% 0.595%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.713% 1.222% 3.523%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 5
Average daily rate £338 - £390
90% offered a daily rate of more than £268 - £336
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 - £396
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £300
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £22.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +120.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £43.55 £31.25 £35.25
% change year-on-year
+39.36% -11.34%
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
421 573 511
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 20.96% 18.32% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 309 235
Average daily rate £370 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £250 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £520 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 39 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £31.50 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-42.85% +46.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.42 £10.64 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £48.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%
CMDB
England

CMDB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing CMDB across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South West CMDB Jobs Demand Trend

CMDB
Daily Rate Trend

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

South West CMDB Daily Rate Trend

CMDB
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing CMDB across the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South West CMDB Daily Rate Histogram

CMDB
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West CMDB Hourly Rate Trend

CMDB
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CMDB within the South West region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Wiltshire +3 2 £338 - 1
CMDB
England

CMDB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CMDB 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 CMDB.

1 16 (72.73%) ITIL
2 12 (54.55%) Remedy
2 12 (54.55%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
3 11 (50.00%) ITSM
3 11 (50.00%) BMC
4 10 (45.45%) SQL
4 10 (45.45%) Web Services
4 10 (45.45%) XML
4 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
5 6 (27.27%) Service Management
6 5 (22.73%) Finance
6 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
6 5 (22.73%) Windows
6 5 (22.73%) SLA
7 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
7 4 (18.18%) Peregrine
7 4 (18.18%) ServiceCenter
7 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
7 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
8 3 (13.64%) Demand Management
8 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
8 3 (13.64%) Sun
8 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
9 2 (9.091%) Citrix
9 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (9.091%) TestDirector
9 2 (9.091%) DSL
9 2 (9.091%) Software Deployment
9 2 (9.091%) Windows 7

CMDB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West region citing CMDB 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 CMDB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) Web Services
1 10 (45.45%) XML
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
1 1 (4.545%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 12 (54.55%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.091%) DSL
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) TestDirector
General
1 5 (22.73%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Analyst
1 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Support Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Remedy Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Applications Support
4 2 (9.091%) Tester
4 2 (9.091%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (9.091%) Systems Tester
5 1 (4.545%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Remedy Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Incident Analyst
5 1 (4.545%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (4.545%) Help Desk Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
3 2 (9.091%) Windows 7
4 1 (4.545%) UNIX
4 1 (4.545%) Solaris
4 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) ITIL
2 11 (50.00%) ITSM
3 6 (27.27%) Service Management
4 5 (22.73%) Problem Management
5 4 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 3 (13.64%) Demand Management
7 2 (9.091%) Software Deployment
7 2 (9.091%) Test Scripting
7 2 (9.091%) Service Delivery
8 1 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (4.545%) Asset Management
8 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (4.545%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) SQL
2 1 (4.545%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (54.55%) Security Cleared
2 10 (45.45%) SC Cleared
3 2 (9.091%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (9.091%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) SLA
2 1 (4.545%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) ServiceCenter
2 2 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 12 (54.55%) Remedy
2 11 (50.00%) BMC
3 4 (18.18%) Peregrine
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) Sun
5 2 (9.091%) Citrix
5 2 (9.091%) Altiris
6 1 (4.545%) LANDesk
6 1 (4.545%) Qualys
6 1 (4.545%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.545%) CA
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