Southampton ITIL Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Southampton region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Aberdeenshire Abingdon Andover Avon Bacup Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Bury St Edmunds Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chichester Chippenham City of London Colchester Corsham County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Dartford Denbighshire Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Goole Grimsby Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hinckley Home Counties Hull Huntingdon Ilford Ipswich Isle of Wight Jersey Kent Kidlington Kingston Upon Thames Kingswinford Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lincoln Lincolnshire Linlithgow Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Melrose Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Penrith Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Reading Redhill Reigate Rhyl Rugby Ryde Salisbury Scotland Scottish Borders Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stafford Staffordshire Staines Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Tadworth Taunton Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Witham Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	24	16
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	1	21
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.021 %
As % of the category below	0.952 %	12.65 %
Daily rates quoted	0	8
Average minimum daily rate	-	£266
Average daily rate	-	£292
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£319
UK excluding London average daily rate	£340	£334
% change on same period last year	+1.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	10
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.15
Average hourly rate	-	£16.48
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£17.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.16	£23.73
% change on same period last year	-15.02 %
Processes & Methodologies Southampton
Matching contract IT job ads	105	166
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.139 %	0.165 %
Daily rates quoted	36	75
Average minimum daily rate	£357	£326
Average daily rate	£399	£353
% change on same period last year	+12.90 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	14	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.88	£20.09
Average hourly rate	£21.20	£22.06
% change on same period last year	-3.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.53	£24.02
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.34	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
ITIL Hampshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing ITIL across the Southampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing ITIL across the Southampton region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 4 (36.36 %) MySQL 1 4 (36.36 %) Linux 2 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 3 (27.27 %) SQL 2 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 3 2 (18.18 %) Wireless 3 2 (18.18 %) CorVu 3 2 (18.18 %) Retail 3 2 (18.18 %) RHCT 3 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory 3 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 3 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes 3 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 3 2 (18.18 %) Red Hat

3 2 (18.18 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 2 (18.18 %) French Language 3 2 (18.18 %) Red Hat Linux 4 1 (9.091 %) FMCG 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 4 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 4 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (9.091 %) Windows 4 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification 4 1 (9.091 %) Casewise 4 1 (9.091 %) assyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton 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 Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) Lotus Notes	Business Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) assyst
Communications & Networking 1 2 (18.18 %) Wireless	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) MySQL 2 1 (9.091 %) Oracle 8/8i
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Retail 2 1 (9.091 %) FMCG	Job Titles 1 8 (72.73 %) Analyst 2 5 (45.45 %) Service Desk Analyst 2 5 (45.45 %) Service Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Service Manager 3 2 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) IT Support Analyst 3 2 (18.18 %) Problem Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Project Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Business Analyst 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Desk Manager 4 1 (9.091 %) Infrastructure Project Manager
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) French Language	Operating Systems 1 4 (36.36 %) Linux 2 2 (18.18 %) UNIX 2 2 (18.18 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) Change Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Project Management 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 2 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) RHCT 2 1 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 Certification 2 1 (9.091 %) ITIL Certification	System Software 1 2 (18.18 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 2 (18.18 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) CorVu 2 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 2 2 (18.18 %) Lotus 2 2 (18.18 %) Red Hat 3 1 (9.091 %) Casewise