The first table below looks at the demand for ITSM skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staines region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ITSM over the 3 months to 23 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 Staines 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Service Management (ITSM)
Rank - 19 28
Contract jobs citing ITSM 0 3 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines - 2.239% 2.941%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 2.752% 3.483%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £390 £350 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.42% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year
+14.81% -25.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
Staines
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
105 109 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staines 82.68% 81.34% 84.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 50
Average daily rate £375 £377 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.53% -20.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £333 £358
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £595 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 2
Average hourly rate £13.00 £41.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-68.67% +53.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
ITSM
Surrey

ITSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines ITSM Jobs Demand Trend

ITSM
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staines ITSM Daily Rate Trend

ITSM
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing ITSM 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 ITSM.

1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (60.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) 3Com
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) Nokia
2 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (60.00%) Blue Coat
2 3 (60.00%) ProxySG
2 3 (60.00%) Crossbeam
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (60.00%) CSS
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
3 2 (40.00%) Migration
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Service Management
3 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (40.00%) Windows

ITSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staines region citing ITSM 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 ITSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Service Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Virtualisation Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Deployment Project Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Transition Manager
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2 Project Manager
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Project Management
2 2 (40.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (40.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) PRINCE2
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) CCNA
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) 3Com
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Nokia
1 3 (60.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (60.00%) Blue Coat
1 3 (60.00%) Crossbeam
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix