The first table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Taunton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Service Management over the 3 months to 22 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 Taunton 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Management
Rank 16 16 11
Rank change year-on-year
0 -5
Contract jobs citing Service Management 5 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 6.579% 10.17% 16.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.63% 12.00% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £458 £230 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+99.13% -32.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £326 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.40% -6.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.33 £16.50 £16.25
% change year-on-year
-1.06% +1.53%
All Processes & Methodologies
Taunton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
43 50 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Taunton 56.58% 84.75% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 31 6
Average daily rate £458 £410 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.70% +20.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £230 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £433 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £14.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Service Management
Somerset

Service Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Taunton Service Management Jobs Demand Trend

Service Management
Daily Rate Trend

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

Taunton Service Management Daily Rate Trend

Service Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Taunton Service Management Hourly Rate Trend

Service Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region citing Service 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 Service Management.

1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) ITSM
2 15 (93.75%) ISEB
3 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
3 13 (81.25%) SharePoint
3 13 (81.25%) XML
3 13 (81.25%) UML
3 13 (81.25%) C#
3 13 (81.25%) HTML
3 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
3 13 (81.25%) SQL
3 13 (81.25%) VB
3 13 (81.25%) .NET
3 13 (81.25%) ASP
3 13 (81.25%) .NET Framework
4 12 (75.00%) Oracle
4 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
4 12 (75.00%) Java
5 11 (68.75%) Subversion
6 9 (56.25%) MCTS
6 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
6 9 (56.25%) OpenROAD
6 9 (56.25%) UNIX
6 9 (56.25%) C++
6 9 (56.25%) VB.NET
6 9 (56.25%) IIS
6 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET
6 9 (56.25%) MCP
6 9 (56.25%) Ingres

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Taunton region citing Service 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 Service Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (81.25%) XML
1 13 (81.25%) HTML
1 13 (81.25%) .NET
1 13 (81.25%) ASP
1 13 (81.25%) .NET Framework
2 9 (56.25%) ASP.NET
3 4 (25.00%) XSL
3 4 (25.00%) CSS
4 3 (18.75%) WCF
4 3 (18.75%) WPF
4 3 (18.75%) WF
Application Platforms
1 13 (81.25%) SharePoint
2 9 (56.25%) OpenROAD
2 9 (56.25%) IIS
3 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) assyst
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (56.25%) Ingres
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 3 (18.75%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (6.250%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 11 (68.75%) Subversion
2 8 (50.00%) TeamCity
2 8 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (50.00%) MSTest
2 8 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 8 (50.00%) NUnit
3 7 (43.75%) CruiseControl
3 7 (43.75%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
5 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Developer
2 8 (50.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 8 (50.00%) .NET Developer
2 8 (50.00%) C# Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Service Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Change Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Development Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Transition Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.250%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Analyst Developer
4 1 (6.250%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (6.250%) C# ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (100.00%) ITIL
1 16 (100.00%) ITSM
2 13 (81.25%) UML
3 9 (56.25%) Service Delivery
4 8 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
5 7 (43.75%) Unit Testing
6 6 (37.50%) PRINCE2
7 5 (31.25%) Change Management
8 4 (25.00%) Waterfall
8 4 (25.00%) Performance Management
8 4 (25.00%) RAD
9 3 (18.75%) SOA
9 3 (18.75%) TOGAF
9 3 (18.75%) Pair Programming
10 2 (12.50%) Risk Management
11 1 (6.250%) Business Continuity
11 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
11 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
11 1 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
11 1 (6.250%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) C#
1 13 (81.25%) JavaScript
1 13 (81.25%) SQL
1 13 (81.25%) VB
2 12 (75.00%) Java
3 9 (56.25%) C++
3 9 (56.25%) VB.NET
4 4 (25.00%) VB6
4 4 (25.00%) C
4 4 (25.00%) VBScript
5 1 (6.250%) ABAP
Qualifications
1 15 (93.75%) ISEB
2 13 (81.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 9 (56.25%) MCTS
3 9 (56.25%) MCP
3 9 (56.25%) MCPD
4 6 (37.50%) Security Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 6 (37.50%) ISEB Practitioner
5 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 4 (25.00%) MCSD
7 2 (12.50%) BC Cleared
8 1 (6.250%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (25.00%) TickIT
1 4 (25.00%) ISO 9000
2 3 (18.75%) COBIT
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (75.00%) Oracle
3 1 (6.250%) HP
3 1 (6.250%) SAP