Worcestershire ITIL Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) skills within the Worcestershire 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Alderley Edge Avon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Belper Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dewsbury Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenford Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Midlothian Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Northwich Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Prescot Preston Reading Redditch Reigate Renfrewshire Rochdale Rugby Salisbury Sandwich Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Spalding Staffordshire Street Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Taunton Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Wirral Witham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Wrexham York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	9	11
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	5	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	12.20 %	7.407 %
Daily rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£113
Average daily rate	£475	£113
% change on same period last year	+320.35 %
Average maximum daily rate	£500	£113
UK excluding London average daily rate	£342	£341
% change on same period last year	+0.39 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£18.96	£22.14
% change on same period last year	-14.36 %
Processes & Methodologies Worcestershire
Matching contract IT job ads	41	27
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.066 %	0.029 %
Daily rates quoted	12	4
Average minimum daily rate	£377	£197
Average daily rate	£413	£209
% change on same period last year	+97.71 %
Average maximum daily rate	£449	£222
UK excluding London average daily rate	£381	£373
% change on same period last year	+2.24 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.76	£21.13
Average hourly rate	£29.62	£22.69
% change on same period last year	+30.54 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£31.47	£24.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.30	£29.57
% change on same period last year	-4.31 %
ITIL West Midlands

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.

ITIL
Demand Trend

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

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend

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

ITIL
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Worcestershire region over the 3 months to 3 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Redditch	+2	3	£425	+276.10 %
Worcester	-	1	-	-

ITIL West Midlands

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 3 (37.50 %) LAN 2 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 2 3 (37.50 %) ITIL Certification 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 3 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 3 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 3 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE 4 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista

4 1 (12.50 %) QA 4 1 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Fat Client 4 1 (12.50 %) BS15000 4 1 (12.50 %) MCP 4 1 (12.50 %) C 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT 4 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 4 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio 4 1 (12.50 %) Citrix 4 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification 4 1 (12.50 %) SMS

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 1 (12.50 %) SharePoint 1 1 (12.50 %) CMS	Applications 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Office 2 1 (12.50 %) MS Visio
Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) LAN 2 1 (12.50 %) SMS 2 1 (12.50 %) WAN 2 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 2 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (12.50 %) DNS	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Education 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Legal
Job Titles 1 4 (50.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) IT Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Support Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Services Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Quality Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Web Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Support Engineer 3 1 (12.50 %) Process Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Project Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Business Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Thin Client 1 1 (12.50 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows Vista 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) PRINCE2 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE 2 2 (25.00 %) Service Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Quality Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Process Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (12.50 %) ITSM 3 1 (12.50 %) Content Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Release Management 3 1 (12.50 %) Six Sigma
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) ITIL Certification 2 2 (25.00 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (12.50 %) MCP 3 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 3 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) BS15000 1 1 (12.50 %) EFQM 1 1 (12.50 %) QA	System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory
Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)	Vendors 1 2 (25.00 %) Cisco 2 1 (12.50 %) Citrix