The first table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Management 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 Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Management
Rank 36 68 51
Rank change year-on-year
+32 -17
Permanent jobs citing Service Management 61 14 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 5.680% 1.469% 2.573%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.271% 2.128% 3.100%
Number of salaries quoted 59 13 18
Average salary £43,000 £40,000 £36,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.50% +8.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £26,800 £22,700
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £49,300 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £43,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-2.29% -3.33%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
839 658 742
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 78.12% 69.05% 83.00%
Number of salaries quoted 759 572 694
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £27,500 £30,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £58,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire Service Management Jobs Demand Trend

Service Management
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Service Management across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Service Management Salary Trend

Service Management
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Service Management across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bedfordshire Service Management Salary Histogram

Service Management
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Luton +28 36 £44,500 +25.35%
Bedford - 9 £40,000 -
Dunstable - 7 £43,000 -
Service Management
East of England

Service Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Service Management.

1 107 (99.07%) ITIL
2 44 (40.74%) Cisco
3 41 (37.96%) VMware
3 41 (37.96%) VMware ESX
3 41 (37.96%) vSphere
4 39 (36.11%) Change Management
5 37 (34.26%) Microsoft
6 35 (32.41%) Linux
6 35 (32.41%) Apache
6 35 (32.41%) MySQL
7 34 (31.48%) Windows
7 34 (31.48%) Problem Management
8 32 (29.63%) TCP/IP
9 30 (27.78%) IIS
9 30 (27.78%) iSCSI
10 28 (25.93%) Oracle
10 28 (25.93%) Service Delivery
11 24 (22.22%) SQL
11 24 (22.22%) SaaS
12 20 (18.52%) Degree
13 17 (15.74%) Root Cause Analysis
14 15 (13.89%) PRINCE2
15 14 (12.96%) SLA
15 14 (12.96%) Red Hat
16 13 (12.04%) MS Excel
16 13 (12.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 12 (11.11%) Incident Management
17 12 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
17 12 (11.11%) MS Office
18 11 (10.19%) SAN

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Service Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (1.852%) COM
1 2 (1.852%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 35 (32.41%) Apache
2 30 (27.78%) IIS
3 2 (1.852%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (12.04%) MS Excel
2 12 (11.11%) MS Office
3 6 (5.556%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (9.259%) SAP SD
2 6 (5.556%) SAP MM
3 4 (3.704%) SAP ERP
4 3 (2.778%) SAP CRM
5 2 (1.852%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 32 (29.63%) TCP/IP
2 30 (27.78%) iSCSI
3 11 (10.19%) SAN
4 6 (5.556%) DHCP
4 6 (5.556%) DNS
5 3 (2.778%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.926%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (32.41%) MySQL
2 2 (1.852%) Oracle 11g
2 2 (1.852%) Oracle 10g
3 1 (0.926%) SQL Server
General
1 11 (10.19%) Finance
2 8 (7.407%) Retail
3 4 (3.704%) Legal
Job Titles
1 41 (37.96%) Service Manager
2 32 (29.63%) Linux Engineer
3 28 (25.93%) Systems Engineer
4 20 (18.52%) Analyst
5 19 (17.59%) Services Delivery Manager
5 19 (17.59%) Delivery Manager
6 13 (12.04%) Administrator
7 12 (11.11%) Linux Administrator
8 10 (9.259%) SAP Business Analyst
8 10 (9.259%) Business Analyst
9 7 (6.481%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 7 (6.481%) Change Analyst
9 7 (6.481%) Service Integration Manager
9 7 (6.481%) Systems Administrator
9 7 (6.481%) Integration Manager
10 6 (5.556%) Technical Manager
10 6 (5.556%) Technical Services Manager
11 5 (4.630%) Incident Manager
12 4 (3.704%) Technical Delivery Manager
12 4 (3.704%) Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 24 (22.22%) SaaS
2 11 (10.19%) Computer Science
3 1 (0.926%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (32.41%) Linux
2 34 (31.48%) Windows
3 13 (12.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (4.630%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (1.852%) Solaris
6 1 (0.926%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 107 (99.07%) ITIL
2 39 (36.11%) Change Management
3 34 (31.48%) Problem Management
4 28 (25.93%) Service Delivery
5 17 (15.74%) Root Cause Analysis
6 15 (13.89%) PRINCE2
7 12 (11.11%) Incident Management
8 11 (10.19%) ITSM
8 11 (10.19%) Logistics
9 10 (9.259%) Supplier Management
10 9 (8.333%) ERP
10 9 (8.333%) Project Management
11 7 (6.481%) Release Management
12 6 (5.556%) Stakeholder Management
12 6 (5.556%) Continuous Improvement
13 5 (4.630%) Change Control
14 4 (3.704%) Workflow
15 3 (2.778%) Six Sigma
15 3 (2.778%) RDF
15 3 (2.778%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 24 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (1.852%) Java
Qualifications
1 20 (18.52%) Degree
2 4 (3.704%) MCITP
3 3 (2.778%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (2.778%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (2.778%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.96%) SLA
2 1 (0.926%) COBIT
System Software
1 41 (37.96%) VMware ESX
1 41 (37.96%) vSphere
2 6 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.704%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.926%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 3 (2.778%) SCOM
2 2 (1.852%) ServiceCenter
Vendors
1 44 (40.74%) Cisco
2 41 (37.96%) VMware
3 37 (34.26%) Microsoft
4 28 (25.93%) Oracle
5 14 (12.96%) Red Hat
6 12 (11.11%) Salesforce.com
7 10 (9.259%) SAP
8 2 (1.852%) HP
9 1 (0.926%) Nimsoft
9 1 (0.926%) Twitter
Luton, South East
My global client is currently recruiting an experienced Service Management analyst with a solid background in ITIL service management processes with extensive experience of Incident, Change ,problem management...
Volt
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Luton, Bedfordshire
Ideally commercial data-centre experience working with Apache and MySQL. * Exposure to and knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Cisco networking elements... * Experience of working within ITIL...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £49000 per annum + bonus, pension, health
Posted: 19 May 2013