The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL Certification 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 Qualifications for the Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Rank 85 114 102
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -12
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 42 20 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 2.354% 0.999% 1.074%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.82% 3.817% 5.590%
Number of salaries quoted 30 19 17
Average salary £42,500 £39,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.59% -7.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £25,000 £35,900
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £60,000 £46,200
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.43%
All Qualifications
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
388 524 322
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 21.75% 26.17% 19.21%
Number of salaries quoted 286 469 261
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £46,400 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
ITIL Certification
North West

ITIL Certification
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cheshire ITIL Certification Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL Certification
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Cheshire region.

Cheshire ITIL Certification Salary Trend

ITIL Certification
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ITIL Certification across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Cheshire ITIL Certification Salary Histogram

ITIL Certification
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the Cheshire 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
Warrington +18 10 £32,000 -46.66%
Macclesfield - 8 £43,750 -
Northwich - 8 £40,500 -
Chester - 5 £32,000 -
Wilmslow - 3 £26,000 -
Crewe - 2 - -
ITIL Certification
North West

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ITIL Certification 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 ITIL Certification.

1 59 (100.00%) ITIL
2 29 (49.15%) Windows
2 29 (49.15%) SharePoint
3 26 (44.07%) Windows Server 2008
4 21 (35.59%) Windows Server 2003
5 20 (33.90%) Service Management
5 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
6 19 (32.20%) Exchange Server 2003
6 19 (32.20%) MS Exchange
7 18 (30.51%) Service Delivery
7 18 (30.51%) VMware
8 17 (28.81%) SAN
8 17 (28.81%) NetApp
8 17 (28.81%) Exchange Server 2010
9 15 (25.42%) HP
9 15 (25.42%) Finance
10 13 (22.03%) Cisco
10 13 (22.03%) VoIP
10 13 (22.03%) SQL
10 13 (22.03%) SQL Server
10 13 (22.03%) Active Directory
10 13 (22.03%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (20.34%) Blackberry
11 12 (20.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 12 (20.34%) Linux
11 12 (20.34%) PRINCE2
11 12 (20.34%) Change Control
12 11 (18.64%) MCP
12 11 (18.64%) MCSE
12 11 (18.64%) MCITP

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ITIL Certification 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 ITIL Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (11.86%) .NET
2 2 (3.390%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 29 (49.15%) SharePoint
2 19 (32.20%) Exchange Server 2003
2 19 (32.20%) MS Exchange
3 17 (28.81%) Exchange Server 2010
4 12 (20.34%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 11 (18.64%) Exchange Server 2007
6 9 (15.25%) Lync
6 9 (15.25%) Office Communications Server
7 8 (13.56%) IIS
8 7 (11.86%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (1.695%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (11.86%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.085%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (28.81%) SAN
2 13 (22.03%) VoIP
3 5 (8.475%) DHCP
3 5 (8.475%) DNS
4 4 (6.780%) NAS
5 2 (3.390%) HTTP
6 1 (1.695%) LAN
6 1 (1.695%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (22.03%) SQL Server
2 7 (11.86%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (11.86%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (1.695%) DB2
Development Applications
1 5 (8.475%) StarTeam
General
1 15 (25.42%) Finance
2 5 (8.475%) Telecoms
2 5 (8.475%) Banking
3 4 (6.780%) Pharmaceutical
3 4 (6.780%) Billing
4 3 (5.085%) Retail
5 2 (3.390%) Back Office
6 1 (1.695%) Local Government
6 1 (1.695%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 20 (33.90%) Service Manager
2 10 (16.95%) Services Delivery Manager
2 10 (16.95%) Delivery Manager
3 9 (15.25%) Applications Support
4 8 (13.56%) Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Support Analyst
4 8 (13.56%) Server Engineer
4 8 (13.56%) Senior Server Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Operations Manager
6 5 (8.475%) Service Analyst
6 5 (8.475%) Technical Operations Manager
6 5 (8.475%) Technical Manager
6 5 (8.475%) IT Operations Manager
7 4 (6.780%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Applications Support Analyst
8 3 (5.085%) Support Manager
8 3 (5.085%) Applications Support Manager
8 3 (5.085%) Service Level Manager
8 3 (5.085%) Incident Manager
8 3 (5.085%) Applications Manager
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.34%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.695%) VSAM
2 1 (1.695%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (1.695%) Smartphone
2 1 (1.695%) Mainframe
2 1 (1.695%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 29 (49.15%) Windows
2 26 (44.07%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (35.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (20.34%) Linux
5 7 (11.86%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (6.780%) Windows NT
7 3 (5.085%) Windows Vista
7 3 (5.085%) UNIX
8 2 (3.390%) Windows XP
9 1 (1.695%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (33.90%) Service Management
3 18 (30.51%) Service Delivery
4 12 (20.34%) PRINCE2
4 12 (20.34%) Change Control
5 10 (16.95%) Business Development
5 10 (16.95%) Root Cause Analysis
6 9 (15.25%) Capacity Management
7 7 (11.86%) Performance Management
7 7 (11.86%) Incident Management
8 5 (8.475%) Problem Management
9 4 (6.780%) Change Management
9 4 (6.780%) Time Management
10 3 (5.085%) Quality Management
11 2 (3.390%) Operations Management
12 1 (1.695%) Migration
12 1 (1.695%) Stakeholder Management
12 1 (1.695%) Information Security
12 1 (1.695%) PRINCE
12 1 (1.695%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 9 (15.25%) PowerShell
2 9 (15.25%) VBScript
2 9 (15.25%) Java
3 1 (1.695%) COBOL
3 1 (1.695%) JCL
Qualifications
1 13 (22.03%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (18.64%) MCP
2 11 (18.64%) MCSE
2 11 (18.64%) MCITP
3 5 (8.475%) Security Cleared
4 4 (6.780%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (6.780%) CCNA
4 4 (6.780%) MCTS
5 3 (5.085%) SC Cleared
5 3 (5.085%) Degree
6 1 (1.695%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.475%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (8.475%) SLA
System Software
1 13 (22.03%) Active Directory
2 8 (13.56%) vSphere
3 7 (11.86%) ISA Server
4 6 (10.17%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (11.86%) SolarWinds Orion
1 7 (11.86%) SCCM
2 5 (8.475%) Nagios
2 5 (8.475%) MOM
Vendors
1 20 (33.90%) Microsoft
2 18 (30.51%) VMware
3 17 (28.81%) NetApp
4 15 (25.42%) HP
5 13 (22.03%) Cisco
6 9 (15.25%) EMC
6 9 (15.25%) Oracle
7 8 (13.56%) FrontRange
8 7 (11.86%) SolarWinds
9 6 (10.17%) Remedy
9 6 (10.17%) IBM
10 5 (8.475%) Citrix
10 5 (8.475%) Avaya
11 2 (3.390%) Apple
11 2 (3.390%) Fujitsu
Cheshire
Service Operations Manager - ITIL - Incident Management, Service Level Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working for my cutting edge Financial...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £45000.00 - £54000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Service Operations Manager - ITIL - Incident Management, Service Level Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working for my cutting edge Financial...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000.00 - £54000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
Crewe, North West
Supporting Managed Services across network and IT infrastructure, experienced within a Cisco environment is preferred but not essential... There will be future internal opportunities to move into mid-...
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £33000 - £40000 per annum + + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 8 May 2013
Wilmslow, North West
Major Incident Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk, Software, Bespoke software, Telecoms, Telecoms software, ITIL, SQL, Billing software, Application Software... Ideally you will be ITIL qualified or will at...
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Major Incident Manager, Incident Manager, Service Desk, Software, Bespoke software, Telecoms, Telecoms software, ITIL, SQL, Billing software, Application Software... Ideally you will be ITIL qualified or will at...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £24000 - £28000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Specialist - ITIL, UNIX Scripting, Linux, SQL, Java, Incident Management, Problem Management - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent package
Posted: 3 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Lead Application Support Analyst x2 - Mainframe, COBOL, CICS, JCL, VSAM, DB2 - This is an excellent opportunity to progress a challenging, varied and stable career working for our leading...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £38000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 4 May 2013
Macclesfield, North West
Own Change Control process for Infrastructure Services in the UKJob Qualifications:Solid technical experience of server technologies which should include the following:*Windows 2003 / 2008 Server (Windows Server...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013