The first table below looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Rank 25 32 47
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +15
Permanent jobs citing ITIL 163 128 77
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 9.111% 6.642% 4.647%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 11.95% 8.713% 6.754%
Number of salaries quoted 134 117 63
Average salary £39,500 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,950 £22,500 £24,400
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £67,500 £47,400
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1364 1469 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.24% 76.23% 68.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1042 1291 967
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ITIL Jobs Demand Trend

ITIL
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire ITIL Salary Trend

ITIL
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ITIL across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire ITIL Salary Histogram

ITIL
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 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 +25 57 £45,000 +2.27%
Chester +12 34 £36,125 +11.15%
Northwich - 17 £42,500 -
Macclesfield - 15 £40,000 -
Knutsford -11 13 £32,000 -30.43%
Runcorn +6 7 £29,000 -10.76%
Crewe +3 4 - -
Wilmslow -8 4 £33,750 -
Daresbury - 4 £25,750 -
Nantwich - 1 £37,500 -
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL.

1 108 (33.75%) Windows
2 103 (32.19%) Finance
3 68 (21.25%) SLA
4 67 (20.94%) Service Delivery
5 64 (20.00%) Microsoft
6 55 (17.19%) ITIL Certification
6 55 (17.19%) Service Management
7 52 (16.25%) VMware
7 52 (16.25%) Incident Management
8 51 (15.94%) Linux
9 50 (15.63%) MS Excel
10 47 (14.69%) MS Exchange
10 47 (14.69%) SQL
11 45 (14.06%) MS Office
12 44 (13.75%) Banking
13 43 (13.44%) Windows Server 2008
14 42 (13.13%) Project Management
15 41 (12.81%) Cisco
15 41 (12.81%) SQL Server
16 39 (12.19%) SharePoint
16 39 (12.19%) Change Management
17 38 (11.88%) Telecoms
17 38 (11.88%) UNIX
18 36 (11.25%) IBM
19 35 (10.94%) Citrix
19 35 (10.94%) Java
20 33 (10.31%) ITSM
21 31 (9.688%) Active Directory
21 31 (9.688%) HP
22 30 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled that cited ITIL. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (5.938%) .NET
2 18 (5.625%) J2EE
3 12 (3.750%) HTML
4 9 (2.813%) ASP.NET
4 9 (2.813%) CSS
5 8 (2.500%) Middleware
6 6 (1.875%) Ajax
6 6 (1.875%) WebSphere
6 6 (1.875%) JSON
6 6 (1.875%) ASP.NET MVC
6 6 (1.875%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 6 (1.875%) Razor View Engine
7 4 (1.250%) jQuery
8 3 (0.938%) ISPF
8 3 (0.938%) Web Services
8 3 (0.938%) XML
9 2 (0.625%) COM
10 1 (0.313%) Struts
10 1 (0.313%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.313%) Apache Flex
Application Platforms
1 47 (14.69%) MS Exchange
2 39 (12.19%) SharePoint
3 24 (7.500%) Exchange Server 2010
4 23 (7.188%) Exchange Server 2003
5 14 (4.375%) Exchange Server 2007
6 13 (4.063%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 10 (3.125%) IIS
8 9 (2.813%) SharePoint Server
8 9 (2.813%) Office Communications Server
8 9 (2.813%) Lync
9 6 (1.875%) Umbraco
9 6 (1.875%) CMS
10 5 (1.563%) CICS
11 4 (1.250%) Gentran
11 4 (1.250%) LiveLink
12 3 (0.938%) Apache
12 3 (0.938%) Tomcat
12 3 (0.938%) MQSeries
13 2 (0.625%) SAS
14 1 (0.313%) WebLogic
Applications
1 50 (15.63%) MS Excel
2 45 (14.06%) MS Office
3 11 (3.438%) MS PowerPoint
4 6 (1.875%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (0.938%) Maximo
1 3 (0.938%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.313%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.313%) SAP APO
2 1 (0.313%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.313%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 29 (9.063%) WAN
2 28 (8.750%) LAN
3 24 (7.500%) SAN
4 23 (7.188%) TCP/IP
5 15 (4.688%) VoIP
6 10 (3.125%) DNS
7 8 (2.500%) DHCP
8 6 (1.875%) Firewall
9 5 (1.563%) Internet
10 4 (1.250%) FTP
10 4 (1.250%) WLAN
10 4 (1.250%) PBX
10 4 (1.250%) Wireless
10 4 (1.250%) NAS
11 3 (0.938%) LDAP
11 3 (0.938%) HTTP
12 2 (0.625%) VPN
12 2 (0.625%) Cisco ASA
12 2 (0.625%) Cisco PIX
13 1 (0.313%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (12.81%) SQL Server
2 23 (7.188%) SQL Server 2008
3 15 (4.688%) SQL Server 2005
4 10 (3.125%) DB2
5 6 (1.875%) SQL Server 2000
5 6 (1.875%) SQL Server 2012
6 5 (1.563%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 5 (1.563%) IDMS
6 5 (1.563%) OLTP
6 5 (1.563%) VLDB
6 5 (1.563%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (1.250%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.250%) MySQL
8 2 (0.625%) Data Mining
9 1 (0.313%) Informix
9 1 (0.313%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 7 (2.188%) Visual Studio
2 5 (1.563%) StarTeam
3 4 (1.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 103 (32.19%) Finance
2 44 (13.75%) Banking
3 38 (11.88%) Telecoms
4 14 (4.375%) Retail
5 11 (3.438%) Billing
6 8 (2.500%) Financial Institution
7 7 (2.188%) Investment Banking
8 5 (1.563%) Retail Banking
8 5 (1.563%) Private Banking
9 4 (1.250%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (0.938%) Back Office
10 3 (0.938%) Legal
11 2 (0.625%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.625%) Publishing
11 2 (0.625%) Corporate Banking
11 2 (0.625%) Local Government
12 1 (0.313%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (20.63%) Analyst
2 36 (11.25%) Service Manager
3 35 (10.94%) Support Analyst
4 30 (9.375%) Developer
5 28 (8.750%) Applications Support
6 23 (7.188%) Team Leader
7 21 (6.563%) Service Analyst
8 18 (5.625%) Project Manager
9 16 (5.000%) Support Technician
9 16 (5.000%) Applications Support Analyst
10 15 (4.688%) Services Delivery Manager
10 15 (4.688%) Delivery Manager
11 13 (4.063%) Support Manager
11 13 (4.063%) Java Developer
11 13 (4.063%) J2EE Developer
11 13 (4.063%) UNIX Team Leader
11 13 (4.063%) Java/J2EE Developer
12 11 (3.438%) Technical Manager
13 10 (3.125%) Server Engineer
13 10 (3.125%) Service Desk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (4.375%) Blackberry
1 14 (4.375%) Mainframe
2 11 (3.438%) Management Information System
3 10 (3.125%) iSeries
4 7 (2.188%) PMI
4 7 (2.188%) Online Banking
5 6 (1.875%) Computer Science
6 5 (1.563%) Data Integration
6 5 (1.563%) Replication
7 4 (1.250%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (0.938%) LPAR
8 3 (0.938%) CMDB
8 3 (0.938%) IBM Mainframe
9 2 (0.625%) Tandem
9 2 (0.625%) Clustering
9 2 (0.625%) Statistics
9 2 (0.625%) iPhone
10 1 (0.313%) EqualLogic
10 1 (0.313%) IVR
10 1 (0.313%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 108 (33.75%) Windows
2 51 (15.94%) Linux
3 43 (13.44%) Windows Server 2008
4 38 (11.88%) UNIX
5 30 (9.375%) Windows Server 2003
6 18 (5.625%) AIX
7 13 (4.063%) Windows XP
8 11 (3.438%) HPUX
8 11 (3.438%) Windows Server 2012
9 10 (3.125%) Solaris
10 6 (1.875%) Windows 7
11 5 (1.563%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (1.250%) Windows Vista
12 4 (1.250%) zOS
12 4 (1.250%) Windows NT
13 3 (0.938%) MVS
14 1 (0.313%) VME
14 1 (0.313%) Tru64
14 1 (0.313%) Mac OS
14 1 (0.313%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (20.94%) Service Delivery
2 55 (17.19%) Service Management
3 52 (16.25%) Incident Management
4 42 (13.13%) Project Management
5 39 (12.19%) Change Management
6 33 (10.31%) ITSM
7 30 (9.375%) PRINCE2
8 29 (9.063%) Stakeholder Management
9 25 (7.813%) Risk Management
10 22 (6.875%) Performance Management
11 16 (5.000%) Change Control
12 14 (4.375%) Root Cause Analysis
13 13 (4.063%) Capacity Management
13 13 (4.063%) Problem Management
14 10 (3.125%) Business Development
14 10 (3.125%) Time Management
15 8 (2.500%) Data Architecture
15 8 (2.500%) Data Analysis
16 7 (2.188%) Asset Management
16 7 (2.188%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 47 (14.69%) SQL
2 35 (10.94%) Java
3 21 (6.563%) JavaScript
4 9 (2.813%) PowerShell
4 9 (2.813%) VBScript
5 7 (2.188%) Perl
5 7 (2.188%) C#
6 6 (1.875%) C
6 6 (1.875%) PHP
7 5 (1.563%) T-SQL
8 4 (1.250%) JCL
8 4 (1.250%) COBOL
9 3 (0.938%) C++
9 3 (0.938%) PL/SQL
9 3 (0.938%) VB.NET
9 3 (0.938%) VBA
9 3 (0.938%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 55 (17.19%) ITIL Certification
2 18 (5.625%) Degree
2 18 (5.625%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (5.000%) MCITP
4 14 (4.375%) MCSE
5 12 (3.750%) MCP
6 11 (3.438%) Security Cleared
7 9 (2.813%) Cisco Certification
7 9 (2.813%) CCNA
7 9 (2.813%) SC Cleared
8 7 (2.188%) MCTS
8 7 (2.188%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.250%) QiCA
9 4 (1.250%) HP APS
10 3 (0.938%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.625%) MCSA
11 2 (0.625%) CCNP
12 1 (0.313%) ISEB
12 1 (0.313%) MBA
12 1 (0.313%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (21.25%) SLA
2 9 (2.813%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.250%) QA
3 4 (1.250%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 4 (1.250%) ISO 9001
4 3 (0.938%) Basel III
System Software
1 31 (9.688%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.125%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (3.438%) vSphere
4 9 (2.813%) ISA Server
5 7 (2.188%) VMware ESX
6 6 (1.875%) XenApp
7 4 (1.250%) XenDesktop
8 2 (0.625%) Microsoft App-V
8 2 (0.625%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (0.313%) Hyper-V
9 1 (0.313%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 11 (3.438%) SCCM
2 7 (2.188%) SolarWinds Orion
2 7 (2.188%) Tivoli
3 6 (1.875%) MOM
3 6 (1.875%) Nagios
4 5 (1.563%) Tivoli Monitoring
5 3 (0.938%) OMEGAMON
6 2 (0.625%) Unicenter
6 2 (0.625%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (0.313%) NetBackup
7 1 (0.313%) Backup Exec
7 1 (0.313%) SCOM
Vendors
1 64 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 52 (16.25%) VMware
3 41 (12.81%) Cisco
4 36 (11.25%) IBM
5 35 (10.94%) Citrix
6 31 (9.688%) HP
7 26 (8.125%) Oracle
7 26 (8.125%) Avaya
8 24 (7.500%) NetApp
9 9 (2.813%) EMC
9 9 (2.813%) SolarWinds
10 8 (2.500%) FrontRange
11 7 (2.188%) Remedy
12 6 (1.875%) EPiServer
13 5 (1.563%) Fujitsu
13 5 (1.563%) Red Hat
14 4 (1.250%) Symantec
14 4 (1.250%) ProCurve
14 4 (1.250%) Axway
14 4 (1.250%) Mitel
Cheshire
Experience of working in a client facing IT environment and working in an ITIL structured service environment... Essential Technical Skills: Experience of MS Windows desktop operating systems, MS...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Pension, Bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
Experience of working in a client facing IT environment and working in an ITIL structured service environment... Essential Technical Skills: Experience of MS Windows desktop operating systems, MS...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Pension, Bonus
Posted: 18 May 2013
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Service Delivery Manager - Wilmslow, Macclesfield, Knutsford - Windows, Server, Citrix, ITIL - £30,000 - £40,000... To be successful for the role you must be a Service Delivery Manager with...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Incident Analyst, Incident Manager, Major Incident Manager, ITIL, Software, Bespoke Software house, Telecoms, Telecoms Software, Billing Software, Application Support, SQL, UNIX... They are looking for someone from a...
Salary: £24000 - £26000 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 19 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
The role will report to a Project Manager on the application compatibility and packaging project for a Windows 7 desktop migration programme... Use of MS-Office suite inclusive...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Service Transition Manager / ITIL *Global SW house* 55K, Transition, management, service delivery, transformation, change, project delivery, implementation, software, IT, ITIL, project manager / Warrington Looking for a new exciting...
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + bonus + pension + bens
Posted: 17 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
Degree level or equivalent desirable. ITIL Foundation essential, Practitioner desirable. Project Management qualification... Candidates with Service Delivery Operations or similar disciplines will be considered with relevant project management...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + bonus + pension + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Cheshire
Service Manager, with excellent Information Security experience, required by market leading financial services client based in Cheshire. This company is renowned for offering diverse and exciting careers within...
Rullion IT Plus
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum + excellent package
Posted: 15 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
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
Wilmslow, Cheshire
Established services client is currently recruiting a service delivery manager to oversee all IT Support Services staff (service desk and desktop support functions) and ensure that end users...
Venturi
Salary: £40000 - £43000 per annum + car or allow + pension + health
Posted: 13 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
Cheshire
The successful Application Support Engineer (ITIL, Java, MQ, Unix, Linux) will have: - Extensive application support experience (Unix, Linux, Oracle, Java, MQ Messaging, Citrix) - ITIL is a must have -...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Market-Leading Package
Posted: 15 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
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
Cheshire
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
HAYS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate will have proven application support experience within a live environment & experience of some/all of the following skills: UNIX Scripting, Linux, Java, .NET, SQL, Oracle,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000.00 - £47000.00 per annum + Excellent Package
Posted: 18 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: 19 May 2013
Warrington, North West
Are you a strong Team Leader with an IBM/Linux or Oracle background... Operation Team Leader, Systems Administrator Team Leader, Systems Admin, Networks Administration, Team Leader, Linux, Unix,...
Salary: £45000 - £48000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 16 May 2013
Warrington, Cheshire
Are you a strong Team Leader with an IBM/Linux or Oracle background... Operation Team Leader, Systems Administrator Team Leader, Systems Admin, Networks Administration, Team Leader, Linux, Unix,...
Ascent People Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £48000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
Cheshire
The successful Application Support Engineer (Mainframe, Cobol, CICS, ITIL) will have: - Extensive application support experience (Unix, Linux, Websphere, Java, MQ Messaging, Connect Direct, SQL) - Experience with IBM Mainframe,...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 13 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
Episerver Web DeveloperLeading digital design and development company... You will have ideally skills in .Net, C#, SQL Server and EpiServer with experience in other leading CMS platforms such...
Salary: £30000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + bens
Posted: 27 April 2013