The first table below looks at the demand for ITSM skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ITSM over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
IT Service Management (ITSM)
Rank 115 113 103
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -10
Permanent jobs citing ITSM 8 15 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.445% 0.747% 0.969%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.583% 0.971% 1.412%
Number of salaries quoted 7 15 7
Average salary £42,500 £65,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.61% +54.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £60,000 £40,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £43,500 £43,750
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -0.57%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1373 1545 1133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.32% 76.94% 68.63%
Number of salaries quoted 1057 1355 965
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.06%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £61,350
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
ITSM
North West

ITSM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire ITSM Jobs Demand Trend

ITSM
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire ITSM Salary Trend

ITSM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ITSM across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cheshire ITSM Salary Histogram

ITSM
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITSM within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 6 £46,250 -
ITSM
North West

ITSM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ITSM 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 ITSM.

1 42 (79.25%) Service Management
2 38 (71.70%) Finance
3 33 (62.26%) ITIL
4 26 (49.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 23 (43.40%) Change Management
6 20 (37.74%) Incident Management
7 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
8 12 (22.64%) Project Management
9 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
10 10 (18.87%) Banking
11 8 (15.09%) Data Analysis
11 8 (15.09%) VMware
11 8 (15.09%) Business Continuity
11 8 (15.09%) WebSphere
11 8 (15.09%) Xen
11 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
11 8 (15.09%) Data Architecture
11 8 (15.09%) Riverbed
11 8 (15.09%) Isilon
11 8 (15.09%) High Availability
11 8 (15.09%) WAN Optimisation
11 8 (15.09%) Cisco Nexus
11 8 (15.09%) Tivoli
11 8 (15.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 8 (15.09%) Firewall
11 8 (15.09%) Validation
11 8 (15.09%) WAN
11 8 (15.09%) Cisco
11 8 (15.09%) IBM
11 8 (15.09%) EMC

ITSM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing ITSM 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 ITSM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (15.09%) WebSphere
Applications
1 7 (13.21%) MS Excel
1 7 (13.21%) MS Office
2 6 (11.32%) MS PowerPoint
2 6 (11.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (15.09%) Firewall
1 8 (15.09%) WAN
1 8 (15.09%) SAN
2 1 (1.887%) Intranet
General
1 38 (71.70%) Finance
2 10 (18.87%) Banking
3 3 (5.660%) Legal
4 2 (3.774%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.887%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 11 (20.75%) Project Manager
2 8 (15.09%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
2 8 (15.09%) Pre Sales Consultant
2 8 (15.09%) Consultant
2 8 (15.09%) Sales Consultant
2 8 (15.09%) Technical Consultant
3 7 (13.21%) Head of Service Management
4 3 (5.660%) Service Manager
4 3 (5.660%) Team Leader
4 3 (5.660%) Transition Manager
Operating Systems
1 8 (15.09%) AIX
1 8 (15.09%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (79.25%) Service Management
2 33 (62.26%) ITIL
3 26 (49.06%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (43.40%) Change Management
5 20 (37.74%) Incident Management
6 12 (22.64%) Project Management
7 8 (15.09%) Data Analysis
7 8 (15.09%) Business Continuity
7 8 (15.09%) Data Architecture
7 8 (15.09%) High Availability
7 8 (15.09%) WAN Optimisation
7 8 (15.09%) Validation
8 3 (5.660%) Risk Management
8 3 (5.660%) Service Delivery
8 3 (5.660%) Supplier Management
9 1 (1.887%) Document Management
9 1 (1.887%) Time Management
9 1 (1.887%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.887%) Java
1 1 (1.887%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (20.75%) Security Cleared
2 3 (5.660%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 8 (15.09%) Xen
1 8 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (15.09%) Tivoli
1 8 (15.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 14 (26.42%) Microsoft
2 8 (15.09%) VMware
2 8 (15.09%) Riverbed
2 8 (15.09%) Isilon
2 8 (15.09%) Cisco
2 8 (15.09%) IBM
2 8 (15.09%) EMC
2 8 (15.09%) Juniper
2 8 (15.09%) Lotus
2 8 (15.09%) Cognos
3 1 (1.887%) Remedy
3 1 (1.887%) HP