The first table below looks at the demand for Service Delivery skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Delivery over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Delivery
Rank 34 64 83
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +19
Permanent jobs citing Service Delivery 107 75 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 5.728% 3.533% 2.159%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.692% 4.610% 3.130%
Number of salaries quoted 91 73 27
Average salary £32,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.70% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,400 £28,500 £24,700
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £64,000 £54,500
UK excluding London average salary £43,500 £45,000 £43,000
% change year-on-year
-3.33% +4.65%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1391 1627 1182
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 74.46% 76.64% 68.96%
Number of salaries quoted 1106 1446 1015
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Service Delivery
North West

Service Delivery
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire Service Delivery Jobs Demand Trend

Service Delivery
Salary Trend

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

Cheshire Service Delivery Salary Trend

Service Delivery
Salary Histogram

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

Cheshire Service Delivery Salary Histogram

Service Delivery
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Delivery within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Warrington +41 45 £35,000 -22.22% 2
Chester +5 20 £32,000 -5.18% 1
Northwich +18 13 £32,000 -20.00%
Knutsford 0 13 £30,500 -21.79%
Runcorn +4 7 £29,000 -42.00%
Wilmslow -6 6 £41,500 +45.61%
Crewe +8 4 - - 2
Daresbury - 4 £25,750 -
Service Delivery
North West

Service Delivery
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Service Delivery 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 Delivery.

1 79 (52.67%) ITIL
2 37 (24.67%) Windows
3 35 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 32 (21.33%) MS Exchange
5 28 (18.67%) Linux
6 27 (18.00%) Problem Management
7 26 (17.33%) MS Excel
7 26 (17.33%) UNIX
7 26 (17.33%) SLA
7 26 (17.33%) Telecoms
8 24 (16.00%) Service Management
9 21 (14.00%) Finance
9 21 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
9 21 (14.00%) Citrix
9 21 (14.00%) MS Office
10 20 (13.33%) Cisco
10 20 (13.33%) LAN
10 20 (13.33%) WAN
10 20 (13.33%) VMware
10 20 (13.33%) Incident Management
11 19 (12.67%) TCP/IP
11 19 (12.67%) Avaya
11 19 (12.67%) AIX
12 18 (12.00%) Red Hat
13 15 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 14 (9.333%) Degree
14 14 (9.333%) Project Management
14 14 (9.333%) Stakeholder Management
15 13 (8.667%) Blackberry
15 13 (8.667%) SharePoint

Service Delivery
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire region citing Service Delivery 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 Delivery. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (4.000%) CSS
2 5 (3.333%) XML
2 5 (3.333%) LAMP
3 4 (2.667%) HTML
4 2 (1.333%) .NET
4 2 (1.333%) WebSphere MQ
4 2 (1.333%) WebSphere
4 2 (1.333%) EDIFACT
5 1 (0.667%) Symfony
5 1 (0.667%) CodeIgniter
5 1 (0.667%) Laravel
5 1 (0.667%) Sass
5 1 (0.667%) LESS
5 1 (0.667%) Middleware
5 1 (0.667%) Spring
5 1 (0.667%) J2EE
5 1 (0.667%) SOAP
5 1 (0.667%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 32 (21.33%) MS Exchange
2 13 (8.667%) SharePoint
3 12 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 12 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
4 10 (6.667%) Office Communications Server
4 10 (6.667%) Lync
5 9 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2010
5 9 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2003
6 4 (2.667%) Apache
7 2 (1.333%) Oracle Workflow
8 1 (0.667%) IIS
8 1 (0.667%) SAS
Applications
1 26 (17.33%) MS Excel
2 21 (14.00%) MS Office
3 1 (0.667%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.667%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.333%) SAP APO
1 2 (1.333%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 20 (13.33%) LAN
1 20 (13.33%) WAN
2 19 (12.67%) TCP/IP
3 5 (3.333%) HTTP
4 3 (2.000%) SAN
5 1 (0.667%) Network Security
5 1 (0.667%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.333%) MySQL
2 4 (2.667%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.333%) DB2
4 1 (0.667%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.667%) RDBMS
4 1 (0.667%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (1.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 26 (17.33%) Telecoms
2 21 (14.00%) Finance
3 8 (5.333%) Banking
4 5 (3.333%) Retail
5 2 (1.333%) Local Government
6 1 (0.667%) Marketing
6 1 (0.667%) Back Office
6 1 (0.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 42 (28.00%) Service Manager
2 36 (24.00%) Analyst
3 24 (16.00%) Delivery Manager
4 20 (13.33%) Services Delivery Manager
5 19 (12.67%) Administrator
5 19 (12.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 18 (12.00%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (12.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 18 (12.00%) Linux Administrator
7 16 (10.67%) Support Technician
8 12 (8.000%) Transition Manager
9 10 (6.667%) Service Transition Manager
10 7 (4.667%) Problem Analyst
11 6 (4.000%) Infrastructure Technician
11 6 (4.000%) Developer
11 6 (4.000%) Architect
11 6 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support
11 6 (4.000%) Support Manager
12 5 (3.333%) Infrastructure Manager
12 5 (3.333%) Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (8.667%) Blackberry
2 3 (2.000%) Mainframe
2 3 (2.000%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.000%) Tandem
2 3 (2.000%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (2.000%) iSeries
3 2 (1.333%) SWIFT
3 2 (1.333%) Computer Science
3 2 (1.333%) Cryptography
4 1 (0.667%) Mathematics
4 1 (0.667%) FMCG
4 1 (0.667%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 37 (24.67%) Windows
2 28 (18.67%) Linux
3 26 (17.33%) UNIX
4 19 (12.67%) AIX
5 15 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 12 (8.000%) Windows Server 2008
6 12 (8.000%) Solaris
7 10 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (2.000%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.667%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (52.67%) ITIL
2 27 (18.00%) Problem Management
3 24 (16.00%) Service Management
4 20 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 14 (9.333%) Project Management
5 14 (9.333%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (7.333%) Business Development
7 10 (6.667%) PRINCE2
8 9 (6.000%) Root Cause Analysis
9 7 (4.667%) Change Control
10 6 (4.000%) Matrix Management
10 6 (4.000%) Quality Management
11 5 (3.333%) MVC
11 5 (3.333%) Risk Management
11 5 (3.333%) Continuous Improvement
12 4 (2.667%) Time Management
12 4 (2.667%) Scrum
12 4 (2.667%) Agile Software Development
12 4 (2.667%) TDD
12 4 (2.667%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (6.667%) VBScript
1 10 (6.667%) PowerShell
2 6 (4.000%) JavaScript
2 6 (4.000%) PHP
3 5 (3.333%) SQL
4 3 (2.000%) Java
5 2 (1.333%) C++
5 2 (1.333%) COBOL
6 1 (0.667%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 21 (14.00%) ITIL Certification
2 14 (9.333%) Degree
3 5 (3.333%) SC Cleared
3 5 (3.333%) Security Cleared
4 1 (0.667%) SAP Certification
4 1 (0.667%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (17.33%) SLA
2 5 (3.333%) QA
3 1 (0.667%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (6.667%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (2.000%) Active Directory
3 2 (1.333%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.667%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (1.333%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (1.333%) SCCM
1 2 (1.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (23.33%) Microsoft
2 21 (14.00%) Citrix
3 20 (13.33%) Cisco
3 20 (13.33%) VMware
4 19 (12.67%) Avaya
5 18 (12.00%) Red Hat
6 10 (6.667%) EMC
6 10 (6.667%) NetApp
7 5 (3.333%) Oracle
7 5 (3.333%) Zend
8 4 (2.667%) Fujitsu
8 4 (2.667%) IBM
9 3 (2.000%) Dell
9 3 (2.000%) Symantec
9 3 (2.000%) McAfee
9 3 (2.000%) Nimsoft
10 2 (1.333%) Pega
10 2 (1.333%) Trend Micro
10 2 (1.333%) SAP
11 1 (0.667%) Adobe
Warrington, North West
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...
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + bonus + pension + bens
Posted: 11 June 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 - £50000 per annum + bonus + pension + bens
Posted: 11 June 2013
Chester, Cheshire
As part of its continued high-growth expansion strategy my client is seeking to recruit a Service Delivery Manager to be based in Chester... Desired Knowledge, Skills and...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 11 June 2013
Crewe/London
LocationCrewe/LondonJob TypePermanent, Full TimeYears of experience5+ yearsEducation LevelBachelor's Degree, or Equivalent experienceCareer LevelDeveloping / SeniorSalaryNegotiable from £54,000 - £64,000, car allowance, 10% bonus scheme, pension, life...
Block Solutions
Salary: Negotiable from £54,000 - £64,000, car allowance, 10% bonus scheme, pension, life assurance
Posted: 10 June 2013