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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Service Management
Rank 46 - 42
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Service Management 4 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 1.117% - 2.542%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.325% - 3.509%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 5
Average salary £46,500 - £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £44,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
-3.40% -2.22%
All Processes & Methodologies
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
302 116 171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 84.36% 71.60% 72.46%
Number of salaries quoted 161 96 166
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Service Management
Cheshire

Service Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester Service Management Salary Trend

Service Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Advertising
2 5 (45.45%) SLA
3 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 3 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Firewall
5 2 (18.18%) Project Management
5 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (18.18%) Unified Communications
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (9.091%) Change Control
6 1 (9.091%) PowerHA
6 1 (9.091%) iPhone
6 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (9.091%) Mac OS
6 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
6 1 (9.091%) Clustering
6 1 (9.091%) Billing
6 1 (9.091%) Local Government
6 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
6 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
6 1 (9.091%) Business Development
6 1 (9.091%) Degree
6 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 1 (9.091%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
1 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
1 2 (18.18%) Unified Communications
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) Internet
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 5 (45.45%) Advertising
3 1 (9.091%) Billing
3 1 (9.091%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Service Manager
2 5 (45.45%) Client Services Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Domain Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Architect
4 1 (9.091%) Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Support Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
4 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (9.091%) Service Analyst
4 1 (9.091%) Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Services Delivery Manager
4 1 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (9.091%) Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
1 1 (9.091%) Clustering
1 1 (9.091%) Smartphone
1 1 (9.091%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.091%) AIX
3 1 (9.091%) Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Tru64
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Vista
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (9.091%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (18.18%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Service Delivery
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) Incident Management
3 1 (9.091%) Business Development
3 1 (9.091%) Problem Management
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Change Control
3 1 (9.091%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
1 1 (9.091%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (9.091%) Degree
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) SLA
2 1 (9.091%) QA
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (9.091%) PowerHA
2 1 (9.091%) Active Directory
2 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 2 (18.18%) VMware
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat