The first table below looks at the demand for the Head of IT role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Head of IT in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Head of Information Technology
Rank 303 298 299
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +1
Permanent jobs requiring a Head of IT 18 25 32
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.154% 0.191% 0.207%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.166% 0.205% 0.221%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 31
Average salary £87,500 £86,250 £70,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% +23.21%
90% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £59,250 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £106,250 £102,100 £135,000
UK excluding London average salary £70,000 £63,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year
+10.23% -2.30%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Head of IT
London

Head of IT
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Head of IT across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Head of IT Jobs Demand Trend

Head of IT
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Head of IT across the City of London region.

City of London Head of IT Salary Trend

Head of IT
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Head of IT across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Head of IT Salary Histogram

Head of IT
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Head of IT in their job title 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 with Head of IT in their job title.

1 26 (60.47%) Finance
2 14 (32.56%) ITIL
3 11 (25.58%) Project Management
4 10 (23.26%) Banking
5 9 (20.93%) Business Continuity
6 8 (18.60%) Service Management
6 8 (18.60%) Service Delivery
7 7 (16.28%) PRINCE2
8 6 (13.95%) SLA
9 5 (11.63%) Windows
9 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (11.63%) Retail
9 5 (11.63%) Degree
10 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
10 4 (9.302%) Legal
10 4 (9.302%) VMware
10 4 (9.302%) Change Management
10 4 (9.302%) Cisco
10 4 (9.302%) Business Transformation
11 3 (6.977%) ITIL V3
11 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
11 3 (6.977%) Active Directory
11 3 (6.977%) E-Commerce
11 3 (6.977%) MS Exchange
11 3 (6.977%) UNIX
11 3 (6.977%) .NET
11 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
11 3 (6.977%) ITSM
11 3 (6.977%) SAN
11 3 (6.977%) Telecoms

Head of IT
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Head of IT in their job title 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 with Head of IT in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.977%) .NET
2 1 (2.326%) ASP.NET
2 1 (2.326%) WCF
2 1 (2.326%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.977%) MS Exchange
2 1 (2.326%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (2.326%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.326%) IIS
2 1 (2.326%) CloudStack
2 1 (2.326%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 1 (2.326%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.326%) Sage 200
1 1 (2.326%) Temenos T24
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.977%) SAN
2 2 (4.651%) LAN
2 2 (4.651%) WAN
3 1 (2.326%) Internet
3 1 (2.326%) VoIP
3 1 (2.326%) Firewall
3 1 (2.326%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.977%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.326%) Data Warehouse
General
1 26 (60.47%) Finance
2 10 (23.26%) Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Retail
4 4 (9.302%) Legal
5 3 (6.977%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.977%) Retail Banking
6 2 (4.651%) Law
7 1 (2.326%) Back Office
7 1 (2.326%) Marketing
7 1 (2.326%) Russian Language
7 1 (2.326%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.977%) Management Information System
2 2 (4.651%) SaaS
2 2 (4.651%) Computer Science
2 2 (4.651%) EPoS
3 1 (2.326%) NHS
3 1 (2.326%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.326%) Informatics
3 1 (2.326%) Biology
3 1 (2.326%) Biotechnology
3 1 (2.326%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
3 1 (2.326%) Cryptography
3 1 (2.326%) Social Media
3 1 (2.326%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.326%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.63%) Windows
2 3 (6.977%) UNIX
3 2 (4.651%) Windows 7
3 2 (4.651%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (2.326%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (2.326%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (2.326%) Linux
4 1 (2.326%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (32.56%) ITIL
2 11 (25.58%) Project Management
3 9 (20.93%) Business Continuity
4 8 (18.60%) Service Management
4 8 (18.60%) Service Delivery
5 7 (16.28%) PRINCE2
6 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (9.302%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (9.302%) Change Management
7 4 (9.302%) Business Transformation
8 3 (6.977%) ITIL V3
8 3 (6.977%) E-Commerce
8 3 (6.977%) ITSM
8 3 (6.977%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (6.977%) Data Management
8 3 (6.977%) Document Management
8 3 (6.977%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (6.977%) Problem Management
9 2 (4.651%) Matrix Management
9 2 (4.651%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.651%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (11.63%) Degree
2 1 (2.326%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (2.326%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (2.326%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (2.326%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.95%) SLA
2 3 (6.977%) COBIT
3 2 (4.651%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.977%) Active Directory
1 3 (6.977%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.326%) Xen
Systems Management
1 1 (2.326%) Puppet
1 1 (2.326%) SCCM
1 1 (2.326%) Ganglia
Vendors
1 4 (9.302%) VMware
1 4 (9.302%) Cisco
2 3 (6.977%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.651%) Algorithmics
3 2 (4.651%) SAP
3 2 (4.651%) Citrix
4 1 (2.326%) Nortel
4 1 (2.326%) Temenos
4 1 (2.326%) Progress
4 1 (2.326%) Oracle
4 1 (2.326%) Sage
4 1 (2.326%) Google
City of London
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