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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Manager
Rank 33 45 41
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 7 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.373% 0.901% 0.712%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.564% 1.007% 0.730%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 2
Average salary £41,500 £37,000 £61,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.16% -39.59%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
273 298 274
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 92.54% 89.49% 97.51%
Number of salaries quoted 243 273 259
Average salary £45,000 £37,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% -8.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £75,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Service Manager
London

Service Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon Service Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Service Manager
Salary Trend

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

Croydon Service Manager Salary Trend

Service Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region that cited Service Manager 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 Service Manager in their job title.

1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (50.00%) Firewall
2 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 6 (50.00%) SMTP
2 6 (50.00%) Windows
2 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 6 (50.00%) Retail
2 6 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 5 (41.67%) ITIL
3 5 (41.67%) Service Management
3 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
4 4 (33.33%) TOWER Software
4 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
4 4 (33.33%) Middleware
4 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (33.33%) UNIX
4 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
4 4 (33.33%) Web Services
4 4 (33.33%) Mainframe
4 4 (33.33%) Product Management
4 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
4 4 (33.33%) Retail Banking
4 4 (33.33%) Banking
4 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
5 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010

Service Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region that cited Service Manager 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 Service Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (33.33%) Middleware
1 4 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) Firewall
1 6 (50.00%) SMTP
1 6 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) FTP
3 1 (8.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (83.33%) Finance
2 6 (50.00%) Retail
3 4 (33.33%) Retail Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Banking
3 4 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITIL
1 5 (41.67%) Service Management
1 5 (41.67%) Service Delivery
2 4 (33.33%) Business Continuity
2 4 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 4 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (33.33%) Product Management
2 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 4 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 2 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (8.333%) Programme Management
4 1 (8.333%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) Change Management
4 1 (8.333%) Problem Management
4 1 (8.333%) Matrix Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) TOWER Software
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft