The first table below looks at the demand for the Service Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Services Manager
Rank 82 83 81
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -2
Permanent jobs requiring a Service Manager 10 10 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.946% 0.746% 1.297%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.991% 0.779% 1.359%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 13
Average salary £46,250 £45,000 £58,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% -22.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £38,750 £36,300
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £56,250 £68,400
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1009 1284 1472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.46% 95.82% 95.46%
Number of salaries quoted 587 951 1062
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Service Manager
Scotland

Service Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Service Manager Salary Trend

Service Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
3 5 (35.71%) ITIL
4 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
4 4 (28.57%) SLA
4 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (21.43%) VMware
5 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
5 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
5 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
5 3 (21.43%) Operations Management
5 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (21.43%) Unified Communications
5 3 (21.43%) Intel
5 3 (21.43%) Middleware
5 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
5 3 (21.43%) VoIP
5 3 (21.43%) UNIX
5 3 (21.43%) MQSeries
5 3 (21.43%) Oracle
6 1 (7.143%) Banking
6 1 (7.143%) Retail
6 1 (7.143%) Data Management
6 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
6 1 (7.143%) Knowledge Management
6 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
6 1 (7.143%) Front Office
6 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
6 1 (7.143%) Workflow

Service Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 3 (21.43%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) MQSeries
1 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (21.43%) VoIP
1 3 (21.43%) Unified Communications
General
1 11 (78.57%) Finance
2 1 (7.143%) Banking
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
2 1 (7.143%) Front Office
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 1 (7.143%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.143%) Fixed Income
2 1 (7.143%) Equities
2 1 (7.143%) Derivative
2 1 (7.143%) Social Media
2 1 (7.143%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 3 (21.43%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 4 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 3 (21.43%) Incident Management
4 3 (21.43%) Operations Management
4 3 (21.43%) Resource Management
5 1 (7.143%) Enterprise Data Management
5 1 (7.143%) Investment Management
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.143%) Analytics
5 1 (7.143%) Workflow
5 1 (7.143%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (7.143%) Business Continuity
5 1 (7.143%) Data Management
5 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
5 1 (7.143%) Knowledge Management
5 1 (7.143%) Service Management
5 1 (7.143%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.143%) Degree
1 1 (7.143%) SC Cleared
1 1 (7.143%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (28.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (21.43%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (21.43%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle
1 3 (21.43%) Intel
1 3 (21.43%) VMware
2 1 (7.143%) Fujitsu
2 1 (7.143%) Cadis
2 1 (7.143%) Bloomberg
2 1 (7.143%) Charles River
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft