The first part of the table below looks at the demand for ITIL Certification in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank294278331
Rank change year-on-year
Down-16Up+53
Matching permanent IT job ads9711010559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.805 %0.824 %0.585 %
As % of the Qualifications category2.901 %3.142 %2.418 %
Number of salaries quoted817851457
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£29,253£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£41,250£40,100
% change year-on-year
-3.03 %+2.86 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334753214123123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.76 %26.21 %24.22 %
Number of salaries quoted284762683119147
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-1.20 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

ITIL Certification
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

ITIL Certification Demand Trend

ITIL Certification
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the UK.

ITIL Certification Salary Trend

ITIL Certification
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ITIL Certification over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

ITIL Certification Salary Histogram

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-13920£42,500-5.55 %
LondonDown-19348£47,000-2.59 %
South EastUp+6246£40,000-13.97 %
East of EnglandDown-1182£45,000+5.88 %
City of LondonDown-574£55,000-6.38 %
SurreyUp+768£42,500-3.40 %
West MidlandsDown-2658£46,250+20.12 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3057£35,500-11.25 %
YorkshireDown-1051£40,000+17.64 %
North WestDown-3047£35,000-18.60 %
Milton KeynesUp+3140£35,500-11.25 %
East MidlandsNo change037£38,000+2.70 %
West YorkshireUp+436£40,000+20.30 %
HampshireDown-1035£35,000-15.15 %
South WestDown-1635£35,500+9.23 %
ScotlandDown-1532£41,750+19.28 %
BerkshireDown-4731£38,000-27.61 %
HertfordshireUp+730£45,000-5.26 %
UxbridgeUp+727£35,000-46.15 %
EssexDown-924£45,000+12.50 %
BirminghamDown-3022£60,000+55.84 %
LeedsDown-821£32,500+25.00 %
CheshireDown-1020£39,500-7.05 %
ReadingDown-2518£36,000-40.00 %
ManchesterDown-2818£35,000-30.00 %
BristolDown-117£35,500+5.18 %
NottinghamshireUp+716£35,000-22.22 %
West SussexUp+1514£53,000+6.00 %
EdinburghUp+814£39,500+12.85 %
NottinghamUp+114£35,000-22.22 %

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing ITIL Certification 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 ITIL Certification.

11933 (99.95 %)ITIL
2503 (26.01 %)Service Delivery
3484 (25.03 %)Finance
4478 (24.72 %)Windows
5428 (22.13 %)Microsoft
6418 (21.61 %)Service Management
7340 (17.58 %)SQL
8278 (14.37 %)PRINCE2
9268 (13.86 %)MS Excel
10262 (13.55 %)SLA
11254 (13.13 %)Project Management
12245 (12.67 %)Change Management
13236 (12.20 %)Cisco
14235 (12.15 %)Degree
15215 (11.12 %)VMware
16197 (10.19 %)Incident Management
17193 (9.979 %)SQL Server
18184 (9.514 %)Active Directory
19165 (8.532 %)UNIX
20163 (8.428 %)Oracle
20163 (8.428 %)Problem Management
21157 (8.118 %)VMware Infrastructure
22152 (7.859 %)WAN
23148 (7.653 %)ITSM
24143 (7.394 %)Microsoft Certification
25136 (7.032 %)Cisco Certification
26135 (6.980 %)Release Management
27134 (6.929 %)Linux
28133 (6.877 %)HP
29132 (6.825 %)Citrix

ITIL Certification
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing ITIL Certification 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 ITIL Certification. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1110 (5.688 %).NET
285 (4.395 %)XML
366 (3.413 %)Web Services
432 (1.655 %)HTML
432 (1.655 %)CSS
531 (1.603 %)Ajax
628 (1.448 %)XML Schema
727 (1.396 %)WebSphere
826 (1.344 %)Middleware
924 (1.241 %)ASP
1020 (1.034 %)STL
1020 (1.034 %)Boost C++ Libraries
1117 (0.879 %)XHTML
1117 (0.879 %)DOM
1117 (0.879 %)DHTML
1214 (0.724 %)ASP.NET
1214 (0.724 %)LINQ
1310 (0.517 %)J2EE
1310 (0.517 %)MFC
1310 (0.517 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1116 (5.998 %)MS Exchange
292 (4.757 %)SharePoint
382 (4.240 %)IIS
452 (2.689 %)Exchange Server 2003
548 (2.482 %)Exchange Server 2010
640 (2.068 %)Apache
739 (2.017 %)Exchange Server 2007
829 (1.499 %)WebLogic
924 (1.241 %)Tomcat
1020 (1.034 %)SharePoint Server
1119 (0.982 %)SharePoint 2010
1218 (0.931 %)GlassFish
1218 (0.931 %)WebSphere MQ
1314 (0.724 %)Lotus Notes
1410 (0.517 %)CMS
159 (0.465 %)SAS
168 (0.414 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
176 (0.310 %)WebSphere Application Server
176 (0.310 %)Oracle Application Server
176 (0.310 %)Confluence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1268 (13.86 %)MS Excel
2125 (6.463 %)MS Office
375 (3.878 %)MS Visio
434 (1.758 %)MS Project
522 (1.138 %)MS PowerPoint
65 (0.259 %)InfoPath
74 (0.207 %)Final Cut Pro
83 (0.155 %)DeltaView
91 (0.052 %)Office 365
91 (0.052 %)Spreadsheet
91 (0.052 %)Acrobat
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
136 (1.861 %)Dynamics CRM
212 (0.620 %)Dynamics NAV
310 (0.517 %)BASE24
49 (0.465 %)Summit
49 (0.465 %)Oracle EBS
49 (0.465 %)assyst
58 (0.414 %)SAP SM
67 (0.362 %)SAP Retail
76 (0.310 %)RMDS
84 (0.207 %)Cerner Millennium
93 (0.155 %)SAP ERP
93 (0.155 %)Hyperion Planning
93 (0.155 %)Oracle EBS R12
93 (0.155 %)SAP CO
93 (0.155 %)HFM
93 (0.155 %)SAP FI/CO
93 (0.155 %)SAP FI
102 (0.103 %)Oracle Applications
102 (0.103 %)Global One
102 (0.103 %)Remedy ITSM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1152 (7.859 %)WAN
2126 (6.515 %)LAN
3117 (6.050 %)Firewall
4116 (5.998 %)SAN
583 (4.292 %)DNS
666 (3.413 %)TCP/IP
762 (3.206 %)DHCP
861 (3.154 %)Network Security
957 (2.947 %)VoIP
1052 (2.689 %)iSCSI
1150 (2.585 %)VPN
1240 (2.068 %)MPLS
1338 (1.965 %)Internet
1338 (1.965 %)NAS
1433 (1.706 %)BGP
1525 (1.293 %)OSPF
1621 (1.086 %)Intranet
1621 (1.086 %)Wireless
1719 (0.982 %)EIGRP
1817 (0.879 %)DSL
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1193 (9.979 %)SQL Server
263 (3.257 %)MySQL
330 (1.551 %)RDBMS
425 (1.293 %)SQL Server Integration Services
524 (1.241 %)SQL Server 2005
622 (1.138 %)Data Warehouse
718 (0.931 %)SQL Server 2008
815 (0.776 %)Oracle 8/8i
911 (0.569 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
108 (0.414 %)BusinessObjects XI
117 (0.362 %)Oracle 11g
117 (0.362 %)Crystal Reports
117 (0.362 %)Oracle 10g
117 (0.362 %)ETL
126 (0.310 %)Informix
126 (0.310 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
126 (0.310 %)QlikView
135 (0.259 %)DTS
135 (0.259 %)BusinessObjects
144 (0.207 %)Oracle Reports
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
113 (0.672 %)Oracle Forms
210 (0.517 %)JIRA
39 (0.465 %)ClearCase
39 (0.465 %)MSI
48 (0.414 %)Selenium
57 (0.362 %)QuickTest Pro
66 (0.310 %)MSBuild
75 (0.259 %)VSS/SourceSafe
75 (0.259 %)Team Foundation Server
84 (0.207 %)LoadRunner
84 (0.207 %)Subversion
93 (0.155 %)Eclipse
93 (0.155 %)TestDirector
93 (0.155 %)Visual Studio
101 (0.052 %)PVCS
101 (0.052 %)Ant
101 (0.052 %)JUnit
101 (0.052 %)Maven
101 (0.052 %)NUnit
101 (0.052 %)Synon
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1484 (25.03 %)Finance
2125 (6.463 %)Banking
392 (4.757 %)Telecoms
484 (4.343 %)Legal
570 (3.619 %)Retail
651 (2.637 %)Law
732 (1.655 %)Marketing
822 (1.138 %)Back Office
920 (1.034 %)Billing
920 (1.034 %)Investment Banking
920 (1.034 %)Games
1014 (0.724 %)Manufacturing
1112 (0.620 %)Financial Institution
1211 (0.569 %)Front Office
1211 (0.569 %)Advertising
1211 (0.569 %)French Language
139 (0.465 %)German Language
148 (0.414 %)International Banking
148 (0.414 %)Retail Banking
154 (0.207 %)Italian Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1406 (20.99 %)Analyst
2334 (17.27 %)Service Manager
3204 (10.55 %)Delivery Manager
4192 (9.928 %)Services Delivery Manager
5159 (8.221 %)Support Analyst
6145 (7.497 %)Project Manager
787 (4.498 %)Applications Support
880 (4.137 %)Service Analyst
979 (4.085 %)Developer
1078 (4.033 %)Consultant
1176 (3.930 %)Team Leader
1272 (3.723 %)Architect
1369 (3.568 %)Infrastructure Manager
1462 (3.206 %)Administrator
1560 (3.102 %)Service Desk Analyst
1652 (2.689 %)Operations Manager
1750 (2.585 %)Applications Support Analyst
1843 (2.223 %)Incident Manager
1942 (2.172 %)Support Manager
2041 (2.120 %)Systems Administrator
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
177 (3.981 %)Management Information System
246 (2.378 %)Clustering
342 (2.172 %)SaaS
434 (1.758 %)Computer Science
434 (1.758 %)Mainframe
529 (1.499 %)PMI
529 (1.499 %)Blackberry
627 (1.396 %)CMDB
726 (1.344 %)iPhone
821 (1.086 %)Open Source
917 (0.879 %)Mathematics
1016 (0.827 %)Client/Server
1016 (0.827 %)Cloud Computing
1115 (0.776 %)Web 2.0
1115 (0.776 %)Statistics
1214 (0.724 %)Replication
1311 (0.569 %)NHS
1311 (0.569 %)PDA
1311 (0.569 %)FMCG
1410 (0.517 %)DataPower
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1478 (24.72 %)Windows
2165 (8.532 %)UNIX
3134 (6.929 %)Linux
4128 (6.618 %)Windows Server 2003
5111 (5.739 %)Windows Server 2008
670 (3.619 %)Windows 7
765 (3.361 %)Windows XP
848 (2.482 %)Solaris
943 (2.223 %)AIX
1017 (0.879 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1116 (0.827 %)Windows 2000
1213 (0.672 %)Windows 2000 Server
1312 (0.620 %)Windows Vista
149 (0.465 %)HPUX
155 (0.259 %)CentOS
155 (0.259 %)Ubuntu
164 (0.207 %)Mac OS
164 (0.207 %)Android
172 (0.103 %)zOS
172 (0.103 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11933 (99.95 %)ITIL
2503 (26.01 %)Service Delivery
3418 (21.61 %)Service Management
4278 (14.37 %)PRINCE2
5254 (13.13 %)Project Management
6245 (12.67 %)Change Management
7197 (10.19 %)Incident Management
8163 (8.428 %)Problem Management
9148 (7.653 %)ITSM
10135 (6.980 %)Release Management
11111 (5.739 %)Stakeholder Management
1294 (4.860 %)CRM
1380 (4.137 %)Configuration Management
1472 (3.723 %)Disaster Recovery
1560 (3.102 %)Continuous Improvement
1654 (2.792 %)Change Control
1753 (2.740 %)Capacity Planning
1848 (2.482 %)Agile Software Development
1945 (2.327 %)Risk Management
1945 (2.327 %)Supplier Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1340 (17.58 %)SQL
2118 (6.101 %)Java
373 (3.775 %)JavaScript
472 (3.723 %)C#
566 (3.413 %)C++
566 (3.413 %)PHP
654 (2.792 %)VB
749 (2.534 %)Perl
834 (1.758 %)PowerShell
931 (1.603 %)Shell Script
1021 (1.086 %)Delphi
1120 (1.034 %)VC++
1120 (1.034 %)VBScript
1219 (0.982 %)VBA
1317 (0.879 %)C
1415 (0.776 %)PL/SQL
1514 (0.724 %)Python
1514 (0.724 %)Korn
1612 (0.620 %)Tcl
1710 (0.517 %)Bash shell
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1235 (12.15 %)Degree
2143 (7.394 %)Microsoft Certification
3136 (7.032 %)Cisco Certification
4101 (5.222 %)MCSE
573 (3.775 %)CCNP
659 (3.051 %)CCNA
755 (2.844 %)PRINCE2 Certification
755 (2.844 %)Security Cleared
849 (2.534 %)MCITP
947 (2.430 %)PMI Certification
1045 (2.327 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1141 (2.120 %)SC Cleared
1240 (2.068 %)CCSA
1337 (1.913 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1435 (1.810 %)CCSP
1533 (1.706 %)MCP
1630 (1.551 %)CISSP
1724 (1.241 %)MCTS
1823 (1.189 %)PMP
1918 (0.931 %)Oracle Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1262 (13.55 %)SLA
262 (3.206 %)QA
355 (2.844 %)ISO/IEC 27001
425 (1.293 %)ISO 9001
510 (0.517 %)ISO 8583
69 (0.465 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
77 (0.362 %)PCI DSS
85 (0.259 %)ISO/IEC 20000
94 (0.207 %)ISO 9000
103 (0.155 %)ISO/IEC 17799
112 (0.103 %)Solvency II
121 (0.052 %)HL7
121 (0.052 %)DICOM
121 (0.052 %)BS7799
121 (0.052 %)COBIT
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1184 (9.514 %)Active Directory
2157 (8.118 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (3.516 %)Hyper-V
447 (2.430 %)vSphere
519 (0.982 %)ISA Server
615 (0.776 %)XenApp
714 (0.724 %)XenServer
813 (0.672 %)VMware ESX
99 (0.465 %)Xen
107 (0.362 %)UAG
116 (0.310 %)Citrix Presentation Server
124 (0.207 %)XenDesktop
124 (0.207 %)Terminal Services
133 (0.155 %)Oracle RMAN
133 (0.155 %)SRDF
142 (0.103 %)VMware ESXi
142 (0.103 %)VMware Server
142 (0.103 %)NFS
142 (0.103 %)Oracle RAC
151 (0.052 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
143 (2.223 %)SCOM
229 (1.499 %)SCCM
321 (1.086 %)Backup Exec
416 (0.827 %)Tivoli
416 (0.827 %)Control-M
515 (0.776 %)NetBackup
612 (0.620 %)Tivoli Monitoring
612 (0.620 %)WSUS
710 (0.517 %)Puppet
89 (0.465 %)SCVMM
98 (0.414 %)Nagios
98 (0.414 %)BMC PATROL
107 (0.362 %)MOM
107 (0.362 %)PureDisk
107 (0.362 %)BladeLogic
115 (0.259 %)ServiceCenter
115 (0.259 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
124 (0.207 %)OpenView
124 (0.207 %)MIIS
133 (0.155 %)Foglight
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1428 (22.13 %)Microsoft
2236 (12.20 %)Cisco
3215 (11.12 %)VMware
4163 (8.428 %)Oracle
5133 (6.877 %)HP
6132 (6.825 %)Citrix
790 (4.654 %)IBM
855 (2.844 %)SAP
953 (2.740 %)NetApp
1047 (2.430 %)Remedy
1146 (2.378 %)EMC
1240 (2.068 %)Juniper
1326 (1.344 %)Dell
1326 (1.344 %)Murex
1326 (1.344 %)OpenLink
1423 (1.189 %)Sun
1423 (1.189 %)Riverbed
1521 (1.086 %)JBoss
1620 (1.034 %)Red Hat
1620 (1.034 %)F5