Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The table looks at the demand for ITIL skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ITIL over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category.

LinkInformation Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location
3 months to
3 Jul 2009
Same period last year
Rank4344
Rank change on the same period last yearUp+1
Matching permanent IT job ads28298407
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.155 %4.215 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category6.756 %7.301 %
Salaries quoted23686726
Average salary£40,000£40,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£25,000£23,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£62,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£37,500
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
41873115150
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK61.50 %57.73 %
Salaries quoted3442493981
Average salary£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£27,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£72,500£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000

ITIL
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing ITIL within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

ITIL Demand Trend

ITIL
Salary Trend

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

ITIL Salary Trend

ITIL
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ITIL over the 3 months to 3 July 2009 within the UK.

ITIL Salary Histogram

ITIL
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 within the UK over the 3 months to 3 July 2009. 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
EnglandUp+32728£40,000-
LondonDown-5981£45,000-
South EastUp+2673£40,000-
City of LondonDown-21230£45,000-5.26 %
East of EnglandUp+10215£40,000-2.43 %
South WestUp+10193£35,000-6.66 %
YorkshireDown-5193£32,500-7.14 %
North WestDown-7189£37,500+10.29 %
BerkshireUp+15164£42,500+6.25 %
West MidlandsDown-16145£35,000-4.76 %
East MidlandsDown-1135£34,000+4.61 %
SurreyUp+11133£39,500-7.05 %
HertfordshireUp+4103£40,000-20.00 %
WiltshireUp+11102£32,500-13.33 %
OxfordshireUp+3077£30,000-14.28 %
ManchesterUp+2775£33,750+5.46 %
HampshireDown-2174£37,500-0.66 %
West YorkshireDown-2364£35,000-
North YorkshireUp+1363£27,500-21.42 %
ScotlandDown-261£37,500-9.63 %
NottinghamshireUp+1559£30,000-14.28 %
BuckinghamshireDown-559£44,000+14.28 %
MiddlesexUp+3852£42,500+6.25 %
CheshireDown-1850£37,750+0.66 %
EssexUp+4046£43,750+25.00 %
South YorkshireDown-746£32,500-12.16 %
OxfordUp+2245£28,000-17.64 %
SwindonUp+743£32,000-8.57 %
ReadingDown-1543£40,000+6.66 %
LeedsDown-2140£38,250+2.00 %

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK citing ITIL 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.

11958 (27.67 %)Windows
21493 (21.10 %)Finance
31445 (20.42 %)Service Delivery
41249 (17.65 %)Service Management
51155 (16.32 %)Microsoft
61110 (15.69 %)PRINCE2
71044 (14.75 %)ITIL Certification
8993 (14.03 %)UNIX
9919 (12.99 %)SLA
10901 (12.73 %)Active Directory
11861 (12.17 %)SQL
12860 (12.15 %)Project Management
13758 (10.71 %)Microsoft Certification
14731 (10.33 %)SQL Server
15725 (10.25 %)Oracle
16675 (9.539 %)Windows Server 2003
17662 (9.356 %)Change Management
18642 (9.073 %)MS Excel
19595 (8.409 %)MCSE
20581 (8.211 %)Degree
21567 (8.013 %)Cisco
22563 (7.956 %)MS Office
23539 (7.617 %)Linux
24518 (7.321 %)HP
25516 (7.292 %)Citrix
26477 (6.741 %)VMware
27454 (6.416 %)WAN
28444 (6.275 %)MS Exchange
29420 (5.936 %)Problem Management
30416 (5.879 %)SAN

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 July 2009, IT jobs within the UK citing ITIL 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
1370 (5.229 %).NET
2187 (2.643 %)ASP.NET
3165 (2.332 %)XML
494 (1.328 %)HTML
494 (1.328 %)ASP
593 (1.314 %)WebSphere
689 (1.258 %)Middleware
785 (1.201 %)J2EE
874 (1.046 %)WebServices
972 (1.018 %).NET Framework
1051 (0.721 %)CSS
1127 (0.382 %)JMS
1226 (0.367 %)SAP Basis
1324 (0.339 %)JSP
1419 (0.269 %)DHTML
1518 (0.254 %)JDBC
1615 (0.212 %)AJAX
1615 (0.212 %)Java EE
1615 (0.212 %)Application Packaging
1713 (0.184 %)SOAP
IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1444 (6.275 %)MS Exchange
2255 (3.604 %)IIS
3247 (3.491 %)SharePoint
4213 (3.010 %)Exchange Server 2003
5146 (2.063 %)Lotus Notes
6134 (1.894 %)Exchange Server 2007
784 (1.187 %)Apache
867 (0.947 %)Lotus Domino
962 (0.876 %)WebLogic
1057 (0.806 %)BizTalk Server
1155 (0.777 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1248 (0.678 %)Exchange Server 2000
1346 (0.650 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1444 (0.622 %)CMS
1532 (0.452 %)WebSphere MQ
1532 (0.452 %)Gentran
1629 (0.410 %)Tomcat
1724 (0.339 %)WebSphere Application Server
1823 (0.325 %)Oracle Workflow
1922 (0.311 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1642 (9.073 %)MS Excel
2563 (7.956 %)MS Office
3138 (1.950 %)MS Visio
466 (0.933 %)MS Project
561 (0.862 %)MS PowerPoint
625 (0.353 %)Spreadsheet
716 (0.226 %)Photoshop
87 (0.099 %)PrintSoft PReS
87 (0.099 %)InfoPath
96 (0.085 %)CA Clarity
103 (0.042 %)QuarkXPress
112 (0.028 %)SPSS
112 (0.028 %)Adobe Illustrator
121 (0.014 %)AutoCAD
121 (0.014 %)MATLAB
IT Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
141 (0.579 %)SoftGrid
231 (0.438 %)Remedy ITSM
328 (0.396 %)Oracle EBS
418 (0.254 %)assyst
516 (0.226 %)SAP HR
516 (0.226 %)Oracle 11i
516 (0.226 %)Oracle Financials
516 (0.226 %)Oracle Applications
615 (0.212 %)Oracle HRMS
615 (0.212 %)Microsoft CRM
615 (0.212 %)SAP FI
714 (0.198 %)Dynamics AX
714 (0.198 %)SAP SD
813 (0.184 %)Oracle ERP
912 (0.170 %)WebTrends
912 (0.170 %)RMDS
1011 (0.155 %)Endur
1110 (0.141 %)Oracle iProcurement
1110 (0.141 %)PeopleSoft HRMS
1110 (0.141 %)SAP CO
IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1454 (6.416 %)WAN
2416 (5.879 %)SAN
3404 (5.709 %)LAN
4389 (5.497 %)TCP/IP
5319 (4.508 %)DNS
6311 (4.395 %)Firewall
7245 (3.462 %)Internet
8209 (2.954 %)VPN
9133 (1.880 %)VoIP
10118 (1.668 %)DHCP
1195 (1.343 %)SMTP
1293 (1.314 %)NAS
1376 (1.074 %)Network Security
1465 (0.919 %)HTTP
1559 (0.834 %)Wireless
1641 (0.579 %)SSL
1641 (0.579 %)MPLS
1740 (0.565 %)SNMP
1837 (0.523 %)Intranet
1933 (0.466 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1731 (10.33 %)SQL Server
2198 (2.798 %)SQL Server 2005
3171 (2.417 %)SQL Server 2000
4112 (1.583 %)BusinessObjects
5111 (1.569 %)RDBMS
6105 (1.484 %)MySQL
776 (1.074 %)Oracle 10g
868 (0.961 %)Datawarehouse
964 (0.904 %)Oracle 8/8i
1061 (0.862 %)Oracle 9i
1159 (0.834 %)Crystal Reports
1249 (0.692 %)Oracle Reports
1347 (0.664 %)SQL Server 2008
1437 (0.523 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1535 (0.495 %)GIS
1535 (0.495 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1631 (0.438 %)DB2
1730 (0.424 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1730 (0.424 %)SAP BW
1824 (0.339 %)MS Access
IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
147 (0.664 %)Subversion
236 (0.509 %)Visual Studio
332 (0.452 %)Ant
427 (0.382 %)ClearCase
522 (0.311 %)Oracle Forms
619 (0.269 %)ClearQuest
619 (0.269 %)JIRA
718 (0.254 %)Atlassian Bamboo
813 (0.184 %)Introscope
911 (0.155 %)Team Foundation Server
107 (0.099 %)JDeveloper
116 (0.085 %)MSI
116 (0.085 %)Rational Rose
125 (0.071 %)Eclipse
125 (0.071 %)InstallShield
125 (0.071 %)TestDirector
125 (0.071 %)PeopleTools
134 (0.057 %)Selenium
134 (0.057 %)FitNesse
134 (0.057 %)LoadRunner
IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11493 (21.10 %)Finance
2378 (5.342 %)Banking
3359 (5.073 %)Telecoms
4348 (4.918 %)Pensions
5313 (4.423 %)Health
6285 (4.028 %)Insurance
7241 (3.406 %)Government
8206 (2.911 %)Education
9146 (2.063 %)Investment Banking
10142 (2.007 %)Retail
11104 (1.470 %)Back Office
1277 (1.088 %)Legal
1364 (0.904 %)Law
1455 (0.777 %)Auditing
1554 (0.763 %)Financial Institution
1653 (0.749 %)Electric
1746 (0.650 %)Front Office
1843 (0.608 %)Publishing
1942 (0.594 %)Police
2041 (0.579 %)Marketing
IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11471 (20.79 %)Analyst
21001 (14.15 %)Service Manager
3549 (7.759 %)Support Analyst
4478 (6.755 %)Delivery Manager
5449 (6.345 %)Services Delivery Manager
6371 (5.243 %)Consultant
7353 (4.989 %)Administrator
8342 (4.833 %)Team Leader
9316 (4.466 %)Project Manager
10311 (4.395 %)Service Analyst
11263 (3.717 %)Applications Support
12250 (3.533 %)Support Engineer
13187 (2.643 %)Service Desk Analyst
14181 (2.558 %)Architect
15176 (2.487 %)Operations Manager
16172 (2.431 %)Support Manager
17169 (2.388 %)DBA
18165 (2.332 %)Developer
19158 (2.233 %)Senior Manager
20148 (2.092 %)Infrastructure Manager
IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1155 (2.191 %)Clustering
2149 (2.106 %)Blackberry
3132 (1.865 %)Management Information System
4109 (1.540 %)Mainframe
591 (1.286 %)CMDB
684 (1.187 %)Derivative
756 (0.791 %)N-Tier
756 (0.791 %)PMI
854 (0.763 %)iSeries
952 (0.735 %)AS400
1051 (0.721 %)FMCG
1149 (0.692 %)NHS
1246 (0.650 %)Computer Science
1345 (0.636 %)Equities
1442 (0.594 %)Client/Server
1540 (0.565 %)Fixed Income
1540 (0.565 %)Replication
1638 (0.537 %)CLARiiON
1736 (0.509 %)Fat Client
1736 (0.509 %)Thin Client
IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11958 (27.67 %)Windows
2993 (14.03 %)UNIX
3675 (9.539 %)Windows Server 2003
4539 (7.617 %)Linux
5367 (5.187 %)Windows XP
6312 (4.409 %)Solaris
7311 (4.395 %)Windows 2000
8215 (3.038 %)Windows 2000 Server
9181 (2.558 %)AIX
10148 (2.092 %)Red Hat Linux
11135 (1.908 %)HPUX
11135 (1.908 %)Windows Vista
12111 (1.569 %)Windows Server 2008
1346 (0.650 %)Windows NT
1424 (0.339 %)VMS
1522 (0.311 %)SUSE
1617 (0.240 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1716 (0.226 %)Fedora
1812 (0.170 %)Mac OS X
1910 (0.141 %)CentOS
IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
11445 (20.42 %)Service Delivery
21249 (17.65 %)Service Management
31110 (15.69 %)PRINCE2
4860 (12.15 %)Project Management
5662 (9.356 %)Change Management
6420 (5.936 %)Problem Management
7382 (5.399 %)Incident Management
8271 (3.830 %)ITSM
8271 (3.830 %)Release Management
9267 (3.773 %)Configuration Management
10231 (3.265 %)Disaster Recovery
11198 (2.798 %)PRINCE
12173 (2.445 %)Asset Management
13166 (2.346 %)Programme Management
14140 (1.979 %)Supplier Management
15133 (1.880 %)Business Continuity
16128 (1.809 %)Performance Management
17121 (1.710 %)Risk Management
17121 (1.710 %)CRM
18113 (1.597 %)E-Commerce
IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1861 (12.17 %)SQL
2209 (2.954 %)Java
3183 (2.586 %)Perl
4162 (2.289 %)C#
5151 (2.134 %)C
6128 (1.809 %)VB
7113 (1.597 %)JavaScript
8109 (1.540 %)VB.NET
9106 (1.498 %)Shell Script
1093 (1.314 %)T-SQL
1191 (1.286 %)VBScript
1272 (1.018 %)PL/SQL
1360 (0.848 %)PHP
1450 (0.707 %)C++
1539 (0.551 %)VBA
1636 (0.509 %)JCL
1729 (0.410 %)Python
1823 (0.325 %)VB6
1922 (0.311 %)PowerShell
1922 (0.311 %)ABAP
IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
11044 (14.75 %)ITIL Certification
2758 (10.71 %)Microsoft Certification
3595 (8.409 %)MCSE
4581 (8.211 %)Degree
5333 (4.706 %)Security Cleared
6262 (3.703 %)Cisco Certification
7211 (2.982 %)CCNA
8168 (2.374 %)MCP
9145 (2.049 %)PRINCE2 Certification
10135 (1.908 %)SC Cleared
11120 (1.696 %)MCSA
1292 (1.300 %)PMI Certification
1390 (1.272 %)CISSP
1488 (1.244 %)ISEB
1585 (1.201 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1679 (1.116 %)CCNP
1777 (1.088 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1850 (0.707 %)PMP
1943 (0.608 %)DV Cleared
2040 (0.565 %)CISA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
1919 (12.99 %)SLA
2191 (2.699 %)QA
3139 (1.964 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
497 (1.371 %)ISO27001
596 (1.357 %)COBIT
651 (0.721 %)ISO17799
748 (0.678 %)ISO9001
829 (0.410 %)BS7799
927 (0.382 %)BS15000
927 (0.382 %)ISO9000
1023 (0.325 %)PCI DSS
1119 (0.269 %)TickIT
128 (0.113 %)ISO/IEC 20000
134 (0.057 %)HL7
134 (0.057 %)BS25999
134 (0.057 %)ISO14001
143 (0.042 %)MiFID
152 (0.028 %)DICOM
152 (0.028 %)JSP 440
152 (0.028 %)HMG Infosec
IT Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1901 (12.73 %)Active Directory
2217 (3.067 %)VMware Infrastructure
3125 (1.767 %)NetBackup
4110 (1.555 %)VMware ESX
556 (0.791 %)Terminal Services
652 (0.735 %)Backup Exec
747 (0.664 %)Oracle RAC
846 (0.650 %)Citrix Presentation Server
941 (0.579 %)Oracle RMAN
1034 (0.480 %)MetaFrame
1131 (0.438 %)Terminal Server
1224 (0.339 %)ISA Server
1323 (0.325 %)NFS
1418 (0.254 %)Hyper-V
1514 (0.198 %)Samba
1613 (0.184 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1711 (0.155 %)AquaLogic
189 (0.127 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
196 (0.085 %)Novell eDirectory
205 (0.071 %)XenApp
IT Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
1126 (1.781 %)OpenView
299 (1.399 %)Tivoli
398 (1.385 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
442 (0.594 %)MOM
539 (0.551 %)WSUS
638 (0.537 %)Data Guard
736 (0.509 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
833 (0.466 %)Norton AntiVirus
928 (0.396 %)ServiceCenter
1027 (0.382 %)SCCM
1125 (0.353 %)BMC PATROL
1224 (0.339 %)CiscoWorks
1224 (0.339 %)Unicenter
1321 (0.297 %)DameWare
1321 (0.297 %)CONTROL-M
1321 (0.297 %)Tivoli Monitoring
1321 (0.297 %)SCOM
1418 (0.254 %)HP Data Protector
1517 (0.240 %)Netcool
1616 (0.226 %)AssetCenter
IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11155 (16.32 %)Microsoft
2725 (10.25 %)Oracle
3567 (8.013 %)Cisco
4518 (7.321 %)HP
5516 (7.292 %)Citrix
6477 (6.741 %)VMware
7307 (4.339 %)SAP
8258 (3.646 %)IBM
9203 (2.869 %)Remedy
10170 (2.402 %)Lotus
11165 (2.332 %)Red Hat
12158 (2.233 %)Veritas
13125 (1.767 %)Symantec
14112 (1.583 %)Business Objects
15104 (1.470 %)BMC
16103 (1.456 %)CheckPoint
1797 (1.371 %)Altiris
1886 (1.215 %)CA
1982 (1.159 %)Sun
2076 (1.074 %)NetApp