Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below 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 19 March 2010 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

LinkInformation Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL)
Location
3 months to
19 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank433048
Rank change year-on-year
Down-13Up+18
Matching permanent IT job ads371341207736
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK4.322 %4.858 %3.790 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category6.646 %8.089 %6.738 %
Salaries quoted310634936215
Average salary£40,000£40,000£40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--1.230 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£23,625£24,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£67,500£63,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£37,500£38,500£40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.590 %-3.750 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5586550935114817
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK65.02 %60.06 %56.26 %
Salaries quoted461684162493134
Average salary£45,000£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.880 %-5.550 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£28,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£70,000£70,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£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 19 March 2010 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 19 March 2010. 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-133523£40,000-
LondonDown-141380£50,000+11.11 %
South EastDown-3764£38,000-5.00 %
City of LondonDown-20384£50,000+6.38 %
South WestDown-2266£32,500-10.34 %
West MidlandsUp+26240£37,000+5.71 %
East of EnglandDown-7232£45,000+12.50 %
North WestDown-16224£35,878-5.58 %
YorkshireDown-9185£32,500-7.14 %
East MidlandsUp+12184£32,500-13.33 %
SurreyDown-8165£37,500-6.25 %
BerkshireDown-25135£37,500-11.76 %
West YorkshireDown-4129£30,750-12.14 %
BuckinghamshireUp+11121£35,000-
HampshireDown-2109£38,000+3.40 %
BristolUp+21107£32,500-15.58 %
BirminghamUp+3094£42,500+65.04 %
ScotlandUp+1688£37,500+11.94 %
ManchesterDown-2588£32,500-7.14 %
LeedsDown-486£33,000-17.50 %
HertfordshireUp+283£45,000-7.21 %
WiltshireDown-479£38,500+13.23 %
MiddlesexUp+2378£46,750+14.02 %
CheshireDown-1678£40,000-
NorthamptonshireUp+1476£26,250-34.37 %
CambridgeshireDown-2457£42,500+13.33 %
EssexUp+3454£45,000+13.92 %
NorthamptonUp+852£25,000-37.50 %
UxbridgeUp+2150£100,000+177.77 %
NottinghamshireUp+947£32,500-14.47 %

ITIL
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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.

11650 (24.26 %)Windows
21369 (20.13 %)Finance
31178 (17.32 %)Service Delivery
41150 (16.91 %)Microsoft
51108 (16.29 %)Service Management
61040 (15.29 %)ITIL Certification
7965 (14.19 %)PRINCE2
8866 (12.73 %)Active Directory
9837 (12.31 %)Project Management
10835 (12.28 %)SQL
11761 (11.19 %)UNIX
12714 (10.50 %)SLA
13654 (9.615 %)Microsoft Certification
14633 (9.306 %)Change Management
15626 (9.203 %)Windows Server 2003
16620 (9.115 %)MS Excel
17617 (9.071 %)Cisco
18608 (8.939 %)Oracle
19603 (8.865 %)SQL Server
20527 (7.748 %)Banking
21520 (7.645 %)MS Office
22509 (7.483 %)Degree
23481 (7.071 %)MCSE
24458 (6.733 %)Linux
25449 (6.601 %)Windows XP
26424 (6.233 %)Citrix
27418 (6.145 %)VMware
28400 (5.881 %)MS Exchange
29389 (5.719 %)Telecoms
30387 (5.690 %)Release Management

ITIL
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 March 2010, 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 Development CategoryApplication Development
1339 (4.984 %).NET
2168 (2.470 %)XML
3123 (1.808 %)ASP.NET
4112 (1.647 %)Middleware
594 (1.382 %)HTML
685 (1.250 %)WebSphere
778 (1.147 %)Web Services
876 (1.117 %)J2EE
968 (1.000 %)ASP
1050 (0.735 %)CSS
1140 (0.588 %)Spring
1236 (0.529 %)SAP Basis
1327 (0.397 %)SOAP
1426 (0.382 %)AJAX
1525 (0.368 %).NET Framework
1525 (0.368 %)Application Packaging
1525 (0.368 %)XSLT
1620 (0.294 %)XHTML
1714 (0.206 %)WSH
1812 (0.176 %)EDI
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1400 (5.881 %)MS Exchange
2241 (3.543 %)IIS
3192 (2.823 %)SharePoint
4175 (2.573 %)Exchange Server 2003
5127 (1.867 %)Exchange Server 2007
676 (1.117 %)Apache
774 (1.088 %)Lotus Notes
865 (0.956 %)WebLogic
954 (0.794 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1047 (0.691 %)Tomcat
1146 (0.676 %)SAS
1242 (0.617 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1333 (0.485 %)Lotus Domino
1431 (0.456 %)Exchange Server 2000
1529 (0.426 %)BizTalk Server
1627 (0.397 %)WebSphere Application Server
1719 (0.279 %)AquaLogic Service Bus
1818 (0.265 %)ESB
1917 (0.250 %)Oracle Workflow
2015 (0.221 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1620 (9.115 %)MS Excel
2520 (7.645 %)MS Office
3104 (1.529 %)MS Visio
491 (1.338 %)MS PowerPoint
575 (1.103 %)MS Project
621 (0.309 %)InfoPath
78 (0.118 %)Spreadsheet
86 (0.088 %)Acrobat
95 (0.074 %)SPSS
104 (0.059 %)CA Clarity
113 (0.044 %)MATLAB
121 (0.015 %)DeltaView
121 (0.015 %)Fireworks
121 (0.015 %)Photoshop
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
149 (0.720 %)Remedy ITSM
224 (0.353 %)Oracle EBS
323 (0.338 %)Dynamics CRM
422 (0.323 %)Oracle 11i
521 (0.309 %)Oracle Applications
619 (0.279 %)Summit
718 (0.265 %)Maximo
718 (0.265 %)SoftGrid
817 (0.250 %)Remedy AR System
916 (0.235 %)Oracle EBS R12
1015 (0.221 %)SAP SRM
1113 (0.191 %)SAP FI
1211 (0.162 %)WebTrends
1310 (0.147 %)Microsoft CRM
1310 (0.147 %)assyst
1310 (0.147 %)Temenos T24
1310 (0.147 %)Pivotal CRM
1310 (0.147 %)RMDS
148 (0.118 %)Dynamics AX
148 (0.118 %)SAP CO
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1382 (5.616 %)Firewall
2341 (5.013 %)LAN
3334 (4.910 %)WAN
4299 (4.396 %)TCP/IP
5283 (4.161 %)SAN
6238 (3.499 %)DNS
7224 (3.293 %)VPN
8190 (2.793 %)VoIP
9156 (2.293 %)Internet
10119 (1.749 %)DHCP
11111 (1.632 %)Network Security
1288 (1.294 %)SSL
1288 (1.294 %)MPLS
1364 (0.941 %)Intranet
1457 (0.838 %)IP Telephony
1556 (0.823 %)NAS
1653 (0.779 %)LDAP
1743 (0.632 %)Wireless
1840 (0.588 %)Cisco ASA
1938 (0.559 %)Cisco PIX
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1603 (8.865 %)SQL Server
2177 (2.602 %)SQL Server 2005
3113 (1.661 %)Datawarehouse
4106 (1.558 %)SQL Server 2000
593 (1.367 %)RDBMS
691 (1.338 %)MySQL
777 (1.132 %)Crystal Reports
863 (0.926 %)Oracle 10g
962 (0.911 %)Oracle 8/8i
1057 (0.838 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1057 (0.838 %)SQL Server 2008
1154 (0.794 %)BusinessObjects
1252 (0.764 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1351 (0.750 %)ETL
1447 (0.691 %)Oracle 9i
1543 (0.632 %)Oracle Reports
1632 (0.470 %)Oracle 11g
1730 (0.441 %)DB2
1828 (0.412 %)MS Access
1924 (0.353 %)SAP BW
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
144 (0.647 %)Subversion
242 (0.617 %)Visual Studio
336 (0.529 %)ClearCase
415 (0.221 %)JIRA
514 (0.206 %)QuickTest Pro
613 (0.191 %)Ant
711 (0.162 %)VSS/SourceSafe
810 (0.147 %)PVCS
810 (0.147 %)ClearQuest
99 (0.132 %)Team Foundation Server
107 (0.103 %)TestDirector
116 (0.088 %)ERwin
116 (0.088 %)Oracle Forms
125 (0.074 %)InstallShield
125 (0.074 %)Eclipse
125 (0.074 %)WebLOAD
134 (0.059 %)LoadRunner
134 (0.059 %)PowerBuilder
134 (0.059 %)AdminStudio
143 (0.044 %)Rational Rose
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11369 (20.13 %)Finance
2527 (7.748 %)Banking
3389 (5.719 %)Telecoms
4253 (3.719 %)Investment Banking
5233 (3.425 %)Health
6221 (3.249 %)Government
7209 (3.073 %)Pensions
8170 (2.499 %)Retail
9156 (2.293 %)Insurance
9156 (2.293 %)Legal
10148 (2.176 %)Education
11125 (1.838 %)Law
12111 (1.632 %)Front Office
12111 (1.632 %)Back Office
1344 (0.647 %)Financial Institution
1439 (0.573 %)Auditing
1537 (0.544 %)Manufacturing
1636 (0.529 %)Marketing
1731 (0.456 %)Games
1824 (0.353 %)Local Government
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11512 (22.23 %)Analyst
2784 (11.53 %)Service Manager
3559 (8.218 %)Support Analyst
4409 (6.013 %)Applications Support
5405 (5.954 %)Consultant
6393 (5.778 %)Delivery Manager
7385 (5.660 %)Project Manager
8334 (4.910 %)Team Leader
9329 (4.837 %)Services Delivery Manager
10275 (4.043 %)Service Analyst
11256 (3.764 %)Administrator
12247 (3.631 %)Support Manager
13230 (3.381 %)Architect
14198 (2.911 %)Service Desk Analyst
15188 (2.764 %)Technical Manager
16168 (2.470 %)Support Engineer
17162 (2.382 %)Senior Manager
18149 (2.191 %)Operations Manager
19146 (2.146 %)Technical Support
20141 (2.073 %)DBA
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1145 (2.132 %)Blackberry
2116 (1.705 %)Clustering
3114 (1.676 %)CMDB
4109 (1.602 %)Management Information System
585 (1.250 %)Mainframe
684 (1.235 %)Derivative
780 (1.176 %)PMI
879 (1.161 %)Fixed Income
953 (0.779 %)Replication
1051 (0.750 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
1150 (0.735 %)German Language
1249 (0.720 %)NHS
1346 (0.676 %)French Language
1444 (0.647 %)AS400
1543 (0.632 %)Statistics
1641 (0.603 %)Computer Science
1736 (0.529 %)Tandem
1835 (0.515 %)Thin Client
1835 (0.515 %)Fat Client
1933 (0.485 %)Equities
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11650 (24.26 %)Windows
2761 (11.19 %)UNIX
3626 (9.203 %)Windows Server 2003
4458 (6.733 %)Linux
5449 (6.601 %)Windows XP
6246 (3.617 %)Windows 2000
7211 (3.102 %)Solaris
7211 (3.102 %)Windows Server 2008
8129 (1.897 %)AIX
9105 (1.544 %)Red Hat Linux
10101 (1.485 %)Windows Vista
1191 (1.338 %)Windows 2000 Server
1261 (0.897 %)HPUX
1328 (0.412 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1426 (0.382 %)Windows 7
1519 (0.279 %)VMS
1618 (0.265 %)Windows NT
1716 (0.235 %)NetWare
1815 (0.221 %)OS/400
1910 (0.147 %)SUSE
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11178 (17.32 %)Service Delivery
21108 (16.29 %)Service Management
3965 (14.19 %)PRINCE2
4837 (12.31 %)Project Management
5633 (9.306 %)Change Management
6387 (5.690 %)Release Management
7382 (5.616 %)Problem Management
8342 (5.028 %)Incident Management
9318 (4.675 %)Configuration Management
10254 (3.734 %)ITSM
11200 (2.940 %)Disaster Recovery
12190 (2.793 %)PRINCE
13179 (2.632 %)CRM
14155 (2.279 %)Stakeholder Management
15149 (2.191 %)Asset Management
15149 (2.191 %)Performance Management
16141 (2.073 %)ERP
17124 (1.823 %)Information Security
18122 (1.794 %)Business Intelligence
19121 (1.779 %)Supplier Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1835 (12.28 %)SQL
2243 (3.572 %)Java
3197 (2.896 %)VB
4196 (2.882 %)C
5153 (2.249 %)C#
6144 (2.117 %)Perl
7128 (1.882 %)PHP
8107 (1.573 %)Shell Script
980 (1.176 %)VBScript
1079 (1.161 %)JavaScript
1173 (1.073 %)C++
1270 (1.029 %)VBA
1368 (1.000 %)T-SQL
1446 (0.676 %)PL/SQL
1544 (0.647 %)VB6
1640 (0.588 %)VB.NET
1729 (0.426 %)Korn
1729 (0.426 %)Bash shell
1822 (0.323 %)Python
1918 (0.265 %)Delphi
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11040 (15.29 %)ITIL Certification
2654 (9.615 %)Microsoft Certification
3509 (7.483 %)Degree
4481 (7.071 %)MCSE
5329 (4.837 %)Cisco Certification
6306 (4.499 %)Security Cleared
7246 (3.617 %)CCNA
8200 (2.940 %)MCP
9181 (2.661 %)CCNP
10143 (2.102 %)PRINCE2 Certification
11142 (2.088 %)PMI Certification
12130 (1.911 %)SC Cleared
13109 (1.602 %)MCSA
14103 (1.514 %)ISEB
1573 (1.073 %)CISSP
1668 (1.000 %)PMP
1751 (0.750 %)Citrix Certification
1849 (0.720 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1945 (0.662 %)DV Cleared
1945 (0.662 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1714 (10.50 %)SLA
2143 (2.102 %)QA
3115 (1.691 %)COBIT
4100 (1.470 %)ISO27001
583 (1.220 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
648 (0.706 %)ISO9000
734 (0.500 %)PCI DSS
830 (0.441 %)ISO9001
830 (0.441 %)ISO17799
918 (0.265 %)TickIT
1017 (0.250 %)BS7799
1017 (0.250 %)ISO/IEC 20000
1112 (0.176 %)BS15000
1210 (0.147 %)BS25999
132 (0.029 %)HL7
132 (0.029 %)COSO
141 (0.015 %)EFQM
141 (0.015 %)Basel II
141 (0.015 %)GCP
141 (0.015 %)GMP
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1866 (12.73 %)Active Directory
2144 (2.117 %)VMware Infrastructure
368 (1.000 %)VMware ESX
461 (0.897 %)Citrix Presentation Server
542 (0.617 %)XenApp
636 (0.529 %)MetaFrame
733 (0.485 %)Oracle RMAN
828 (0.412 %)Terminal Services
927 (0.397 %)NFS
1025 (0.368 %)ISA Server
1119 (0.279 %)Hyper-V
1217 (0.250 %)XenDesktop
1316 (0.235 %)Oracle RAC
1415 (0.221 %)XenServer
1513 (0.191 %)vSphere
1612 (0.176 %)Squid
1710 (0.147 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
189 (0.132 %)Xen
198 (0.118 %)Terminal Server
198 (0.118 %)Veritas Volume Manager
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
188 (1.294 %)Tivoli
286 (1.264 %)SCCM
376 (1.117 %)OpenView
458 (0.853 %)Backup Exec
458 (0.853 %)WSUS
552 (0.764 %)CiscoWorks
651 (0.750 %)SCOM
748 (0.706 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
847 (0.691 %)NetBackup
940 (0.588 %)MOM
1036 (0.529 %)AutoSys
1122 (0.323 %)BMC PATROL
1122 (0.323 %)Netcool
1220 (0.294 %)Norton AntiVirus
1316 (0.235 %)AssetCenter
1414 (0.206 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1414 (0.206 %)OVSD
1512 (0.176 %)Zenoss
1610 (0.147 %)Data Guard
1610 (0.147 %)HP Quality Center
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11150 (16.91 %)Microsoft
2617 (9.071 %)Cisco
3608 (8.939 %)Oracle
4424 (6.233 %)Citrix
5418 (6.145 %)VMware
6339 (4.984 %)HP
7326 (4.793 %)SAP
8244 (3.587 %)IBM
9166 (2.440 %)Remedy
10115 (1.691 %)CheckPoint
11112 (1.647 %)BMC
12105 (1.544 %)Sybase
13100 (1.470 %)Juniper
1496 (1.411 %)Red Hat
1592 (1.353 %)Sun
1690 (1.323 %)Lotus
1780 (1.176 %)Altiris
1866 (0.970 %)Symantec
1963 (0.926 %)Veritas
2059 (0.867 %)Avaya