The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Service Management skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Service Management 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Service Management
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank156159155
Rank change year-on-year
Up+3Down-4
Matching permanent IT job ads196619601444
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.630 %1.598 %1.512 %
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category2.211 %2.195 %2.136 %
Number of salaries quoted148215291088
Average salary£45,000£47,500£45,540
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26 %+4.30 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,250£30,000£25,079
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£75,000£78,500
UK excluding London average salary£44,000£45,000£40,289
% change year-on-year
-2.22 %+11.69 %
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryAll Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889158928967609
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK73.73 %72.82 %70.81 %
Number of salaries quoted755227477355328
Average salary£47,000£47,500£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.05 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£77,500£75,000
UK excluding London average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
% change year-on-year
+2.50 %-

Service Management
Demand Trend

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

Service Management Demand Trend

Service Management
Salary Trend

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

Service Management Salary Trend

Service Management
Salary Histogram

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

Service Management Salary Histogram

Service Management
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Service Management 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
EnglandUp+31839£45,000-5.26 %
LondonDown-16729£47,500-9.60 %
South EastDown-13445£44,000-3.29 %
City of LondonUp+19183£47,500-20.83 %
East of EnglandUp+61155£40,000-
SurreyDown-19122£45,000-
YorkshireUp+3109£45,000+15.38 %
BerkshireDown-50103£44,500+4.70 %
South WestNo change0101£35,000+1.44 %
North WestDown-7191£45,000-5.26 %
East MidlandsUp+2688£50,000+25.00 %
West MidlandsDown-1085£50,000+29.87 %
BuckinghamshireUp+5877£51,500+0.53 %
West YorkshireNo change064£45,000+28.57 %
HampshireDown-1359£40,000-15.78 %
ScotlandDown-1553£29,750-40.50 %
ManchesterDown-7351£35,000-26.31 %
ReadingDown-1849£35,000-12.50 %
HertfordshireUp+2247£50,000+14.28 %
Milton KeynesUp+4146£47,500+18.75 %
BirminghamDown-743£60,000+55.84 %
CambridgeshireUp+3239£34,000+30.76 %
LeedsDown-1238£45,000+28.57 %
North EastUp+2537£32,000-10.48 %
South YorkshireUp+836£52,500+64.06 %
CheshireDown-1931£64,000+52.38 %
BristolDown-1329£37,500+25.00 %
UxbridgeUp+1228£35,000-50.00 %
GloucestershireDown-328£41,250+3.12 %
EdinburghUp+527£29,000-38.94 %

Service Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Service Management 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 Service Management.

12475 (62.48 %)ITIL
2950 (23.98 %)Finance
3893 (22.54 %)Service Delivery
4850 (21.46 %)Windows
5723 (18.25 %)Microsoft
6689 (17.39 %)ITSM
7631 (15.93 %)SQL
8566 (14.29 %)Project Management
9501 (12.65 %)SLA
10465 (11.74 %)Change Management
11461 (11.64 %)Degree
12442 (11.16 %)Oracle
13418 (10.55 %)ITIL Certification
14410 (10.35 %)UNIX
15406 (10.25 %)Problem Management
16390 (9.846 %)Cisco
17382 (9.644 %)Linux
18369 (9.316 %)Active Directory
19360 (9.089 %)MS Excel
20357 (9.013 %)VMware
21340 (8.584 %)PRINCE2
22330 (8.331 %)Telecoms
23317 (8.003 %)SQL Server
24314 (7.927 %)Incident Management
25295 (7.448 %)MS Office
26290 (7.321 %)SAN
27281 (7.094 %)Configuration Management
28260 (6.564 %)HP
29255 (6.438 %).NET
30254 (6.413 %)Java

Service Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1255 (6.438 %).NET
2204 (5.150 %)XML
3153 (3.863 %)Web Services
486 (2.171 %)HTML
580 (2.020 %)Middleware
678 (1.969 %)WebSphere
773 (1.843 %)CSS
872 (1.818 %)ASP.NET
961 (1.540 %)J2EE
1044 (1.111 %)Ajax
1140 (1.010 %)SOAP
1239 (0.985 %)XML Schema
1325 (0.631 %)XHTML
1424 (0.606 %)ASP
1523 (0.581 %)DOM
1523 (0.581 %)WinForms
1622 (0.555 %)Hibernate
1622 (0.555 %)Application Packaging
1622 (0.555 %)WPF
1622 (0.555 %)DHTML
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1227 (5.731 %)MS Exchange
2142 (3.585 %)SharePoint
3108 (2.727 %)IIS
4107 (2.701 %)Apache
5106 (2.676 %)Exchange Server 2010
6102 (2.575 %)Exchange Server 2007
771 (1.792 %)Tomcat
868 (1.717 %)Exchange Server 2003
937 (0.934 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
937 (0.934 %)WebLogic
1036 (0.909 %)BizTalk Server
1130 (0.757 %)CMS
1228 (0.707 %)SharePoint Server
1228 (0.707 %)Lotus Notes
1321 (0.530 %)SharePoint 2010
1416 (0.404 %)MQSeries
1515 (0.379 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1614 (0.353 %)NetWeaver
1713 (0.328 %)SAS
1713 (0.328 %)ESB
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1360 (9.089 %)MS Excel
2295 (7.448 %)MS Office
3120 (3.030 %)MS Visio
458 (1.464 %)MS PowerPoint
539 (0.985 %)MS Project
617 (0.429 %)Spreadsheet
716 (0.404 %)Office 365
84 (0.101 %)Final Cut Pro
93 (0.076 %)Maya
102 (0.050 %)DOC1
102 (0.050 %)Photoshop
102 (0.050 %)InfoPath
102 (0.050 %)FastStats
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
136 (0.909 %)Dynamics AX
235 (0.884 %)Remedy ITSM
235 (0.884 %)Oracle Applications
333 (0.833 %)Dynamics CRM
423 (0.581 %)Oracle 11i
522 (0.555 %)Oracle EBS
522 (0.555 %)assyst
522 (0.555 %)Oracle EBS R12
614 (0.353 %)SAP SM
713 (0.328 %)Oracle ERP
713 (0.328 %)SAP HCM
812 (0.303 %)Oracle CRM
911 (0.278 %)Maximo
911 (0.278 %)SAP ERP
109 (0.227 %)Oracle General Ledger
109 (0.227 %)Solarsoft Tropos
118 (0.202 %)SAP Retail
118 (0.202 %)SAP CRM
127 (0.177 %)SAP HR
127 (0.177 %)Metrica
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1290 (7.321 %)SAN
2238 (6.009 %)Firewall
3197 (4.973 %)WAN
4181 (4.570 %)LAN
5162 (4.090 %)Internet
6143 (3.610 %)DNS
7141 (3.560 %)TCP/IP
8126 (3.181 %)VPN
998 (2.474 %)VoIP
1096 (2.424 %)MPLS
1186 (2.171 %)DHCP
1259 (1.490 %)Wireless
1354 (1.363 %)Network Security
1449 (1.237 %)HTTP
1546 (1.161 %)SSL
1645 (1.136 %)Ethernet
1743 (1.086 %)3G
1842 (1.060 %)Cisco ASA
1940 (1.010 %)LDAP
2038 (0.959 %)Intranet
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1317 (8.003 %)SQL Server
2131 (3.307 %)MySQL
351 (1.288 %)SQL Server 2005
448 (1.212 %)Oracle 8/8i
545 (1.136 %)Data Warehouse
642 (1.060 %)SQL Server 2008
741 (1.035 %)Oracle 10g
836 (0.909 %)Oracle 11g
932 (0.808 %)Data Mining
1030 (0.757 %)ETL
1030 (0.757 %)Oracle 9i
1122 (0.555 %)RDBMS
1219 (0.480 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1318 (0.454 %)Crystal Reports
1417 (0.429 %)DB2
1516 (0.404 %)VLDB
1614 (0.353 %)TOAD
1712 (0.303 %)Oracle Reports
1712 (0.303 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1811 (0.278 %)SAP BW
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
122 (0.555 %)Visual Studio
220 (0.505 %)Selenium
316 (0.404 %)WebLOAD
413 (0.328 %)JDeveloper
511 (0.278 %)Oracle Forms
511 (0.278 %)Subversion
511 (0.278 %)Team Foundation Server
69 (0.227 %)TestDirector
69 (0.227 %)MSI
78 (0.202 %)Ant
78 (0.202 %)Maven
87 (0.177 %)MSBuild
96 (0.151 %)JIRA
96 (0.151 %)WebDriver
96 (0.151 %)LSMW
105 (0.126 %)Synon
105 (0.126 %)QuickTest Pro
105 (0.126 %)Rational Functional Tester
114 (0.101 %)Rational DOORS
114 (0.101 %)NUnit
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1950 (23.98 %)Finance
2330 (8.331 %)Telecoms
3194 (4.898 %)Retail
4191 (4.822 %)Banking
588 (2.222 %)Back Office
683 (2.095 %)Manufacturing
779 (1.994 %)Marketing
854 (1.363 %)Law
951 (1.288 %)Legal
1050 (1.262 %)Billing
1147 (1.187 %)Investment Banking
1233 (0.833 %)Advertising
1327 (0.682 %)German Language
1424 (0.606 %)Retail Banking
1520 (0.505 %)Publishing
1619 (0.480 %)Front Office
1717 (0.429 %)Financial Institution
1815 (0.379 %)French Language
1913 (0.328 %)Games
1913 (0.328 %)Multimedia
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1733 (18.51 %)Analyst
2679 (17.14 %)Service Manager
3293 (7.397 %)Consultant
4263 (6.640 %)Delivery Manager
5255 (6.438 %)Support Analyst
6219 (5.529 %)Services Delivery Manager
7218 (5.504 %)Applications Support
8209 (5.276 %)Developer
9189 (4.772 %)Architect
10186 (4.696 %)Service Analyst
11146 (3.686 %)Team Leader
12126 (3.181 %)Support Engineer
13117 (2.954 %)Project Manager
14112 (2.828 %)Service Desk Analyst
15109 (2.752 %)Administrator
16105 (2.651 %)Applications Support Analyst
1792 (2.323 %)Infrastructure Manager
1792 (2.323 %)Support Manager
1888 (2.222 %)Senior Manager
1985 (2.146 %)2nd Line Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1204 (5.150 %)Management Information System
2120 (3.030 %)CMDB
389 (2.247 %)Blackberry
486 (2.171 %)SaaS
571 (1.792 %)Computer Science
667 (1.691 %)Clustering
760 (1.515 %)Cloud Computing
856 (1.414 %)Client/Server
949 (1.237 %)iSeries
1042 (1.060 %)Statistics
1140 (1.010 %)Replication
1227 (0.682 %)PMI
1227 (0.682 %)Mathematics
1325 (0.631 %)Web 2.0
1424 (0.606 %)FMCG
1523 (0.581 %)EPoS
1622 (0.555 %)Video Conferencing
1720 (0.505 %)Open Source
1819 (0.480 %)PaaS
1819 (0.480 %)N-Tier
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1850 (21.46 %)Windows
2410 (10.35 %)UNIX
3382 (9.644 %)Linux
4239 (6.034 %)Windows Server 2008
5202 (5.100 %)Windows Server 2003
6201 (5.074 %)Windows XP
7125 (3.156 %)Solaris
8110 (2.777 %)Windows 7
974 (1.868 %)Windows 2000 Server
1066 (1.666 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1134 (0.858 %)Windows 2000
1231 (0.783 %)HPUX
1327 (0.682 %)Windows Vista
1424 (0.606 %)AIX
1424 (0.606 %)VMS
1522 (0.555 %)Windows NT
1619 (0.480 %)Ubuntu
179 (0.227 %)Android
186 (0.151 %)CentOS
194 (0.101 %)i5/OS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12475 (62.48 %)ITIL
2893 (22.54 %)Service Delivery
3689 (17.39 %)ITSM
4566 (14.29 %)Project Management
5465 (11.74 %)Change Management
6406 (10.25 %)Problem Management
7340 (8.584 %)PRINCE2
8314 (7.927 %)Incident Management
9281 (7.094 %)Configuration Management
10211 (5.327 %)Continuous Improvement
11194 (4.898 %)CRM
12184 (4.645 %)Release Management
13183 (4.620 %)Business Continuity
14176 (4.443 %)Disaster Recovery
15159 (4.014 %)ERP
16147 (3.711 %)E-Commerce
16147 (3.711 %)Stakeholder Management
17146 (3.686 %)ITIL V3
18138 (3.484 %)Asset Management
19124 (3.131 %)Performance Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1631 (15.93 %)SQL
2254 (6.413 %)Java
3210 (5.302 %)JavaScript
4132 (3.332 %)C#
5113 (2.853 %)PL/SQL
6103 (2.600 %)Perl
7102 (2.575 %)C++
897 (2.449 %)VB
988 (2.222 %)PHP
1070 (1.767 %)Shell Script
1167 (1.691 %)C
1250 (1.262 %)VB.NET
1348 (1.212 %)T-SQL
1445 (1.136 %)VB6
1544 (1.111 %)VBScript
1641 (1.035 %)VBA
1737 (0.934 %)Bash shell
1836 (0.909 %)Python
1933 (0.833 %)PowerHouse
2029 (0.732 %)X++
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1461 (11.64 %)Degree
2418 (10.55 %)ITIL Certification
3158 (3.989 %)Microsoft Certification
4146 (3.686 %)Security Cleared
5136 (3.433 %)Cisco Certification
6101 (2.550 %)MCSE
796 (2.424 %)CCNA
881 (2.045 %)SC Cleared
980 (2.020 %)ISEB
1067 (1.691 %)MCITP
1154 (1.363 %)MCP
1248 (1.212 %)CCNP
1347 (1.187 %)MCSA
1444 (1.111 %)PMI Certification
1444 (1.111 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1532 (0.808 %)PMP
1627 (0.682 %)ACCA
1726 (0.656 %)PRINCE2 Practitioner
1825 (0.631 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1922 (0.555 %)CISSP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1501 (12.65 %)SLA
2112 (2.828 %)QA
372 (1.818 %)ISO/IEC 27001
452 (1.313 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
539 (0.985 %)ISO 9001
637 (0.934 %)COBIT
717 (0.429 %)PCI DSS
813 (0.328 %)ISO 9000
98 (0.202 %)ISO/IEC 17799
98 (0.202 %)BS25999
98 (0.202 %)ISO/IEC 20000
105 (0.126 %)Data Quality
105 (0.126 %)GxP
112 (0.050 %)ISO 14001
121 (0.025 %)BS7799
121 (0.025 %)Val IT
121 (0.025 %)WCAG
121 (0.025 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1369 (9.316 %)Active Directory
2203 (5.125 %)VMware Infrastructure
392 (2.323 %)Hyper-V
458 (1.464 %)Terminal Services
545 (1.136 %)Xen
545 (1.136 %)XenApp
631 (0.783 %)Oracle RMAN
727 (0.682 %)Citrix Presentation Server
825 (0.631 %)XenDesktop
825 (0.631 %)vSphere
918 (0.454 %)VMware ESX
1012 (0.303 %)ISA Server
1110 (0.252 %)Terminal Server
1110 (0.252 %)Oracle RAC
128 (0.202 %)VMware ESXi
137 (0.177 %)XenServer
146 (0.151 %)Varnish
146 (0.151 %)Snort
155 (0.126 %)vCloud
164 (0.101 %)Squid
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
160 (1.515 %)SCCM
247 (1.187 %)SCOM
334 (0.858 %)Backup Exec
433 (0.833 %)OpenView
531 (0.783 %)EMC NetWorker
531 (0.783 %)Data Guard
629 (0.732 %)Tivoli
629 (0.732 %)Nagios
725 (0.631 %)Netcool
821 (0.530 %)Cisco IPCC
916 (0.404 %)WSUS
1012 (0.303 %)WhatsUp Gold
1012 (0.303 %)HP Quality Center
1111 (0.278 %)Opalis
1111 (0.278 %)SCVMM
1111 (0.278 %)NetBackup
129 (0.227 %)MIMEsweeper
129 (0.227 %)DameWare
129 (0.227 %)Oracle Enterprise Manager
129 (0.227 %)Unicenter
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1723 (18.25 %)Microsoft
2442 (11.16 %)Oracle
3390 (9.846 %)Cisco
4357 (9.013 %)VMware
5260 (6.564 %)HP
6246 (6.211 %)Citrix
7145 (3.661 %)SAP
8142 (3.585 %)IBM
9103 (2.600 %)Remedy
1092 (2.323 %)Red Hat
1183 (2.095 %)Altiris
1280 (2.020 %)BMC
1378 (1.969 %)Juniper
1475 (1.893 %)EMC
1569 (1.742 %)CheckPoint
1667 (1.691 %)JBoss
1763 (1.591 %)NetApp
1857 (1.439 %)Sun
1949 (1.237 %)Intel
1949 (1.237 %)F5