West Midlands IT Services Manager Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the IT Services Manager role in IT jobs within the West Midlands region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited IT Services Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Carlisle Cheshire City of London Corsham Crawley Croydon Cumbria Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gloucestershire Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Midlands Moreton-in-Marsh North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Orpington Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Scarborough Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Surrey UK Walsall Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wolverhampton Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	201	216
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	34	10
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	0.409 %	0.121 %
Salaries quoted	28	9
Average minimum salary	£45,103	£50,000
Average salary	£48,164	£51,944
% change on same period last year	-7.27 %
Average maximum salary	£51,224	£53,889
UK excluding London average salary	£46,974	£48,195
% change on same period last year	-2.53 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	8306	8236
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.385 %	3.373 %
Salaries quoted	7053	7067
Average minimum salary	£32,958	£33,465
Average salary	£35,879	£36,265
% change on same period last year	-1.06 %
Average maximum salary	£38,800	£39,065
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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IT Services Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing IT Services Manager across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing IT Services Manager across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing IT Services Manager across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing IT Services Manager within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Birmingham	+12	23	£48,500	-3.00 %
Worcestershire	-	4	£61,500	-
Herefordshire	-	4	£42,188	-
Walsall	-	2	£43,750	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-
Wolverhampton	-	1	£47,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited IT Services 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 IT Services Manager in their job title.

1 40 (67.80 %) ITIL 2 23 (38.98 %) Service Delivery 3 19 (32.20 %) SLA 4 18 (30.51 %) ITIL Certification 5 16 (27.12 %) Service Management 6 15 (25.42 %) Disaster Recovery 7 14 (23.73 %) ITSM 7 14 (23.73 %) Microsoft 8 12 (20.34 %) Windows 9 11 (18.64 %) Finance 9 11 (18.64 %) Information Security 10 10 (16.95 %) Information Security Management 10 10 (16.95 %) Security Management 10 10 (16.95 %) Change Management 10 10 (16.95 %) Active Directory

11 9 (15.25 %) MS Excel 11 9 (15.25 %) Configuration Management 12 8 (13.56 %) Law 12 8 (13.56 %) Windows 2000 12 8 (13.56 %) VMware 13 7 (11.86 %) Asset Management 13 7 (11.86 %) Strategic Planning 13 7 (11.86 %) Incident Management 13 7 (11.86 %) Performance Management 13 7 (11.86 %) Firewall 13 7 (11.86 %) Management Information System 13 7 (11.86 %) VERITAS 14 6 (10.17 %) SAN 14 6 (10.17 %) Linux 14 6 (10.17 %) Pensions

IT Services Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands region that cited IT Services 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 IT Services Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.695 %) .NET 1 1 (1.695 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 5 (8.475 %) MS Exchange 2 3 (5.085 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 3 (5.085 %) SharePoint 2 3 (5.085 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (1.695 %) WebLogic 3 1 (1.695 %) Exchange Server 2000
Applications 1 9 (15.25 %) MS Excel 2 2 (3.390 %) MS Office 3 1 (1.695 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking 1 7 (11.86 %) Firewall 2 6 (10.17 %) SAN 3 4 (6.780 %) Intranet 3 4 (6.780 %) Internet 3 4 (6.780 %) DHCP 3 4 (6.780 %) DNS 4 3 (5.085 %) LAN 4 3 (5.085 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (5.085 %) SQL Server 2 2 (3.390 %) DB2 3 1 (1.695 %) BusinessObjects
General 1 11 (18.64 %) Finance 2 8 (13.56 %) Law 3 6 (10.17 %) Pensions 4 4 (6.780 %) Retail 4 4 (6.780 %) Insurance 5 3 (5.085 %) Health 6 1 (1.695 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.695 %) Education 6 1 (1.695 %) Government 6 1 (1.695 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 7 (11.86 %) Management Information System 2 5 (8.475 %) Mainframe 3 3 (5.085 %) Blackberry 4 2 (3.390 %) AS400 5 1 (1.695 %) Mathematics
Operating Systems 1 12 (20.34 %) Windows 2 8 (13.56 %) Windows 2000 3 6 (10.17 %) Linux 4 2 (3.390 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 40 (67.80 %) ITIL 2 23 (38.98 %) Service Delivery 3 16 (27.12 %) Service Management 4 15 (25.42 %) Disaster Recovery 5 14 (23.73 %) ITSM 6 11 (18.64 %) Information Security 7 10 (16.95 %) Change Management 7 10 (16.95 %) Information Security Management 7 10 (16.95 %) Security Management 8 9 (15.25 %) Configuration Management 9 7 (11.86 %) Asset Management 9 7 (11.86 %) Strategic Planning 9 7 (11.86 %) Incident Management 9 7 (11.86 %) Performance Management 10 3 (5.085 %) Operations Management 10 3 (5.085 %) Business Continuity 11 2 (3.390 %) Cost-Benefit Analysis 11 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE 11 2 (3.390 %) Risk Analysis 12 1 (1.695 %) PRINCE2
Programming Languages 1 4 (6.780 %) C 2 1 (1.695 %) SQL 2 1 (1.695 %) VB	Qualifications 1 18 (30.51 %) ITIL Certification 2 1 (1.695 %) MCP 2 1 (1.695 %) MCSE 2 1 (1.695 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 19 (32.20 %) SLA 2 4 (6.780 %) ISO9001 3 1 (1.695 %) ISO27001 3 1 (1.695 %) BS25999	System Software 1 10 (16.95 %) Active Directory 2 3 (5.085 %) Backup Exec 3 1 (1.695 %) VMware Server 3 1 (1.695 %) Terminal Server 3 1 (1.695 %) VMware ESX
Systems Management 1 2 (3.390 %) Norton AntiVirus	Vendors 1 14 (23.73 %) Microsoft 2 8 (13.56 %) VMware 3 7 (11.86 %) VERITAS 4 3 (5.085 %) Citrix 5 2 (3.390 %) IBM 5 2 (3.390 %) Symantec 6 1 (1.695 %) Remedy 6 1 (1.695 %) 3Com 6 1 (1.695 %) Dell 6 1 (1.695 %) Business Objects 6 1 (1.695 %) Cisco 6 1 (1.695 %) BEA 6 1 (1.695 %) BMC