Jason Hiner posted Seven Hot Acronyms that you need to know, to keep up with the trends in IT Management.
I decided to compare ITIL, SOA, MDM, BI, CMDB, BPM, the hot acronyms in IT management according to Jason, to see what was popular in the job market and the median salaries for these skills. (I have not used TCO - total cost of ownership in the comparison)
For those who are clueless as to what these are,
ITIL stands for IT Infrastructure library, a set of concepts and techniques to manage IT.. (wiki)
Now continuing to find out what is in most demand and what pays the most. For the attention deficits, I will publish the result first and then the analysis.
The most popular acronym is BI - Business Intelligence which averages about 7500 jobs a month.
The Acronym that pays the most is CMDB - Configuration Management Database with a median salary of $91.08K.
ITIL, SOA, MDM - Job Demand (July' 06 - June' 07)
ITIL, SOA, MDM - Median Salary Comparison
BPM CMDB BI - Job Demand (July'06 - June'07)
BPM, CMDB, BI - Median Salary Comparison
The Acronyms Ordered by Job Market Demand
Avg. Jobs/Month
Median Salary
BI
7500
$78.59K
SOA
4000
$87.80K
BPM
3000
$84.34K
ITIL
2800
$80.98K
MDM
500
$82.34K
CMDB
200
$91.08K
My advice to current and future IT managers: Learn or at the very least familiarize yourself with SOA. SOA not only shows strong demand in the job market but also pays pretty well.