There is a powerful reason for IT professionals to obtain Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) certification and training: jobs.

The January 2011 Dice Report, issued by Dice.com, reports that employment requests for ITIL users have jumped 89 percent year to year to 1,619 job postings. The Dice report provides a current snapshot on the technology job market based on various factors including salaries, geography, skills and job demand reports.

“This widely accepted set of best practices for IT service management is routinely in the top paying tech skills,” says Tom Silver, senior vice-president North America, Dice.

ITIL skills are among several where even in today’s tough economy that the postings have, says Dice.com (News - Alert) “ballooned at more than twice the market rate.” Others include:

--Cloud computing: which topped the list percentagewise at 294 percent to 1,300 job postings

--JavaScript (+98 percent to 7,919) and HTML (+85 percent to 8,547) driven, Dice says by cloud computing

--Information security (+109 percent to 1,680)

--Virtualization, specifically VMWare experience (+92 percent) and what it says is an “nearly at an all-time high (2,100 job postings)”

“These skills -- along with SAP (News - Alert) (+87 percent to 6,679), PeopleSoft (+98 percent to 2,147) and telecommunications experience (+97 percent to 2,959)--highlight that opportunities abound for technology professionals with certain skills,” says Silver.

To succeed in many of these highly specialized and demanding jobs requires training and certification, which will enable those who have passed these courses and tests successfully to obtain worth while employment.

In the ITIL field The RCCSP Professional Education Alliance offers a comprehensive series of ITIL certification and training courses offered at a wide range of locations across the U.S. and in Canada. Some of the classes are also offered virtually. The courses cover ITIL foundation certification and training, service catalog, service manager, capability and lifecycle topics including managing across the lifecycle. Please click here or call 708-246-0320 for more details.