The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category for the Bedfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 84 84 67
Rank change year-on-year
0 -17
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft App-V 11 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.010% 0.103% 0.828%
As % of the System Software category 7.097% 0.917% 20.59%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 5
Average salary £35,000 £47,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-26.31% +26.66%
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £44,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+7.95% -7.36%
All System Software
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
155 109 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 14.23% 11.21% 4.024%
Number of salaries quoted 142 89 29
Average salary £39,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.22% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £32,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Microsoft App-V
East of England

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Bedfordshire Microsoft App-V Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft App-V
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the Bedfordshire region.

Bedfordshire Microsoft App-V Salary Trend

Microsoft App-V
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Dunstable - 9 £29,000 -
Luton - 2 £35,000 -
Microsoft App-V
East of England

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V.

1 19 (100.00%) Citrix
1 19 (100.00%) XenApp
2 17 (89.47%) Windows 7
2 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
2 17 (89.47%) Windows
3 16 (84.21%) HP
3 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
3 16 (84.21%) LANDesk
3 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (78.95%) SQL Server 2008
4 15 (78.95%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (78.95%) XenDesktop
4 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2007
4 15 (78.95%) SQL Server 2005
4 15 (78.95%) VMware
4 15 (78.95%) MS Exchange
4 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
5 14 (73.68%) NFS
5 14 (73.68%) EMC
5 14 (73.68%) SAN
5 14 (73.68%) CommVault
5 14 (73.68%) WSUS
5 14 (73.68%) Network Load Balancing
5 14 (73.68%) Network Security
5 14 (73.68%) iSCSI
5 14 (73.68%) Office Communications Server
5 14 (73.68%) Lync
5 14 (73.68%) NAS
6 13 (68.42%) Hyper-V

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2010
1 15 (78.95%) Exchange Server 2007
1 15 (78.95%) MS Exchange
2 14 (73.68%) Office Communications Server
2 14 (73.68%) Lync
3 1 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (5.263%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Office
1 3 (15.79%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) SAN
1 14 (73.68%) Network Security
1 14 (73.68%) iSCSI
1 14 (73.68%) NAS
2 13 (68.42%) Firewall
2 13 (68.42%) DNS
2 13 (68.42%) DHCP
3 1 (5.263%) Wireless
3 1 (5.263%) LAN
3 1 (5.263%) VoIP
3 1 (5.263%) WAN
3 1 (5.263%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server 2008
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server 2005
1 15 (78.95%) SQL Server
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Wintel Server Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Applications Packager
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Support
5 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Thin Client
1 2 (10.53%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 17 (89.47%) Windows 7
1 17 (89.47%) Windows
2 16 (84.21%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (15.79%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (5.263%) Change Management
2 1 (5.263%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.263%) Configuration Management
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) MCSE
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (52.63%) MCSA
2 10 (52.63%) MCP
2 10 (52.63%) MCITP
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (52.63%) MCTS
3 9 (47.37%) CCA
3 9 (47.37%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (52.63%) PCI DSS
2 1 (5.263%) QA
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) XenApp
2 17 (89.47%) Active Directory
3 15 (78.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (78.95%) XenDesktop
4 14 (73.68%) NFS
5 13 (68.42%) Hyper-V
5 13 (68.42%) XenServer
6 1 (5.263%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 14 (73.68%) WSUS
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Citrix
2 16 (84.21%) HP
2 16 (84.21%) Microsoft
2 16 (84.21%) LANDesk
3 15 (78.95%) VMware
4 14 (73.68%) EMC
4 14 (73.68%) CommVault
5 4 (21.05%) AppSense
6 2 (10.53%) Adobe
6 2 (10.53%) Dell
7 1 (5.263%) Mitel
7 1 (5.263%) Cisco
7 1 (5.263%) VocaLink