The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bedfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited XenServer over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 78 79 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing XenServer 17 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 1.570% 0.508% -
As % of the System Software category 10.90% 4.673% -
Number of salaries quoted 16 3 0
Average salary £33,750 £37,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year
- -2.17%
All System Software
Bedfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
156 107 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedfordshire 14.40% 10.87% 3.589%
Number of salaries quoted 143 88 25
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 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £62,500 £52,600
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
XenServer
East of England

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedfordshire XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Salary Trend

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

Bedfordshire XenServer Salary Trend

XenServer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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 - 14 £33,750 -
XenServer
East of England

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 27 (100.00%) Windows
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
1 27 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 27 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 27 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 27 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 22 (81.48%) WSUS
2 22 (81.48%) LANDesk
3 20 (74.07%) SQL Server 2005
3 20 (74.07%) DNS
3 20 (74.07%) Citrix
3 20 (74.07%) Firewall
3 20 (74.07%) Finance
3 20 (74.07%) HP
3 20 (74.07%) SQL Server
3 20 (74.07%) MS Exchange
3 20 (74.07%) DHCP
3 20 (74.07%) SQL Server 2008
3 20 (74.07%) XenApp
3 20 (74.07%) XenDesktop
4 19 (70.37%) Network Security
5 16 (59.26%) NAS
5 16 (59.26%) Exchange Server 2010
5 16 (59.26%) Exchange Server 2007
6 15 (55.56%) Network Load Balancing
6 15 (55.56%) NFS
6 15 (55.56%) MCSE
6 15 (55.56%) MCSA

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 20 (74.07%) MS Exchange
2 16 (59.26%) Exchange Server 2007
2 16 (59.26%) Exchange Server 2010
3 15 (55.56%) Office Communications Server
3 15 (55.56%) Lync
4 4 (14.81%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 6 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 20 (74.07%) DHCP
1 20 (74.07%) DNS
1 20 (74.07%) Firewall
2 19 (70.37%) Network Security
3 16 (59.26%) NAS
4 15 (55.56%) iSCSI
5 14 (51.85%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (74.07%) SQL Server
1 20 (74.07%) SQL Server 2005
1 20 (74.07%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 20 (74.07%) Finance
Job Titles
1 23 (85.19%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Support Engineer
2 4 (14.81%) Wintel Support
2 4 (14.81%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Server Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Wintel Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 27 (100.00%) Windows
1 27 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 27 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 7 (25.93%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Network Load Balancing
2 4 (14.81%) Configuration Management
2 4 (14.81%) Change Management
Qualifications
1 15 (55.56%) MCSE
1 15 (55.56%) MCSA
1 15 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (51.85%) MCITP
3 12 (44.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (40.74%) MCTS
4 11 (40.74%) MCP
4 11 (40.74%) CCA
4 11 (40.74%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (44.44%) PCI DSS
2 4 (14.81%) QA
System Software
1 27 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 27 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 27 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 20 (74.07%) XenApp
2 20 (74.07%) XenDesktop
3 15 (55.56%) NFS
4 13 (48.15%) Microsoft App-V
5 2 (7.407%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (81.48%) WSUS
Vendors
1 27 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 27 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (81.48%) LANDesk
3 20 (74.07%) HP
3 20 (74.07%) Citrix
4 13 (48.15%) CommVault
4 13 (48.15%) EMC
5 1 (3.704%) VocaLink