The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 21 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 Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 206 208 190
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -18
Permanent jobs citing Xen 11 19 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.211% 0.310% 0.137%
As % of the System Software category 1.669% 4.069% 1.636%
Number of salaries quoted 7 16 6
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £32,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,250 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
659 467 428
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 12.63% 7.610% 8.381%
Number of salaries quoted 513 380 307
Average salary £42,250 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.58% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £28,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
Xen
South East

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Berkshire Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Reading -5 5 £45,000 +11.11%
Bracknell - 4 - -
Slough - 2 £39,000 -
Xen
South East

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 18 (81.82%) Windows
2 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
2 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 17 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (72.73%) Citrix
4 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
4 15 (68.18%) SQL
5 14 (63.64%) SharePoint
5 14 (63.64%) Hyper-V
6 12 (54.55%) UNIX
6 12 (54.55%) Oracle
6 12 (54.55%) vSphere
7 10 (45.45%) .NET
7 10 (45.45%) Migration
8 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
8 6 (27.27%) SAN
8 6 (27.27%) Linux
8 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
8 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
9 5 (22.73%) MCSE
9 5 (22.73%) Cisco
9 5 (22.73%) CCNA
9 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
9 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
10 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
10 4 (18.18%) Finance
10 4 (18.18%) MIMEsweeper
10 4 (18.18%) CA
10 4 (18.18%) Windows XP

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (45.45%) .NET
2 2 (9.091%) X-Windows
2 2 (9.091%) CPAN
3 1 (4.545%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 14 (63.64%) SharePoint
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint Server
3 2 (9.091%) WebLogic
3 2 (9.091%) Apache
3 2 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 2 (9.091%) Confluence
4 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (4.545%) lighttpd
4 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) SAN
2 3 (13.64%) LDAP
2 3 (13.64%) TCP/IP
2 3 (13.64%) DNS
2 3 (13.64%) Firewall
3 2 (9.091%) SSH
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (9.091%) OpenLDAP
4 1 (4.545%) LAN
4 1 (4.545%) VoIP
4 1 (4.545%) WAN
4 1 (4.545%) SNMP
4 1 (4.545%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (9.091%) IntelliJ
1 2 (9.091%) Ant
1 2 (9.091%) Subversion
1 2 (9.091%) JIRA
1 2 (9.091%) Selenium
1 2 (9.091%) Gradle
1 2 (9.091%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.091%) Hudson
2 1 (4.545%) LLVM
General
1 6 (27.27%) Telecoms
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
2 4 (18.18%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (59.09%) Consultant
2 10 (45.45%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (9.091%) Integration Engineer
4 2 (9.091%) Team Leader
4 2 (9.091%) Implementation Consultant
4 2 (9.091%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Embedded C++ Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Pre Sales Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) C++ Developer
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Sales Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.545%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.545%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.545%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
2 3 (13.64%) Clustering
3 2 (9.091%) Wiki
4 1 (4.545%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 18 (81.82%) Windows
2 12 (54.55%) UNIX
3 6 (27.27%) Linux
4 4 (18.18%) Windows XP
5 3 (13.64%) AIX
6 2 (9.091%) Solaris
6 2 (9.091%) CentOS
6 2 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (4.545%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Migration
2 5 (22.73%) Configuration Management
3 4 (18.18%) Change Control
4 2 (9.091%) Kanban
5 1 (4.545%) ITIL
5 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.545%) Project Management
5 1 (4.545%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 4 (18.18%) VB
2 4 (18.18%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) C
4 2 (9.091%) Java
4 2 (9.091%) Perl
4 2 (9.091%) Ruby
4 2 (9.091%) Korn
4 2 (9.091%) C-shell
4 2 (9.091%) Bash shell
5 1 (4.545%) C++
5 1 (4.545%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 6 (27.27%) Security Cleared
2 5 (22.73%) MCSE
2 5 (22.73%) CCNA
2 5 (22.73%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.091%) EMC Certification
3 2 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (9.091%) VCP5
3 2 (9.091%) VCP4
4 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 1 (4.545%) MCTS
4 1 (4.545%) MCITP
4 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (4.545%) CCA
4 1 (4.545%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
3 14 (63.64%) Hyper-V
4 12 (54.55%) vSphere
5 2 (9.091%) NFS
5 2 (9.091%) Sendmail
5 2 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (4.545%) UAG
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) MIMEsweeper
1 4 (18.18%) SCCM
1 4 (18.18%) SCOM
2 2 (9.091%) Nagios
2 2 (9.091%) YUM
2 2 (9.091%) Puppet
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.545%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Microsoft
1 17 (77.27%) VMware
2 16 (72.73%) Citrix
3 12 (54.55%) Oracle
4 5 (22.73%) Cisco
5 4 (18.18%) CA
5 4 (18.18%) Fujitsu
6 3 (13.64%) IBM
6 3 (13.64%) HP
6 3 (13.64%) EMC
7 2 (9.091%) Dell
7 2 (9.091%) BEA
7 2 (9.091%) Red Hat
7 2 (9.091%) Sun
7 2 (9.091%) Vignette
7 2 (9.091%) Google
8 1 (4.545%) ProCurve
8 1 (4.545%) SonicWALL
8 1 (4.545%) Cognos
8 1 (4.545%) Lotus
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Posted: 20 May 2013