The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Engineer
Rank 107 87 -
Rank change year-on-year
-20 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 9 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.537% 0.344% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.567% 0.357% -
Number of salaries quoted 9 4 0
Average salary £40,000 £38,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.22% -
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -25.00%
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1587 1402 1278
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.69% 96.49% 96.09%
Number of salaries quoted 1333 1251 1113
Average salary £41,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.33% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Virtualisation Engineer
West Midlands

Virtualisation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Birmingham Virtualisation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Virtualisation Engineer Salary Trend

Virtualisation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Engineer in their job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (92.31%) XenApp
2 12 (92.31%) XenServer
2 12 (92.31%) XenDesktop
2 12 (92.31%) Citrix
2 12 (92.31%) HP
2 12 (92.31%) vSphere
2 12 (92.31%) VCP5
3 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
3 11 (84.62%) 3PAR
3 11 (84.62%) NetApp
4 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (7.692%) Dell
5 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
5 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco
5 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
5 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (7.692%) SAN
5 1 (7.692%) Firewall
5 1 (7.692%) Migration
5 1 (7.692%) VCP4
5 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (7.692%) MCITP

Virtualisation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.692%) SAN
1 1 (7.692%) Firewall
1 1 (7.692%) iSCSI
1 1 (7.692%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
Operating Systems
1 13 (100.00%) Windows
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 13 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (7.692%) Migration
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 12 (92.31%) VCP5
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (7.692%) MCITP
3 1 (7.692%) VCP4
3 1 (7.692%) CCEE
3 1 (7.692%) CCAA
System Software
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (92.31%) XenApp
2 12 (92.31%) XenServer
2 12 (92.31%) XenDesktop
2 12 (92.31%) vSphere
3 11 (84.62%) Hyper-V
4 2 (15.38%) Active Directory
5 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) HP
2 12 (92.31%) Citrix
3 11 (84.62%) NetApp
3 11 (84.62%) 3PAR
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco
4 1 (7.692%) Dell