The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX 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 of the System Software category for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 97 77 92
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +15
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 19 15 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 1.134% 1.032% 0.150%
As % of the System Software category 8.261% 9.259% 1.015%
Number of salaries quoted 19 15 2
Average salary £36,000 £45,000 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,300 £26,100 £43,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £51,500 £91,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.50% +5.62%
All System Software
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
230 162 197
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.72% 11.15% 14.81%
Number of salaries quoted 196 148 176
Average salary £42,500 £40,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.93% -4.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
VMware ESX
West Midlands

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Birmingham VMware ESX Salary Histogram

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 24 (82.76%) Windows
3 22 (75.86%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (68.97%) Citrix
5 19 (65.52%) SAN
6 18 (62.07%) Cisco
6 18 (62.07%) XenDesktop
6 18 (62.07%) vSphere
7 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
8 16 (55.17%) MS Exchange
8 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
8 16 (55.17%) XenApp
8 16 (55.17%) XenServer
8 16 (55.17%) Windows Server 2008
8 16 (55.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
10 13 (44.83%) HP
11 12 (41.38%) SQL
12 11 (37.93%) MS Excel
12 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (31.03%) NetApp
13 9 (31.03%) Citrix Certification
13 9 (31.03%) Firewall
13 9 (31.03%) CCEE
14 8 (27.59%) Unified Communications
14 8 (27.59%) Symantec
14 8 (27.59%) Dell
14 8 (27.59%) Linux
14 8 (27.59%) MCITP
15 7 (24.14%) Hyper-V

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (6.897%) HTML
1 2 (6.897%) .NET
1 2 (6.897%) ASP.NET
1 2 (6.897%) CSS
1 2 (6.897%) XML
1 2 (6.897%) MDX
1 2 (6.897%) Silverlight
2 1 (3.448%) COM
Application Platforms
1 16 (55.17%) MS Exchange
2 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2000
2 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (17.24%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (13.79%) Apache
3 4 (13.79%) Tomcat
4 3 (10.34%) SharePoint
4 3 (10.34%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (6.897%) SharePoint Server
5 2 (6.897%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (6.897%) IIS
6 1 (3.448%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (37.93%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.897%) InfoPath
2 2 (6.897%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 19 (65.52%) SAN
2 9 (31.03%) Firewall
3 8 (27.59%) Unified Communications
4 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (13.79%) Fibre Channel
5 4 (13.79%) IPsec
5 4 (13.79%) iSCSI
5 4 (13.79%) VPN
6 3 (10.34%) NAS
6 3 (10.34%) NetScaler
7 2 (6.897%) DNS
7 2 (6.897%) Intranet
7 2 (6.897%) Ethernet
7 2 (6.897%) FTP
7 2 (6.897%) HTTP
7 2 (6.897%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (48.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.897%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (6.897%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (6.897%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (6.897%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (41.38%) Consultant
2 8 (27.59%) Technical Consultant
3 7 (24.14%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) Senior Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 4 (13.79%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Pre Sales Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) VMware Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Pre Sales Consultant
6 3 (10.34%) Sales Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Senior Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Citrix Engineer
7 2 (6.897%) SharePoint Developer
7 2 (6.897%) Virtualisation Specialist
7 2 (6.897%) VMware Technical Consultant
7 2 (6.897%) Citrix Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.79%) Clustering
2 3 (10.34%) Celerra
2 3 (10.34%) EqualLogic
3 2 (6.897%) Replication
3 2 (6.897%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 24 (82.76%) Windows
2 16 (55.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (37.93%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (27.59%) Linux
5 4 (13.79%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.24%) Data Management
1 5 (17.24%) Business Development
2 2 (6.897%) CRM
2 2 (6.897%) Workflow
2 2 (6.897%) High Availability
3 1 (3.448%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (3.448%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (41.38%) SQL
2 4 (13.79%) Perl
2 4 (13.79%) PHP
3 2 (6.897%) C#
3 2 (6.897%) Java
3 2 (6.897%) T-SQL
3 2 (6.897%) VBScript
3 2 (6.897%) VB
3 2 (6.897%) Shell Script
3 2 (6.897%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.448%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 16 (55.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (31.03%) Citrix Certification
2 9 (31.03%) CCEE
3 8 (27.59%) MCITP
4 7 (24.14%) NCDA
4 7 (24.14%) NCIE
4 7 (24.14%) CCAA
5 6 (20.69%) MCTS
6 5 (17.24%) CCIA
7 3 (10.34%) VCDX
7 3 (10.34%) VCAP
7 3 (10.34%) HP ASE
7 3 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (10.34%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (10.34%) MCSE
8 2 (6.897%) CCEA
8 2 (6.897%) HP MASE
8 2 (6.897%) HP AIS
9 1 (3.448%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (3.448%) CCIE
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (62.07%) XenDesktop
2 18 (62.07%) vSphere
3 16 (55.17%) Active Directory
3 16 (55.17%) XenApp
3 16 (55.17%) XenServer
4 7 (24.14%) Hyper-V
5 1 (3.448%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) NetBackup
1 5 (17.24%) Backup Exec
1 5 (17.24%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (13.79%) WSUS
2 4 (13.79%) SCCM
2 4 (13.79%) SCOM
3 3 (10.34%) ARCserve
3 3 (10.34%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (6.897%) WMI
4 2 (6.897%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (68.97%) Citrix
3 18 (62.07%) Cisco
4 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
5 13 (44.83%) HP
6 9 (31.03%) NetApp
7 8 (27.59%) Dell
7 8 (27.59%) Symantec
8 5 (17.24%) CommVault
9 4 (13.79%) EMC
9 4 (13.79%) Juniper
10 3 (10.34%) Veritas
10 3 (10.34%) McAfee
11 1 (3.448%) AppSense
11 1 (3.448%) CheckPoint