The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank - 107 91
Permanent jobs citing Xen 0 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham - 0.122% 0.288%
As % of the System Software category - 1.064% 1.878%
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 4
Average salary - £48,750 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All System Software
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
243 188 213
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 13.43% 11.49% 15.36%
Number of salaries quoted 219 170 189
Average salary £41,625 £40,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% -4.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £59,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
Xen
West Midlands

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham 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 Birmingham region.

Birmingham Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) SCCM
3 3 (60.00%) SCOM
3 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Vista
3 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 3 (60.00%) Terminal Services
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (40.00%) MPLS
4 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
4 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (40.00%) DSL
4 2 (40.00%) Advertising
4 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
4 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (40.00%) LAN
4 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (40.00%) MS Office
4 2 (40.00%) WSUS
4 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 Platforms
1 2 (40.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 2 (40.00%) MPLS
2 2 (40.00%) DSL
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 2 (40.00%) Lead Architect
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Designer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Vista
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Technical Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (60.00%) Terminal Services
2 3 (60.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) SCCM
1 3 (60.00%) SCOM
2 2 (40.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) VMware
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
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