The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 19 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 Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 62 45 45
Rank change year-on-year
-17 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 16 13 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 2.996% 3.291% 0.273%
As % of the System Software category 17.78% 19.40% 2.703%
Number of salaries quoted 16 12 1
Average salary £31,000 £31,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.80% -10.71%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
All System Software
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
90 67 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 16.85% 16.96% 10.11%
Number of salaries quoted 41 25 30
Average salary £31,000 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.61% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,500 £30,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £60,000 £45,800
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
vSphere
Berkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

Bracknell vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 19 (100.00%) Windows
1 19 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 19 (100.00%) LAN
1 19 (100.00%) WAN
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
1 19 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (73.68%) NetScreen
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2008
2 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 14 (73.68%) Fortinet
2 14 (73.68%) VPN
2 14 (73.68%) SSL
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco
2 14 (73.68%) Juniper
2 14 (73.68%) SQL
2 14 (73.68%) VMware ESXi
2 14 (73.68%) Exchange Server 2010
3 12 (63.16%) Internet
4 11 (57.89%) Exchange Server 2007
4 11 (57.89%) Windows 2000 Server
5 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
5 5 (26.32%) Change Management
5 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
5 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2000
5 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
5 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
5 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 19 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 14 (73.68%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (57.89%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 19 (100.00%) LAN
1 19 (100.00%) WAN
2 14 (73.68%) NetScreen
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (73.68%) Firewall
2 14 (73.68%) VPN
2 14 (73.68%) SSL
3 12 (63.16%) Internet
4 5 (26.32%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2005
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 18 (94.74%) Support Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Technical Support
2 10 (52.63%) Technical Support Engineer
2 10 (52.63%) Technical Engineer
3 8 (42.11%) 3rd Line Support
4 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support
Operating Systems
1 19 (100.00%) Windows
2 14 (73.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (57.89%) Windows 2000 Server
4 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (73.68%) SQL
System Software
1 19 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (73.68%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
3 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (73.68%) Fortinet
2 14 (73.68%) Cisco
2 14 (73.68%) Juniper