The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 20 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 113 109 97
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -12
Permanent jobs citing Xen 9 19 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.487% 0.950% 1.168%
As % of the System Software category 5.844% 17.12% 31.65%
Number of salaries quoted 3 19 25
Average salary £41,000 £50,000 £51,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-18.00% -2.91%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
154 111 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 8.333% 5.553% 3.692%
Number of salaries quoted 115 102 78
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £70,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
Cambridgeshire

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 (94.74%) Linux
2 15 (78.95%) TCP/IP
2 15 (78.95%) C
2 15 (78.95%) Ethernet
2 15 (78.95%) Device Driver
2 15 (78.95%) VMware
2 15 (78.95%) VHDL
2 15 (78.95%) Verilog
2 15 (78.95%) Electronic Design Automation
2 15 (78.95%) Degree
3 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (15.79%) Apache
3 3 (15.79%) MySQL
4 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
4 2 (10.53%) Debian
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
4 2 (10.53%) Postfix
4 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
5 1 (5.263%) XenServer
5 1 (5.263%) Open Source
5 1 (5.263%) Puppet
5 1 (5.263%) High Availability
5 1 (5.263%) CFEngine
5 1 (5.263%) vCloud
5 1 (5.263%) OpenLDAP
5 1 (5.263%) Replication
5 1 (5.263%) Clustering
5 1 (5.263%) Service Management
5 1 (5.263%) HTTP

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 1 (5.263%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) Apache
2 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
2 2 (10.53%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 15 (78.95%) Ethernet
1 15 (78.95%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.263%) OpenLDAP
2 1 (5.263%) HTTP
2 1 (5.263%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) MySQL
1 3 (15.79%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (5.263%) DB2
Job Titles
1 16 (84.21%) Software Engineer
2 15 (78.95%) Software Development Engineer
2 15 (78.95%) C Software Engineer
2 15 (78.95%) Development Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Senior Software Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Graduate
4 1 (5.263%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 15 (78.95%) Device Driver
1 15 (78.95%) VHDL
1 15 (78.95%) Verilog
2 1 (5.263%) Open Source
2 1 (5.263%) Replication
2 1 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Linux
2 2 (10.53%) Debian
2 2 (10.53%) Ubuntu
2 2 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Electronic Design Automation
2 1 (5.263%) High Availability
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL
2 1 (5.263%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C
2 1 (5.263%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (78.95%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) Postfix
2 1 (5.263%) XenServer
2 1 (5.263%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) Puppet
1 1 (5.263%) CFEngine
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) VMware
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Infrastructure Support Technician - Cambridge, Stevenage, Chelmsford - Urgent - Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V - £30,000 - £35,000. A Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013