The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridgeshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 24 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 119 134 118
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -16
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 20 17 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.779% 0.591% 0.901%
As % of the System Software category 8.333% 10.06% 20.61%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 26
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,500 £37,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,250 £45,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
240 169 131
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 9.346% 5.876% 4.372%
Number of salaries quoted 192 152 122
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £30,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire VMware ESX Salary Histogram

VMware ESX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +5 17 £40,000 -
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 32 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (90.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (65.63%) SAN
4 19 (59.38%) NetApp
4 19 (59.38%) Linux
4 19 (59.38%) Cisco
5 17 (53.13%) Windows
6 16 (50.00%) Apache
6 16 (50.00%) DNS
6 16 (50.00%) vSphere
7 15 (46.88%) HP
8 14 (43.75%) EMC
9 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
10 12 (37.50%) Firewall
11 11 (34.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 10 (31.25%) Citrix
12 10 (31.25%) IBM
12 10 (31.25%) DHCP
13 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
13 9 (28.13%) UNIX
13 9 (28.13%) SQL
13 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 9 (28.13%) Hyper-V
14 8 (25.00%) Replication
14 8 (25.00%) Nagios
15 7 (21.88%) Oracle
15 7 (21.88%) ITIL
15 7 (21.88%) Oracle RMAN
16 6 (18.75%) Network Design
16 6 (18.75%) Backup Exec

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 3 (9.375%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 16 (50.00%) Apache
2 6 (18.75%) IIS
3 3 (9.375%) WebSphere Application Server
3 3 (9.375%) Tomcat
3 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange
3 3 (9.375%) Exchange Server 2000
4 1 (3.125%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (9.375%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 21 (65.63%) SAN
2 16 (50.00%) DNS
3 12 (37.50%) Firewall
4 10 (31.25%) DHCP
5 9 (28.13%) TCP/IP
6 6 (18.75%) VLAN
6 6 (18.75%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (18.75%) Unified Communications
6 6 (18.75%) SSL
6 6 (18.75%) VoIP
6 6 (18.75%) Internet
7 3 (9.375%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (3.125%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 3 (9.375%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (9.375%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (53.13%) Administrator
2 16 (50.00%) Consultant
3 10 (31.25%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 10 (31.25%) Linux Administrator
3 10 (31.25%) Systems Administrator
4 8 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
5 7 (21.88%) Storage Administrator
6 6 (18.75%) Support Consultant
7 5 (15.63%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (15.63%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 5 (15.63%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 3 (9.375%) Network Consultant
8 3 (9.375%) Technical Support
8 3 (9.375%) Network Support
8 3 (9.375%) Technical Support Consultant
8 3 (9.375%) Storage Engineer
9 2 (6.250%) EMC Storage Administrator
9 2 (6.250%) Storage Consultant
10 1 (3.125%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) Replication
2 6 (18.75%) Open Source
3 5 (15.63%) CLARiiON
4 3 (9.375%) HACMP
4 3 (9.375%) Celerra
4 3 (9.375%) EqualLogic
5 2 (6.250%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 19 (59.38%) Linux
2 17 (53.13%) Windows
3 9 (28.13%) UNIX
3 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (18.75%) HPUX
5 5 (15.63%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (9.375%) Solaris
6 3 (9.375%) OS/400
6 3 (9.375%) SUSE
7 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (6.250%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) ITIL
2 6 (18.75%) Network Design
2 6 (18.75%) Load Balancing
2 6 (18.75%) E-Commerce
3 5 (15.63%) High Availability
3 5 (15.63%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (12.50%) E-business
4 4 (12.50%) ERP
5 3 (9.375%) Data Management
5 3 (9.375%) Business Development
5 3 (9.375%) Change Control
6 2 (6.250%) Business Continuity
6 2 (6.250%) Configuration Management
6 2 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (6.250%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 9 (28.13%) SQL
2 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
3 4 (12.50%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (18.75%) CCNP
2 6 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (18.75%) RHCE
3 5 (15.63%) NCDA
3 5 (15.63%) NCIE
4 3 (9.375%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (9.375%) MCITP
4 3 (9.375%) VCDX
4 3 (9.375%) CCIA
4 3 (9.375%) CCEE
5 2 (6.250%) VCAP
5 2 (6.250%) HP ASE
5 2 (6.250%) HP MASE
5 2 (6.250%) MCTS
5 2 (6.250%) CCEA
6 1 (3.125%) HP AIS
6 1 (3.125%) CCAA
System Software
1 29 (90.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (50.00%) vSphere
3 9 (28.13%) Hyper-V
4 7 (21.88%) Oracle RMAN
5 6 (18.75%) Postfix
5 6 (18.75%) Sendmail
5 6 (18.75%) XenApp
5 6 (18.75%) XenServer
5 6 (18.75%) XenDesktop
6 3 (9.375%) PowerHA
7 2 (6.250%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) Nagios
2 6 (18.75%) Backup Exec
2 6 (18.75%) EMC NetWorker
2 6 (18.75%) OSSEC
3 4 (12.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (9.375%) Tivoli
4 3 (9.375%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (9.375%) NetBackup
4 3 (9.375%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (6.250%) SCCM
5 2 (6.250%) SCOM
5 2 (6.250%) SCVMM
5 2 (6.250%) OpenView
Vendors
1 32 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (59.38%) NetApp
2 19 (59.38%) Cisco
3 15 (46.88%) HP
4 14 (43.75%) EMC
5 13 (40.63%) Red Hat
6 10 (31.25%) Citrix
6 10 (31.25%) IBM
7 7 (21.88%) Oracle
8 6 (18.75%) SolarWinds
8 6 (18.75%) TippingPoint
8 6 (18.75%) CheckPoint
9 5 (15.63%) Brocade
10 4 (12.50%) SAP
11 3 (9.375%) Microsoft
11 3 (9.375%) JBoss
11 3 (9.375%) Symantec
11 3 (9.375%) CommVault
11 3 (9.375%) Dell
12 1 (3.125%) AppSense