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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 41 - 29
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 5 0 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 1.742% - 2.083%
As % of the System Software category 71.43% - 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £65,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Canary Wharf
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
7 18 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.439% 5.233% 2.083%
Number of salaries quoted 3 16 0
Average salary £65,000 £72,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.34% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
London

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 5 (83.33%) ITIL
3 4 (66.67%) MySQL
3 4 (66.67%) Perl
3 4 (66.67%) PHP
3 4 (66.67%) Python
3 4 (66.67%) LDAP
3 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 4 (66.67%) Web Services
3 4 (66.67%) Internet
3 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (66.67%) Puppet
3 4 (66.67%) Splunk
3 4 (66.67%) Ruby
3 4 (66.67%) BSS
3 4 (66.67%) Snort
4 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) MCSE
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) MS Excel

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 Development
1 4 (66.67%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (16.67%) Apache
2 1 (16.67%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) SAN
2 4 (66.67%) LDAP
2 4 (66.67%) Internet
2 4 (66.67%) BSS
3 2 (33.33%) DHCP
3 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) LAN
4 1 (16.67%) PBX
4 1 (16.67%) WAN
4 1 (16.67%) SSL
4 1 (16.67%) Firewall
4 1 (16.67%) Softphone
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (66.67%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (16.67%) Back Office
1 1 (16.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) OSS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Integration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Integration Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Systems Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CCTV
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) Linux
3 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) ITIL V3
2 1 (16.67%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) SQL
2 4 (66.67%) Perl
2 4 (66.67%) PHP
2 4 (66.67%) Python
2 4 (66.67%) Ruby
3 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (33.33%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (66.67%) Snort
3 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Puppet
1 4 (66.67%) Splunk
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) HP