The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 23 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 122 120 117
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Xen 4 14 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.224% 0.699% 0.179%
As % of the System Software category 2.703% 8.140% 1.840%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 2
Average salary £27,500 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.42% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
148 172 163
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 8.296% 8.591% 9.726%
Number of salaries quoted 106 159 125
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £45,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Xen
North West

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Northwich - 1 £30,000 -
Xen
North West

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) EMC
2 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (80.00%) Riverbed
3 8 (80.00%) Isilon
3 8 (80.00%) High Availability
3 8 (80.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 8 (80.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (80.00%) Juniper
3 8 (80.00%) SAN
3 8 (80.00%) AIX
3 8 (80.00%) Linux
3 8 (80.00%) Cognos
3 8 (80.00%) WAN
3 8 (80.00%) Business Continuity
3 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
3 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 8 (80.00%) Lotus
3 8 (80.00%) Tivoli
3 8 (80.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 8 (80.00%) Service Management
3 8 (80.00%) Firewall
3 8 (80.00%) ITSM
3 8 (80.00%) Finance
3 8 (80.00%) Validation
4 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) MCSE

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 8 (80.00%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (80.00%) SAN
1 8 (80.00%) WAN
1 8 (80.00%) Firewall
General
1 8 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Pre Sales Consultant
1 8 (80.00%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
1 8 (80.00%) Consultant
1 8 (80.00%) Sales Consultant
1 8 (80.00%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (20.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) AIX
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) High Availability
1 8 (80.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 8 (80.00%) Business Continuity
1 8 (80.00%) Service Management
1 8 (80.00%) ITSM
1 8 (80.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) MCSE
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (10.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Tivoli
1 8 (80.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco
1 10 (100.00%) IBM
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) EMC
3 8 (80.00%) Riverbed
3 8 (80.00%) Isilon
3 8 (80.00%) Juniper
3 8 (80.00%) Cognos
3 8 (80.00%) Lotus
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix
4 2 (20.00%) HP
4 2 (20.00%) Dell
5 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
5 1 (10.00%) NetApp