The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Chester 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 Chester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 49 37 -
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 2 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 0.592% 0.641% -
As % of the System Software category 10.00% 20.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £20,000 £32,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.46% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Chester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
20 5 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Chester 5.917% 3.205% 5.159%
Number of salaries quoted 9 5 13
Average salary £39,000 £32,500 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.00% +22.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £29,000 £15,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,550 £30,000 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Cheshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Degree
2 3 (75.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
2 3 (75.00%) DNS
2 3 (75.00%) Thin Client
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) MS Project
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) AutoCAD
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
4 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) EqualLogic
4 1 (25.00%) SCOM
4 1 (25.00%) iSCSI

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Chester 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 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) MS Project
1 2 (50.00%) AutoCAD
2 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (25.00%) iSCSI
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) ADSL
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Technician
2 1 (25.00%) DBA
2 1 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) SQL DBA
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Fat Client
1 3 (75.00%) Thin Client
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (25.00%) EqualLogic
3 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (75.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (25.00%) Migration
1 1 (25.00%) Database Tuning
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Dell
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp