The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Workstation skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Workstation over the 3 months to 21 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Workstation
Rank 316 312 331
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +19
Permanent jobs citing VMware Workstation 2 12 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.017% 0.091% 0.020%
As % of the System Software category 0.188% 1.100% 0.346%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 2
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% +24.13%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £32,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+23.07% -35.00%
All System Software
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1064 1091 866
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 9.044% 8.305% 5.714%
Number of salaries quoted 925 998 789
Average salary £50,000 £48,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +1.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £31,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £69,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
VMware Workstation
London

VMware Workstation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMware Workstation Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Workstation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware Workstation across the City of London region.

City of London VMware Workstation Salary Trend

VMware Workstation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation.

1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 15 (68.18%) VB
4 14 (63.64%) HP
5 13 (59.09%) Handset
5 13 (59.09%) Retail
5 13 (59.09%) Application Packaging
6 12 (54.55%) SCCM
7 11 (50.00%) COM
8 10 (45.45%) CA
9 9 (40.91%) Windows
10 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
10 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
11 7 (31.82%) OpenView Configuration Management
12 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
12 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
12 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
12 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
13 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
13 5 (22.73%) Degree
13 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
13 5 (22.73%) Citrix
14 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
14 4 (18.18%) CRM
14 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
14 4 (18.18%) Project Management
14 4 (18.18%) Cisco
14 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
14 4 (18.18%) Finance
14 4 (18.18%) VMware ESX

VMware Workstation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (59.09%) Application Packaging
2 11 (50.00%) COM
3 3 (13.64%) Software Packaging
4 1 (4.545%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.545%) .NET
4 1 (4.545%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 6 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 4 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 3 (13.64%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (4.545%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (4.545%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 2 (9.091%) MS Office
3 1 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (13.64%) Network Security
1 3 (13.64%) LAN
2 1 (4.545%) VLAN
2 1 (4.545%) BGP
2 1 (4.545%) Firewall
2 1 (4.545%) Wireless
2 1 (4.545%) IPsec
2 1 (4.545%) ISDN
2 1 (4.545%) VoIP
2 1 (4.545%) VPN
2 1 (4.545%) SSL
2 1 (4.545%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.545%) MySQL
General
1 13 (59.09%) Retail
2 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
2 4 (18.18%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Applications Packager
2 3 (13.64%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (13.64%) Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Junior
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Junior Systems Administrator
3 2 (9.091%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Wintel Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) SCCM Specialist
4 1 (4.545%) Wintel Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Trainee Administrator
4 1 (4.545%) Trainee
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Wintel Support
4 1 (4.545%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (59.09%) Handset
2 3 (13.64%) Computer Science
2 3 (13.64%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.545%) CCTV
3 1 (4.545%) Replication
3 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (27.27%) Windows 7
4 5 (22.73%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
6 2 (9.091%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (18.18%) CRM
2 4 (18.18%) Project Management
3 3 (13.64%) Network Design
3 3 (13.64%) Strategic Planning
3 3 (13.64%) BCP
4 2 (9.091%) ITIL
5 1 (4.545%) Release Management
5 1 (4.545%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Management
5 1 (4.545%) Change Control
5 1 (4.545%) Business Continuity
5 1 (4.545%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) VB
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
3 3 (13.64%) Perl
4 2 (9.091%) VBScript
5 1 (4.545%) PHP
Qualifications
1 5 (22.73%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.545%) BS25999
System Software
1 8 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (27.27%) Active Directory
3 4 (18.18%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.545%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (54.55%) SCCM
2 7 (31.82%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 2 (9.091%) OpenView
4 1 (4.545%) Tivoli
4 1 (4.545%) Netcool
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (81.82%) Microsoft
3 14 (63.64%) HP
4 10 (45.45%) CA
5 5 (22.73%) Citrix
6 4 (18.18%) Cisco
7 1 (4.545%) NetApp
7 1 (4.545%) Salesforce.com