The first table below looks at the demand for Xen 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 Xen over the 3 months to 20 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 295 298 286
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -12
Permanent jobs citing Xen 22 25 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.189% 0.190% 0.239%
As % of the System Software category 2.087% 2.298% 4.191%
Number of salaries quoted 14 25 33
Average salary £55,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,750 £26,750 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £61,000 £63,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1054 1088 859
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 9.060% 8.288% 5.694%
Number of salaries quoted 915 992 782
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +3.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £31,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
London

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 26 (53.06%) Linux
2 25 (51.02%) VMware
3 24 (48.98%) Windows
4 22 (44.90%) VMware Infrastructure
5 18 (36.73%) Hyper-V
6 17 (34.69%) Git (software)
6 17 (34.69%) Puppet
7 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2008
7 16 (32.65%) Python
7 16 (32.65%) Java
7 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2003
8 15 (30.61%) DNS
9 14 (28.57%) Nagios
9 14 (28.57%) Firewall
10 13 (26.53%) Cisco
10 13 (26.53%) SQL
10 13 (26.53%) Amazon EC2
11 12 (24.49%) Open Source
11 12 (24.49%) Degree
12 11 (22.45%) Web Services
12 11 (22.45%) MS Exchange
12 11 (22.45%) Exchange Server 2010
12 11 (22.45%) Amazon AWS
12 11 (22.45%) CentOS
13 10 (20.41%) Bash shell
13 10 (20.41%) NoSQL
13 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
13 10 (20.41%) RHCE
13 10 (20.41%) Computer Science
13 10 (20.41%) Google

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 11 (22.45%) Web Services
2 9 (18.37%) Spring
3 8 (16.33%) JMS
3 8 (16.33%) REST
3 8 (16.33%) Servlets
3 8 (16.33%) Protocol Buffers
4 3 (6.122%) YAML
4 3 (6.122%) HTML5
4 3 (6.122%) JMX
5 2 (4.082%) Regular Expression
6 1 (2.041%) jBPM
Application Platforms
1 13 (26.53%) Amazon EC2
2 11 (22.45%) MS Exchange
2 11 (22.45%) Amazon AWS
2 11 (22.45%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (14.29%) SharePoint
3 7 (14.29%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (12.24%) Apache
4 6 (12.24%) Tomcat
5 4 (8.163%) Exchange Server 2007
6 3 (6.122%) Amazon S3
6 3 (6.122%) Confluence
6 3 (6.122%) Amazon ELB
7 2 (4.082%) CloudStack
8 1 (2.041%) RabbitMQ
8 1 (2.041%) Drupal
8 1 (2.041%) Alfresco
8 1 (2.041%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 15 (30.61%) DNS
2 14 (28.57%) Firewall
3 9 (18.37%) LDAP
4 8 (16.33%) AMQP
5 7 (14.29%) WAN
6 5 (10.20%) DHCP
6 5 (10.20%) SAN
7 4 (8.163%) VLAN
8 3 (6.122%) VoIP
8 3 (6.122%) iSCSI
8 3 (6.122%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (6.122%) Ethernet
8 3 (6.122%) HTTP
8 3 (6.122%) VPN
8 3 (6.122%) SMTP
9 2 (4.082%) Wireless
9 2 (4.082%) IPsec
9 2 (4.082%) SSH
9 2 (4.082%) SSL
9 2 (4.082%) IPv4
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.41%) NoSQL
2 8 (16.33%) RDBMS
3 5 (10.20%) MySQL
4 1 (2.041%) MongoDB
4 1 (2.041%) Big Data
4 1 (2.041%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 17 (34.69%) Git (software)
2 8 (16.33%) Maven
3 5 (10.20%) Subversion
4 3 (6.122%) JIRA
General
1 8 (16.33%) Finance
1 8 (16.33%) Games
2 2 (4.082%) Advertising
2 2 (4.082%) Publishing
2 2 (4.082%) Financial Institution
3 1 (2.041%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.041%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Administrator
2 9 (18.37%) Linux Administrator
3 7 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 7 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
4 6 (12.24%) Architect
4 6 (12.24%) Systems Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (12.24%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 6 (12.24%) Senior Linux Administrator
4 6 (12.24%) Platform Engineer
5 5 (10.20%) Linux Engineer
6 4 (8.163%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.122%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 3 (6.122%) DevOps Engineer
7 3 (6.122%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 2 (4.082%) Lead Architect
8 2 (4.082%) Support Engineer
9 1 (2.041%) 3rd Line Support
9 1 (2.041%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (2.041%) Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (24.49%) Open Source
2 10 (20.41%) Computer Science
3 8 (16.33%) Social Network
4 7 (14.29%) Online Games
5 6 (12.24%) Management Information System
6 4 (8.163%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (8.163%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (6.122%) N-Tier
8 2 (4.082%) Digital Media
8 2 (4.082%) Replication
8 2 (4.082%) Clustering
8 2 (4.082%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 2 (4.082%) Derivative
8 2 (4.082%) Biology
9 1 (2.041%) Biotechnology
9 1 (2.041%) Equities
9 1 (2.041%) Hedge funds
9 1 (2.041%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 26 (53.06%) Linux
2 24 (48.98%) Windows
3 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2003
3 16 (32.65%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (22.45%) CentOS
5 9 (18.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (14.29%) Debian
7 5 (10.20%) UNIX
8 3 (6.122%) Ubuntu
9 2 (4.082%) Windows Vista
10 1 (2.041%) Android
10 1 (2.041%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.37%) SOA
2 8 (16.33%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (16.33%) Multithreading
2 8 (16.33%) OO
2 8 (16.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
3 7 (14.29%) Kanban
3 7 (14.29%) Scrum
3 7 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 7 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (8.163%) Load Balancing
5 3 (6.122%) Infrastructure Management
5 3 (6.122%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.082%) Network Management
6 2 (4.082%) Statistical Analysis
6 2 (4.082%) Technical Architecture
6 2 (4.082%) Data Management
6 2 (4.082%) Disaster Recovery
6 2 (4.082%) Business Continuity
6 2 (4.082%) Information Security
6 2 (4.082%) BCP
Programming Languages
1 16 (32.65%) Java
1 16 (32.65%) Python
2 13 (26.53%) SQL
3 10 (20.41%) Bash shell
4 8 (16.33%) C++
4 8 (16.33%) AspectJ
4 8 (16.33%) Erlang
4 8 (16.33%) Scala
4 8 (16.33%) ActionScript
4 8 (16.33%) JavaScript
5 6 (12.24%) Perl
5 6 (12.24%) Ruby
6 3 (6.122%) PHP
7 2 (4.082%) AWK
7 2 (4.082%) sed
Qualifications
1 12 (24.49%) Degree
2 10 (20.41%) RHCE
3 7 (14.29%) MCSE
3 7 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (4.082%) VTSP
5 1 (2.041%) CCNA
5 1 (2.041%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (2.041%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.041%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (36.73%) Hyper-V
3 10 (20.41%) Active Directory
4 9 (18.37%) NFS
5 2 (4.082%) Terminal Services
5 2 (4.082%) Samba
5 2 (4.082%) Sendmail
6 1 (2.041%) XenApp
6 1 (2.041%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.041%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 17 (34.69%) Puppet
2 14 (28.57%) Nagios
3 9 (18.37%) SCCM
3 9 (18.37%) SCOM
4 7 (14.29%) Splunk
4 7 (14.29%) Red Hat Spacewalk
4 7 (14.29%) Cobbler
5 3 (6.122%) Zenoss
5 3 (6.122%) ZABBIX
6 2 (4.082%) Ganglia
6 2 (4.082%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (2.041%) Cacti
Vendors
1 25 (51.02%) VMware
2 13 (26.53%) Cisco
3 10 (20.41%) Google
4 9 (18.37%) Citrix
5 8 (16.33%) Veritas
6 7 (14.29%) NetApp
7 6 (12.24%) Red Hat
8 4 (8.163%) Oracle
9 3 (6.122%) HP
9 3 (6.122%) Rackspace
10 2 (4.082%) JBoss
10 2 (4.082%) Microsoft
11 1 (2.041%) EMC
11 1 (2.041%) Avaya
11 1 (2.041%) Akamai
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