The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer 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 XenServer over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 287 289 305
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +16
Permanent jobs citing XenServer 26 44 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.221% 0.332% 0.145%
As % of the System Software category 2.453% 3.950% 2.477%
Number of salaries quoted 25 42 20
Average salary £52,500 £61,000 £48,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.93% +26.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £39,800 £23,900
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £67,250 £62,750
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year
- -4.25%
All System Software
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1060 1114 888
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 9.029% 8.394% 5.852%
Number of salaries quoted 922 1016 809
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 £31,500 £27,950
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £69,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
XenServer
London

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Salary Trend

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

City of London XenServer Salary Trend

XenServer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XenServer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London XenServer Salary Histogram

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 51 (91.07%) VMware
2 47 (83.93%) Citrix
3 43 (76.79%) VMware Infrastructure
4 38 (67.86%) Windows
5 32 (57.14%) XenApp
6 26 (46.43%) SAN
6 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
7 22 (39.29%) Linux
8 21 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
9 19 (33.93%) CCA
9 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
10 18 (32.14%) MS Exchange
10 18 (32.14%) Hyper-V
10 18 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
11 17 (30.36%) XenDesktop
11 17 (30.36%) NetScaler
11 17 (30.36%) Microsoft App-V
12 16 (28.57%) HP
12 16 (28.57%) vSphere
12 16 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 14 (25.00%) Cisco
14 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
15 12 (21.43%) Firewall
16 11 (19.64%) AppSense
17 10 (17.86%) Replication
17 10 (17.86%) VMware ESX
17 10 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
18 9 (16.07%) CCIA
19 8 (14.29%) Subversion
19 8 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (8.929%) LAMP
2 3 (5.357%) COM
2 3 (5.357%) Web Services
3 2 (3.571%) .NET
3 2 (3.571%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.786%) CSS
4 1 (1.786%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 18 (32.14%) MS Exchange
2 8 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
3 7 (12.50%) IIS
3 7 (12.50%) SharePoint
4 5 (8.929%) Apache
4 5 (8.929%) Tomcat
5 4 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2010
6 2 (3.571%) Exchange Server 2000
7 1 (1.786%) Lync
7 1 (1.786%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (10.71%) MS Excel
2 3 (5.357%) Office 365
3 1 (1.786%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (7.143%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (5.357%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (3.571%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 26 (46.43%) SAN
2 17 (30.36%) NetScaler
3 12 (21.43%) Firewall
4 7 (12.50%) DNS
5 6 (10.71%) VLAN
5 6 (10.71%) DHCP
5 6 (10.71%) WAN
6 5 (8.929%) LAN
6 5 (8.929%) VoIP
7 4 (7.143%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (7.143%) TCP/IP
7 4 (7.143%) VPN
8 3 (5.357%) Cisco Nexus
9 2 (3.571%) iSCSI
9 2 (3.571%) Unified Communications
9 2 (3.571%) Fibre Channel
10 1 (1.786%) LDAP
10 1 (1.786%) SMTP
10 1 (1.786%) IPv6
10 1 (1.786%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (23.21%) SQL Server
2 5 (8.929%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.143%) Hadoop
4 3 (5.357%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (3.571%) MySQL
6 1 (1.786%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (14.29%) Subversion
General
1 4 (7.143%) Investment Banking
1 4 (7.143%) Banking
2 3 (5.357%) Finance
2 3 (5.357%) Advertising
3 1 (1.786%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (28.57%) Consultant
2 13 (23.21%) Administrator
3 12 (21.43%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (16.07%) Technical Consultant
5 8 (14.29%) Architect
6 7 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
6 7 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.143%) Citrix Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 3 (5.357%) Senior Consultant
8 3 (5.357%) Analyst
8 3 (5.357%) Support Analyst
8 3 (5.357%) Support Engineer
8 3 (5.357%) Support Specialist
8 3 (5.357%) 3rd Line Support
8 3 (5.357%) Virtualisation Architect
8 3 (5.357%) Virtualisation Consultant
9 2 (3.571%) Pre Sales Consultant
9 2 (3.571%) Citrix Technical Consultant
9 2 (3.571%) Infrastructure Support Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 10 (17.86%) Replication
2 6 (10.71%) Blackberry
3 4 (7.143%) Clustering
4 1 (1.786%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.786%) Open Source
4 1 (1.786%) HP StorageWorks
4 1 (1.786%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.786%) IaaS
4 1 (1.786%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (1.786%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.786%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 38 (67.86%) Windows
2 22 (39.29%) Linux
3 18 (32.14%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (17.86%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (10.71%) Windows 7
6 5 (8.929%) UNIX
7 4 (7.143%) Oracle Linux
8 2 (3.571%) Ubuntu
8 2 (3.571%) Mac OS
8 2 (3.571%) Debian
9 1 (1.786%) Solaris
9 1 (1.786%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (14.29%) Service Delivery
2 7 (12.50%) Project Management
3 6 (10.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (10.71%) E-Commerce
4 4 (7.143%) Migration
5 3 (5.357%) CRM
5 3 (5.357%) Password Management
5 3 (5.357%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (3.571%) Business Development
6 2 (3.571%) Project Planning
6 2 (3.571%) Data Management
6 2 (3.571%) Build Automation
6 2 (3.571%) High Availability
6 2 (3.571%) Business Continuity
6 2 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (3.571%) ITIL
7 1 (1.786%) Information Security
7 1 (1.786%) Validation
7 1 (1.786%) Service Management
7 1 (1.786%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.29%) SQL
2 6 (10.71%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.357%) VB
3 3 (5.357%) Bash shell
4 2 (3.571%) C#
5 1 (1.786%) Perl
5 1 (1.786%) PHP
5 1 (1.786%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 21 (37.50%) Citrix Certification
2 19 (33.93%) CCA
3 16 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 9 (16.07%) CCIA
5 7 (12.50%) CCEA
6 6 (10.71%) Degree
6 6 (10.71%) CCEE
7 5 (8.929%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (8.929%) MCITP
8 4 (7.143%) VTSP
8 4 (7.143%) MCSE
9 3 (5.357%) MCTS
10 2 (3.571%) MCDST
10 2 (3.571%) NCDA
10 2 (3.571%) NCIE
10 2 (3.571%) CCAA
10 2 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
10 2 (3.571%) MCSA
11 1 (1.786%) MCP
11 1 (1.786%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.786%) SLA
1 1 (1.786%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (76.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 32 (57.14%) XenApp
3 19 (33.93%) Active Directory
4 18 (32.14%) Hyper-V
5 17 (30.36%) XenDesktop
5 17 (30.36%) Microsoft App-V
6 16 (28.57%) vSphere
7 10 (17.86%) VMware ESX
8 6 (10.71%) VMware Server
9 4 (7.143%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 2 (3.571%) PowerConvert
10 2 (3.571%) NFS
11 1 (1.786%) Terminal Services
11 1 (1.786%) ISA Server
11 1 (1.786%) vCloud
11 1 (1.786%) VMware ESXi
11 1 (1.786%) Forefront TMG
11 1 (1.786%) IAG
11 1 (1.786%) UAG
Systems Management
1 8 (14.29%) SCCM
2 6 (10.71%) SCOM
3 4 (7.143%) Backup Exec
4 3 (5.357%) Nagios
4 3 (5.357%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 2 (3.571%) NetBackup
6 1 (1.786%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (1.786%) AppDNA
6 1 (1.786%) Cacti
Vendors
1 51 (91.07%) VMware
2 47 (83.93%) Citrix
3 26 (46.43%) Microsoft
4 16 (28.57%) HP
5 14 (25.00%) Cisco
6 11 (19.64%) AppSense
7 7 (12.50%) EMC
8 6 (10.71%) NetApp
8 6 (10.71%) Red Hat
8 6 (10.71%) IBM
9 5 (8.929%) Sun
9 5 (8.929%) Juniper
9 5 (8.929%) IronPort
10 4 (7.143%) Intel
10 4 (7.143%) Oracle
10 4 (7.143%) SAP
11 3 (5.357%) Apple
11 3 (5.357%) Novell
11 3 (5.357%) Symantec
11 3 (5.357%) McAfee
City, London
If you also have experience in solving nasty problems with Microsoft Exchange 2007 & 2010, SQL 2005+, Hyper-V, App-V, AppSense, VMware, Firewalls, and Cisco networking, we will...
Stott & May
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City of London
The Citrix/App-V Engineer will be the subject matter expert (SME) for these two core areas, in particular with a range of Citrix products including XenApp, Pro-...
Huxley Associates
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + banking benefits + bonus
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Technical skills and qualification: VMware VCP 4. Citrix CCA - XenApp / XenDesktop / XenServer. Strong understanding of administering Windows 2003 & 2008 server operating systems. Strong understanding of Microsoft Terminal Services (...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
Strong experience of XenServer 5.6 & Presentation Server. Very good experience of XenApp 5.0 - 6.5, XenDesktop 5.5 - 5.6, Presentation server 4.0... General understanding...
clearedgeconsulting
Salary: £53000 - £59000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 4 May 2013
City, London
Strong experience of XenServer 5.6 & Presentation Server. Very good experience of XenApp 5.0 - 6.5, XenDesktop 5.5 - 5.6, Presentation server 4.0... General understanding...
Cogence Search
Salary: £53000 - £59000 per annum + BENS
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Strong experience of XenServer 5.6 & Presentation Server. Very good experience of XenApp 5.0 - 6.5, XenDesktop 5.5 - 5.6, Presentation server 4.0... General understanding...
Cogence Search
Salary: £53000 - £59000 per annum + BENS
Posted: 20 May 2013