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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 33 - 41
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 7 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 2.373% - 0.712%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% - 7.143%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 2
Average salary £50,000 - £41,250
90% offered a salary of more than £44,000 - £40,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 - £42,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
35 29 28
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 11.86% 8.709% 9.964%
Number of salaries quoted 33 26 26
Average salary £50,000 £32,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+53.84% -5.79%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £47,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
London

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon 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 Croydon region.

Croydon vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Croydon vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 12 (100.00%) Windows
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
5 6 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 6 (50.00%) MCTS
5 6 (50.00%) MCITP
6 5 (41.67%) Cisco
6 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
6 5 (41.67%) SAN
7 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (33.33%) DNS
7 4 (33.33%) Citrix
7 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
7 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
7 4 (33.33%) HP
7 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
7 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (25.00%) XenApp
8 3 (25.00%) CCDE
8 3 (25.00%) Firewall
8 3 (25.00%) Dell
8 3 (25.00%) CCNP
8 3 (25.00%) CCDA
8 3 (25.00%) UNIX
8 3 (25.00%) Linux
8 3 (25.00%) MCSE

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon 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 Development
1 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
1 1 (8.333%) Application Packaging
1 1 (8.333%) .NET
1 1 (8.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 6 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (8.333%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (8.333%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (8.333%) SharePoint
4 1 (8.333%) IIS
4 1 (8.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (8.333%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) SAN
2 4 (33.33%) DNS
2 4 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) Firewall
3 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (25.00%) MPLS
3 3 (25.00%) OSPF
3 3 (25.00%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
5 1 (8.333%) VLAN
5 1 (8.333%) Wireless
5 1 (8.333%) IPsec
5 1 (8.333%) LAN
5 1 (8.333%) WAN
5 1 (8.333%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (8.333%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (8.333%) MSBuild
1 1 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 1 (8.333%) AdminStudio
General
1 1 (8.333%) Marketing
1 1 (8.333%) Retail
1 1 (8.333%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Consultant
1 4 (33.33%) Technical Consultant
2 2 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Support Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
3 1 (8.333%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.333%) Project Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Technical Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Support Manager
3 1 (8.333%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (8.333%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (8.333%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (8.333%) SaaS
1 1 (8.333%) Celerra
1 1 (8.333%) Computer Science
1 1 (8.333%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 12 (100.00%) Windows
2 11 (91.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (25.00%) UNIX
4 3 (25.00%) Linux
5 1 (8.333%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (8.333%) Windows XP
5 1 (8.333%) Windows 2000
5 1 (8.333%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (8.333%) Database Security
2 1 (8.333%) Digital Marketing
2 1 (8.333%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (8.333%) Identity Management
2 1 (8.333%) E-Commerce
2 1 (8.333%) ERP
2 1 (8.333%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) SQL
2 1 (8.333%) PowerShell
2 1 (8.333%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 6 (50.00%) MCTS
1 6 (50.00%) MCITP
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (25.00%) CCDE
3 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 3 (25.00%) CCDA
3 3 (25.00%) MCSE
3 3 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (16.67%) CCEE
4 2 (16.67%) CCAA
4 2 (16.67%) CCIA
5 1 (8.333%) VCP5
5 1 (8.333%) VCP4
5 1 (8.333%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 3 (25.00%) XenApp
4 2 (16.67%) XenServer
4 2 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 2 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (8.333%) Hyper-V
5 1 (8.333%) VMware ESX
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (16.67%) Backup Exec
1 2 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (8.333%) SCOM
2 1 (8.333%) SCVMM
2 1 (8.333%) Nagios
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco
2 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (33.33%) Citrix
3 4 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 4 (33.33%) HP
4 3 (25.00%) Dell
5 1 (8.333%) EMC
5 1 (8.333%) Oracle
5 1 (8.333%) NetApp
5 1 (8.333%) Red Hat