The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Derbyshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 43 47 58
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +11
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 6 8 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 1.511% 1.860% 0.921%
As % of the System Software category 15.38% 15.09% 7.813%
Number of salaries quoted 4 6 5
Average salary £43,500 £47,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.42% +72.72%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
All System Software
Derbyshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
39 53 64
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 9.824% 12.33% 11.79%
Number of salaries quoted 37 49 45
Average salary £42,000 £28,750 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+46.08% -16.05%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £22,125 £20,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £42,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
vSphere
East Midlands

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire region.

Derbyshire vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Derbyshire vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Derbyshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
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Job
Vacancies
Derby +6 4 £45,000 -5.26%
Chesterfield - 2 £42,000 -
vSphere
East Midlands

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (81.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (72.73%) Windows
4 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
4 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
5 6 (54.55%) Citrix
5 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (54.55%) HP
5 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
5 6 (54.55%) DNS
5 6 (54.55%) MCSE
5 6 (54.55%) XenApp
6 5 (45.45%) XenDesktop
6 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
6 5 (45.45%) MS Exchange
6 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000
6 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000 Server
6 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
6 5 (45.45%) Load Balancing
7 4 (36.36%) SCCM
7 4 (36.36%) SCOM
7 4 (36.36%) WSUS
7 4 (36.36%) Office Communications Server
7 4 (36.36%) Blackberry
7 4 (36.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 4 (36.36%) Clustering
7 4 (36.36%) EMC
7 4 (36.36%) SQL
7 4 (36.36%) ISA Server

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire 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 5 (45.45%) MS Exchange
2 4 (36.36%) Office Communications Server
2 4 (36.36%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 4 (36.36%) Lync
3 1 (9.091%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.091%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (18.18%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
2 2 (18.18%) NetScaler
3 1 (9.091%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.091%) Internet
3 1 (9.091%) iSCSI
General
1 1 (9.091%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Virtualisation Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Wintel Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Mac Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Field Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Citrix Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Blackberry
1 4 (36.36%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) iPhone
2 1 (9.091%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (63.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000
3 5 (45.45%) Windows 2000 Server
4 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (9.091%) Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Mac OS X
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Load Balancing
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (9.091%) ITIL
3 1 (9.091%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (81.82%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (54.55%) MCSE
3 3 (27.27%) VCAP
3 3 (27.27%) CCAA
3 3 (27.27%) VCDX
3 3 (27.27%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (27.27%) MCITP
4 2 (18.18%) CCEA
4 2 (18.18%) CCIA
4 2 (18.18%) CCEE
5 1 (9.091%) NCDA
5 1 (9.091%) NCIE
5 1 (9.091%) CCA
5 1 (9.091%) Degree
System Software
1 7 (63.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (54.55%) XenApp
3 5 (45.45%) XenDesktop
3 5 (45.45%) Hyper-V
3 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (36.36%) ISA Server
4 4 (36.36%) Forefront TMG
5 3 (27.27%) XenServer
6 1 (9.091%) Terminal Services
6 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) SCCM
1 4 (36.36%) SCOM
1 4 (36.36%) WSUS
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (54.55%) Citrix
2 6 (54.55%) HP
2 6 (54.55%) Microsoft
3 4 (36.36%) EMC
4 2 (18.18%) NetApp
4 2 (18.18%) Cisco
4 2 (18.18%) Veeam
5 1 (9.091%) IBM
5 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
5 1 (9.091%) Apple
5 1 (9.091%) Symantec
5 1 (9.091%) WatchGuard