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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 40 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 0.362% 0.329% -
As % of the System Software category 6.667% 3.704% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £22,500 £30,212 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.52% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Devon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
15 27 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Devon 5.435% 8.882% 8.314%
Number of salaries quoted 13 27 20
Average salary £22,500 £34,000 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.82% +7.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £19,000 £20,050 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £38,500 £49,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Devon 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 Devon region.

Devon vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Sophos
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (33.33%) Publishing
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) LAN
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) WSUS
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Devon 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 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Back Office
1 1 (33.33%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) Support Team Leader
1 2 (66.67%) IT Support
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) CentOS
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VBScript
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Server
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Sophos
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp