The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 21 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 Dunstable region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
All System Software
Dunstable
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
39 10 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Dunstable 33.62% 29.41% 16.00%
Number of salaries quoted 37 10 3
Average salary £36,834 £47,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.45% +93.87%
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
vSphere
Bedfordshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) UNIX
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Dunstable 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%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 2 (66.67%) LDAP
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) SAN
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Architect
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) UNIX
1 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft