The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft App-V skills in IT jobs advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Microsoft App-V over the 3 months to 17 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Application Virtualisation (formerly Softricity SoftGrid)
Rank 235 228 232
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +4
Permanent jobs citing Microsoft App-V 34 44 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.411% 0.506% 0.306%
As % of the System Software category 3.963% 6.206% 4.234%
Number of salaries quoted 32 42 27
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £35,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £62,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £47,500 £43,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year
+10.46% -9.47%
All System Software
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
858 709 685
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 10.38% 8.153% 7.219%
Number of salaries quoted 764 621 569
Average salary £37,500 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.71% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £25,700 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

East of England Microsoft App-V Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft App-V
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the East of England region.

East of England Microsoft App-V Salary Trend

Microsoft App-V
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England Microsoft App-V Salary Histogram

Microsoft App-V
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft App-V within the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Essex +43 15 £47,500 +33.33%
Bedfordshire - 12 £35,000 -
Cambridgeshire +1 3 £42,500 -26.08%
Hertfordshire -32 3 £55,000 +37.50%
Norfolk - 1 - -
Microsoft App-V
England

Microsoft App-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V.

1 64 (85.33%) Citrix
2 56 (74.67%) Windows
3 49 (65.33%) Active Directory
4 42 (56.00%) VMware
5 39 (52.00%) XenApp
6 37 (49.33%) Windows 7
7 34 (45.33%) Microsoft
8 33 (44.00%) Finance
9 32 (42.67%) XenServer
9 32 (42.67%) VMware Infrastructure
10 29 (38.67%) DNS
11 27 (36.00%) DHCP
12 26 (34.67%) MS Exchange
13 25 (33.33%) SQL Server
13 25 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
14 24 (32.00%) ITIL
15 23 (30.67%) SCCM
16 21 (28.00%) HP
16 21 (28.00%) AppSense
17 20 (26.67%) XenDesktop
18 19 (25.33%) MSI
19 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
20 17 (22.67%) Firewall
21 16 (21.33%) MCITP
21 16 (21.33%) EMC
21 16 (21.33%) SAN
21 16 (21.33%) CommVault
21 16 (21.33%) MS Excel
21 16 (21.33%) LANDesk
22 15 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007

Microsoft App-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing Microsoft App-V 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 Microsoft App-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (13.33%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 26 (34.67%) MS Exchange
2 25 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 15 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 15 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
4 14 (18.67%) Lync
5 3 (4.000%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.667%) IIS
7 1 (1.333%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.333%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (1.333%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.333%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 16 (21.33%) MS Excel
2 6 (8.000%) MS Office
3 2 (2.667%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.333%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 29 (38.67%) DNS
2 27 (36.00%) DHCP
3 17 (22.67%) Firewall
4 16 (21.33%) SAN
5 14 (18.67%) Network Security
5 14 (18.67%) iSCSI
5 14 (18.67%) NAS
6 10 (13.33%) LDAP
7 5 (6.667%) NetScaler
8 2 (2.667%) FTP
9 1 (1.333%) VPN
9 1 (1.333%) LAN
9 1 (1.333%) VoIP
9 1 (1.333%) WAN
9 1 (1.333%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 15 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 15 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 19 (25.33%) MSI
2 5 (6.667%) InstallShield
3 2 (2.667%) AdminStudio
3 2 (2.667%) InstallAnywhere
General
1 33 (44.00%) Finance
2 10 (13.33%) Publishing
3 8 (10.67%) Retail
3 8 (10.67%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.333%) Back Office
5 1 (1.333%) Legal
5 1 (1.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (25.33%) Consultant
2 14 (18.67%) Applications Packager
3 13 (17.33%) Wintel Engineer
4 9 (12.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 9 (12.00%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (12.00%) Technical Consultant
4 9 (12.00%) Administrator
5 7 (9.333%) Citrix Engineer
6 6 (8.000%) Citrix Consultant
6 6 (8.000%) Citrix Support
7 5 (6.667%) Support Engineer
7 5 (6.667%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.667%) Architect
8 4 (5.333%) Server Engineer
8 4 (5.333%) Citrix Support Engineer
9 3 (4.000%) Wintel Server Engineer
9 3 (4.000%) Citrix Architect
9 3 (4.000%) Analyst
9 3 (4.000%) Support Analyst
10 2 (2.667%) Senior Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.667%) Blackberry
2 2 (2.667%) Management Information System
2 2 (2.667%) Thin Client
2 2 (2.667%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.333%) Clustering
3 1 (1.333%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 56 (74.67%) Windows
2 37 (49.33%) Windows 7
3 18 (24.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 8 (10.67%) Windows 8
4 8 (10.67%) Windows XP
4 8 (10.67%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (6.667%) Windows Vista
6 3 (4.000%) Linux
7 2 (2.667%) AIX
8 1 (1.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (32.00%) ITIL
2 14 (18.67%) Network Load Balancing
3 13 (17.33%) Change Management
3 13 (17.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 3 (4.000%) Validation
5 3 (4.000%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (4.000%) Load Balancing
6 2 (2.667%) ISMS
6 2 (2.667%) E-Discovery
6 2 (2.667%) SIEM
6 2 (2.667%) Information Security Management
6 2 (2.667%) Security Management
6 2 (2.667%) Information Security
6 2 (2.667%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 2 (2.667%) Technical Architecture
7 1 (1.333%) Problem Management
7 1 (1.333%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (1.333%) Migration
7 1 (1.333%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.667%) SQL
1 2 (2.667%) VBScript
1 2 (2.667%) VB
1 2 (2.667%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 16 (21.33%) MCITP
2 15 (20.00%) MCTS
3 14 (18.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 13 (17.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 13 (17.33%) CCA
4 13 (17.33%) Citrix Certification
5 12 (16.00%) MCSE
6 11 (14.67%) MCSA
6 11 (14.67%) MCP
7 4 (5.333%) CCEA
7 4 (5.333%) CCEE
7 4 (5.333%) CCAA
7 4 (5.333%) CCIA
8 2 (2.667%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.333%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.667%) SLA
3 1 (1.333%) QA
3 1 (1.333%) GxP
System Software
1 49 (65.33%) Active Directory
2 39 (52.00%) XenApp
3 32 (42.67%) XenServer
3 32 (42.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 20 (26.67%) XenDesktop
5 15 (20.00%) VMware ESX
5 15 (20.00%) Hyper-V
6 14 (18.67%) NFS
7 2 (2.667%) vSphere
8 1 (1.333%) Oracle RMAN
8 1 (1.333%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.333%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 23 (30.67%) SCCM
2 15 (20.00%) WSUS
3 9 (12.00%) SCOM
4 8 (10.67%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 8 (10.67%) Backup Exec
5 3 (4.000%) ZENworks
6 2 (2.667%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (85.33%) Citrix
2 42 (56.00%) VMware
3 34 (45.33%) Microsoft
4 21 (28.00%) HP
4 21 (28.00%) AppSense
5 16 (21.33%) CommVault
5 16 (21.33%) EMC
5 16 (21.33%) LANDesk
6 10 (13.33%) Symantec
7 8 (10.67%) Fujitsu
8 4 (5.333%) IBM
9 3 (4.000%) Oracle
9 3 (4.000%) Cisco
10 2 (2.667%) Adobe
10 2 (2.667%) Dell
10 2 (2.667%) Hitachi
10 2 (2.667%) Brocade
10 2 (2.667%) PlateSpin
10 2 (2.667%) Veeam
11 1 (1.333%) VocaLink
Essex
AD schema architecture, DNS, DHCP, GPO, LDAP etc) Extensive experience supporting & configuring Citrix XenApp 4.5, XenApp 5, 6 and 6.5. Support experience of Citrix XenServer and...
Logic Engagements Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013