The first table below looks at the demand for VMS 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 VMS 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 Operating Systems category for the East of England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 267 265 242
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -23
Permanent jobs citing VMS 2 7 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.024% 0.080% 0.200%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.078% 0.272% 0.712%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 19
Average salary £36,250 £32,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.28% -14.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,250 £32,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £37,250 £35,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.94% -
All Operating Systems
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
2550 2577 2667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 30.84% 29.63% 28.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2194 2118 2236
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VMS across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

East of England VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Salary Trend

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

East of England VMS Salary Trend

VMS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS 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
Hertfordshire - 2 £36,250 -
VMS
England

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing VMS 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 VMS.

1 13 (81.25%) VMware
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (62.50%) Windows
3 8 (50.00%) Solaris
3 8 (50.00%) QA
3 8 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 8 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 8 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (43.75%) Linux
4 7 (43.75%) UNIX
5 5 (31.25%) Perl
5 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (31.25%) Bash shell
6 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
6 4 (25.00%) NAS
6 4 (25.00%) vSphere
6 4 (25.00%) Celerra
6 4 (25.00%) Brocade
6 4 (25.00%) CLARiiON
6 4 (25.00%) Symmetrix
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (25.00%) Sun
6 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
6 4 (25.00%) EMC
7 3 (18.75%) Project Management
7 3 (18.75%) Python
7 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
8 2 (12.50%) Validation
8 2 (12.50%) SQL
8 2 (12.50%) MySQL

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) HTML
1 1 (6.250%) SOAP
1 1 (6.250%) Web Services
1 1 (6.250%) SAML
1 1 (6.250%) Apache CXF
1 1 (6.250%) REST
Application Platforms
1 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.250%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 4 (25.00%) NAS
2 1 (6.250%) HTTP
2 1 (6.250%) DNS
2 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Ant
1 1 (6.250%) Subversion
1 1 (6.250%) Maven
1 1 (6.250%) Git (software)
1 1 (6.250%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
1 1 (6.250%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Architect
1 4 (25.00%) Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 4 (25.00%) UNIX Engineer
1 4 (25.00%) Windows Systems Engineer
2 1 (6.250%) DevOps Engineer
2 1 (6.250%) Design Engineer
2 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
2 1 (6.250%) Computer Operator
2 1 (6.250%) 1st Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) CLARiiON
1 4 (25.00%) Symmetrix
1 4 (25.00%) Celerra
2 3 (18.75%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (6.250%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 8 (50.00%) Solaris
3 7 (43.75%) Linux
3 7 (43.75%) UNIX
4 5 (31.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Mac OS
5 1 (6.250%) OpenVMS
5 1 (6.250%) Fedora
5 1 (6.250%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (18.75%) Project Management
2 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.250%) Release Management
3 1 (6.250%) Security Architecture
3 1 (6.250%) High Availability
3 1 (6.250%) ITIL
3 1 (6.250%) E-Commerce
3 1 (6.250%) ERP
3 1 (6.250%) SOA
3 1 (6.250%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (31.25%) Perl
1 5 (31.25%) Bash shell
2 4 (25.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (18.75%) Python
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
4 2 (12.50%) C
4 2 (12.50%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) Java
5 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 13 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 8 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (25.00%) vSphere
4 1 (6.250%) Xen
4 1 (6.250%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) Puppet
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 4 (25.00%) Brocade
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (25.00%) Sun
2 4 (25.00%) EMC
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.250%) Red Hat