The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer 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 XenServer 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 East of England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 207 201 210
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +9
Permanent jobs citing XenServer 57 66 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 0.690% 0.759% 0.713%
As % of the System Software category 6.643% 9.053% 9.927%
Number of salaries quoted 51 53 62
Average salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.55% +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £35,000 £33,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £66,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All System Software
East of England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
858 729 685
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the East of England 10.38% 8.379% 7.180%
Number of salaries quoted 765 636 574
Average salary £37,500 £41,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-9.09% +3.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,250 £26,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Salary Trend

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

East of England XenServer Salary Trend

XenServer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XenServer across the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

East of England XenServer Salary Histogram

XenServer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the East of England region over the 3 months to 24 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 +28 22 £47,500 -9.52%
Bedfordshire -5 14 £29,000 -22.66%
Cambridgeshire -15 14 £48,750 +21.87%
Hertfordshire +5 5 £50,000 +15.94%
Suffolk - 2 £40,000 -
Norfolk - 1 £40,000 -
XenServer
England

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 81 (86.17%) VMware
2 80 (85.11%) Citrix
3 71 (75.53%) Windows
4 69 (73.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 69 (73.40%) XenApp
5 57 (60.64%) Active Directory
6 48 (51.06%) Windows Server 2008
7 46 (48.94%) XenDesktop
8 43 (45.74%) Microsoft
9 42 (44.68%) DNS
10 39 (41.49%) DHCP
10 39 (41.49%) HP
10 39 (41.49%) Finance
11 38 (40.43%) Hyper-V
12 34 (36.17%) Microsoft App-V
12 34 (36.17%) SAN
13 33 (35.11%) VMware ESX
13 33 (35.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 32 (34.04%) MCITP
14 32 (34.04%) MS Exchange
15 31 (32.98%) Windows 7
16 30 (31.91%) Citrix Certification
17 27 (28.72%) SQL Server
17 27 (28.72%) Firewall
18 25 (26.60%) WSUS
18 25 (26.60%) LANDesk
19 24 (25.53%) AppSense
19 24 (25.53%) MCTS
20 23 (24.47%) ITIL
20 23 (24.47%) Network Security

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the East of England region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.191%) XML
1 3 (3.191%) Application Packaging
2 2 (2.128%) Apache Flex
3 1 (1.064%) .NET
3 1 (1.064%) Web Services
3 1 (1.064%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 32 (34.04%) MS Exchange
2 19 (20.21%) Exchange Server 2010
3 18 (19.15%) Lync
3 18 (19.15%) Exchange Server 2007
4 16 (17.02%) Office Communications Server
5 4 (4.255%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (4.255%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.191%) Exchange Server 2000
7 2 (2.128%) IIS
8 1 (1.064%) OpenStack
8 1 (1.064%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.064%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 16 (17.02%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 42 (44.68%) DNS
2 39 (41.49%) DHCP
3 34 (36.17%) SAN
4 27 (28.72%) Firewall
5 23 (24.47%) Network Security
6 16 (17.02%) LDAP
6 16 (17.02%) iSCSI
6 16 (17.02%) NAS
7 15 (15.96%) NetScaler
8 7 (7.447%) Unified Communications
9 3 (3.191%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (2.128%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (1.064%) IPsec
11 1 (1.064%) VLAN
11 1 (1.064%) LAN
11 1 (1.064%) WAN
11 1 (1.064%) SSL
11 1 (1.064%) VPN
11 1 (1.064%) Ethernet
11 1 (1.064%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (28.72%) SQL Server
2 20 (21.28%) SQL Server 2005
2 20 (21.28%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 39 (41.49%) Finance
2 11 (11.70%) Publishing
3 2 (2.128%) Banking
4 1 (1.064%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (27.66%) Wintel Engineer
2 21 (22.34%) Consultant
3 16 (17.02%) Support Engineer
4 9 (9.574%) Citrix Consultant
4 9 (9.574%) Citrix Engineer
5 8 (8.511%) Architect
5 8 (8.511%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 6 (6.383%) Technical Architect
6 6 (6.383%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (5.319%) Server Engineer
7 5 (5.319%) Citrix Support
7 5 (5.319%) Senior Consultant
7 5 (5.319%) VMware Consultant
7 5 (5.319%) Citrix Support Engineer
8 4 (4.255%) Citrix Architect
8 4 (4.255%) Wintel Support Engineer
8 4 (4.255%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 4 (4.255%) Wintel Support
8 4 (4.255%) Server Support
8 4 (4.255%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.319%) Clustering
2 4 (4.255%) Celerra
2 4 (4.255%) EqualLogic
3 2 (2.128%) CLARiiON
4 1 (1.064%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.064%) Open Source
4 1 (1.064%) SaaS
4 1 (1.064%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 71 (75.53%) Windows
2 48 (51.06%) Windows Server 2008
3 31 (32.98%) Windows 7
4 18 (19.15%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (6.383%) Linux
6 3 (3.191%) Windows 2000
7 2 (2.128%) AIX
8 1 (1.064%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (24.47%) ITIL
2 21 (22.34%) Change Management
3 15 (15.96%) Network Load Balancing
3 15 (15.96%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (10.64%) Load Balancing
5 5 (5.319%) Configuration Management
6 4 (4.255%) Business Development
7 3 (3.191%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (3.191%) Migration
7 3 (3.191%) Data Management
8 2 (2.128%) Investment Management
8 2 (2.128%) Technical Architecture
8 2 (2.128%) High Availability
8 2 (2.128%) Validation
9 1 (1.064%) Service Management
9 1 (1.064%) Business Continuity
9 1 (1.064%) Agile Software Development
9 1 (1.064%) Document Management
9 1 (1.064%) TOGAF
9 1 (1.064%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) VBScript
2 8 (8.511%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.255%) Python
4 3 (3.191%) SQL
4 3 (3.191%) C#
4 3 (3.191%) Java
5 2 (2.128%) C++
5 2 (2.128%) C
6 1 (1.064%) Ruby
6 1 (1.064%) Perl
6 1 (1.064%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 33 (35.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 32 (34.04%) MCITP
3 30 (31.91%) Citrix Certification
4 24 (25.53%) MCTS
5 17 (18.09%) CCEE
5 17 (18.09%) CCA
6 16 (17.02%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (15.96%) CCIA
7 15 (15.96%) MCSE
7 15 (15.96%) MCSA
8 13 (13.83%) CCEA
8 13 (13.83%) CCAA
9 12 (12.77%) MCP
10 6 (6.383%) NCDA
10 6 (6.383%) NCIE
11 4 (4.255%) VCDX
12 3 (3.191%) RHCE
12 3 (3.191%) VCAP
12 3 (3.191%) HP MASE
13 2 (2.128%) HP AIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.319%) QA
3 3 (3.191%) SLA
System Software
1 69 (73.40%) VMware Infrastructure
1 69 (73.40%) XenApp
2 57 (60.64%) Active Directory
3 46 (48.94%) XenDesktop
4 38 (40.43%) Hyper-V
5 34 (36.17%) Microsoft App-V
6 33 (35.11%) VMware ESX
7 22 (23.40%) vSphere
8 17 (18.09%) NFS
9 4 (4.255%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 3 (3.191%) MetaFrame
10 3 (3.191%) Xen
11 2 (2.128%) VMFS
11 2 (2.128%) Terminal Services
12 1 (1.064%) Samba
12 1 (1.064%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 25 (26.60%) WSUS
2 4 (4.255%) SCCM
2 4 (4.255%) SCOM
3 3 (3.191%) NetBackup
3 3 (3.191%) Backup Exec
3 3 (3.191%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 3 (3.191%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.064%) Cobbler
4 1 (1.064%) Puppet
Vendors
1 81 (86.17%) VMware
2 80 (85.11%) Citrix
3 43 (45.74%) Microsoft
4 39 (41.49%) HP
5 25 (26.60%) LANDesk
6 24 (25.53%) AppSense
7 19 (20.21%) EMC
8 18 (19.15%) CommVault
9 14 (14.89%) NetApp
10 11 (11.70%) Cisco
11 9 (9.574%) IBM
12 7 (7.447%) Veeam
13 5 (5.319%) Symantec
13 5 (5.319%) Dell
14 3 (3.191%) Red Hat
15 2 (2.128%) PlateSpin
15 2 (2.128%) SolarWinds
15 2 (2.128%) Hitachi
15 2 (2.128%) Juniper
15 2 (2.128%) Oracle
Essex
Server Virtualisation and consolidation experience using Citrix XenServer/Metaframe and VMWare (ESX) technologies. At least two formal IT industry accreditation (Microsoft, CompTIA, Citrix, VMWare etc). Familiarisation of Citrix...
Capital IT Resourcing LTD
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum & Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex
Appsense... Migration from Presentation server to XenApp. Citrix Performance tuning... Server Virtualisation and consolidation experience using Citrix XenServer/Metaframe and VMWare (ESX) technologies... Windows 2000 Clustering Technologies and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Working closely with the Software Test Architect you’re work will target a next generation networking product, developing test cases, unit and systems test as well as educating...
ENTERPRISE RECRUITMENT LTD
Salary: From £35,000 to £50,000 per annum excellent benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013