The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 86 89 98
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +9
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 7 5 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.600% 0.378% 0.062%
As % of the System Software category 13.21% 6.024% 1.235%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 1
Average salary £35,000 £28,500 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.80% -21.91%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All System Software
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
53 83 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 4.545% 6.274% 5.047%
Number of salaries quoted 33 49 53
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -31.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £23,700 £31,200
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
VMware ESX
Scotland

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
3 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
4 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
5 3 (42.86%) Linux
5 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
5 3 (42.86%) Blackberry
5 3 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (42.86%) DNS
5 3 (42.86%) Android
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Mobile
5 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
5 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
6 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
6 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
6 2 (28.57%) Citrix
6 2 (28.57%) UNIX
7 1 (14.29%) Perl
7 1 (14.29%) XML
7 1 (14.29%) ITIL
7 1 (14.29%) MCSE
7 1 (14.29%) MCSA
7 1 (14.29%) Windows XP

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) XML
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco IOS
1 3 (42.86%) DNS
1 3 (42.86%) Unified Communications
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (42.86%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Android
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Mobile
2 3 (42.86%) Mac OS
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Service Management
1 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) MCTS
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Xen
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) Brocade
5 1 (14.29%) Fujitsu
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Citrix Technologies (including Xen Desktop 5.6, Xen Aapp v5/6, EdgSight, Zone Data Collector, Web...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 18 June 2013