The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Edinburgh region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 53 36 64
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +28
Permanent jobs citing VMware 33 63 41
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 3.102% 4.609% 2.585%
As % of the Vendors category 7.143% 10.75% 7.093%
Number of salaries quoted 23 45 20
Average salary £35,000 £34,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -31.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +1.29%
All Vendors
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
462 586 578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 43.42% 42.87% 36.44%
Number of salaries quoted 297 428 423
Average salary £42,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
VMware
Scotland

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh VMware Salary Trend

VMware
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Edinburgh VMware Salary Histogram

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VMware 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.

1 53 (65.43%) Windows
1 53 (65.43%) Microsoft
2 46 (56.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (46.91%) Active Directory
4 31 (38.27%) Windows Server 2008
5 25 (30.86%) MS Exchange
6 23 (28.40%) Citrix
7 22 (27.16%) Windows Server 2003
8 21 (25.93%) Finance
9 20 (24.69%) Linux
10 18 (22.22%) vSphere
11 17 (20.99%) Degree
11 17 (20.99%) MS Excel
11 17 (20.99%) ITIL
12 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
13 14 (17.28%) SCCM
14 12 (14.81%) UNIX
14 12 (14.81%) SLA
14 12 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2007
15 11 (13.58%) SCOM
15 11 (13.58%) PowerShell
15 11 (13.58%) Cisco
15 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
15 11 (13.58%) MS Office
16 10 (12.35%) SAN
16 10 (12.35%) DNS
16 10 (12.35%) Dell
16 10 (12.35%) Service Delivery
17 9 (11.11%) Blackberry
17 9 (11.11%) Mainframe

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing VMware 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (11.11%) Middleware
2 2 (2.469%) XML
3 1 (1.235%) MapReduce
3 1 (1.235%) jQuery
3 1 (1.235%) HTML5
3 1 (1.235%) LAMP
3 1 (1.235%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 25 (30.86%) MS Exchange
2 12 (14.81%) Exchange Server 2007
3 8 (9.877%) SharePoint
4 7 (8.642%) IIS
5 6 (7.407%) Lotus Notes
6 4 (4.938%) MQSeries
6 4 (4.938%) Apache
7 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (3.704%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (2.469%) Tomcat
8 2 (2.469%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (2.469%) SharePoint 2010
8 2 (2.469%) Lync
Applications
1 17 (20.99%) MS Excel
2 11 (13.58%) MS Office
3 6 (7.407%) MS Visio
3 6 (7.407%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.35%) SAN
1 10 (12.35%) DNS
2 8 (9.877%) VoIP
2 8 (9.877%) Internet
3 7 (8.642%) Firewall
3 7 (8.642%) WAN
3 7 (8.642%) DHCP
4 5 (6.173%) Intranet
4 5 (6.173%) TCP/IP
5 4 (4.938%) LAN
5 4 (4.938%) Unified Communications
6 3 (3.704%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (2.469%) NAS
7 2 (2.469%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (18.52%) SQL Server
2 7 (8.642%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (6.173%) Data Warehouse
4 4 (4.938%) MySQL
5 3 (3.704%) SQL Server 2005
6 2 (2.469%) RDBMS
6 2 (2.469%) Hadoop
6 2 (2.469%) SQL Server 2012
7 1 (1.235%) Big Data
7 1 (1.235%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (2.469%) Subversion
General
1 21 (25.93%) Finance
2 6 (7.407%) Telecoms
2 6 (7.407%) Retail
3 4 (4.938%) Banking
3 4 (4.938%) Retail Banking
4 3 (3.704%) Back Office
5 1 (1.235%) Legal
Job Titles
1 16 (19.75%) Analyst
2 13 (16.05%) Infrastructure Manager
3 12 (14.81%) Support Analyst
4 9 (11.11%) Architect
5 8 (9.877%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 8 (9.877%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 7 (8.642%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (8.642%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.642%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.407%) Administrator
7 6 (7.407%) Systems Support
8 5 (6.173%) Business Intelligence Architect
8 5 (6.173%) Team Leader
9 4 (4.938%) Solutions Designer
9 4 (4.938%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (4.938%) Systems Engineer
9 4 (4.938%) Solutions Architect
9 4 (4.938%) Technical Architect
9 4 (4.938%) Systems Support Engineer
9 4 (4.938%) Designer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 9 (11.11%) Mainframe
2 6 (7.407%) Enterprise Storage
3 5 (6.173%) iSeries
3 5 (6.173%) Cloud Computing
4 3 (3.704%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.704%) CLARiiON
5 2 (2.469%) EqualLogic
5 2 (2.469%) Statistics
6 1 (1.235%) Celerra
6 1 (1.235%) SaaS
6 1 (1.235%) EMC Centera
6 1 (1.235%) Replication
6 1 (1.235%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 53 (65.43%) Windows
2 31 (38.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 22 (27.16%) Windows Server 2003
4 20 (24.69%) Linux
5 12 (14.81%) UNIX
6 7 (8.642%) Windows XP
7 6 (7.407%) AIX
8 5 (6.173%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (4.938%) Windows 7
10 3 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
10 3 (3.704%) Mac OS
10 3 (3.704%) Android
11 2 (2.469%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (1.235%) Windows Vista
12 1 (1.235%) Windows 2000 Server
12 1 (1.235%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) ITIL
2 10 (12.35%) Service Delivery
3 8 (9.877%) Asset Management
3 8 (9.877%) Operations Management
4 7 (8.642%) Technical Architecture
5 6 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (7.407%) Time Management
5 6 (7.407%) ITIL V2
5 6 (7.407%) Capacity Management
6 5 (6.173%) Migration
6 5 (6.173%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (6.173%) Business Intelligence
7 4 (4.938%) Incident Management
7 4 (4.938%) ITIL V3
8 2 (2.469%) BCP
8 2 (2.469%) PRINCE2
8 2 (2.469%) Service Management
8 2 (2.469%) Validation
8 2 (2.469%) Network Architecture
8 2 (2.469%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.58%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.642%) Perl
3 5 (6.173%) SQL
4 4 (4.938%) VBScript
5 2 (2.469%) Java
5 2 (2.469%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.469%) AWK
5 2 (2.469%) sed
6 1 (1.235%) Ruby
6 1 (1.235%) C#
6 1 (1.235%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.235%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (20.99%) Degree
2 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (7.407%) MCSA
4 5 (6.173%) MCSE
5 3 (3.704%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (3.704%) CCNA
6 2 (2.469%) Server+ Certification
6 2 (2.469%) Security Cleared
7 1 (1.235%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.235%) MCTS
7 1 (1.235%) MCP
7 1 (1.235%) HNC
7 1 (1.235%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (14.81%) SLA
2 3 (3.704%) QA
System Software
1 46 (56.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 38 (46.91%) Active Directory
3 18 (22.22%) vSphere
4 8 (9.877%) XenApp
5 6 (7.407%) VMware ESX
6 4 (4.938%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (2.469%) Nmap
7 2 (2.469%) XenDesktop
8 1 (1.235%) Xen
8 1 (1.235%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (1.235%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.235%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 14 (17.28%) SCCM
2 11 (13.58%) SCOM
3 4 (4.938%) Backup Exec
3 4 (4.938%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 3 (3.704%) WSUS
4 3 (3.704%) DameWare
5 2 (2.469%) Puppet
Vendors
1 53 (65.43%) Microsoft
2 23 (28.40%) Citrix
3 11 (13.58%) Cisco
4 10 (12.35%) Dell
5 7 (8.642%) Symantec
5 7 (8.642%) CommVault
6 6 (7.407%) Lotus
6 6 (7.407%) Postini
7 5 (6.173%) IBM
7 5 (6.173%) EMC
8 4 (4.938%) Intel
8 4 (4.938%) HP
8 4 (4.938%) Altiris
9 3 (3.704%) Juniper
9 3 (3.704%) Apple
10 2 (2.469%) Red Hat
10 2 (2.469%) NetApp
10 2 (2.469%) JBoss
10 2 (2.469%) Fujitsu
10 2 (2.469%) Brocade
Edinburgh, Scotland
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
You will have excellent working knowledge of Microsoft, Citrix and VMWare and will ideally hold Microsoft certifications, although these aren't essential... Any experience of Symantec Backup Exec...
Bluefire Consulting
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows Server 2003... Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 App Sense Performance, Application and Environment Manager, EMC CLARiiON / NetApp,...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 21 May 2013
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: 21 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
My client, a leading Software organisation based in Edinburgh are currently seeking a Operations engineer to join their expanding team. Reporting directly to senior management you will be...
Experis IT
Posted: 22 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
QA and testing of products and solutions... Technical Skills: Web Development. JavaScript, jQuery, HTML5, CSS. SQL Server and/or T-SQL. VMWare... Product Support Analyst / IT Graduate / Service...
CoreCom Consulting
Salary: £22000 - £25000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013