The first table below looks at the demand for VCAP in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VCAP 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 Qualifications for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
Rank 795 828 844
Rank change year-on-year
+33 +16
Permanent jobs citing VCAP 35 35 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.035% 0.031% 0.013%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.126% 0.112% 0.050%
Number of salaries quoted 26 28 5
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £67,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £35,300 £29,100
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £65,000 £73,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £52,500 £31,500
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +66.66%
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27737 31258 30275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.50% 27.52% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 22621 26761 25414
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
VCAP
UK

VCAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VCAP Jobs Demand Trend

VCAP
Salary Trend

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

England VCAP Salary Trend

VCAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VCAP across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England VCAP Salary Histogram

VCAP
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the 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
London +31 12 £50,000 +3.09%
Yorkshire -10 9 £55,000 +4.76%
West Midlands -11 9 £50,000 -14.89%
South East +1 6 £45,000 -14.28%
East of England - 6 £47,500 -
North West +5 5 £37,500 +25.00%
East Midlands +3 2 - -
South West - 1 £50,000 -
VCAP
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VCAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 63 (88.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 57 (80.28%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (73.24%) Cisco
5 44 (61.97%) Citrix
6 34 (47.89%) vSphere
7 31 (43.66%) Citrix Certification
7 31 (43.66%) Microsoft
8 29 (40.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (39.44%) VCDX
10 27 (38.03%) Cisco Certification
10 27 (38.03%) EMC
11 26 (36.62%) NetApp
12 25 (35.21%) CCNP
13 24 (33.80%) XenServer
14 23 (32.39%) CCEE
15 22 (30.99%) XenApp
16 21 (29.58%) ITIL
16 21 (29.58%) MCSE
17 20 (28.17%) HP
17 20 (28.17%) XenDesktop
18 17 (23.94%) CCIA
19 16 (22.54%) VMware ESX
19 16 (22.54%) CCIE
19 16 (22.54%) Hyper-V
20 15 (21.13%) MCITP
20 15 (21.13%) Windows
21 14 (19.72%) Dell
21 14 (19.72%) CCDA
21 14 (19.72%) CCA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 5 (7.042%) IIS
2 2 (2.817%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.817%) MS Exchange
2 2 (2.817%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (15.49%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (19.72%) SAN
1 14 (19.72%) Unified Communications
2 13 (18.31%) Cisco ASA
2 13 (18.31%) Firewall
3 11 (15.49%) Cisco PIX
3 11 (15.49%) Network Security
3 11 (15.49%) LAN
3 11 (15.49%) VoIP
3 11 (15.49%) WAN
4 9 (12.68%) WLAN
4 9 (12.68%) Wireless
4 9 (12.68%) FWSM
5 6 (8.451%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (5.634%) MPLS
6 4 (5.634%) VPN
7 3 (4.225%) NetScaler
7 3 (4.225%) Cisco IOS
8 2 (2.817%) IP Telephony
8 2 (2.817%) DNS
8 2 (2.817%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.634%) MySQL
2 1 (1.408%) Data Mining
General
1 8 (11.27%) Advertising
2 5 (7.042%) Finance
Job Titles
1 37 (52.11%) Consultant
2 19 (26.76%) Architect
3 12 (16.90%) VMware Consultant
4 10 (14.08%) Technical Consultant
5 9 (12.68%) Solutions Architect
5 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (12.68%) Technical Architect
6 8 (11.27%) Senior Consultant
6 8 (11.27%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 7 (9.859%) Network Consultant
8 6 (8.451%) Virtualisation Architect
9 4 (5.634%) VMware Technical Consultant
9 4 (5.634%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 3 (4.225%) Citrix Consultant
10 3 (4.225%) Senior Citrix Consultant
10 3 (4.225%) Technical Design Consultant
10 3 (4.225%) VMware Architect
11 2 (2.817%) VMware Engineer
11 2 (2.817%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
11 2 (2.817%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.859%) Clustering
2 6 (8.451%) SaaS
3 3 (4.225%) EqualLogic
3 3 (4.225%) Celerra
4 1 (1.408%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 15 (21.13%) Windows
2 6 (8.451%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (8.451%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (5.634%) Linux
3 4 (5.634%) CentOS
4 3 (4.225%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (1.408%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (29.58%) ITIL
2 11 (15.49%) Network Design
3 9 (12.68%) Network Management
4 5 (7.042%) Technical Architecture
4 5 (7.042%) Operations Management
5 1 (1.408%) High Availability
5 1 (1.408%) Supplier Management
5 1 (1.408%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 5 (7.042%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (88.73%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 31 (43.66%) Citrix Certification
3 29 (40.85%) Microsoft Certification
4 28 (39.44%) VCDX
5 27 (38.03%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (35.21%) CCNP
7 23 (32.39%) CCEE
8 21 (29.58%) MCSE
9 17 (23.94%) CCIA
10 16 (22.54%) CCIE
11 15 (21.13%) MCITP
12 14 (19.72%) CCDA
12 14 (19.72%) CCA
13 13 (18.31%) NCDA
13 13 (18.31%) NCIE
14 12 (16.90%) CCDP
15 11 (15.49%) CCIP
15 11 (15.49%) CCSA
15 11 (15.49%) CCDE
16 10 (14.08%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (15.49%) ISO 9000
1 11 (15.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 57 (80.28%) VMware Infrastructure
2 34 (47.89%) vSphere
3 24 (33.80%) XenServer
4 22 (30.99%) XenApp
5 20 (28.17%) XenDesktop
6 16 (22.54%) Hyper-V
6 16 (22.54%) VMware ESX
7 9 (12.68%) Active Directory
8 3 (4.225%) vCloud
9 1 (1.408%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (2.817%) SCCM
2 2 (2.817%) SCOM
3 1 (1.408%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 52 (73.24%) Cisco
3 44 (61.97%) Citrix
4 31 (43.66%) Microsoft
5 27 (38.03%) EMC
6 26 (36.62%) NetApp
7 20 (28.17%) HP
8 14 (19.72%) Dell
9 13 (18.31%) CheckPoint
10 12 (16.90%) PlateSpin
11 7 (9.859%) Novell
12 6 (8.451%) Juniper
12 6 (8.451%) Blue Coat
12 6 (8.451%) DataCore
12 6 (8.451%) FalconStor
13 5 (7.042%) Twitter
13 5 (7.042%) Red Hat
14 2 (2.817%) Barracuda Networks
14 2 (2.817%) F5
14 2 (2.817%) Huawei
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