The first table below looks at the demand for VCDX in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VCDX 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 Design Expert (VCDX)
Rank 796 851 824
Rank change year-on-year
+55 -27
Permanent jobs citing VCDX 34 12 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.034% 0.011% 0.030%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.123% 0.038% 0.116%
Number of salaries quoted 18 9 15
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +10.52%
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.52%
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%
VCDX
UK

VCDX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VCDX Jobs Demand Trend

VCDX
Salary Trend

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

England VCDX Salary Trend

VCDX
Salary Histogram

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

England VCDX Salary Histogram

VCDX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCDX 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 +45 15 £47,500 -32.14%
Yorkshire -10 9 £55,000 +4.76%
West Midlands -12 8 £47,500 -19.14%
South East +9 4 £46,250 -35.08%
North West +3 3 £37,500 +25.00%
East of England - 3 £48,750 -
East Midlands +3 2 - -
South West - 1 £50,000 -
VCDX
UK

VCDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 43 (100.00%) VMware
1 43 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 41 (95.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (83.72%) Citrix
4 28 (65.12%) VCAP
5 24 (55.81%) vSphere
6 20 (46.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 20 (46.51%) Windows
6 20 (46.51%) MCSE
7 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
7 19 (44.19%) XenServer
8 18 (41.86%) CCEE
8 18 (41.86%) Cisco
8 18 (41.86%) Citrix Certification
9 17 (39.53%) EMC
10 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
11 15 (34.88%) NetApp
11 15 (34.88%) XenDesktop
11 15 (34.88%) XenApp
12 14 (32.56%) SQL
12 14 (32.56%) IIS
13 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
13 13 (30.23%) SCOM
14 12 (27.91%) PlateSpin
14 12 (27.91%) Risk Analysis
14 12 (27.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 12 (27.91%) CCIA
14 12 (27.91%) ITIL V3
14 12 (27.91%) Middleware
14 12 (27.91%) TOGAF

VCDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (27.91%) Middleware
2 11 (25.58%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.326%) COM
Application Platforms
1 14 (32.56%) IIS
2 11 (25.58%) Apache
2 11 (25.58%) Tomcat
2 11 (25.58%) WebSphere Application Server
3 2 (4.651%) Lync
Applications
1 11 (25.58%) MS Excel
1 11 (25.58%) MS Visio
1 11 (25.58%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 11 (25.58%) LDAP
2 6 (13.95%) Unified Communications
3 4 (9.302%) SAN
4 3 (6.977%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (6.977%) NetScaler
4 3 (6.977%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.58%) SQL Server
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle 8/8i
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle 10g
1 11 (25.58%) Oracle 11g
1 11 (25.58%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (2.326%) Data Mining
General
1 11 (25.58%) Retail
2 6 (13.95%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Consultant
2 12 (27.91%) Architect
2 12 (27.91%) Designer
3 10 (23.26%) Infrastructure Designer
4 7 (16.28%) Technical Architect
4 7 (16.28%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 7 (16.28%) VMware Consultant
5 6 (13.95%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (9.302%) Virtualisation Architect
7 3 (6.977%) Technical Design Consultant
7 3 (6.977%) Technical Consultant
8 2 (4.651%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (4.651%) Senior Consultant
8 2 (4.651%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 2 (4.651%) Technical Solutions Architect
8 2 (4.651%) VMware Architect
9 1 (2.326%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
9 1 (2.326%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (18.60%) Computer Science
2 6 (13.95%) SaaS
3 4 (9.302%) EqualLogic
3 4 (9.302%) Celerra
4 2 (4.651%) CLARiiON
4 2 (4.651%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 20 (46.51%) Windows
2 12 (27.91%) Linux
2 12 (27.91%) UNIX
2 12 (27.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (11.63%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (6.977%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) ITIL
1 12 (27.91%) TOGAF
1 12 (27.91%) Risk Analysis
1 12 (27.91%) ITIL V3
2 6 (13.95%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (4.651%) High Availability
4 1 (2.326%) Time Management
4 1 (2.326%) Project Management
4 1 (2.326%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 14 (32.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 43 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 28 (65.12%) VCAP
3 20 (46.51%) Microsoft Certification
3 20 (46.51%) MCSE
4 18 (41.86%) Citrix Certification
4 18 (41.86%) CCEE
5 12 (27.91%) CCIA
6 9 (20.93%) CCEA
7 8 (18.60%) Degree
7 8 (18.60%) NCDA
7 8 (18.60%) NCIE
8 6 (13.95%) MCITP
8 6 (13.95%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (13.95%) CCNP
8 6 (13.95%) CCDA
8 6 (13.95%) CCA
9 4 (9.302%) CCAA
10 3 (6.977%) HP MASE
10 3 (6.977%) MCTS
10 3 (6.977%) VTSP
System Software
1 41 (95.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (55.81%) vSphere
3 19 (44.19%) XenServer
4 16 (37.21%) Active Directory
5 15 (34.88%) XenDesktop
5 15 (34.88%) XenApp
6 11 (25.58%) Hyper-V
7 10 (23.26%) VMware ESX
8 1 (2.326%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 13 (30.23%) SCOM
2 11 (25.58%) Red Hat Satellite
2 11 (25.58%) Tivoli
2 11 (25.58%) Tivoli Monitoring
2 11 (25.58%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 2 (4.651%) SCCM
3 2 (4.651%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 43 (100.00%) VMware
2 36 (83.72%) Citrix
3 19 (44.19%) Microsoft
4 18 (41.86%) Cisco
5 17 (39.53%) EMC
6 15 (34.88%) NetApp
7 13 (30.23%) Red Hat
8 12 (27.91%) PlateSpin
9 11 (25.58%) Hitachi
9 11 (25.58%) Oracle
9 11 (25.58%) IBM
10 10 (23.26%) HP
10 10 (23.26%) Dell
11 7 (16.28%) Cognizant
11 7 (16.28%) Novell
12 6 (13.95%) Blue Coat
12 6 (13.95%) Juniper
12 6 (13.95%) DataCore
12 6 (13.95%) FalconStor
13 3 (6.977%) Twitter