The first table below looks at the demand for VCP4 in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VCP4 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 Qualifications for the England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4)
Rank 795 823 834
Rank change year-on-year
+28 +11
Permanent jobs citing VCP4 46 43 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.045% 0.038% 0.014%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.165% 0.138% 0.052%
Number of salaries quoted 43 38 16
Average salary £43,750 £45,000 £46,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.77% -2.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,300 £35,500 £38,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
All Qualifications
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
27848 31150 30564
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.53% 27.48% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 22693 26719 25735
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £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%
VCP4
UK

VCP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VCP4 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England VCP4 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP4
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VCP4 across the England region.

England VCP4 Salary Trend

VCP4
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VCP4 across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England VCP4 Salary Histogram

VCP4
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCP4 within the 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
London +51 18 £47,500 -9.52%
West Midlands -17 8 £35,500 +4.41%
South East +9 7 £47,500 +18.75%
Yorkshire - 4 £40,000 -
South West +1 3 £24,000 -40.00%
East Midlands -1 3 £47,500 +18.75%
East of England -6 3 £51,250 +13.88%
Midlands - 1 - -
North West - 1 - -
VCP4
UK

VCP4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing VCP4 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 VCP4.

1 79 (97.53%) VMware
1 79 (97.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 72 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 62 (76.54%) Windows
4 46 (56.79%) Microsoft
4 46 (56.79%) Windows Server 2008
5 41 (50.62%) Active Directory
6 40 (49.38%) Windows Server 2003
7 39 (48.15%) SAN
8 38 (46.91%) VCP5
9 35 (43.21%) Cisco
10 34 (41.98%) vSphere
11 31 (38.27%) Hyper-V
12 29 (35.80%) Citrix
13 28 (34.57%) TCP/IP
14 26 (32.10%) DNS
15 24 (29.63%) MCITP
16 23 (28.40%) Microsoft Certification
16 23 (28.40%) HP
17 19 (23.46%) MS Excel
18 18 (22.22%) EMC
19 17 (20.99%) Terminal Services
19 17 (20.99%) DHCP
19 17 (20.99%) MCSE
19 17 (20.99%) VMware ESX
19 17 (20.99%) XenApp
19 17 (20.99%) XenDesktop
20 16 (19.75%) XenServer
20 16 (19.75%) Linux
20 16 (19.75%) CCA

VCP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing VCP4 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 VCP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.704%) LAMP
2 1 (1.235%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 14 (17.28%) MS Exchange
2 13 (16.05%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (12.35%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (7.407%) IIS
4 6 (7.407%) SharePoint
5 4 (4.938%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (2.469%) Apache
7 1 (1.235%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 19 (23.46%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.704%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.235%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 39 (48.15%) SAN
2 28 (34.57%) TCP/IP
3 26 (32.10%) DNS
4 17 (20.99%) DHCP
5 15 (18.52%) iSCSI
6 12 (14.81%) LDAP
7 11 (13.58%) LAN
8 10 (12.35%) Firewall
8 10 (12.35%) NAS
9 9 (11.11%) SMTP
9 9 (11.11%) SSL
9 9 (11.11%) FTP
9 9 (11.11%) HTTP
10 8 (9.877%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (8.642%) WAN
12 6 (7.407%) Network Security
13 3 (3.704%) VLAN
13 3 (3.704%) VPN
14 2 (2.469%) NetScaler
15 1 (1.235%) VPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.642%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.938%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (3.704%) MySQL
General
1 6 (7.407%) Finance
2 3 (3.704%) Advertising
3 2 (2.469%) Banking
4 1 (1.235%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.235%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.235%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (25.93%) Consultant
2 16 (19.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 14 (17.28%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 12 (14.81%) Administrator
5 7 (8.642%) Analyst
5 7 (8.642%) Systems Administrator
5 7 (8.642%) Support Engineer
6 6 (7.407%) Storage Administrator
6 6 (7.407%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (7.407%) Architect
7 5 (6.173%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (6.173%) Technical Architect
7 5 (6.173%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) Technical Support Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) Implementation Consultant
8 4 (4.938%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.938%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (4.938%) Support Analyst
8 4 (4.938%) Technical Support
8 4 (4.938%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.173%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.704%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (3.704%) Celerra
2 3 (3.704%) CLARiiON
3 2 (2.469%) Open Source
3 2 (2.469%) SaaS
4 1 (1.235%) Symmetrix DMX
4 1 (1.235%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.235%) Symmetrix
4 1 (1.235%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 62 (76.54%) Windows
2 46 (56.79%) Windows Server 2008
3 40 (49.38%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (19.75%) Linux
5 4 (4.938%) Windows 2000
5 4 (4.938%) Windows 7
6 3 (3.704%) SUSE
7 2 (2.469%) UNIX
7 2 (2.469%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.235%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (17.28%) ITIL
2 10 (12.35%) Validation
3 8 (9.877%) Project Management
4 6 (7.407%) Service Delivery
4 6 (7.407%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (6.173%) OpenUP
6 4 (4.938%) BCP
7 3 (3.704%) Business Continuity
7 3 (3.704%) CRM
8 2 (2.469%) Change Management
9 1 (1.235%) High Availability
9 1 (1.235%) Migration
9 1 (1.235%) Supplier Management
9 1 (1.235%) TOGAF
9 1 (1.235%) Risk Assessment
9 1 (1.235%) SOA
9 1 (1.235%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (14.81%) SQL
2 5 (6.173%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.938%) VB
4 2 (2.469%) PHP
5 1 (1.235%) Python
Qualifications
1 79 (97.53%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 38 (46.91%) VCP5
3 24 (29.63%) MCITP
4 23 (28.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 17 (20.99%) MCSE
6 16 (19.75%) CCA
6 16 (19.75%) Citrix Certification
7 10 (12.35%) MCTS
8 7 (8.642%) Security Cleared
9 5 (6.173%) EMC Certification
10 4 (4.938%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (4.938%) MCSA
10 4 (4.938%) VCAP
10 4 (4.938%) SC Cleared
10 4 (4.938%) HP AIS
10 4 (4.938%) HP ASE
10 4 (4.938%) HP MASE
11 3 (3.704%) NCDA
11 3 (3.704%) NCIE
11 3 (3.704%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (12.35%) SLA
2 2 (2.469%) BS7799
System Software
1 72 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (50.62%) Active Directory
3 34 (41.98%) vSphere
4 31 (38.27%) Hyper-V
5 17 (20.99%) Terminal Services
5 17 (20.99%) VMware ESX
5 17 (20.99%) XenApp
5 17 (20.99%) XenDesktop
6 16 (19.75%) XenServer
7 14 (17.28%) VMware ESXi
8 7 (8.642%) Microsoft App-V
9 4 (4.938%) Xen
10 1 (1.235%) VMFS
10 1 (1.235%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (1.235%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (9.877%) SCOM
2 7 (8.642%) ARCserve
3 6 (7.407%) HP SIM
4 5 (6.173%) NetBackup
5 3 (3.704%) SCVMM
5 3 (3.704%) SCCM
6 1 (1.235%) WSUS
6 1 (1.235%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (1.235%) Norton AntiVirus
6 1 (1.235%) MOM
Vendors
1 79 (97.53%) VMware
2 46 (56.79%) Microsoft
3 35 (43.21%) Cisco
4 29 (35.80%) Citrix
5 23 (28.40%) HP
6 18 (22.22%) EMC
7 14 (17.28%) AppSense
8 13 (16.05%) PlateSpin
9 10 (12.35%) CommVault
10 9 (11.11%) Vizioncore
10 9 (11.11%) Wyse
10 9 (11.11%) NetApp
10 9 (11.11%) Novell
11 6 (7.407%) Dell
12 5 (6.173%) IBM
12 5 (6.173%) Symantec
13 4 (4.938%) McAfee
14 3 (3.704%) Veritas
14 3 (3.704%) Hitachi
15 2 (2.469%) CheckPoint
Solihull, West Midlands
This will include IT infrastructure support both remotely and on-site, as well as that you will be responsible for design and delivery of small to large scale...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum + Benfits
Posted: 2 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
Netbackup, ARCServe, Commvault) Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V) A VCP4/5 certification would be desirable; you would also be required on occasion to travel as per...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
Netbackup, ARCServe, Commvault) Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V) A VCP4/5 certification would be desirable; you would also be required on occasion to travel as per...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013