England VMS Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for VMS skills within the England region with a comparison to our Operating Systems category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Burton-upon-Trent Canary Wharf Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crewe Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Gatwick Glasgow Gravesend Grays Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds London Luton Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Nantwich Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Scotland Slough South East South West South Yorkshire Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	572	557
Rank change on same period last year	-15
Matching permanent IT job ads	326	487
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.180 %	0.204 %
As % of the category below	0.767 %	0.842 %
Salaries quoted	285	412
Average minimum salary	£42,963	£40,945
Average salary	£45,782	£43,468
% change on same period last year	+5.32 %
Average maximum salary	£48,601	£45,991
UK excluding London average salary	£43,505	£34,311
% change on same period last year	+26.79 %
Operating Systems England
Matching permanent IT job ads	42491	57810
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	23.51 %	24.24 %
Salaries quoted	35770	46114
Average minimum salary	£35,972	£37,248
Average salary	£38,826	£40,273
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Average maximum salary	£41,680	£43,298
UK excluding London average salary	£34,069	£34,572
% change on same period last year	-1.45 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VMS across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMS across the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the England region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	-51	182	£47,760	+2.81 %
South East	+5	46	£37,237	+4.09 %
West Midlands	+22	32	£47,064	+13.23 %
North West	+49	27	£39,935	+22.87 %
Yorkshire	+9	20	£41,986	+71.05 %
South West	-3	13	£31,923	-19.06 %
East Midlands	+11	9	£66,250	+103.84 %
Midlands	-	5	£59,000	-
East of England	+1	2	£25,500	+6.25 %
North East	-	1	£25,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing VMS 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 VMS.

1 364 (58.24 %) UNIX 2 243 (38.88 %) Finance 3 165 (26.40 %) Banking 4 137 (21.92 %) Solaris 5 136 (21.76 %) Windows 6 130 (20.80 %) Oracle 7 127 (20.32 %) C 8 126 (20.16 %) OpenVMS 9 120 (19.20 %) Linux 10 111 (17.76 %) SQL 11 105 (16.80 %) DCL 12 91 (14.56 %) OO 12 91 (14.56 %) ClearCase 13 89 (14.24 %) ITIL 13 89 (14.24 %) C++

14 72 (11.52 %) Shell Script 15 70 (11.20 %) VB 15 70 (11.20 %) WebSphere 16 60 (9.600 %) Sybase 16 60 (9.600 %) Ingres 16 60 (9.600 %) VAX 17 58 (9.280 %) WebSphere MQ 18 57 (9.120 %) TCP/IP 19 56 (8.960 %) TIBCO 20 55 (8.800 %) Software Engineering 21 53 (8.480 %) Equities 22 48 (7.680 %) Derivative 22 48 (7.680 %) SAP 23 47 (7.520 %) OOD 23 47 (7.520 %) Back Office

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing VMS 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 VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 70 (11.20 %) WebSphere 2 29 (4.640 %) .NET 3 25 (4.000 %) WCF 4 16 (2.560 %) FIX Protocol 5 7 (1.120 %) J2EE 6 6 (0.960 %) XML 7 5 (0.800 %) ADO.NET 7 5 (0.800 %) ASP.NET 8 4 (0.640 %) CSS 8 4 (0.640 %) HTML 8 4 (0.640 %) .NET Framework 9 2 (0.320 %) WAP 9 2 (0.320 %) CGI 10 1 (0.160 %) WinForms 10 1 (0.160 %) JDBC 10 1 (0.160 %) JSP 10 1 (0.160 %) STL 10 1 (0.160 %) ASP	Application Platforms 1 58 (9.280 %) WebSphere MQ 2 27 (4.320 %) WebLogic 3 14 (2.240 %) Apache 3 14 (2.240 %) MQSeries 4 6 (0.960 %) SAS 5 5 (0.800 %) MS Exchange 6 4 (0.640 %) Rendezvous 7 3 (0.480 %) iFIX 7 3 (0.480 %) OpenROAD 7 3 (0.480 %) Tomcat 8 2 (0.320 %) CMS 9 1 (0.160 %) Live Communications Server 9 1 (0.160 %) Exchange Server 2007 9 1 (0.160 %) IIS 9 1 (0.160 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 29 (4.640 %) MS Excel 2 11 (1.760 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.160 %) MS Visio 3 1 (0.160 %) MS PowerPoint	Business Applications 1 9 (1.440 %) Summit 1 9 (1.440 %) RMDS 2 8 (1.280 %) SAP SD 3 7 (1.120 %) Temenos Globus 3 7 (1.120 %) Temenos T24 3 7 (1.120 %) Kondor+ 3 7 (1.120 %) Misys Opics 3 7 (1.120 %) SunGard AvantGard 4 3 (0.480 %) SAP MM 5 2 (0.320 %) SAP PP 6 1 (0.160 %) SAP FI/CO 6 1 (0.160 %) SAP APO 6 1 (0.160 %) SAP FI 6 1 (0.160 %) Navision 6 1 (0.160 %) SAP CO 6 1 (0.160 %) ADP Wilco Gloss 6 1 (0.160 %) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking 1 57 (9.120 %) TCP/IP 2 27 (4.320 %) SAN 3 25 (4.000 %) GSM 4 24 (3.840 %) LAN 5 23 (3.680 %) Firewall 6 17 (2.720 %) Internet 7 16 (2.560 %) SSH 8 15 (2.400 %) GPRS 9 14 (2.240 %) SMS 9 14 (2.240 %) DECnet 10 13 (2.080 %) LDAP 10 13 (2.080 %) GGSN 11 12 (1.920 %) SS7 12 11 (1.760 %) DNS 12 11 (1.760 %) SGSN 13 10 (1.600 %) WAN 13 10 (1.600 %) 3GPP 13 10 (1.600 %) X.500 14 7 (1.120 %) Cisco PIX 15 6 (0.960 %) VLAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 60 (9.600 %) Ingres 2 18 (2.880 %) SQL Server 3 16 (2.560 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 15 (2.400 %) Reference Data 5 8 (1.280 %) Oracle 10g 5 8 (1.280 %) Oracle 9i 6 7 (1.120 %) Oracle Reports 7 5 (0.800 %) MySQL 8 4 (0.640 %) RDBMS 9 2 (0.320 %) SQL Server 7 9 2 (0.320 %) ETL 9 2 (0.320 %) DB2 9 2 (0.320 %) Datawarehouse 10 1 (0.160 %) DTS 10 1 (0.160 %) Crystal Reports 10 1 (0.160 %) BusinessObjects 10 1 (0.160 %) SAP BW 10 1 (0.160 %) WebFOCUS
Development Applications 1 91 (14.56 %) ClearCase 2 30 (4.800 %) WinRunner 2 30 (4.800 %) TestDirector 3 5 (0.800 %) Ant 4 4 (0.640 %) Oracle Forms 5 1 (0.160 %) Rational Rose	General 1 243 (38.88 %) Finance 2 165 (26.40 %) Banking 3 47 (7.520 %) Back Office 4 35 (5.600 %) Manufacturing 5 33 (5.280 %) Telecoms 6 26 (4.160 %) Automotive 7 23 (3.680 %) Investment Banking 8 18 (2.880 %) Pensions 8 18 (2.880 %) Education 9 17 (2.720 %) Financial Institution 10 16 (2.560 %) Billing 11 12 (1.920 %) Construction 12 10 (1.600 %) Health 12 10 (1.600 %) Insurance 13 9 (1.440 %) Front Office 13 9 (1.440 %) Government 14 5 (0.800 %) Publishing 15 3 (0.480 %) Electric 15 3 (0.480 %) Marketing 16 2 (0.320 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 152 (24.32 %) Analyst 2 91 (14.56 %) Developer 3 61 (9.760 %) Applications Support 4 52 (8.320 %) Team Leader 5 44 (7.040 %) Administrator 6 38 (6.080 %) C++ Developer 7 37 (5.920 %) Support Analyst 8 34 (5.440 %) Technical Analyst 9 33 (5.280 %) Consultant 10 31 (4.960 %) SAP Manager 11 30 (4.800 %) Test Analyst 12 28 (4.480 %) Software Engineer 12 28 (4.480 %) Programme Manager 12 28 (4.480 %) Systems Engineer 12 28 (4.480 %) SAP Programme Manager 13 26 (4.160 %) UNIX Administrator 13 26 (4.160 %) Development Team Leader 14 25 (4.000 %) Operations Analyst 15 21 (3.360 %) Systems Administrator 15 21 (3.360 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 60 (9.600 %) VAX 2 53 (8.480 %) Equities 3 48 (7.680 %) Derivative 4 39 (6.240 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 5 23 (3.680 %) Clustering 6 22 (3.520 %) Client/Server 7 19 (3.040 %) Mainframe 8 11 (1.760 %) Fixed Income 8 11 (1.760 %) SCADA 9 9 (1.440 %) Tandem 9 9 (1.440 %) AS400 9 9 (1.440 %) Wiki 10 6 (0.960 %) Computer Science 11 5 (0.800 %) CCTV 12 4 (0.640 %) N-Tier 13 3 (0.480 %) Blackberry 13 3 (0.480 %) Equity Derivative 13 3 (0.480 %) Statistics 14 2 (0.320 %) EPoS 14 2 (0.320 %) Thin Client
Operating Systems 1 364 (58.24 %) UNIX 2 137 (21.92 %) Solaris 3 136 (21.76 %) Windows 4 126 (20.16 %) OpenVMS 5 120 (19.20 %) Linux 6 37 (5.920 %) Windows 2000 7 29 (4.640 %) AIX 8 28 (4.480 %) Windows Server 2003 9 21 (3.360 %) Tru64 10 20 (3.200 %) HPUX 11 16 (2.560 %) Red Hat Linux 12 9 (1.440 %) Windows 2000 Server 13 8 (1.280 %) Windows XP 14 6 (0.960 %) Windows NT 15 4 (0.640 %) zOS 15 4 (0.640 %) SUSE 16 3 (0.480 %) Windows Vista 17 2 (0.320 %) GCOS 18 1 (0.160 %) MVS	Processes & Methodologies 1 91 (14.56 %) OO 2 89 (14.24 %) ITIL 3 55 (8.800 %) Software Engineering 4 47 (7.520 %) OOD 5 41 (6.560 %) OOA/OOD 6 37 (5.920 %) CRM 7 34 (5.440 %) Electronic Trading 8 25 (4.000 %) SOA 9 24 (3.840 %) Service Delivery 9 24 (3.840 %) Project Planning 10 21 (3.360 %) PRINCE2 11 20 (3.200 %) Agile Software Development 12 18 (2.880 %) Performance Testing 13 16 (2.560 %) Problem Management 14 15 (2.400 %) Incident Management 14 15 (2.400 %) System Testing 14 15 (2.400 %) Change Management 15 13 (2.080 %) Project Management 16 12 (1.920 %) SAP Implementation 17 10 (1.600 %) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages 1 127 (20.32 %) C 2 111 (17.76 %) SQL 3 105 (16.80 %) DCL 4 89 (14.24 %) C++ 5 72 (11.52 %) Shell Script 6 70 (11.20 %) VB 7 43 (6.880 %) C# 8 42 (6.720 %) Java 9 39 (6.240 %) Perl 10 28 (4.480 %) COBOL 11 22 (3.520 %) Pascal 12 15 (2.400 %) PowerHouse 13 13 (2.080 %) ABAP 14 10 (1.600 %) VBA 14 10 (1.600 %) Korn 15 5 (0.800 %) VB6 15 5 (0.800 %) Fortran 15 5 (0.800 %) Assembly Language 15 5 (0.800 %) PL/SQL 15 5 (0.800 %) Delphi	Qualifications 1 47 (7.520 %) Degree 2 30 (4.800 %) ISEB 3 10 (1.600 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 6 (0.960 %) Cisco Certification 5 5 (0.800 %) CCNP 6 3 (0.480 %) HND 6 3 (0.480 %) MCSE 6 3 (0.480 %) CCSP 6 3 (0.480 %) Microsoft Certification 7 2 (0.320 %) CCSA 7 2 (0.320 %) CCIE 7 2 (0.320 %) CCDA 7 2 (0.320 %) CCDP 7 2 (0.320 %) CCDE 8 1 (0.160 %) HP ASE 8 1 (0.160 %) CCNA 8 1 (0.160 %) HNC 8 1 (0.160 %) RHCT 8 1 (0.160 %) RHCE 8 1 (0.160 %) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 12 (1.920 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 8 (1.280 %) SLA 3 7 (1.120 %) QA 4 5 (0.800 %) ISO9001	System Software 1 14 (2.240 %) Active Directory 2 6 (0.960 %) NetBackup 3 3 (0.480 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (0.320 %) Oracle RAC 4 2 (0.320 %) Backup Exec 4 2 (0.320 %) Snort 5 1 (0.160 %) Cronacle 5 1 (0.160 %) Xen 5 1 (0.160 %) Intellisync 5 1 (0.160 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 5 1 (0.160 %) Samba 5 1 (0.160 %) VMware ESX 5 1 (0.160 %) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management 1 21 (3.360 %) OpenView 2 16 (2.560 %) Unicenter 3 10 (1.600 %) Legato 3 10 (1.600 %) Tivoli 3 10 (1.600 %) BMC PATROL 4 7 (1.120 %) AutoSys 5 5 (0.800 %) Nessus 6 3 (0.480 %) CONTROL-M 6 3 (0.480 %) CiscoWorks 7 2 (0.320 %) Norton AntiVirus 7 2 (0.320 %) Tivoli NetView 7 2 (0.320 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 8 1 (0.160 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 8 1 (0.160 %) ServiceCenter	Vendors 1 130 (20.80 %) Oracle 2 60 (9.600 %) Sybase 3 56 (8.960 %) TIBCO 4 48 (7.680 %) SAP 5 41 (6.560 %) Microsoft 6 40 (6.400 %) HP 7 22 (3.520 %) BEA 8 19 (3.040 %) Intel 8 19 (3.040 %) Cisco 9 18 (2.880 %) IBM 10 17 (2.720 %) Red Hat 11 13 (2.080 %) VERITAS 12 9 (1.440 %) BMC 12 9 (1.440 %) Remedy 12 9 (1.440 %) Trema 12 9 (1.440 %) Calypso 12 9 (1.440 %) Citrix 12 9 (1.440 %) IT2 13 8 (1.280 %) VMware 14 7 (1.120 %) Patsystems