The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMS 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 of the Operating Systems category for the England region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 732 805 777
Rank change year-on-year
+73 -28
Permanent jobs citing VMS 98 58 82
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.097% 0.051% 0.070%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.357% 0.190% 0.280%
Number of salaries quoted 87 41 62
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £71,000 £62,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,250 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-2.94% -
All Operating Systems
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
27455 30466 29255
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 27.22% 26.82% 25.03%
Number of salaries quoted 23399 26370 24771
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VMS
UK

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Salary Trend

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

England VMS Salary Trend

VMS
Salary Histogram

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

England VMS Salary Histogram

VMS
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 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 +58 56 £50,000 -
South East +19 26 £42,500 -32.00%
North West +12 10 £42,500 +132.87%
East of England -2 2 £36,250 +13.28%
West Midlands -19 2 £62,500 +28.20%
Yorkshire -18 1 £32,500 -
North East - 1 £36,000 -
VMS
UK

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 82 (53.95%) Linux
2 69 (45.39%) UNIX
3 54 (35.53%) Windows
4 42 (27.63%) VMware
5 38 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 37 (24.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 33 (21.71%) Solaris
8 32 (21.05%) Oracle
9 30 (19.74%) Degree
10 28 (18.42%) SAN
11 24 (15.79%) AIX
11 24 (15.79%) Puppet
12 23 (15.13%) SQL
12 23 (15.13%) Configuration Management
12 23 (15.13%) Project Management
13 22 (14.47%) Nagios
13 22 (14.47%) EMC
14 21 (13.82%) Microsoft
15 20 (13.16%) Mainframe
15 20 (13.16%) Finance
15 20 (13.16%) ZABBIX
16 19 (12.50%) Problem Management
16 19 (12.50%) Change Management
17 18 (11.84%) Scrum
17 18 (11.84%) Incident Management
18 17 (11.18%) DNS
18 17 (11.18%) IBM
18 17 (11.18%) HPUX
18 17 (11.18%) VMware ESX
18 17 (11.18%) Fedora

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, 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 7 (4.605%) .NET
2 6 (3.947%) WebSphere
3 5 (3.289%) LAMP
3 5 (3.289%) XML
4 4 (2.632%) J2EE
4 4 (2.632%) ASP
4 4 (2.632%) Django
4 4 (2.632%) jQuery
5 3 (1.974%) Ajax
5 3 (1.974%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (1.316%) Gearman
6 2 (1.316%) Middleware
6 2 (1.316%) SOAP
6 2 (1.316%) Web Services
7 1 (0.658%) JMS
7 1 (0.658%) SAML
7 1 (0.658%) COM
7 1 (0.658%) HTML
7 1 (0.658%) Ext JS
7 1 (0.658%) Symfony
Application Platforms
1 15 (9.868%) Apache
2 5 (3.289%) IIS
3 4 (2.632%) Tomcat
3 4 (2.632%) CMS
4 3 (1.974%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (1.974%) nginx
4 3 (1.974%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.974%) MS Exchange
5 1 (0.658%) CICS
5 1 (0.658%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (0.658%) lighttpd
5 1 (0.658%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.658%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (0.658%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (0.658%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (7.895%) MS Excel
2 8 (5.263%) MS PowerPoint
3 4 (2.632%) MS Office
4 1 (0.658%) Google Apps
4 1 (0.658%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (2.632%) SAP SD
2 3 (1.974%) SAP MM
2 3 (1.974%) SAP PP
3 2 (1.316%) SAP R/3
4 1 (0.658%) PeopleSoft HRMS
4 1 (0.658%) SAP MDM
4 1 (0.658%) Taleo
4 1 (0.658%) Bond Adapt
4 1 (0.658%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.658%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 28 (18.42%) SAN
2 17 (11.18%) DNS
3 16 (10.53%) Firewall
4 14 (9.211%) Fibre Channel
5 11 (7.237%) TCP/IP
6 8 (5.263%) NAS
7 6 (3.947%) Internet
8 5 (3.289%) Broadband
9 4 (2.632%) LAN
9 4 (2.632%) WAN
9 4 (2.632%) DHCP
9 4 (2.632%) FCoE
9 4 (2.632%) VLAN
10 3 (1.974%) Connectrix
10 3 (1.974%) FTP
10 3 (1.974%) VPN
10 3 (1.974%) BGP
11 2 (1.316%) MPLS
11 2 (1.316%) SSL
11 2 (1.316%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (7.895%) MySQL
2 9 (5.921%) SQL Server
3 7 (4.605%) DB2
4 6 (3.947%) NonStop SQL
5 5 (3.289%) SQLPlus
6 4 (2.632%) QlikView
7 3 (1.974%) MongoDB
7 3 (1.974%) Big Data
7 3 (1.974%) InterSystems Cache
7 3 (1.974%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (1.316%) RDBMS
8 2 (1.316%) OLAP
8 2 (1.316%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 2 (1.316%) Apache Cassandra
8 2 (1.316%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.658%) SAP Data Services
9 1 (0.658%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.658%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 17 (11.18%) Maven
2 14 (9.211%) Ant
3 12 (7.895%) Subversion
4 5 (3.289%) Git (software)
4 5 (3.289%) Mercurial
5 4 (2.632%) GitHub
6 3 (1.974%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.974%) Visual Studio
7 2 (1.316%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.316%) Selenium
7 2 (1.316%) WebLOAD
7 2 (1.316%) Talend Open Studio
7 2 (1.316%) Hudson
8 1 (0.658%) Phing
8 1 (0.658%) PHPUnit
8 1 (0.658%) Capistrano
8 1 (0.658%) JIRA
8 1 (0.658%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (13.16%) Finance
2 12 (7.895%) Advertising
3 9 (5.921%) Banking
4 6 (3.947%) Publishing
5 5 (3.289%) Automotive
5 5 (3.289%) Manufacturing
5 5 (3.289%) Marketing
6 4 (2.632%) German Language
6 4 (2.632%) Back Office
7 3 (1.974%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.316%) Telecoms
9 1 (0.658%) Aerospace
9 1 (0.658%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.658%) Retail
9 1 (0.658%) Billing
9 1 (0.658%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 25 (16.45%) Administrator
2 22 (14.47%) Analyst
3 18 (11.84%) Developer
4 17 (11.18%) Systems Engineer
4 17 (11.18%) Systems Administrator
5 12 (7.895%) DevOps Engineer
6 11 (7.237%) UNIX Administrator
7 10 (6.579%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 10 (6.579%) Linux Administrator
8 9 (5.921%) Programmer
9 8 (5.263%) UNIX Engineer
10 7 (4.605%) Functional Analyst
10 7 (4.605%) Operations Manager
10 7 (4.605%) Consultant
10 7 (4.605%) Business Analyst
10 7 (4.605%) Platform Engineer
11 6 (3.947%) Linux Engineer
11 6 (3.947%) Junior
11 6 (3.947%) UNIX Systems Administrator
12 5 (3.289%) Service Manager
Miscellaneous
1 20 (13.16%) Mainframe
2 16 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 15 (9.868%) AS400
4 14 (9.211%) SaaS
5 10 (6.579%) iSeries
6 9 (5.921%) Computer Science
7 8 (5.263%) CLARiiON
7 8 (5.263%) Open Source
8 7 (4.605%) Symmetrix
9 6 (3.947%) HACMP
9 6 (3.947%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (3.947%) Clustering
10 5 (3.289%) Smartcard
10 5 (3.289%) IaaS
10 5 (3.289%) Digital Media
11 4 (2.632%) Celerra
12 3 (1.974%) CESG
12 3 (1.974%) EMC Centera
12 3 (1.974%) Replication
12 3 (1.974%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 82 (53.95%) Linux
2 69 (45.39%) UNIX
3 54 (35.53%) Windows
4 37 (24.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 33 (21.71%) Solaris
6 24 (15.79%) AIX
7 17 (11.18%) HPUX
7 17 (11.18%) Fedora
8 16 (10.53%) OpenVMS
9 15 (9.868%) Ubuntu
10 6 (3.947%) zOS
11 4 (2.632%) CentOS
12 3 (1.974%) Windows Server 2008
13 2 (1.316%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (1.316%) Debian
13 2 (1.316%) Windows XP
14 1 (0.658%) Windows 2000
14 1 (0.658%) Windows NT
14 1 (0.658%) MVS
14 1 (0.658%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (15.13%) Configuration Management
1 23 (15.13%) Project Management
2 19 (12.50%) Change Management
2 19 (12.50%) Problem Management
3 18 (11.84%) Incident Management
3 18 (11.84%) Scrum
4 15 (9.868%) Load Testing
5 14 (9.211%) ITIL
6 11 (7.237%) Agile Software Development
6 11 (7.237%) Continuous Integration
7 10 (6.579%) Workflow
7 10 (6.579%) E-Commerce
8 9 (5.921%) Disaster Recovery
9 8 (5.263%) Service Management
9 8 (5.263%) Load Balancing
10 7 (4.605%) Project Planning
10 7 (4.605%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (4.605%) PRINCE2
10 7 (4.605%) Migration
11 6 (3.947%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.13%) SQL
2 16 (10.53%) Perl
2 16 (10.53%) Java
3 13 (8.553%) Bash shell
4 10 (6.579%) Python
5 7 (4.605%) Shell Script
5 7 (4.605%) C
6 6 (3.947%) JavaScript
6 6 (3.947%) COBOL
7 5 (3.289%) C#
7 5 (3.289%) PHP
7 5 (3.289%) PowerHouse
7 5 (3.289%) DCL
8 4 (2.632%) AWK
8 4 (2.632%) sed
8 4 (2.632%) PowerShell
8 4 (2.632%) Pascal
9 3 (1.974%) MUMPS
9 3 (1.974%) ABAP
10 2 (1.316%) C++
Qualifications
1 30 (19.74%) Degree
2 12 (7.895%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (3.947%) Security Cleared
4 5 (3.289%) SC Cleared
5 4 (2.632%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (6.579%) QA
2 9 (5.921%) SLA
3 4 (2.632%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (11.18%) VMware ESX
3 14 (9.211%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (7.895%) vSphere
4 12 (7.895%) NFS
5 6 (3.947%) Active Directory
5 6 (3.947%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 4 (2.632%) QEMU
6 4 (2.632%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.974%) NDS
8 2 (1.316%) SRDF
9 1 (0.658%) Varnish
9 1 (0.658%) vCloud
9 1 (0.658%) ISA Server
9 1 (0.658%) XenApp
9 1 (0.658%) Xen
9 1 (0.658%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 24 (15.79%) Puppet
2 22 (14.47%) Nagios
3 20 (13.16%) ZABBIX
4 9 (5.921%) NetBackup
5 8 (5.263%) Legato
6 7 (4.605%) Tivoli
6 7 (4.605%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (3.947%) Veritas Storage Foundation
7 6 (3.947%) YUM
7 6 (3.947%) Cobbler
8 4 (2.632%) BladeLogic
9 3 (1.974%) EMC Navisphere
9 3 (1.974%) Backup Exec
10 2 (1.316%) EMC TimeFinder
10 2 (1.316%) ServiceCenter
10 2 (1.316%) OSSEC
10 2 (1.316%) Red Hat Spacewalk
11 1 (0.658%) HP Data Protector
11 1 (0.658%) WSUS
11 1 (0.658%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 42 (27.63%) VMware
2 32 (21.05%) Oracle
3 22 (14.47%) EMC
4 21 (13.82%) Microsoft
5 17 (11.18%) IBM
6 15 (9.868%) HP
7 13 (8.553%) Cisco
7 13 (8.553%) Veritas
8 12 (7.895%) NetApp
9 11 (7.237%) Sun
9 11 (7.237%) Brocade
10 9 (5.921%) Red Hat
11 8 (5.263%) Symantec
12 7 (4.605%) SAP
13 6 (3.947%) BMC
14 5 (3.289%) Rackspace
14 5 (3.289%) PeopleSoft
15 4 (2.632%) Leostream
16 3 (1.974%) Salesforce.com
16 3 (1.974%) Twitter
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