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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 633 596 494
Rank change year-on-year
-37 -102
Permanent jobs citing Xen 210 279 393
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.208% 0.246% 0.334%
As % of the System Software category 2.155% 2.829% 4.343%
Number of salaries quoted 169 244 310
Average salary £49,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,200 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
9747 9861 9049
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 9.637% 8.699% 7.681%
Number of salaries quoted 8287 8590 7490
Average salary £40,995 £42,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.39% +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Xen
UK

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Salary Trend

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

England Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

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

England Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen 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 +25 106 £51,250 +9.04%
South East +9 44 £39,000 -17.89%
East of England +11 37 £47,500 -5.00%
West Midlands -17 10 £49,000 +55.55%
North West -9 6 £24,500 -30.00%
South West -3 4 £42,500 +8.97%
East Midlands -19 3 £77,500 +34.78%
Yorkshire -13 1 £21,000 -47.50%
Xen
UK

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 282 (65.28%) Linux
1 282 (65.28%) VMware
2 249 (57.64%) Windows
3 222 (51.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 150 (34.72%) Citrix
5 143 (33.10%) Red Hat
6 140 (32.41%) Windows Server 2008
7 134 (31.02%) Cisco
7 134 (31.02%) MySQL
8 133 (30.79%) SAN
9 130 (30.09%) Active Directory
10 124 (28.70%) Windows Server 2003
11 120 (27.78%) Microsoft
11 120 (27.78%) DNS
11 120 (27.78%) Apache
12 116 (26.85%) CentOS
13 106 (24.54%) TCP/IP
14 104 (24.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 104 (24.07%) Puppet
15 89 (20.60%) Hyper-V
16 88 (20.37%) UNIX
17 84 (19.44%) Firewall
18 79 (18.29%) SQL
19 78 (18.06%) MS Exchange
20 73 (16.90%) SQL Server
20 73 (16.90%) Nagios
21 71 (16.44%) Clustering
22 70 (16.20%) Perl
23 69 (15.97%) ITIL
24 63 (14.58%) Exchange Server 2010

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 61 (14.12%) Web Services
2 21 (4.861%) HTML
3 20 (4.630%) J2EE
4 16 (3.704%) Ruby on Rails
5 15 (3.472%) .NET
5 15 (3.472%) REST
6 14 (3.241%) Spring
6 14 (3.241%) XML
6 14 (3.241%) JMS
6 14 (3.241%) Protocol Buffers
7 12 (2.778%) WebSphere
8 11 (2.546%) LAMP
9 10 (2.315%) Servlets
10 6 (1.389%) WSH
11 4 (0.926%) Middleware
12 3 (0.694%) JMX
12 3 (0.694%) Lucene
12 3 (0.694%) HTML5
12 3 (0.694%) YAML
13 2 (0.463%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 120 (27.78%) Apache
2 78 (18.06%) MS Exchange
3 63 (14.58%) Exchange Server 2010
4 43 (9.954%) Amazon EC2
4 43 (9.954%) Exchange Server 2007
5 41 (9.491%) Tomcat
5 41 (9.491%) SharePoint
6 36 (8.333%) Amazon AWS
7 28 (6.481%) IIS
7 28 (6.481%) Exchange Server 2003
8 20 (4.630%) Rackspace Cloud
9 16 (3.704%) nginx
10 14 (3.241%) SharePoint 2010
11 10 (2.315%) ActiveMQ
11 10 (2.315%) BizTalk Server
12 9 (2.083%) Amazon S3
13 8 (1.852%) Apache Solr
14 6 (1.389%) Moodle
14 6 (1.389%) Magento
14 6 (1.389%) WordPress
Applications
1 62 (14.35%) MS Excel
2 14 (3.241%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (1.157%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 133 (30.79%) SAN
2 120 (27.78%) DNS
3 106 (24.54%) TCP/IP
4 84 (19.44%) Firewall
5 56 (12.96%) WAN
6 48 (11.11%) Internet
7 41 (9.491%) SMTP
8 36 (8.333%) NAS
9 34 (7.870%) HTTP
10 33 (7.639%) SSL
11 31 (7.176%) LDAP
11 31 (7.176%) LAN
12 30 (6.944%) DHCP
12 30 (6.944%) Fibre Channel
13 26 (6.019%) FTP
13 26 (6.019%) iSCSI
14 24 (5.556%) OpenLDAP
15 23 (5.324%) BIG-IP
15 23 (5.324%) Ethernet
16 22 (5.093%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 134 (31.02%) MySQL
2 73 (16.90%) SQL Server
3 37 (8.565%) NoSQL
4 21 (4.861%) MongoDB
4 21 (4.861%) Redis
5 14 (3.241%) PostgreSQL
6 10 (2.315%) RDBMS
7 7 (1.620%) Hadoop
8 6 (1.389%) Neo4j
8 6 (1.389%) DB2
8 6 (1.389%) Amazon DynamoDB
8 6 (1.389%) Amazon RDS
9 5 (1.157%) SQL Server 2008
10 4 (0.926%) SQL Server 2005
10 4 (0.926%) Oracle 11g
10 4 (0.926%) OLTP
10 4 (0.926%) Oracle 10g
10 4 (0.926%) Informix
10 4 (0.926%) Oracle 8/8i
11 2 (0.463%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 44 (10.19%) Git (software)
2 15 (3.472%) Maven
3 14 (3.241%) Subversion
4 10 (2.315%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.389%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.157%) JIRA
7 4 (0.926%) Hudson
7 4 (0.926%) GCC
7 4 (0.926%) GDB
7 4 (0.926%) Ant
8 2 (0.463%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (0.463%) Selenium
8 2 (0.463%) IntelliJ
8 2 (0.463%) Gradle
9 1 (0.231%) Capistrano
9 1 (0.231%) LLVM
General
1 55 (12.73%) Finance
2 24 (5.556%) Back Office
3 14 (3.241%) Games
4 13 (3.009%) Telecoms
5 12 (2.778%) Marketing
5 12 (2.778%) Retail
6 6 (1.389%) Advertising
7 4 (0.926%) Law
7 4 (0.926%) Legal
8 2 (0.463%) Banking
8 2 (0.463%) Financial Institution
8 2 (0.463%) Publishing
9 1 (0.231%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 118 (27.31%) Administrator
2 111 (25.69%) Systems Administrator
3 76 (17.59%) Linux Administrator
4 72 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
5 65 (15.05%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 53 (12.27%) Consultant
7 43 (9.954%) Linux Engineer
8 35 (8.102%) Pre Sales Consultant
9 33 (7.639%) Senior Linux Administrator
10 32 (7.407%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 31 (7.176%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 30 (6.944%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
13 25 (5.787%) Sales Consultant
14 24 (5.556%) Senior Systems Engineer
15 22 (5.093%) Senior Linux Engineer
16 21 (4.861%) Analyst
17 19 (4.398%) Architect
18 18 (4.167%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
18 18 (4.167%) Technical Consultant
19 17 (3.935%) Infrastructure Designer
Miscellaneous
1 71 (16.44%) Clustering
2 48 (11.11%) Replication
3 31 (7.176%) Open Source
4 21 (4.861%) Blackberry
5 17 (3.935%) SaaS
6 16 (3.704%) Enterprise Storage
7 15 (3.472%) Management Information System
8 14 (3.241%) Computer Science
8 14 (3.241%) Social Network
9 13 (3.009%) VHDL
9 13 (3.009%) Verilog
9 13 (3.009%) Device Driver
10 9 (2.083%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (1.620%) Online Games
12 6 (1.389%) Social Gaming
13 5 (1.157%) iSeries
14 4 (0.926%) Symmetrix DMX
14 4 (0.926%) Digital Media
14 4 (0.926%) Social Media
14 4 (0.926%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 282 (65.28%) Linux
2 249 (57.64%) Windows
3 140 (32.41%) Windows Server 2008
4 124 (28.70%) Windows Server 2003
5 116 (26.85%) CentOS
6 104 (24.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 88 (20.37%) UNIX
8 49 (11.34%) Debian
9 33 (7.639%) Ubuntu
10 27 (6.250%) AIX
11 25 (5.787%) Windows 7
11 25 (5.787%) Windows XP
12 13 (3.009%) Windows Vista
13 10 (2.315%) Solaris
14 8 (1.852%) Fedora
15 6 (1.389%) HPUX
16 5 (1.157%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (1.157%) SUSE
17 4 (0.926%) FreeBSD
18 2 (0.463%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (15.97%) ITIL
2 35 (8.102%) Load Balancing
3 30 (6.944%) Service Management
4 29 (6.713%) Configuration Management
5 24 (5.556%) Agile Software Development
6 23 (5.324%) Migration
7 22 (5.093%) Infrastructure Management
8 21 (4.861%) High Availability
8 21 (4.861%) Business Continuity
9 20 (4.630%) E-Commerce
10 18 (4.167%) Performance Management
10 18 (4.167%) Scrum
11 17 (3.935%) Disaster Recovery
11 17 (3.935%) Continuous Integration
11 17 (3.935%) Kanban
12 15 (3.472%) PRINCE2
12 15 (3.472%) Network Load Balancing
13 14 (3.241%) Time Management
13 14 (3.241%) Business Development
13 14 (3.241%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 79 (18.29%) SQL
2 70 (16.20%) Perl
3 62 (14.35%) Bash shell
4 60 (13.89%) Python
5 50 (11.57%) Java
6 45 (10.42%) Ruby
7 41 (9.491%) PHP
8 25 (5.787%) C
9 20 (4.630%) JavaScript
10 19 (4.398%) Shell Script
10 19 (4.398%) PowerShell
11 15 (3.472%) VB
11 15 (3.472%) Scala
12 14 (3.241%) Erlang
12 14 (3.241%) AspectJ
12 14 (3.241%) C++
13 10 (2.315%) ActionScript
14 3 (0.694%) C#
15 2 (0.463%) tcsh
15 2 (0.463%) C-shell
Qualifications
1 41 (9.491%) Degree
2 36 (8.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 35 (8.102%) MCSE
4 19 (4.398%) Security Cleared
5 15 (3.472%) RHCE
5 15 (3.472%) MCP
6 14 (3.241%) Cisco Certification
7 11 (2.546%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (2.315%) SC Cleared
9 8 (1.852%) CCNA
10 4 (0.926%) VCP4
10 4 (0.926%) EMC Certification
10 4 (0.926%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (0.926%) VCP5
11 3 (0.694%) Citrix Certification
11 3 (0.694%) MCITP
12 1 (0.231%) HNC
12 1 (0.231%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.231%) Avaya Certification
12 1 (0.231%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (5.787%) SLA
2 19 (4.398%) PCI DSS
3 7 (1.620%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.694%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.231%) QA
System Software
1 222 (51.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 130 (30.09%) Active Directory
3 89 (20.60%) Hyper-V
4 44 (10.19%) VMware ESXi
5 38 (8.796%) NFS
6 34 (7.870%) Sendmail
7 23 (5.324%) vSphere
7 23 (5.324%) Samba
8 21 (4.861%) VMware ESX
9 17 (3.935%) XenServer
10 15 (3.472%) XenApp
11 9 (2.083%) Terminal Services
12 8 (1.852%) Varnish
13 6 (1.389%) XenDesktop
13 6 (1.389%) Veritas Volume Manager
13 6 (1.389%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
14 5 (1.157%) vCloud
15 4 (0.926%) Postfix
15 4 (0.926%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.694%) Apache Flume
Systems Management
1 104 (24.07%) Puppet
2 73 (16.90%) Nagios
3 34 (7.870%) Tivoli
4 28 (6.481%) SCCM
5 26 (6.019%) SCOM
6 16 (3.704%) Red Hat Spacewalk
6 16 (3.704%) Cobbler
7 15 (3.472%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 15 (3.472%) Cacti
8 14 (3.241%) Splunk
9 12 (2.778%) NetBackup
10 6 (1.389%) HP Data Protector
10 6 (1.389%) Backup Exec
11 5 (1.157%) WSUS
11 5 (1.157%) Red Hat Satellite
11 5 (1.157%) ZABBIX
11 5 (1.157%) Plesk
12 4 (0.926%) Ganglia
12 4 (0.926%) Zenoss
12 4 (0.926%) YUM
Vendors
1 282 (65.28%) VMware
2 150 (34.72%) Citrix
3 143 (33.10%) Red Hat
4 134 (31.02%) Cisco
5 120 (27.78%) Microsoft
6 60 (13.89%) Oracle
7 57 (13.19%) HP
8 55 (12.73%) NetApp
9 49 (11.34%) IBM
10 47 (10.88%) EMC
11 34 (7.870%) Juniper
12 26 (6.019%) Veritas
12 26 (6.019%) F5
13 24 (5.556%) Dell
14 18 (4.167%) Google
15 14 (3.241%) Riverbed
16 13 (3.009%) Isilon
17 12 (2.778%) Lotus
17 12 (2.778%) Cognos
18 10 (2.315%) Postini
West London
Systems Administrator - London / City / West London - Urgent - Windows Server 2008, Citrix, Exchange 2007, Xen, Networking, VMware - £30,000 - £35,000. A Windows Server 2008, Citrix, Exchange 2007, Xen,...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Infrastructure Support Technician - Cambridge, Stevenage, Chelmsford - Urgent - Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V - £30,000 - £35,000. A Windows Server 2008R2, NetApp, Vmware, Xen, Hyper-V...
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Support projects throughout the project lifecycle, from feasibility to handover and operational support Skills Required: Microsoft Windows (2003, 2008), Red Hat Linux (RHEL) Virtualisation using Citrix Xen Microsoft...
Advanced Resource Managers
Salary: £55000.0000 - £60000.0000 per annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
East London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer must have a degree or equivalent relevant, extensive industry experience with knowledge of TCP/IP, File sharing - CIFS and NFS, Storage sharing - NAS...
Experis IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Brighton, East Sussex
In addition you will require the following: -DNS, SMTP, HTTP -Scripting: Either Shell, Perl, Ruby, Python -PostgreSQL or MySQL Working in a Java environment Additional experience of Puppet,...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum £32,000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Skills/Experience required: **5 Years experience with CentOS/RHEL **2-3 Years experience leading and mentoring a team of linux administrators **Basic administration of Windows server 2008 **Solid...
Gregory James
Salary: £45000 to £55000 per annum - + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
As a minimum experience with S3, EC2. *Deployment automation *Server configuration management *Solr deployment and optimisation *Memcache *Apache web server *Apache traffic server *HA mysql (Master to Master...
J-Com
Salary: £65000 - 80000 Per Annum
Posted: 23 May 2013
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Technical Project Lead) Location: Welwyn Garden City Key Skills: Red Hat Linux, Citrix, SQL, Oracle, Storage (Local, SAN, NAS)A new opportunity has arisen...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013
Essex
Citrix Administration (Presentation Server)... Understanding of Active Directory and associated core technologies (ie AD schema architecture, DNS, DHCP, GPO, LDAP etc...). At least one formal IT industry accreditation (...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire or London
In depth technical experience with the following technologies: Internet Technologies: HTTP, TCP/IP, DNS, UDP, SPDY, Apache, Github Programming Languages: Java, JavaScript, PHP, Python, C++ Operating systems: Linux,...
Verizon
Salary: competitive, plus bonus and full benefits package
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
You will have at least 8 years experience with RHEL (Redhat), CentOS, Debian, Susse or any other Linux Distribution... You will have experience of KVM (Kernel), XEN Virtualisation...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
Bradford, West Yorkshire
With an understanding of programming, IT Infrastructure and support; you and your team will be working with some of the following technologies; * Programming: SQL, HTML, Javascript + PHP * Databases &...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: £35k + benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
Knowledge & Skills * Microsoft Certified IT Professional (MCITP). * Commercial working knowledge of Microsoft Server 2003/2008/2008R2/SBS & Exchange 2003/2007/2010 migration experience would be beneficial... * Good Networking...
Search Consultancy
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
Installing, configuring and maintaining LINUX (Redhat) servers... CentOS/RHEL... or XEN... Open Source monitoring tools such as Nagios, Zenoss, Cacti and Munin... , samba, Apache, Samba, Sendmail, OpenLDAP, BIND/...
KV Recruitment
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Salary + Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013