The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 45 90 91
Rank change year-on-year
+45 +1
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 42 14 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 4.175% 1.018% 0.879%
As % of the System Software category 31.34% 10.14% 7.914%
Number of salaries quoted 34 8 9
Average salary £47,500 £48,750 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.56% +2.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £41,750 £42,300
10% offered a salary of more than £54,400 £58,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All System Software
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
134 138 139
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 13.32% 10.04% 11.10%
Number of salaries quoted 120 116 120
Average salary £44,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £23,750 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,300 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

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

Essex VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

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

Essex VMware ESX Salary Histogram

VMware ESX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the Essex 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
Brentwood - 13 £31,500 -
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 67 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (76.12%) DNS
2 51 (76.12%) Active Directory
2 51 (76.12%) Citrix
3 50 (74.63%) Finance
4 44 (65.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 42 (62.69%) Windows
6 36 (53.73%) XenApp
7 28 (41.79%) LDAP
7 28 (41.79%) DHCP
8 23 (34.33%) ITIL
9 22 (32.84%) XenServer
10 19 (28.36%) Change Management
11 18 (26.87%) SLA
12 17 (25.37%) Microsoft App-V
12 17 (25.37%) AppSense
13 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
14 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
15 12 (17.91%) Publishing
15 12 (17.91%) Change Control
15 12 (17.91%) vSphere
16 11 (16.42%) SAN
16 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
17 9 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
17 9 (13.43%) SolarWinds
17 9 (13.43%) Degree
18 8 (11.94%) Korn
18 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
18 8 (11.94%) Bash shell
18 8 (11.94%) Debian

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (4.478%) HTML
1 3 (4.478%) Web Services
2 2 (2.985%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 1 (1.493%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 51 (76.12%) DNS
2 28 (41.79%) LDAP
2 28 (41.79%) DHCP
3 11 (16.42%) SAN
4 8 (11.94%) Broadband
5 3 (4.478%) SMS
6 1 (1.493%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.493%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.478%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.478%) BusinessObjects Web Intelligence
1 3 (4.478%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (11.94%) Subversion
General
1 50 (74.63%) Finance
2 12 (17.91%) Publishing
3 5 (7.463%) Banking
Job Titles
1 23 (34.33%) Support Engineer
2 20 (29.85%) Citrix Support
3 19 (28.36%) Server Support
4 17 (25.37%) Support Analyst
4 17 (25.37%) Analyst
4 17 (25.37%) Server Engineer
5 16 (23.88%) Server Support Engineer
5 16 (23.88%) Citrix Support Analyst
6 9 (13.43%) Administrator
7 8 (11.94%) Systems Administrator
8 7 (10.45%) Consultant
9 5 (7.463%) Architect
9 5 (7.463%) Citrix Engineer
10 4 (5.970%) Citrix Architect
10 4 (5.970%) Citrix Support Engineer
10 4 (5.970%) Technical Architect
11 3 (4.478%) Senior Consultant
11 3 (4.478%) Citrix Consultant
11 3 (4.478%) Genesys Consultant
11 3 (4.478%) Senior Genesys Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.478%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 42 (62.69%) Windows
2 8 (11.94%) Debian
2 8 (11.94%) Linux
3 6 (8.955%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (4.478%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (4.478%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (34.33%) ITIL
2 19 (28.36%) Change Management
3 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 12 (17.91%) Change Control
5 9 (13.43%) Disaster Recovery
6 7 (10.45%) Load Balancing
7 5 (7.463%) Investment Management
8 3 (4.478%) Quality Management
8 3 (4.478%) Time Management
8 3 (4.478%) WFM
9 1 (1.493%) Migration
9 1 (1.493%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.94%) Korn
2 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
2 8 (11.94%) Bash shell
2 8 (11.94%) Perl
2 8 (11.94%) PHP
2 8 (11.94%) VBScript
2 8 (11.94%) C
3 3 (4.478%) C#
3 3 (4.478%) Java
Qualifications
1 9 (13.43%) Degree
2 2 (2.985%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (26.87%) SLA
System Software
1 51 (76.12%) Active Directory
2 44 (65.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (53.73%) XenApp
4 22 (32.84%) XenServer
5 17 (25.37%) Microsoft App-V
6 12 (17.91%) vSphere
7 6 (8.955%) MetaFrame
8 2 (2.985%) Xen
8 2 (2.985%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.493%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.493%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.493%) VMFS
9 1 (1.493%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 67 (100.00%) VMware
2 51 (76.12%) Citrix
3 17 (25.37%) AppSense
4 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
5 9 (13.43%) SolarWinds
6 8 (11.94%) Red Hat
7 4 (5.970%) Cisco
8 3 (4.478%) Genesys
8 3 (4.478%) NetApp
8 3 (4.478%) Business Objects
8 3 (4.478%) Verint
9 1 (1.493%) HP
9 1 (1.493%) IBM
Essex
Server Virtualisation and consolidation experience using Citrix XenServer/Metaframe and VMWare (ESX) technologies. At least two formal IT industry accreditation (Microsoft, CompTIA, Citrix, VMWare etc). Familiarisation of Citrix...
Capital IT Resourcing LTD
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum & Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex
Appsense... Migration from Presentation server to XenApp. Citrix Performance tuning... Server Virtualisation and consolidation experience using Citrix XenServer/Metaframe and VMWare (ESX) technologies... Windows 2000 Clustering Technologies and...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £50,000 to £55,000 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Essex
AD schema architecture, DNS, DHCP, GPO, LDAP etc) Extensive experience supporting & configuring Citrix XenApp 4.5, XenApp 5, 6 and 6.5. Support experience of Citrix XenServer and...
Logic Engagements Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013