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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 78 107 102
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -5
Permanent jobs citing Xen 3 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 0.315% 0.287% 0.155%
As % of the System Software category 2.381% 2.920% 1.325%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 0
Average salary £32,500 £70,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-53.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
126 137 151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 13.25% 9.835% 11.71%
Number of salaries quoted 116 116 129
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £24,000 £27,050
10% offered a salary of more than £53,000 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
East of England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex 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 Essex region.

Essex Xen Salary Trend

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 Essex 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
Saffron Walden - 1 £36,500 -
Xen
East of England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
3 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (66.67%) Citrix
3 6 (66.67%) DNS
3 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
3 6 (66.67%) XenApp
4 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (44.44%) AppSense
5 4 (44.44%) NetApp
5 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
5 4 (44.44%) Time Management
6 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
7 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
7 2 (22.22%) Banking
7 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
7 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
7 2 (22.22%) Change Management
7 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (22.22%) Wireless
7 2 (22.22%) Finance
7 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (22.22%) Cisco
7 2 (22.22%) SAN
7 2 (22.22%) LAN
7 2 (22.22%) WAN
7 2 (22.22%) DHCP

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex 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 Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (22.22%) SAN
2 2 (22.22%) Wireless
2 2 (22.22%) LDAP
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Support Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix Support
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Technician
3 3 (33.33%) Citrix Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Technician
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
3 2 (22.22%) Windows 8
3 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Time Management
2 2 (22.22%) Network Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Change Management
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) VBScript
1 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (66.67%) XenApp
3 3 (33.33%) Hyper-V
4 2 (22.22%) VMware ESX
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Virtual Server
4 2 (22.22%) XenServer
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (88.89%) VMware
3 6 (66.67%) Citrix
4 4 (44.44%) NetApp
4 4 (44.44%) AppSense
4 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
5 2 (22.22%) Cisco
Essex
Requirements Cisco networking Windows Server 03/08 Desktop support of Win XP7, Windows 8 desireable Active Directory NetApp Xen and Hyper V VM Ware desirable Excellent communication skill,...
Roc Search
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Essex
Line Support Engineer - Citrix / VMware, you will have experience in: - Windows 2003-2012/VMware/Xen. - Citrix Administration (Presentation Server)... AD schema architecture, DNS, DHCP, GPO, LDAP etc...). - At...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013