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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 78 - 53
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 7 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.780% - 0.431%
As % of the System Software category 7.778% - 4.255%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 2
Average salary £40,750 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
90 46 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 10.03% 6.319% 10.13%
Number of salaries quoted 75 44 44
Average salary £38,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,500 £25,300
10% offered a salary of more than £51,800 £45,000 £48,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Surrey

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

Guildford vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

Guildford vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (95.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (78.26%) Windows
4 15 (65.22%) Linux
5 13 (56.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
7 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
8 9 (39.13%) SAN
9 7 (30.43%) Cisco
9 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
9 7 (30.43%) MS Exchange
10 6 (26.09%) Apache
10 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
10 6 (26.09%) Nagios
10 6 (26.09%) Bash shell
10 6 (26.09%) CentOS
10 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
11 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
11 5 (21.74%) VMware ESX
11 5 (21.74%) Firewall
11 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
11 5 (21.74%) CCNA
11 5 (21.74%) LAN
11 5 (21.74%) DNS
11 5 (21.74%) SLA
12 4 (17.39%) SQL
12 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
12 4 (17.39%) MCTS
12 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) MS Exchange
2 6 (26.09%) Apache
3 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (17.39%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) TCP/IP
2 9 (39.13%) SAN
3 5 (21.74%) Firewall
3 5 (21.74%) LAN
3 5 (21.74%) DNS
4 3 (13.04%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (13.04%) NAS
4 3 (13.04%) VLAN
4 3 (13.04%) iSCSI
4 3 (13.04%) VoIP
4 3 (13.04%) SMTP
5 2 (8.696%) FTP
5 2 (8.696%) Wireless
6 1 (4.348%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 8 (34.78%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) VMware Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Linux Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Support Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Implementation Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) Architect
5 2 (8.696%) Citrix Engineer
5 2 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Virtualisation Architect
6 1 (4.348%) Technical Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Technical Consultant
6 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Administrator
6 1 (4.348%) Systems Support
6 1 (4.348%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.04%) Firmware
2 2 (8.696%) SaaS
2 2 (8.696%) PaaS
2 2 (8.696%) IaaS
3 1 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.348%) CLARiiON
3 1 (4.348%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 18 (78.26%) Windows
2 15 (65.22%) Linux
3 6 (26.09%) CentOS
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (13.04%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (21.74%) Configuration Management
3 3 (13.04%) Change Management
4 1 (4.348%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.348%) Product Management
4 1 (4.348%) Project Management
4 1 (4.348%) ITIL
4 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 6 (26.09%) Bash shell
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (21.74%) Security Cleared
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (21.74%) CCNA
3 4 (17.39%) MCTS
3 4 (17.39%) MCITP
3 4 (17.39%) Degree
3 4 (17.39%) VCP4
4 3 (13.04%) CCEE
4 3 (13.04%) CCAA
4 3 (13.04%) CCIA
4 3 (13.04%) MCSE
4 3 (13.04%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.348%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (95.65%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (30.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (21.74%) VMware ESX
4 4 (17.39%) Samba
5 3 (13.04%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (13.04%) XenApp
5 3 (13.04%) XenServer
5 3 (13.04%) XenDesktop
6 2 (8.696%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Nagios
2 4 (17.39%) YUM
2 4 (17.39%) Puppet
3 1 (4.348%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (52.17%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) Cisco
4 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
5 3 (13.04%) EMC
5 3 (13.04%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) Brocade
6 1 (4.348%) HP
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