The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 119 132 149
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +17
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 62 45 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 1.796% 1.173% 0.551%
As % of the System Software category 13.78% 14.80% 7.874%
Number of salaries quoted 47 45 20
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £29,700 £27,200
10% offered a salary of more than £46,000 £48,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
450 304 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 13.04% 7.923% 6.999%
Number of salaries quoted 384 271 217
Average salary £39,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.42% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

Hampshire vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Hampshire 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
Southampton +4 21 £40,000 -5.88%
Andover - 8 £41,500 -
Basingstoke - 7 £45,000 -
Portsmouth - 5 £45,000 -
Farnborough - 3 £25,000 -
Fareham -3 2 £35,000 +11.11%
Winchester -6 2 £32,500 -
Havant - 1 £50,000 -
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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.

1 113 (88.28%) VMware
2 94 (73.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 84 (65.63%) Windows
4 70 (54.69%) Linux
5 56 (43.75%) Active Directory
6 54 (42.19%) SAN
7 51 (39.84%) Microsoft
8 47 (36.72%) HP
9 45 (35.16%) Cisco
10 38 (29.69%) DNS
11 36 (28.13%) PowerShell
12 34 (26.56%) Firewall
13 32 (25.00%) DHCP
13 32 (25.00%) Citrix
13 32 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
13 32 (25.00%) Security Cleared
14 29 (22.66%) SCCM
14 29 (22.66%) ITIL
15 28 (21.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 27 (21.09%) DV Cleared
17 26 (20.31%) Perl
17 26 (20.31%) MS Exchange
18 25 (19.53%) SQL Server
18 25 (19.53%) TCP/IP
19 24 (18.75%) MySQL
20 23 (17.97%) Nagios
20 23 (17.97%) NetIQ
20 23 (17.97%) AppManager
20 23 (17.97%) Oracle
20 23 (17.97%) Python

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 Development
1 20 (15.63%) .NET
2 9 (7.031%) Middleware
3 2 (1.563%) SAML
3 2 (1.563%) Web Services
4 1 (0.781%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 26 (20.31%) MS Exchange
2 15 (11.72%) Exchange Server 2010
3 11 (8.594%) Exchange Server 2003
4 8 (6.250%) IIS
5 7 (5.469%) Exchange Server 2007
6 5 (3.906%) Apache
7 4 (3.125%) Exchange Server 2000
8 3 (2.344%) SharePoint
9 2 (1.563%) Tomcat
10 1 (0.781%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 14 (10.94%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.563%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 8 (6.250%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.781%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 54 (42.19%) SAN
2 38 (29.69%) DNS
3 34 (26.56%) Firewall
4 32 (25.00%) DHCP
5 25 (19.53%) TCP/IP
6 19 (14.84%) SMTP
7 17 (13.28%) FTP
7 17 (13.28%) DMZ
8 15 (11.72%) Extranet
8 15 (11.72%) X.400
8 15 (11.72%) HTTP
9 14 (10.94%) NAS
9 14 (10.94%) LAN
10 13 (10.16%) WAN
11 9 (7.031%) VPN
12 8 (6.250%) ATM
13 7 (5.469%) Unified Communications
14 5 (3.906%) MPLS
14 5 (3.906%) iSCSI
14 5 (3.906%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (19.53%) SQL Server
2 24 (18.75%) MySQL
3 8 (6.250%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.781%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (0.781%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 22 (17.19%) Back Office
2 8 (6.250%) Banking
3 7 (5.469%) Telecoms
4 6 (4.688%) Finance
4 6 (4.688%) Retail
5 2 (1.563%) Legal
5 2 (1.563%) Front Office
6 1 (0.781%) Manufacturing
6 1 (0.781%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 26 (20.31%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 24 (18.75%) Consultant
3 17 (13.28%) Administrator
4 15 (11.72%) Firewall Engineer
5 14 (10.94%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (10.94%) Technical Consultant
6 10 (7.813%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (7.813%) Systems Engineer
6 10 (7.813%) Analyst
7 9 (7.031%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (5.469%) Architect
9 6 (4.688%) Virtualisation Architect
9 6 (4.688%) VMware Consultant
9 6 (4.688%) Citrix Consultant
9 6 (4.688%) Infrastructure Specialist
9 6 (4.688%) IT Manager
10 5 (3.906%) Senior Consultant
10 5 (3.906%) Infrastructure Analyst
10 5 (3.906%) Support Engineer
10 5 (3.906%) Senior Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.72%) CESG
2 9 (7.031%) Clustering
3 8 (6.250%) CMDB
4 5 (3.906%) Replication
5 3 (2.344%) EqualLogic
5 3 (2.344%) Thin Client
5 3 (2.344%) CLARiiON
5 3 (2.344%) Fat Client
5 3 (2.344%) Celerra
6 2 (1.563%) Open Source
6 2 (1.563%) Computer Science
6 2 (1.563%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.781%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.781%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 84 (65.63%) Windows
2 70 (54.69%) Linux
3 32 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 21 (16.41%) UNIX
5 19 (14.84%) Windows Server 2003
6 9 (7.031%) Windows XP
7 8 (6.250%) SUSE
8 7 (5.469%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (3.906%) Solaris
10 3 (2.344%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.563%) CentOS
11 2 (1.563%) Ubuntu
11 2 (1.563%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (22.66%) ITIL
2 13 (10.16%) Service Management
3 10 (7.813%) Change Management
4 8 (6.250%) Problem Management
4 8 (6.250%) Web Development
4 8 (6.250%) Operations Management
4 8 (6.250%) Performance Management
4 8 (6.250%) Workflow
4 8 (6.250%) Configuration Management
4 8 (6.250%) ITSM
4 8 (6.250%) Change Control
4 8 (6.250%) Infrastructure Management
5 6 (4.688%) Project Management
5 6 (4.688%) Network Architecture
6 5 (3.906%) Data Management
7 4 (3.125%) Business Development
7 4 (3.125%) Disaster Recovery
7 4 (3.125%) PRINCE2
8 2 (1.563%) Data Protection
8 2 (1.563%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) PowerShell
2 26 (20.31%) Perl
3 23 (17.97%) Python
3 23 (17.97%) Ruby
4 22 (17.19%) SQL
5 20 (15.63%) Java
6 18 (14.06%) PHP
7 8 (6.250%) Shell Script
8 4 (3.125%) VBScript
9 3 (2.344%) Bash shell
10 1 (0.781%) C
Qualifications
1 32 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 28 (21.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 27 (21.09%) DV Cleared
4 23 (17.97%) Microsoft Certification
4 23 (17.97%) SC Cleared
5 22 (17.19%) MCSE
6 21 (16.41%) Cisco Certification
7 20 (15.63%) CCNP
8 19 (14.84%) CCNA
9 15 (11.72%) RHCE
9 15 (11.72%) MCITP
10 14 (10.94%) Citrix Certification
11 10 (7.813%) Degree
11 10 (7.813%) CCAA
12 8 (6.250%) CCA
12 8 (6.250%) ISEB
12 8 (6.250%) NCIE
13 7 (5.469%) CCEE
13 7 (5.469%) NCDA
13 7 (5.469%) CCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.250%) SLA
2 1 (0.781%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 94 (73.44%) VMware Infrastructure
2 56 (43.75%) Active Directory
3 22 (17.19%) XenApp
4 20 (15.63%) XenServer
5 17 (13.28%) XenDesktop
6 14 (10.94%) VMware ESXi
7 13 (10.16%) VMware ESX
8 7 (5.469%) Hyper-V
9 5 (3.906%) Microsoft App-V
10 3 (2.344%) vCloud
10 3 (2.344%) VMware Server
10 3 (2.344%) Sendmail
11 2 (1.563%) Shibboleth
11 2 (1.563%) Xen
11 2 (1.563%) VMware Workstation
11 2 (1.563%) Nmap
11 2 (1.563%) Terminal Server
11 2 (1.563%) Terminal Services
11 2 (1.563%) ISA Server
11 2 (1.563%) NFS
Systems Management
1 29 (22.66%) SCCM
2 23 (17.97%) Nagios
2 23 (17.97%) AppManager
2 23 (17.97%) Opalis
2 23 (17.97%) Puppet
3 12 (9.375%) Backup Exec
4 10 (7.813%) NetBackup
5 9 (7.031%) SCOM
6 5 (3.906%) HP SIM
7 4 (3.125%) ARCserve
7 4 (3.125%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 3 (2.344%) SCVMM
9 2 (1.563%) WSUS
9 2 (1.563%) Tivoli Storage Manager
9 2 (1.563%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 2 (1.563%) OpenView Configuration Management
10 1 (0.781%) McAfee ePO
10 1 (0.781%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 113 (88.28%) VMware
2 51 (39.84%) Microsoft
3 47 (36.72%) HP
4 45 (35.16%) Cisco
5 32 (25.00%) Citrix
6 23 (17.97%) NetIQ
6 23 (17.97%) Oracle
6 23 (17.97%) SolarWinds
7 19 (14.84%) Symantec
8 17 (13.28%) EMC
9 16 (12.50%) Red Hat
10 14 (10.94%) Veeam
10 14 (10.94%) IBM
11 9 (7.031%) NetApp
12 8 (6.250%) Novell
12 8 (6.250%) Remedy
13 7 (5.469%) CommVault
14 6 (4.688%) Fujitsu
14 6 (4.688%) Dell
15 3 (2.344%) Intel
Southampton, Hampshire
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