Hertfordshire VMware Infrastructure Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure (VI3) skills within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Aldershot Aylesbury Basildon Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexley Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheshire Cheshunt Chessington Chester Chesterfield Chippenham City of London Clapham Corby Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hitchin Home Counties Huddersfield Hull Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Pontefract Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochdale Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Sidcup Skipton Slough South Coast South Croydon South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Suffolk Sunbury-on-Thames Surrey Sussex Sutton Coldfield Swindon Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Wallington Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wetherby Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Wolverhampton Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	96	130
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching permanent IT job ads	67	53
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.039 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	25.28 %	14.36 %
Salaries quoted	65	52
Average minimum salary	£42,123	£39,346
Average salary	£43,508	£42,038
% change on same period last year	+3.49 %
Average maximum salary	£44,892	£44,731
UK excluding London average salary	£41,546	£41,607
% change on same period last year	-0.14 %
System Software Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	265	369
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.154 %	0.159 %
Salaries quoted	232	332
Average minimum salary	£35,584	£33,103
Average salary	£37,403	£35,359
% change on same period last year	+5.78 %
Average maximum salary	£39,222	£37,616
UK excluding London average salary	£35,388	£35,016
% change on same period last year	+1.06 %
VMware Infrastructure East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Hertfordshire region.

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

VMware Infrastructure
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stevenage	0	5	£50,000	+11.11 %
Watford	+3	4	£55,000	+71.20 %
Welwyn Garden City	-5	2	£45,000	+63.63 %
Hitchin	-	1	£35,000	-
St Albans	-	1	£42,500	-

VMware Infrastructure East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 99 (100.00 %) VMware 2 64 (64.65 %) SAN 3 47 (47.47 %) VMware ESX 4 46 (46.46 %) HP 4 46 (46.46 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 5 34 (34.34 %) Business Continuity 5 34 (34.34 %) Disaster Recovery 6 31 (31.31 %) Windows 7 27 (27.27 %) Linux 7 27 (27.27 %) NetApp 8 26 (26.26 %) Microsoft 9 25 (25.25 %) Citrix 10 24 (24.24 %) Active Directory 11 18 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 12 16 (16.16 %) Degree

13 13 (13.13 %) IBM 13 13 (13.13 %) MS Exchange 14 12 (12.12 %) UNIX 15 11 (11.11 %) SQL 15 11 (11.11 %) SQL Server 15 11 (11.11 %) Hitachi 16 9 (9.091 %) MS Excel 17 8 (8.081 %) Cisco 18 7 (7.071 %) .NET 18 7 (7.071 %) Exchange Server 2003 19 6 (6.061 %) Finance 19 6 (6.061 %) AIX 20 5 (5.051 %) HPUX 20 5 (5.051 %) XML 20 5 (5.051 %) XSL

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 7 (7.071 %) .NET 2 5 (5.051 %) XML 2 5 (5.051 %) XSL 3 4 (4.040 %) LAMP 4 1 (1.010 %) WMI 4 1 (1.010 %) .NET Framework 4 1 (1.010 %) ASP 4 1 (1.010 %) COM	Application Platforms 1 13 (13.13 %) MS Exchange 2 7 (7.071 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (4.040 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 4 (4.040 %) Apache 4 2 (2.020 %) IIS 4 2 (2.020 %) Lotus Domino 5 1 (1.010 %) Lotus Notes 5 1 (1.010 %) SharePoint 5 1 (1.010 %) Exchange Server 5.5
Applications 1 9 (9.091 %) MS Excel 2 3 (3.030 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 1 (1.010 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 64 (64.65 %) SAN 2 5 (5.051 %) Firewall 3 4 (4.040 %) Cisco IOS 3 4 (4.040 %) SNMP 3 4 (4.040 %) LDAP 3 4 (4.040 %) SSL 4 2 (2.020 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (2.020 %) DNS 5 1 (1.010 %) LAN 5 1 (1.010 %) WAN 5 1 (1.010 %) DHCP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 11 (11.11 %) SQL Server 2 4 (4.040 %) MySQL 3 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (2.020 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 6 (6.061 %) Finance 2 5 (5.051 %) Health 2 5 (5.051 %) Retail 2 5 (5.051 %) Pensions 3 2 (2.020 %) Education 3 2 (2.020 %) Government 4 1 (1.010 %) Games 4 1 (1.010 %) Online Games	Job Titles 1 59 (59.60 %) Consultant 2 33 (33.33 %) Technical Consultant 3 24 (24.24 %) Virtualisation Consultant 4 23 (23.23 %) Storage Consultant 5 15 (15.15 %) Administrator 6 11 (11.11 %) Analyst 7 7 (7.071 %) Systems Administrator 7 7 (7.071 %) Technical Support 8 6 (6.061 %) Support Engineer 9 5 (5.051 %) Technical Analyst 9 5 (5.051 %) Sales Consultant 9 5 (5.051 %) Presales Consultant 10 4 (4.040 %) Linux Systems Administrator 10 4 (4.040 %) Infrastructure Consultant 10 4 (4.040 %) Linux Administrator 10 4 (4.040 %) Architect 10 4 (4.040 %) Technical Support Engineer 10 4 (4.040 %) Technical Engineer 10 4 (4.040 %) Support Analyst 11 3 (3.030 %) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 5 (5.051 %) Clustering 2 4 (4.040 %) Mathematics 2 4 (4.040 %) Computer Science 2 4 (4.040 %) Fat Client 2 4 (4.040 %) Thin Client 3 2 (2.020 %) Mainframe 4 1 (1.010 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 31 (31.31 %) Windows 2 27 (27.27 %) Linux 3 18 (18.18 %) Windows Server 2003 4 12 (12.12 %) UNIX 5 6 (6.061 %) AIX 6 5 (5.051 %) HPUX 6 5 (5.051 %) Windows Server 2008 7 4 (4.040 %) Debian 7 4 (4.040 %) Windows Vista 7 4 (4.040 %) Red Hat Linux 7 4 (4.040 %) Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 4 (4.040 %) Solaris 7 4 (4.040 %) Windows XP 8 3 (3.030 %) Windows 2000 9 2 (2.020 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 34 (34.34 %) Disaster Recovery 1 34 (34.34 %) Business Continuity 2 4 (4.040 %) CRM 3 2 (2.020 %) Project Management 3 2 (2.020 %) BC Cleared 3 2 (2.020 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (2.020 %) ITIL 4 1 (1.010 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (11.11 %) SQL 2 5 (5.051 %) C# 3 4 (4.040 %) Java 3 4 (4.040 %) Perl 4 1 (1.010 %) Transact-SQL 4 1 (1.010 %) VBScript 4 1 (1.010 %) PowerShell
Qualifications 1 46 (46.46 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 16 (16.16 %) Degree 3 5 (5.051 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (4.040 %) MCSE 5 1 (1.010 %) CCNA 5 1 (1.010 %) Citrix Certification 5 1 (1.010 %) Cisco Certification 5 1 (1.010 %) MCP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (5.051 %) QA 2 2 (2.020 %) SLA
System Software 1 47 (47.47 %) VMware ESX 2 24 (24.24 %) Active Directory 3 4 (4.040 %) Xen 3 4 (4.040 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 3 (3.030 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 3 (3.030 %) VMware Workstation 5 2 (2.020 %) VMware Server 5 2 (2.020 %) ISA Server 5 2 (2.020 %) Backup Exec 6 1 (1.010 %) NetBackup 6 1 (1.010 %) Terminal Server 6 1 (1.010 %) Terminal Services	Systems Management 1 5 (5.051 %) HP Data Protector 2 3 (3.030 %) ZENworks 3 2 (2.020 %) OpenView Configuration Management 3 2 (2.020 %) OpenView 4 1 (1.010 %) MOM 4 1 (1.010 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 99 (100.00 %) VMware 2 46 (46.46 %) HP 3 27 (27.27 %) NetApp 4 26 (26.26 %) Microsoft 5 25 (25.25 %) Citrix 6 13 (13.13 %) IBM 7 11 (11.11 %) Hitachi 8 8 (8.081 %) Cisco 9 5 (5.051 %) Symantec 10 4 (4.040 %) Red Hat 10 4 (4.040 %) CheckPoint 10 4 (4.040 %) Sun 10 4 (4.040 %) Dell 11 3 (3.030 %) Lotus 12 2 (2.020 %) McAfee Security 12 2 (2.020 %) Wyse 12 2 (2.020 %) VERITAS 13 1 (1.010 %) Juniper 13 1 (1.010 %) Oracle 13 1 (1.010 %) Serena