The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 22 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 Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 119 146 148
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +2
Permanent jobs citing Xen 26 5 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.059% 0.193% 0.604%
As % of the System Software category 11.98% 2.222% 6.390%
Number of salaries quoted 25 3 10
Average salary £50,000 £33,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.51% -22.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £31,400 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £42,600 £46,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -8.57%
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
217 225 313
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 8.836% 8.707% 9.453%
Number of salaries quoted 199 195 241
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,175 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Xen
East of England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Welwyn Garden City -10 12 £48,500 +46.96%
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £47,500 -
Xen
East of England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 46 (83.64%) Citrix
2 44 (80.00%) SAN
3 40 (72.73%) Red Hat
4 37 (67.27%) Linux
5 36 (65.45%) VMware
6 29 (52.73%) VMware Infrastructure
6 29 (52.73%) Windows
7 28 (50.91%) Microsoft
8 26 (47.27%) Active Directory
9 25 (45.45%) NAS
10 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2010
10 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2003
10 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2007
10 24 (43.64%) MS Exchange
10 24 (43.64%) ITIL
11 19 (34.55%) SQL Server
11 19 (34.55%) Perl
11 19 (34.55%) Bash shell
11 19 (34.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 18 (32.73%) Oracle
13 16 (29.09%) PCI DSS
14 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2008
14 14 (25.45%) Finance
14 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2003
15 13 (23.64%) SQL
15 13 (23.64%) Fibre Channel
15 13 (23.64%) Replication
16 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
16 12 (21.82%) Migration
17 11 (20.00%) BizTalk Server

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 Development
1 8 (14.55%) LAMP
2 2 (3.636%) .NET
2 2 (3.636%) Application Packaging
3 1 (1.818%) Apache CXF
3 1 (1.818%) REST
3 1 (1.818%) SOAP
3 1 (1.818%) Web Services
3 1 (1.818%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2010
1 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2003
1 24 (43.64%) Exchange Server 2007
1 24 (43.64%) MS Exchange
2 11 (20.00%) BizTalk Server
2 11 (20.00%) SharePoint
3 9 (16.36%) Apache
4 6 (10.91%) Joomla!
4 6 (10.91%) Magento
4 6 (10.91%) WordPress
4 6 (10.91%) nginx
4 6 (10.91%) Moodle
5 2 (3.636%) IIS
Applications
1 7 (12.73%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.636%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 44 (80.00%) SAN
2 25 (45.45%) NAS
3 13 (23.64%) Fibre Channel
4 9 (16.36%) DNS
5 8 (14.55%) IMAP
5 8 (14.55%) SSH
5 8 (14.55%) Firewall
5 8 (14.55%) POP3
5 8 (14.55%) SMTP
5 8 (14.55%) FTP
5 8 (14.55%) SSL
5 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
6 5 (9.091%) Internet
6 5 (9.091%) LAN
7 3 (5.455%) WAN
8 2 (3.636%) VLAN
9 1 (1.818%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (34.55%) SQL Server
2 8 (14.55%) MySQL
3 2 (3.636%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
2 1 (1.818%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.818%) Subversion
2 1 (1.818%) Maven
2 1 (1.818%) Ant
General
1 14 (25.45%) Finance
2 1 (1.818%) Retail
2 1 (1.818%) Interactive Media
Job Titles
1 22 (40.00%) Systems Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Infrastructure Designer
2 12 (21.82%) Designer
3 11 (20.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 10 (18.18%) Administrator
4 10 (18.18%) Systems Administrator
5 8 (14.55%) Linux Administrator
5 8 (14.55%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 8 (14.55%) Web Administrator
6 5 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (9.091%) Architect
7 3 (5.455%) Junior Architect
7 3 (5.455%) VMware Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Project Engineer
7 3 (5.455%) Junior
8 2 (3.636%) Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Desktop Support
8 2 (3.636%) Support Analyst
8 2 (3.636%) Project Leader
8 2 (3.636%) Desktop Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (23.64%) Replication
2 11 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 37 (67.27%) Linux
2 29 (52.73%) Windows
3 19 (34.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (25.45%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (18.18%) UNIX
6 9 (16.36%) CentOS
7 4 (7.273%) Windows XP
7 4 (7.273%) Windows 7
8 2 (3.636%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (1.818%) Fedora
9 1 (1.818%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (43.64%) ITIL
2 12 (21.82%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (21.82%) Migration
3 11 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 11 (20.00%) TOGAF
4 8 (14.55%) Load Balancing
4 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (9.091%) Time Management
6 3 (5.455%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.636%) E-Commerce
8 1 (1.818%) High Availability
8 1 (1.818%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (1.818%) Release Management
8 1 (1.818%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.818%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (34.55%) Perl
1 19 (34.55%) Bash shell
2 13 (23.64%) SQL
3 10 (18.18%) VB
4 8 (14.55%) PHP
5 1 (1.818%) Java
5 1 (1.818%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.818%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (5.455%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (29.09%) PCI DSS
2 6 (10.91%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (52.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 26 (47.27%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.55%) Hyper-V
3 8 (14.55%) Sendmail
4 6 (10.91%) Varnish
5 2 (3.636%) VMware ESX
5 2 (3.636%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (18.18%) NetBackup
2 6 (10.91%) Nagios
2 6 (10.91%) Cacti
3 5 (9.091%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.818%) Puppet
Vendors
1 46 (83.64%) Citrix
2 40 (72.73%) Red Hat
3 36 (65.45%) VMware
4 28 (50.91%) Microsoft
5 18 (32.73%) Oracle
6 10 (18.18%) Postini
6 10 (18.18%) CommVault
6 10 (18.18%) Cisco
7 9 (16.36%) NetApp
Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Job Title: Infrastructure Designer (Technical Project Lead) Location: Welwyn Garden City Key Skills: Red Hat Linux, Citrix, SQL, Oracle, Storage (Local, SAN, NAS)A new opportunity has arisen...
Tesco
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 22 May 2013