The first table below looks at the demand for VMS skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMS over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Operating Systems category for the London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 530 608 611
Rank change year-on-year
+78 +3
Permanent jobs citing VMS 77 37 38
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.174% 0.070% 0.063%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.633% 0.257% 0.253%
Number of salaries quoted 68 31 23
Average salary £50,000 £62,500 £50,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +23.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £40,000 £41,700
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £75,000 £76,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.25%
All Operating Systems
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
12172 14400 15039
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 27.50% 27.07% 25.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10405 12545 12636
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £48,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
- +7.14%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VMS across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

London VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Salary Trend

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

London VMS Salary Trend

VMS
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMS across the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

London VMS Salary Histogram

VMS
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMS within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London +14 22 £50,000 +11.11%
Bromley - 4 £73,750 -
Canary Wharf +9 3 £70,000 -5.08%
Croydon - 1 £75,000 -
Erith - 1 - - 1
VMS
England

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing VMS 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 VMS.

1 59 (61.46%) Linux
2 31 (32.29%) UNIX
3 30 (31.25%) Degree
4 25 (26.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 25 (26.04%) Windows
5 24 (25.00%) Finance
6 23 (23.96%) Puppet
7 19 (19.79%) Nagios
7 19 (19.79%) Configuration Management
7 19 (19.79%) Maven
7 19 (19.79%) VMware
8 17 (17.71%) ZABBIX
8 17 (17.71%) Project Management
8 17 (17.71%) Oracle
8 17 (17.71%) DNS
9 16 (16.67%) Ant
9 16 (16.67%) SQL
9 16 (16.67%) SaaS
10 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
11 14 (14.58%) Advertising
11 14 (14.58%) Firewall
11 14 (14.58%) EMC
11 14 (14.58%) Vagrant
12 13 (13.54%) Fibre Channel
12 13 (13.54%) Python
12 13 (13.54%) MySQL
12 13 (13.54%) Solaris
12 13 (13.54%) Agile Software Development
12 13 (13.54%) Ubuntu
12 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing VMS 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 VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (7.292%) Django
1 7 (7.292%) jQuery
2 5 (5.208%) .NET
3 4 (4.167%) LAMP
3 4 (4.167%) ASP
3 4 (4.167%) Web Services
4 3 (3.125%) Middleware
4 3 (3.125%) Ajax
4 3 (3.125%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.083%) XML
6 1 (1.042%) J2EE
6 1 (1.042%) COM+
Application Platforms
1 9 (9.375%) Apache
2 4 (4.167%) CMS
2 4 (4.167%) IIS
3 3 (3.125%) Tomcat
3 3 (3.125%) Confluence
4 2 (2.083%) nginx
5 1 (1.042%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (1.042%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.042%) MS Exchange
5 1 (1.042%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (1.042%) lighttpd
5 1 (1.042%) Amazon EC2
Applications
1 12 (12.50%) MS Excel
2 4 (4.167%) MS Office
3 1 (1.042%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 3 (3.125%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (2.083%) Taleo
3 1 (1.042%) PeopleSoft HRMS
3 1 (1.042%) SAP HCM
3 1 (1.042%) ION MarketView
Communications & Networking
1 17 (17.71%) DNS
2 14 (14.58%) Firewall
3 13 (13.54%) Fibre Channel
4 12 (12.50%) SAN
5 10 (10.42%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.292%) DHCP
7 5 (5.208%) LAN
8 4 (4.167%) VLAN
8 4 (4.167%) FCoE
9 3 (3.125%) VPN
9 3 (3.125%) WAN
9 3 (3.125%) FTP
9 3 (3.125%) NAS
10 2 (2.083%) SMTP
10 2 (2.083%) SSL
10 2 (2.083%) Internet
10 2 (2.083%) BGP
11 1 (1.042%) DSL
11 1 (1.042%) Intranet
11 1 (1.042%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (13.54%) MySQL
2 6 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 4 (4.167%) QlikView
3 4 (4.167%) Oracle ODI
3 4 (4.167%) MongoDB
4 3 (3.125%) Big Data
5 2 (2.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (2.083%) OLAP
5 2 (2.083%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (2.083%) NoSQL
6 1 (1.042%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (1.042%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (1.042%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 19 (19.79%) Maven
2 16 (16.67%) Ant
3 10 (10.42%) Subversion
4 5 (5.208%) Git (software)
5 4 (4.167%) JIRA
5 4 (4.167%) GitHub
6 3 (3.125%) FishEye
6 3 (3.125%) LoadRunner
6 3 (3.125%) Visual Studio
6 3 (3.125%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 2 (2.083%) Talend Open Studio
7 2 (2.083%) Hudson
8 1 (1.042%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.042%) Mercurial
General
1 24 (25.00%) Finance
2 14 (14.58%) Advertising
3 9 (9.375%) German Language
4 6 (6.250%) Banking
5 1 (1.042%) Electronics
5 1 (1.042%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.042%) Retail
5 1 (1.042%) Marketing
5 1 (1.042%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (16.67%) Analyst
2 13 (13.54%) Developer
3 11 (11.46%) Consultant
3 11 (11.46%) DevOps Engineer
4 10 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
5 7 (7.292%) Senior Developer
5 7 (7.292%) Administrator
5 7 (7.292%) Functional Analyst
5 7 (7.292%) Operations Engineer
6 6 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
6 6 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
7 5 (5.208%) Platform Engineer
7 5 (5.208%) Linux Administrator
7 5 (5.208%) Implementation Consultant
7 5 (5.208%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.167%) Operations Analyst
8 4 (4.167%) Business Analyst
9 3 (3.125%) Junior
9 3 (3.125%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.125%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.67%) SaaS
2 10 (10.42%) Open Source
2 10 (10.42%) Cloud Computing
3 8 (8.333%) IaaS
4 6 (6.250%) iSeries
4 6 (6.250%) AS400
5 5 (5.208%) Digital Media
5 5 (5.208%) Replication
6 4 (4.167%) Data Conversion
6 4 (4.167%) Management Information System
7 3 (3.125%) Computer Science
8 2 (2.083%) CLARiiON
8 2 (2.083%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (2.083%) Blackberry
9 1 (1.042%) Mainframe
9 1 (1.042%) Symmetrix
9 1 (1.042%) EMC Centera
9 1 (1.042%) Equities
9 1 (1.042%) VAX
9 1 (1.042%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 59 (61.46%) Linux
2 31 (32.29%) UNIX
3 25 (26.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 25 (26.04%) Windows
4 13 (13.54%) Solaris
4 13 (13.54%) Ubuntu
5 12 (12.50%) Fedora
5 12 (12.50%) OpenVMS
6 7 (7.292%) AIX
6 7 (7.292%) HPUX
6 7 (7.292%) CentOS
7 4 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (3.125%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.125%) Debian
9 2 (2.083%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.042%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.042%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (19.79%) Configuration Management
2 17 (17.71%) Project Management
3 13 (13.54%) Agile Software Development
3 13 (13.54%) Continuous Integration
4 12 (12.50%) Load Balancing
5 11 (11.46%) Scrum
5 11 (11.46%) Load Testing
6 10 (10.42%) PRINCE2
7 9 (9.375%) E-Commerce
8 8 (8.333%) ERP
9 7 (7.292%) Workflow
9 7 (7.292%) Web Development
10 6 (6.250%) Test Scripting
10 6 (6.250%) Business Analysis
11 5 (5.208%) High Availability
11 5 (5.208%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (5.208%) Infrastructure Management
11 5 (5.208%) Change Management
11 5 (5.208%) ITIL
11 5 (5.208%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) SQL
2 13 (13.54%) Python
3 11 (11.46%) Perl
3 11 (11.46%) Bash shell
4 8 (8.333%) C
5 7 (7.292%) Java
6 6 (6.250%) DCL
7 5 (5.208%) C#
7 5 (5.208%) COBOL
8 4 (4.167%) PHP
8 4 (4.167%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.167%) Pascal
9 3 (3.125%) JavaScript
9 3 (3.125%) Groovy
10 1 (1.042%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.042%) VB
10 1 (1.042%) MUMPS
10 1 (1.042%) AWK
10 1 (1.042%) Korn
10 1 (1.042%) OCaml
Qualifications
1 30 (31.25%) Degree
2 4 (4.167%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (4.167%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (1.042%) PMP
3 1 (1.042%) PMI Certification
3 1 (1.042%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.042%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.083%) QA
2 1 (1.042%) Data Quality
System Software
1 15 (15.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (10.42%) NFS
3 8 (8.333%) VMware ESX
4 7 (7.292%) QEMU
4 7 (7.292%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (6.250%) vSphere
6 3 (3.125%) Active Directory
6 3 (3.125%) Hyper-V
7 1 (1.042%) Xen
7 1 (1.042%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 1 (1.042%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (23.96%) Puppet
2 19 (19.79%) Nagios
3 17 (17.71%) ZABBIX
4 14 (14.58%) Vagrant
5 7 (7.292%) NetBackup
6 6 (6.250%) Legato
7 5 (5.208%) Red Hat Spacewalk
8 4 (4.167%) BladeLogic
9 2 (2.083%) OSSEC
9 2 (2.083%) Backup Exec
10 1 (1.042%) Unicenter
10 1 (1.042%) Tivoli
10 1 (1.042%) BMC PATROL
10 1 (1.042%) OpenView
10 1 (1.042%) WSUS
10 1 (1.042%) Zenoss
Vendors
1 19 (19.79%) VMware
2 17 (17.71%) Oracle
3 14 (14.58%) EMC
4 9 (9.375%) Microsoft
5 8 (8.333%) NetApp
6 7 (7.292%) Red Hat
7 6 (6.250%) PeopleSoft
8 5 (5.208%) HP
8 5 (5.208%) Brocade
9 4 (4.167%) Leostream
9 4 (4.167%) Citrix
10 3 (3.125%) Twitter
10 3 (3.125%) Sybase
10 3 (3.125%) Cisco
10 3 (3.125%) Atlassian
11 2 (2.083%) Tripwire
11 2 (2.083%) Netezza
11 2 (2.083%) Sun
11 2 (2.083%) Salesforce.com
11 2 (2.083%) CheckPoint
London
IT Operations Analyst / Engineer - Banking Trading Operations - Linux - Unix - VMS) 20 - 25K Unique City / Finance large environment Supporting Financial Markets / Trading systems Working in a fast evolving environment,...
Verticality Ltd
Salary: £20000 to £25000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Erith, Kent
Software Developer DEC /HP Basic... We are replacing our VMS system with a new windows system that is being written in house... Com+ SQL (MS SQL Server) MS...
Batt Cables plc
Posted: 12 June 2013
London
We provide the VMs through VMware's Virtual Cloud Director (VCD) and VMware's Lab Manager. We provide a lot of database administration and cyclically restore databases (Oracle/...
Fidessa
Posted: 6 June 2013
London
Support our Linux and Mac company desktop infrastructure... A degree in Computer Science or other technical discipline is desirable... Familiarity using and administering Linux environments (especially Debian and...
EURO CONSULTING LTD
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
This company is a leading UK-based cloud computing provider, founded in 2008. They offer ultra flexible and easy-to-use cloud servers (IaaS) from their own data...
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 28 May 2013
West London
Moonfruit
Salary: £40000 - £60000 per annum + Exc Bens
Posted: 29 May 2013
London
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
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