The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 17 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 508 503 434
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -69
Permanent jobs citing Xen 101 137 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.232% 0.255% 0.358%
As % of the System Software category 2.528% 3.087% 5.431%
Number of salaries quoted 81 117 164
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,123 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £64,250
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3996 4438 3793
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 9.161% 8.247% 6.595%
Number of salaries quoted 3421 3907 3089
Average salary £46,500 £45,000 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.33% +3.44%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £29,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London Xen Salary Histogram

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 London region over the 3 months to 17 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
City of London +6 22 £55,000 +22.22%
Ruislip +3 6 £60,000 +71.42%
Harrow -1 6 £57,500 +64.28%
Uxbridge +4 5 £45,000 +20.00%
Docklands, London - 4 £47,500 -
Hackney - 3 £62,500 -
Hounslow - 1 - -
Xen
England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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.

1 134 (68.37%) Linux
2 112 (57.14%) Windows
3 110 (56.12%) VMware
4 78 (39.80%) MySQL
4 78 (39.80%) Puppet
5 76 (38.78%) VMware Infrastructure
6 73 (37.24%) CentOS
7 58 (29.59%) Red Hat
8 57 (29.08%) Windows Server 2008
9 55 (28.06%) Nagios
10 52 (26.53%) Cisco
10 52 (26.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 48 (24.49%) Apache
12 47 (23.98%) Windows Server 2003
13 45 (22.96%) DNS
14 44 (22.45%) UNIX
14 44 (22.45%) Web Services
14 44 (22.45%) SAN
15 41 (20.92%) Active Directory
15 41 (20.92%) TCP/IP
16 39 (19.90%) Citrix
16 39 (19.90%) Firewall
17 38 (19.39%) Debian
17 38 (19.39%) Python
17 38 (19.39%) Hyper-V
18 37 (18.88%) Amazon EC2
18 37 (18.88%) NoSQL
19 36 (18.37%) Amazon AWS
20 35 (17.86%) Perl
21 34 (17.35%) Bash shell

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the London 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 44 (22.45%) Web Services
2 16 (8.163%) Ruby on Rails
3 15 (7.653%) Spring
4 14 (7.143%) JMS
4 14 (7.143%) REST
4 14 (7.143%) Protocol Buffers
5 10 (5.102%) Servlets
6 6 (3.061%) J2EE
7 4 (2.041%) Middleware
8 3 (1.531%) JMX
8 3 (1.531%) LAMP
8 3 (1.531%) Lucene
8 3 (1.531%) YAML
8 3 (1.531%) HTML5
9 2 (1.020%) Regular Expression
10 1 (0.510%) jBPM
10 1 (0.510%) .NET Framework
10 1 (0.510%) jQuery
10 1 (0.510%) Hibernate
10 1 (0.510%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 48 (24.49%) Apache
2 37 (18.88%) Amazon EC2
3 36 (18.37%) Amazon AWS
4 29 (14.80%) MS Exchange
5 25 (12.76%) Exchange Server 2010
6 21 (10.71%) Tomcat
7 20 (10.20%) Rackspace Cloud
8 15 (7.653%) SharePoint
9 12 (6.122%) Exchange Server 2007
10 11 (5.612%) SharePoint 2010
11 5 (2.551%) IIS
12 4 (2.041%) ActiveMQ
12 4 (2.041%) Exchange Server 2003
12 4 (2.041%) SAS
12 4 (2.041%) Confluence
13 3 (1.531%) Amazon ELB
13 3 (1.531%) BizTalk Server
13 3 (1.531%) Amazon S3
14 2 (1.020%) Apache Solr
14 2 (1.020%) Commerce Server
Applications
1 23 (11.73%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.020%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.041%) RMDS
Communications & Networking
1 45 (22.96%) DNS
2 44 (22.45%) SAN
3 41 (20.92%) TCP/IP
4 39 (19.90%) Firewall
5 24 (12.24%) iSCSI
6 22 (11.22%) WAN
7 21 (10.71%) BIG-IP
8 20 (10.20%) LDAP
9 19 (9.694%) Fibre Channel
10 15 (7.653%) OpenLDAP
11 14 (7.143%) AMQP
12 12 (6.122%) LAN
13 11 (5.612%) VLAN
14 10 (5.102%) DHCP
15 9 (4.592%) HTTP
15 9 (4.592%) SMTP
15 9 (4.592%) NAS
16 8 (4.082%) VoIP
17 7 (3.571%) VPN
18 6 (3.061%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (39.80%) MySQL
2 37 (18.88%) NoSQL
3 23 (11.73%) SQL Server
4 22 (11.22%) MongoDB
5 21 (10.71%) Redis
6 10 (5.102%) RDBMS
7 5 (2.551%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (2.041%) DB2
8 4 (2.041%) SQL Server 2008
8 4 (2.041%) OLTP
9 3 (1.531%) Informix
9 3 (1.531%) SQL Server 2005
9 3 (1.531%) Oracle 11g
9 3 (1.531%) Oracle 10g
10 2 (1.020%) Big Data
11 1 (0.510%) SQL Server 2012
11 1 (0.510%) MarkLogic
11 1 (0.510%) Hadoop
11 1 (0.510%) Apache Cassandra
Development Applications
1 33 (16.84%) Git (software)
2 14 (7.143%) Maven
3 9 (4.592%) Subversion
4 7 (3.571%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.531%) JIRA
6 2 (1.020%) Hudson
6 2 (1.020%) GCC
6 2 (1.020%) GDB
7 1 (0.510%) Ant
7 1 (0.510%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.510%) LLVM
7 1 (0.510%) Capistrano
General
1 23 (11.73%) Back Office
2 16 (8.163%) Finance
3 14 (7.143%) Games
4 7 (3.571%) Marketing
5 2 (1.020%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.020%) Retail
5 2 (1.020%) Advertising
5 2 (1.020%) Publishing
5 2 (1.020%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.510%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 64 (32.65%) Administrator
2 62 (31.63%) Systems Administrator
3 52 (26.53%) Linux Administrator
4 43 (21.94%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 38 (19.39%) Systems Engineer
6 30 (15.31%) Linux Engineer
7 25 (12.76%) Senior Linux Administrator
8 22 (11.22%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 22 (11.22%) Senior Systems Administrator
9 19 (9.694%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 15 (7.653%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 12 (6.122%) Server Engineer
12 11 (5.612%) Senior Systems Engineer
12 11 (5.612%) Consultant
13 10 (5.102%) Architect
13 10 (5.102%) Platform Engineer
14 9 (4.592%) DevOps Engineer
15 7 (3.571%) Developer
15 7 (3.571%) Sales Consultant
15 7 (3.571%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 30 (15.31%) Replication
2 27 (13.78%) Clustering
3 22 (11.22%) Open Source
4 14 (7.143%) Management Information System
4 14 (7.143%) Computer Science
4 14 (7.143%) Social Network
5 9 (4.592%) Blackberry
6 8 (4.082%) Cloud Computing
7 7 (3.571%) Online Games
8 6 (3.061%) SaaS
8 6 (3.061%) Social Gaming
9 4 (2.041%) Digital Media
9 4 (2.041%) Enterprise Storage
9 4 (2.041%) Social Media
9 4 (2.041%) Mobile Games
10 3 (1.531%) N-Tier
10 3 (1.531%) Symmetrix DMX
10 3 (1.531%) Enterprise Software
11 2 (1.020%) PaaS
11 2 (1.020%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 134 (68.37%) Linux
2 112 (57.14%) Windows
3 73 (37.24%) CentOS
4 57 (29.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 52 (26.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 47 (23.98%) Windows Server 2003
7 44 (22.45%) UNIX
8 38 (19.39%) Debian
9 24 (12.24%) Ubuntu
10 8 (4.082%) Windows Vista
11 6 (3.061%) Fedora
11 6 (3.061%) Windows XP
12 4 (2.041%) Solaris
12 4 (2.041%) FreeBSD
12 4 (2.041%) Windows 7
13 3 (1.531%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (1.020%) SUSE
15 1 (0.510%) Apple iOS
15 1 (0.510%) Mac OS
15 1 (0.510%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (8.673%) Continuous Integration
2 15 (7.653%) ITIL
2 15 (7.653%) SOA
2 15 (7.653%) Scrum
3 14 (7.143%) Event-Driven Architecture
4 13 (6.633%) Configuration Management
5 12 (6.122%) Agile Software Development
5 12 (6.122%) Kanban
6 11 (5.612%) Load Balancing
6 11 (5.612%) Disaster Recovery
7 10 (5.102%) OO
7 10 (5.102%) Multithreading
7 10 (5.102%) E-Commerce
8 9 (4.592%) Infrastructure Management
8 9 (4.592%) Network Design
9 7 (3.571%) Technical Architecture
10 6 (3.061%) Automated Testing
10 6 (3.061%) Service Management
10 6 (3.061%) Customer Insight
10 6 (3.061%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 38 (19.39%) Python
2 35 (17.86%) Perl
3 34 (17.35%) Bash shell
4 33 (16.84%) Java
4 33 (16.84%) Ruby
5 29 (14.80%) SQL
6 25 (12.76%) PHP
7 19 (9.694%) JavaScript
8 15 (7.653%) Scala
9 14 (7.143%) AspectJ
9 14 (7.143%) Erlang
10 13 (6.633%) Shell Script
11 12 (6.122%) C++
12 10 (5.102%) ActionScript
13 8 (4.082%) C
14 4 (2.041%) PowerShell
15 3 (1.531%) VB
16 2 (1.020%) AWK
16 2 (1.020%) sed
17 1 (0.510%) C#
Qualifications
1 25 (12.76%) Degree
2 14 (7.143%) RHCE
3 13 (6.633%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (6.633%) MCSE
4 3 (1.531%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (0.510%) MCITP
5 1 (0.510%) VTSP
5 1 (0.510%) CCNA
5 1 (0.510%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.510%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.510%) MCP
5 1 (0.510%) Avaya Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.082%) SLA
2 7 (3.571%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (3.571%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.510%) QA
System Software
1 76 (38.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (20.92%) Active Directory
3 38 (19.39%) Hyper-V
4 19 (9.694%) NFS
5 17 (8.673%) Samba
6 16 (8.163%) Sendmail
7 12 (6.122%) XenServer
8 7 (3.571%) XenApp
9 6 (3.061%) VMware ESX
9 6 (3.061%) vSphere
10 4 (2.041%) XenDesktop
10 4 (2.041%) Terminal Services
11 3 (1.531%) Oracle RAC
11 3 (1.531%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (1.531%) vCloud
11 3 (1.531%) Apache Flume
12 2 (1.020%) Varnish
12 2 (1.020%) Microsoft App-V
13 1 (0.510%) OpenSIPS
13 1 (0.510%) Veritas File System
Systems Management
1 78 (39.80%) Puppet
2 55 (28.06%) Nagios
3 17 (8.673%) SCCM
4 15 (7.653%) SCOM
5 11 (5.612%) Splunk
5 11 (5.612%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 11 (5.612%) Cobbler
6 7 (3.571%) Cacti
7 5 (2.551%) ZABBIX
7 5 (2.551%) Red Hat Satellite
8 4 (2.041%) Ganglia
9 3 (1.531%) Zenoss
9 3 (1.531%) NetBackup
9 3 (1.531%) Backup Exec
10 1 (0.510%) Plesk
Vendors
1 110 (56.12%) VMware
2 58 (29.59%) Red Hat
3 52 (26.53%) Cisco
4 39 (19.90%) Citrix
5 25 (12.76%) NetApp
6 20 (10.20%) Microsoft
7 19 (9.694%) F5
8 17 (8.673%) HP
9 16 (8.163%) Google
10 15 (7.653%) Veritas
11 14 (7.143%) EMC
12 12 (6.122%) Oracle
13 9 (4.592%) JBoss
14 6 (3.061%) Rackspace
15 4 (2.041%) Infoblox
15 4 (2.041%) Dell
15 4 (2.041%) Juniper
16 3 (1.531%) CommVault
16 3 (1.531%) IBM
16 3 (1.531%) Akamai
London
Required Skills: -Active Directory Server 2008 (admin and design) -Exchange 2010 (admin and design) -VMWare vSphere and VMWare SRM -Citrix Xen 6.5 -Enterprise SAN (HP P400 series) -...
GCS IT Recruitment Specialists
Salary: £60000 - £70000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
High Holborn, London
Your technical knowledge covers Microsoft Windows (2003/2008/2012); web services (IIS, Apache, Tomcat); Microsoft Active Directory Administration and Design and virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Hyper-V,...
University of the Arts London
Salary: £31,456 to £38,631 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
High Holborn, London
Your technical knowledge covers Linux (RHEL/SLES); web services (Apache, Tomcat); shell scripting (BASH, PERL) and virtualization technologies such as VMWare, Xen and KVM... With familiarity in performance...
University of the Arts London
Salary: £31,456 to £38,631 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
East London
The successful Senior Systems Engineer must have a degree or equivalent relevant, extensive industry experience with knowledge of TCP/IP, File sharing - CIFS and NFS, Storage sharing - NAS...
Experis IT
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
The successful Microsoft Windows Systems Engineer must have a degree or equivalent relevant, extensive industry experience with knowledge of TCP/IP, File sharing - CIFS and NFS, Storage sharing -...
Experis IT
Salary: £31000 - £46000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
London
Systems Administrator - Xen/DR/Citrix - London - £44K IT Support - 3rd Line - CCA - MCSE - Windows - XP - Engineer - Infrastructure - Xen Server - Exchange - Citrix - ISA Server - Networks - DR - XENAPP - LAN - WAN -...
greywood
Salary: £36000 - £44000 per annum + bens
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
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Linux Recruit
Salary: From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
A Linux/Unix Systems Engineer is required by an award winning Software and Cloud Services Company... Required Skills At least 5 years' demonstrable experience with CentOS/RHEL or...
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Salary: £60,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Core Duties Lead team through technical challenges, acting as a centre of knowledge for all things LINUX / UNIX Installing, configuring and maintaining LINUX (Redhat) servers Deploy servers and...
KV Recruitment Limited
Salary: £1 - £2 per annum + Salary + Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
London
Must have skills: * Linux Clustering Technologies * Red Hat / CentOS * OpenSource Virtualization - KVM, Xen, Cointainers * Configuration - Puppet, Satellite, Chef * Databases - MySQL / Postgres * OpenSource & proprietary Storage Systems * Scripting - Bash, Python,...
Lawrence Harvey IT & Change
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
You will have at least 8 years experience with RHEL (Redhat), CentOS, Debian, Susse or any other Linux Distribution... You will have experience of KVM (Kernel), XEN Virtualisation...
Gregory James
Salary: £50000 to £60000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
My client a leading manage service organisation are currently in the market for a Pre-sales Infrastructure Architect -VTSP-VDI-Citrix-XenDesktop- XenApp to join their team. On...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013