The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 22 37 35
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -2
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 29 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 7.652% 3.061% 0.433%
As % of the System Software category 48.33% 30.00% 11.11%
Number of salaries quoted 29 12 1
Average salary £44,500 £45,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.11% +20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,250 £40,750
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +3.68%
All System Software
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
60 40 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 15.83% 10.20% 3.896%
Number of salaries quoted 53 36 9
Average salary £46,250 £45,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.77% +16.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,357 £32,500 £32,750
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £70,000 £46,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
vSphere
Bedfordshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

Luton vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 52 (100.00%) VMware
2 40 (76.92%) VMware ESX
3 32 (61.54%) Cisco
4 30 (57.69%) Windows
5 29 (55.77%) Microsoft
5 29 (55.77%) ITIL
5 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
6 28 (53.85%) Service Management
6 28 (53.85%) iSCSI
7 27 (51.92%) Linux
8 25 (48.08%) MySQL
8 25 (48.08%) IIS
9 24 (46.15%) Oracle
10 23 (44.23%) Apache
10 23 (44.23%) SAN
11 22 (42.31%) TCP/IP
12 18 (34.62%) Problem Management
12 18 (34.62%) SaaS
13 17 (32.69%) DNS
13 17 (32.69%) DHCP
13 17 (32.69%) Change Management
14 14 (26.92%) SQL
15 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
15 11 (21.15%) Fibre Channel
15 11 (21.15%) Computer Science
15 11 (21.15%) Degree
16 10 (19.23%) Migration
16 10 (19.23%) Project Management
16 10 (19.23%) NetApp
17 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 1 (1.923%) COM
Application Platforms
1 25 (48.08%) IIS
2 23 (44.23%) Apache
Applications
1 7 (13.46%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 28 (53.85%) iSCSI
2 23 (44.23%) SAN
3 22 (42.31%) TCP/IP
4 17 (32.69%) DNS
4 17 (32.69%) DHCP
5 11 (21.15%) Fibre Channel
6 7 (13.46%) DMZ
7 5 (9.615%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (48.08%) MySQL
2 11 (21.15%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (1.923%) Telecoms
1 1 (1.923%) Finance
1 1 (1.923%) Retail
Job Titles
1 28 (53.85%) Systems Engineer
2 23 (44.23%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (19.23%) DBA
3 10 (19.23%) Administrator
4 6 (11.54%) VMware Specialist
5 5 (9.615%) Architect
5 5 (9.615%) VMware Architect
6 4 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
6 4 (7.692%) Server Engineer
6 4 (7.692%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 18 (34.62%) SaaS
2 11 (21.15%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 30 (57.69%) Windows
2 27 (51.92%) Linux
3 9 (17.31%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.923%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (55.77%) ITIL
2 28 (53.85%) Service Management
3 18 (34.62%) Problem Management
4 17 (32.69%) Change Management
5 10 (19.23%) Migration
5 10 (19.23%) Project Management
6 3 (5.769%) Incident Management
6 3 (5.769%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (3.846%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.846%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.846%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.923%) Technical Architecture
8 1 (1.923%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.92%) SQL
2 3 (5.769%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Degree
2 8 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (5.769%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.923%) SLA
System Software
1 40 (76.92%) VMware ESX
2 29 (55.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (13.46%) VMFS
3 7 (13.46%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (7.692%) VMware Server
5 1 (1.923%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.923%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.923%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 3 (5.769%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 52 (100.00%) VMware
2 32 (61.54%) Cisco
3 29 (55.77%) Microsoft
4 24 (46.15%) Oracle
5 10 (19.23%) NetApp
6 7 (13.46%) Dell
7 3 (5.769%) HP
8 1 (1.923%) Citrix
8 1 (1.923%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.923%) Salesforce.com
8 1 (1.923%) Nimsoft
Luton, Bedfordshire
Ideally commercial data-centre experience working with Apache and MySQL. * Exposure to and knowledge of Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Cisco networking elements... * Experience of working within ITIL...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £40000 - £49000 per annum + bonus, pension, health
Posted: 13 May 2013
Luton
You will have the proven ability to design and implement highly available databases using virtual servers and central storage appliances; the University uses VMware vSphere and NetApp filers.
University of Bedfordshire
Salary: c £34,000 per annum
Posted: 18 May 2013
Luton, South East
TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC and iSCSI switching Desirable: Windows Server (up to 2008) including Microsoft Cluster Services, Microsoft IIS web...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Luton, South East
Essential: At least 5 years commercial Linux data centre experience Linux server (inc. Apache, mySQL) LAMP TCP/IP networking over Cisco Catalyst switches Storage Area Networks, including FC...
Computer Futures
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013