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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 176 150 153
Rank change year-on-year
-26 +3
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 5 27 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.122% 0.733% 0.412%
As % of the System Software category 1.730% 7.258% 5.229%
Number of salaries quoted 3 27 11
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +33.33%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+5.88% +6.25%
All System Software
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
289 372 306
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 7.038% 10.09% 7.874%
Number of salaries quoted 235 349 274
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
VMware ESX
North West

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

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

Manchester VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Manchester VMware ESX Salary Histogram

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 7 (63.64%) Cisco
4 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
4 6 (54.55%) HP
4 6 (54.55%) Citrix
4 6 (54.55%) vSphere
5 5 (45.45%) XenApp
5 5 (45.45%) NetApp
5 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (45.45%) Firewall
6 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 4 (36.36%) ITIL
6 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
7 3 (27.27%) Altiris
7 3 (27.27%) Huawei
7 3 (27.27%) VLAN
7 3 (27.27%) BladeLogic
7 3 (27.27%) Degree
7 3 (27.27%) Clustering
7 3 (27.27%) Backup Exec
7 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
7 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
7 3 (27.27%) SCCM
7 3 (27.27%) SCOM
7 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
7 3 (27.27%) VoIP
7 3 (27.27%) WAN

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) TCP/IP
2 5 (45.45%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) VLAN
3 3 (27.27%) VoIP
3 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 3 (27.27%) DHCP
3 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 2 (18.18%) SAN
General
1 2 (18.18%) Advertising
2 1 (9.091%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Wintel Support
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Support Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Network Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Technical Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Lead Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Network Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Support
3 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 1 (9.091%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX
3 1 (9.091%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 4 (36.36%) Problem Management
3 3 (27.27%) Business Continuity
3 3 (27.27%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) PowerShell
1 3 (27.27%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
1 3 (27.27%) CCNA
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (9.091%) VCP5
2 1 (9.091%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
1 3 (27.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) vSphere
2 5 (45.45%) XenApp
3 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
4 2 (18.18%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (9.091%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (9.091%) XenServer
5 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) BladeLogic
1 3 (27.27%) Backup Exec
1 3 (27.27%) SCCM
1 3 (27.27%) SCOM
2 1 (9.091%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (63.64%) Cisco
3 6 (54.55%) HP
3 6 (54.55%) Citrix
4 5 (45.45%) NetApp
5 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
6 3 (27.27%) Altiris
6 3 (27.27%) Huawei
6 3 (27.27%) Symantec
6 3 (27.27%) Remedy
6 3 (27.27%) Juniper
6 3 (27.27%) 3Com
7 2 (18.18%) Hitachi
8 1 (9.091%) Dell
8 1 (9.091%) Sun