The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 181 110 138
Rank change year-on-year
-71 +28
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 13 65 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.320% 1.793% 0.887%
As % of the System Software category 4.659% 17.71% 11.36%
Number of salaries quoted 12 61 30
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £35,600 £27,500 £26,550
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £41,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,250 £40,750
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +3.68%
All System Software
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
279 367 308
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 6.875% 10.12% 7.805%
Number of salaries quoted 223 345 276
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -1.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Manchester 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
Stockport - 2 £40,250 -
Wigan - 2 £40,500 -
Bury +7 1 £37,500 -
Oldham +5 1 £37,500 -
Salford +3 1 £37,500 -
Bolton -21 1 £37,500 +2.73%
Sale - 1 £37,500 -
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 39 (92.86%) VMware
2 28 (66.67%) Windows
2 28 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 28 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 28 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 28 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (61.90%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (54.76%) NetApp
5 22 (52.38%) Cisco
6 21 (50.00%) Firewall
6 21 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
7 20 (47.62%) Citrix
8 19 (45.24%) Windows Server 2003
9 17 (40.48%) TCP/IP
9 17 (40.48%) ITIL
10 16 (38.10%) DNS
11 14 (33.33%) WAN
11 14 (33.33%) DHCP
11 14 (33.33%) MS Excel
11 14 (33.33%) HP
11 14 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (30.95%) Cisco Certification
12 13 (30.95%) XenApp
12 13 (30.95%) WSUS
13 11 (26.19%) VMware ESXi
13 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (26.19%) CCNA
13 11 (26.19%) LAN
14 10 (23.81%) MCSE
14 10 (23.81%) SQL Server

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 (2.381%) XML
Application Platforms
1 28 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 21 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2003
3 8 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (11.90%) Exchange Server 2000
4 5 (11.90%) IIS
5 2 (4.762%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.381%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) Office 365
2 1 (2.381%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 21 (50.00%) Firewall
2 17 (40.48%) TCP/IP
3 16 (38.10%) DNS
4 14 (33.33%) WAN
4 14 (33.33%) DHCP
5 11 (26.19%) LAN
6 10 (23.81%) SAN
7 9 (21.43%) NAS
8 8 (19.05%) VoIP
9 7 (16.67%) VPN
9 7 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (14.29%) Internet
10 6 (14.29%) MPLS
11 5 (11.90%) IPsec
11 5 (11.90%) Network Security
11 5 (11.90%) SSL
11 5 (11.90%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (9.524%) SSH
13 3 (7.143%) VLAN
13 3 (7.143%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (7.143%) MySQL
3 3 (7.143%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 6 (14.29%) Legal
2 5 (11.90%) Finance
3 2 (4.762%) Advertising
4 1 (2.381%) Banking
4 1 (2.381%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Consultant
3 4 (9.524%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (7.143%) Technical Consultant
4 3 (7.143%) Technical Support
4 3 (7.143%) Support Engineer
4 3 (7.143%) Technical Manager
4 3 (7.143%) IT Support
5 2 (4.762%) Windows Server Specialist
5 2 (4.762%) Technical Engineer
5 2 (4.762%) Server Engineer
5 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
5 2 (4.762%) Server Specialist
5 2 (4.762%) Support Consultant
5 2 (4.762%) Network Manager
5 2 (4.762%) IT Consultant
6 1 (2.381%) Senior Consultant
6 1 (2.381%) Architect
6 1 (2.381%) Analyst
6 1 (2.381%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (14.29%) Firmware
1 6 (14.29%) Clustering
2 5 (11.90%) SWIFT
2 5 (11.90%) Replication
3 4 (9.524%) CLARiiON
4 2 (4.762%) Blackberry
4 2 (4.762%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.381%) Statistics
5 1 (2.381%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 28 (66.67%) Windows
2 26 (61.90%) Windows Server 2008
3 19 (45.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (19.05%) UNIX
5 7 (16.67%) Windows XP
5 7 (16.67%) Linux
5 7 (16.67%) Windows 2000 Server
6 5 (11.90%) Windows 7
6 5 (11.90%) AIX
6 5 (11.90%) Solaris
7 3 (7.143%) Windows NT
8 2 (4.762%) NetWare
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (40.48%) ITIL
2 14 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 6 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 5 (11.90%) Change Management
5 4 (9.524%) PRINCE2
5 4 (9.524%) Information Security
5 4 (9.524%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (7.143%) Incident Management
6 3 (7.143%) WAN Optimisation
6 3 (7.143%) Network Management
7 2 (4.762%) Problem Management
7 2 (4.762%) Asset Management
7 2 (4.762%) Service Delivery
8 1 (2.381%) Service Management
8 1 (2.381%) Supplier Management
8 1 (2.381%) Time Management
8 1 (2.381%) Performance Management
8 1 (2.381%) Network Architecture
8 1 (2.381%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (4.762%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.381%) C
Qualifications
1 13 (30.95%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (26.19%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (26.19%) CCNA
3 10 (23.81%) MCSE
4 8 (19.05%) MCP
4 8 (19.05%) MCITP
5 5 (11.90%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (9.524%) MCTS
6 4 (9.524%) CCNP
6 4 (9.524%) Citrix Certification
7 3 (7.143%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (7.143%) Degree
7 3 (7.143%) NCDA
7 3 (7.143%) NCIE
8 2 (4.762%) VCAP
8 2 (4.762%) CCEE
8 2 (4.762%) CCIA
8 2 (4.762%) VCDX
8 2 (4.762%) MCSA
9 1 (2.381%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.381%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 28 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (30.95%) XenApp
3 11 (26.19%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (19.05%) Hyper-V
5 7 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 5 (11.90%) XenServer
7 4 (9.524%) VMware Workstation
7 4 (9.524%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 4 (9.524%) MetaFrame
8 3 (7.143%) Samba
9 2 (4.762%) VMware Server
9 2 (4.762%) XenDesktop
10 1 (2.381%) NFS
10 1 (2.381%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) WSUS
2 6 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 5 (11.90%) SCOM
3 5 (11.90%) Tivoli
4 4 (9.524%) SCCM
5 2 (4.762%) MOM
5 2 (4.762%) ZENworks
5 2 (4.762%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (2.381%) Backup Exec
6 1 (2.381%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 1 (2.381%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 39 (92.86%) VMware
2 28 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 23 (54.76%) NetApp
4 22 (52.38%) Cisco
5 20 (47.62%) Citrix
6 14 (33.33%) HP
7 7 (16.67%) Oracle
8 6 (14.29%) IBM
8 6 (14.29%) Juniper
9 5 (11.90%) CheckPoint
9 5 (11.90%) Sun
9 5 (11.90%) WatchGuard
9 5 (11.90%) Veeam
10 4 (9.524%) AppSense
10 4 (9.524%) EMC
11 3 (7.143%) 3Com
11 3 (7.143%) Huawei
11 3 (7.143%) Brocade
12 2 (4.762%) SolarWinds
12 2 (4.762%) Sophos
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Salary: £30000 - £33000 per annum + bens
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Salary: £34000 - £38000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
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FT Select
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
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Salary: £38000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
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Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Benefits
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