The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 18 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 System Software category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 190 175 149
Rank change year-on-year
-15 -26
Permanent jobs citing Xen 3 2 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.070% 0.054% 0.620%
As % of the System Software category 1.000% 0.546% 7.082%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 25
Average salary £23,000 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-34.28% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All System Software
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
300 366 353
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 7.031% 9.807% 8.757%
Number of salaries quoted 248 339 315
Average salary £37,500 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.29% -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,750 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £59,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
Xen
North West

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 3 (42.86%) PHP
2 3 (42.86%) MySQL
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
2 3 (42.86%) FTP
2 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
2 3 (42.86%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) Debian
2 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
2 3 (42.86%) Plesk
3 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (28.57%) SCCM
3 2 (28.57%) SCOM
3 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
3 2 (28.57%) Advertising
3 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
4 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (14.29%) MPLS
4 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
4 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (14.29%) DSL
4 1 (14.29%) SAN

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester 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 1 (14.29%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) Apache
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (42.86%) WAN
1 3 (42.86%) FTP
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) DSL
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) MySQL
General
1 2 (28.57%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Linux Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Linux Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Support Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Team Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Debian
2 3 (42.86%) Ubuntu
2 3 (42.86%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Vista
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
1 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) PHP
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) Active Directory
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Plesk
2 2 (28.57%) SCCM
2 2 (28.57%) SCOM
3 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
3 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (14.29%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Citrix
1 3 (42.86%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Lotus
2 1 (14.29%) Cognos
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) EMC
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