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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Design Expert (VCDX)
Rank 55 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -
Permanent jobs citing VCDX 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 0.224% 0.148% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.877% 0.439% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £37,500 £52,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £52,500 £52,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
- +10.52%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 228 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 25.56% 33.83% 27.04%
Number of salaries quoted 91 185 105
Average salary £37,500 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £49,250 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
VCDX
North West

VCDX
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VCDX across the Merseyside region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Merseyside VCDX Jobs Demand Trend

VCDX
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside VCDX Salary Trend

VCDX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCDX within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +20 1 £37,500 -28.57%
VCDX
North West

VCDX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing VCDX 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 VCDX.

1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenServer
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) NCDA
1 2 (100.00%) NCIE
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) CCEE
1 2 (100.00%) CCIA
2 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
2 1 (50.00%) CCAA
2 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 1 (50.00%) High Availability
2 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS
2 1 (50.00%) HP AIS
2 1 (50.00%) HP ASE
2 1 (50.00%) HP MASE
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V

VCDX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing VCDX 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 VCDX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) Unified Communications
1 1 (50.00%) NetScaler
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Virtualisation Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Celerra
1 1 (50.00%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) MCITP
1 2 (100.00%) NCDA
1 2 (100.00%) NCIE
1 2 (100.00%) VCAP
1 2 (100.00%) CCEE
1 2 (100.00%) CCIA
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) CCAA
2 1 (50.00%) HP AIS
2 1 (50.00%) HP ASE
2 1 (50.00%) HP MASE
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
1 2 (100.00%) XenServer
1 2 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) NetApp
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC