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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 44 41 73
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +32
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 10 18 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.938% 3.607% 0.283%
As % of the System Software category 14.49% 26.47% 2.857%
Number of salaries quoted 10 17 2
Average salary £55,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.78% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,250 £40,750
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +3.68%
All System Software
Middlesex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
69 68 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 13.37% 13.63% 9.915%
Number of salaries quoted 51 62 46
Average salary £50,000 £40,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -6.97%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £29,650
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 19 (95.00%) VMware
2 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 18 (90.00%) Cisco
3 17 (85.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (75.00%) SaaS
4 15 (75.00%) PaaS
4 15 (75.00%) vCloud
4 15 (75.00%) IaaS
4 15 (75.00%) NetApp
4 15 (75.00%) Linux
5 13 (65.00%) NetBackup
5 13 (65.00%) 3PAR
5 13 (65.00%) Release Management
5 13 (65.00%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (40.00%) ITIL
7 4 (20.00%) HP
8 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
8 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (10.00%) NCDA
9 2 (10.00%) NCIE
9 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
9 2 (10.00%) IIS
9 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
9 2 (10.00%) Sun
9 2 (10.00%) SAN
9 2 (10.00%) Clustering
9 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (5.000%) Firewall
10 1 (5.000%) Migration

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms
1 3 (15.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (10.00%) IIS
3 1 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 1 (5.000%) Firewall
2 1 (5.000%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 17 (85.00%) Architect
2 15 (75.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Senior Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Consultant
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.000%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.000%) Administrator
4 1 (5.000%) IT Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 15 (75.00%) SaaS
1 15 (75.00%) PaaS
1 15 (75.00%) IaaS
2 2 (10.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 18 (90.00%) Windows
2 15 (75.00%) Linux
3 3 (15.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (5.000%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Release Management
1 13 (65.00%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (40.00%) ITIL
3 1 (5.000%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (10.00%) NCDA
1 2 (10.00%) NCIE
2 1 (5.000%) CCNA
2 1 (5.000%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 17 (85.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (75.00%) vCloud
3 1 (5.000%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 13 (65.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 19 (95.00%) VMware
2 18 (90.00%) Cisco
3 15 (75.00%) NetApp
4 13 (65.00%) 3PAR
5 4 (20.00%) HP
6 2 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 2 (10.00%) Sun
7 1 (5.000%) Citrix
7 1 (5.000%) Microsoft