The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Middlesex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen 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
XenSource Xen
Rank 46 58 68
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +10
Permanent jobs citing Xen 8 1 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Middlesex 1.550% 0.200% 0.992%
As % of the System Software category 11.59% 1.471% 10.00%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 0
Average salary £58,750 - -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
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%
Xen
South East

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Middlesex 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 Middlesex region.

Middlesex Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

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

Middlesex Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
3 8 (80.00%) Apache
3 8 (80.00%) MySQL
4 6 (60.00%) DNS
4 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
5 4 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
5 4 (40.00%) Sendmail
5 4 (40.00%) Ruby
5 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (40.00%) CentOS
5 4 (40.00%) nginx
5 4 (40.00%) Open Source
5 4 (40.00%) Puppet
5 4 (40.00%) Samba
5 4 (40.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) SAN
5 4 (40.00%) Nagios
5 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
5 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
5 4 (40.00%) Python
5 4 (40.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
7 2 (20.00%) VMware
7 2 (20.00%) AIX
7 2 (20.00%) Solaris
7 2 (20.00%) MS Excel

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Middlesex 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 Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) Apache
2 4 (40.00%) nginx
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 4 (40.00%) SAN
2 4 (40.00%) OpenLDAP
2 4 (40.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (20.00%) LAN
3 2 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MySQL
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Administrator
2 4 (40.00%) Server Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) UNIX Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Team Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Linux Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
2 9 (90.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 4 (40.00%) CentOS
5 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (20.00%) AIX
5 2 (20.00%) Solaris
5 2 (20.00%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
1 4 (40.00%) Ruby
2 2 (20.00%) Bash shell
2 2 (20.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 4 (40.00%) Samba
1 4 (40.00%) Sendmail
2 2 (20.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Nagios
1 4 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Citrix
2 3 (30.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (20.00%) VMware
3 2 (20.00%) Brocade
3 2 (20.00%) Oracle
3 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 2 (20.00%) Sun
3 2 (20.00%) HP