The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT jobs advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 24 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 Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 18 28 16
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -12
Permanent jobs citing Hyper-V 9 16 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 4.167% 5.112% 7.792%
As % of the System Software category 42.86% 29.09% 40.00%
Number of salaries quoted 6 16 13
Average salary £50,000 £45,000 £61,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -26.22%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -5.88%
All System Software
Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
21 55 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the Midlands 9.722% 17.57% 19.48%
Number of salaries quoted 16 53 40
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Salary Trend

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

Midlands Hyper-V Salary Trend

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
1 21 (95.45%) Citrix
2 20 (90.91%) XenApp
2 20 (90.91%) XenDesktop
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco
4 12 (54.55%) VMware
4 12 (54.55%) HP
5 11 (50.00%) LAN
5 11 (50.00%) WAN
5 11 (50.00%) UNIX
5 11 (50.00%) Windows
5 11 (50.00%) Finance
5 11 (50.00%) vSphere
5 11 (50.00%) Lync
5 11 (50.00%) XenServer
5 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (45.45%) MCITP
6 10 (45.45%) SAP Business One
6 10 (45.45%) Service Delivery
6 10 (45.45%) Solaris
6 10 (45.45%) SAP
6 10 (45.45%) SharePoint
6 10 (45.45%) OpenVMS
7 9 (40.91%) MCSE
7 9 (40.91%) Microsoft App-V
7 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (40.91%) CCA
7 9 (40.91%) Citrix Certification
7 9 (40.91%) CCEA
7 9 (40.91%) SCCM

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 11 (50.00%) Lync
2 10 (45.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 10 (45.45%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) LAN
1 11 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (4.545%) SAN
2 1 (4.545%) iSCSI
2 1 (4.545%) NAS
2 1 (4.545%) FCoE
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Architect
1 11 (50.00%) Consultant
1 11 (50.00%) Solutions Architect
2 9 (40.91%) Applications Consultant
2 9 (40.91%) Applications Specialist
2 9 (40.91%) Citrix Consultant
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Consultant
2 9 (40.91%) Virtualisation Consultant
2 9 (40.91%) Citrix Specialist
2 9 (40.91%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Specialist
3 2 (9.091%) Storage Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Implementation Consultant
Operating Systems
1 11 (50.00%) UNIX
1 11 (50.00%) Windows
2 10 (45.45%) Solaris
2 10 (45.45%) OpenVMS
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Service Delivery
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) MCITP
2 9 (40.91%) MCSE
2 9 (40.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (40.91%) CCA
2 9 (40.91%) Citrix Certification
2 9 (40.91%) CCEA
2 9 (40.91%) CCEE
2 9 (40.91%) CCAA
2 9 (40.91%) CCIA
3 2 (9.091%) NCIE
4 1 (4.545%) EMC Certification
4 1 (4.545%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.545%) CCNP
4 1 (4.545%) CCNA
4 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.545%) MCTS
4 1 (4.545%) HP AIS
4 1 (4.545%) HP ASE
4 1 (4.545%) NCDA
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) XenApp
1 20 (90.91%) XenDesktop
2 11 (50.00%) vSphere
2 11 (50.00%) XenServer
2 11 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.545%) NFS
Systems Management
1 9 (40.91%) SCCM
1 9 (40.91%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Microsoft
1 21 (95.45%) Citrix
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco
3 12 (54.55%) VMware
3 12 (54.55%) HP
4 10 (45.45%) SAP
5 2 (9.091%) NetApp
6 1 (4.545%) EMC