The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Engineer
Rank 251 242 231
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -11
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Engineer 3 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.042% 0.015%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% 0.044% 0.015%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 1
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -25.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -25.00%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6890 6797 6466
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.52% 95.92% 95.52%
Number of salaries quoted 5851 6007 5715
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West Virtualisation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer across the North West region.

North West Virtualisation Engineer Salary Trend

Virtualisation Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Manchester -14 2 £37,500 -
Cheshire - 1 £32,500 -
Lancashire - 1 £37,500 -
Merseyside - 1 £37,500 -
Virtualisation Engineer
England

Virtualisation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 5 (71.43%) IIS
3 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
3 4 (57.14%) Web Services
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 4 (57.14%) UNIX
3 4 (57.14%) .NET
3 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
3 4 (57.14%) Windows 2000
3 4 (57.14%) DNS
3 4 (57.14%) SLA
3 4 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (57.14%) SAN
3 4 (57.14%) Clustering
3 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
3 4 (57.14%) iSCSI
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
3 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
3 4 (57.14%) Network Load Balancing
3 4 (57.14%) FIX Protocol
3 4 (57.14%) Fibre Channel

Virtualisation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Virtualisation Engineer in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) ASP.NET
1 4 (57.14%) Web Services
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
1 4 (57.14%) FIX Protocol
Application Platforms
1 5 (71.43%) IIS
2 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) DNS
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
1 4 (57.14%) iSCSI
1 4 (57.14%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (14.29%) Internet
2 1 (14.29%) NetScaler
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) UNIX
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 2000
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) ITIL
1 4 (57.14%) Performance Management
1 4 (57.14%) Configuration Management
1 4 (57.14%) Network Load Balancing
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Management
1 4 (57.14%) Service Delivery
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Management
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (71.43%) MCSE
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (14.29%) VCDX
3 1 (14.29%) VCAP
3 1 (14.29%) CCEE
3 1 (14.29%) CCAA
3 1 (14.29%) CCIA
3 1 (14.29%) NCDA
3 1 (14.29%) NCIE
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (14.29%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (57.14%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
3 3 (42.86%) XenDesktop
3 3 (42.86%) XenApp
4 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 1 (14.29%) XenServer
5 1 (14.29%) Terminal Services
5 1 (14.29%) vSphere
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Red Hat
4 3 (42.86%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco