The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 18 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 238 231 200
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -31
Permanent jobs citing Xen 5 20 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.067% 0.275% 0.426%
As % of the System Software category 0.919% 2.710% 4.651%
Number of salaries quoted 5 18 28
Average salary £24,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.00% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
All System Software
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
544 738 645
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 7.333% 10.16% 9.155%
Number of salaries quoted 429 679 560
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £23,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
Xen
England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester -15 3 £23,000 -34.28%
Cheshire -4 2 £27,500 -21.42%
Xen
England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (70.59%) Linux
3 11 (64.71%) WAN
3 11 (64.71%) Cisco
3 11 (64.71%) IBM
3 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
4 10 (58.82%) EMC
5 9 (52.94%) SAN
5 9 (52.94%) Tivoli
5 9 (52.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 9 (52.94%) Lotus
5 9 (52.94%) Cognos
5 9 (52.94%) AIX
5 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
6 8 (47.06%) Service Management
6 8 (47.06%) Firewall
6 8 (47.06%) ITSM
6 8 (47.06%) Finance
6 8 (47.06%) Validation
6 8 (47.06%) Business Continuity
6 8 (47.06%) Juniper
6 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) Riverbed
6 8 (47.06%) Isilon
6 8 (47.06%) High Availability
6 8 (47.06%) WAN Optimisation
6 8 (47.06%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (29.41%) Citrix
8 3 (17.65%) Active Directory

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 Development
1 9 (52.94%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Apache
2 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 1 (5.882%) MS Exchange
3 1 (5.882%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.882%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) WAN
2 9 (52.94%) SAN
3 8 (47.06%) Firewall
3 8 (47.06%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (17.65%) FTP
5 1 (5.882%) LAN
5 1 (5.882%) VoIP
5 1 (5.882%) MPLS
5 1 (5.882%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Consultant
1 9 (52.94%) Sales Consultant
1 9 (52.94%) Technical Consultant
1 9 (52.94%) Pre Sales Consultant
1 9 (52.94%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
2 3 (17.65%) Data Centre Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Linux Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Linux Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Designer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.882%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (70.59%) Linux
2 9 (52.94%) AIX
3 3 (17.65%) Windows
3 3 (17.65%) Debian
3 3 (17.65%) Ubuntu
3 3 (17.65%) CentOS
4 2 (11.76%) Windows Vista
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (5.882%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) Service Management
1 8 (47.06%) ITSM
1 8 (47.06%) Validation
1 8 (47.06%) Business Continuity
1 8 (47.06%) High Availability
1 8 (47.06%) WAN Optimisation
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (5.882%) Problem Management
3 1 (5.882%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) PHP
2 1 (5.882%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) MCSE
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (5.882%) MCITP
System Software
1 12 (70.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (17.65%) Active Directory
3 2 (11.76%) Terminal Services
4 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (52.94%) Tivoli
1 9 (52.94%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (17.65%) Plesk
3 2 (11.76%) SCCM
3 2 (11.76%) SCOM
4 1 (5.882%) WSUS
Vendors
1 13 (76.47%) VMware
2 11 (64.71%) Cisco
2 11 (64.71%) IBM
2 11 (64.71%) Microsoft
3 10 (58.82%) EMC
4 9 (52.94%) Cognos
4 9 (52.94%) Lotus
5 8 (47.06%) Riverbed
5 8 (47.06%) Isilon
5 8 (47.06%) Juniper
6 5 (29.41%) Citrix
7 2 (11.76%) HP
7 2 (11.76%) Dell
8 1 (5.882%) NetApp
8 1 (5.882%) SolarWinds
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