The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer 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 XenServer 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
Citrix XenServer
Rank 224 218 213
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -5
Permanent jobs citing XenServer 19 33 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.256% 0.454% 0.241%
As % of the System Software category 3.493% 4.472% 2.636%
Number of salaries quoted 17 32 16
Average salary £37,500 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.66% -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,600 £27,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £55,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
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%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Salary Trend

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

North West XenServer Salary Trend

XenServer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XenServer across the North West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

North West XenServer Salary Histogram

XenServer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer 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 -8 16 £35,000 -28.20% 1
Cheshire +1 3 £85,000 +88.88% 1
Merseyside +15 2 £51,250 +2.50%
Lancashire 0 2 £37,500 +7.14%
XenServer
England

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 46 (100.00%) Citrix
2 38 (82.61%) XenApp
3 35 (76.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (76.09%) VMware
4 31 (67.39%) Citrix Certification
4 31 (67.39%) Windows
5 27 (58.70%) XenDesktop
6 25 (54.35%) MS Exchange
7 22 (47.83%) CCEE
8 21 (45.65%) CCA
9 20 (43.48%) Hyper-V
10 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
11 16 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
11 16 (34.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 16 (34.78%) MCITP
12 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
12 15 (32.61%) MS Excel
12 15 (32.61%) SAN
12 15 (32.61%) CCIA
13 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
14 13 (28.26%) vSphere
15 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
16 11 (23.91%) DHCP
16 11 (23.91%) DNS
16 11 (23.91%) Exchange Server 2010
17 10 (21.74%) CCEA
17 10 (21.74%) ITIL
17 10 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2003
17 10 (21.74%) Firewall
18 8 (17.39%) MCSE

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.174%) .NET
1 1 (2.174%) Web Services
1 1 (2.174%) LAMP
1 1 (2.174%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 25 (54.35%) MS Exchange
2 11 (23.91%) Exchange Server 2010
3 10 (21.74%) Exchange Server 2003
4 5 (10.87%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.174%) Windows Azure
5 1 (2.174%) Amazon AWS
5 1 (2.174%) Lync
5 1 (2.174%) OpenStack
5 1 (2.174%) SAS
5 1 (2.174%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.174%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (32.61%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.174%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 15 (32.61%) SAN
2 11 (23.91%) DNS
2 11 (23.91%) DHCP
3 10 (21.74%) Firewall
4 7 (15.22%) LAN
4 7 (15.22%) WAN
4 7 (15.22%) NAS
5 6 (13.04%) Unified Communications
5 6 (13.04%) Internet
5 6 (13.04%) NetScaler
6 2 (4.348%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (4.348%) IP Telephony
6 2 (4.348%) Network Security
6 2 (4.348%) iSCSI
7 1 (2.174%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.174%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.522%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (2.174%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Consultant
2 9 (19.57%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 9 (19.57%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (17.39%) Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Technical Consultant
4 5 (10.87%) Citrix Consultant
5 4 (8.696%) Service Desk Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) Service Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (8.696%) Project Manager
5 4 (8.696%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 4 (8.696%) Wintel Analyst
5 4 (8.696%) VMware Consultant
6 3 (6.522%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Architect
6 3 (6.522%) Support Analyst
6 3 (6.522%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (6.522%) Administrator
7 2 (4.348%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (4.348%) Help Desk Support
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.696%) Celerra
2 3 (6.522%) CLARiiON
3 2 (4.348%) EMC Centera
3 2 (4.348%) EqualLogic
3 2 (4.348%) HP StorageWorks
3 2 (4.348%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.174%) IaaS
4 1 (2.174%) Clustering
4 1 (2.174%) CMDB
4 1 (2.174%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.174%) SaaS
4 1 (2.174%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 31 (67.39%) Windows
2 16 (34.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (30.43%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.174%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (21.74%) ITIL
2 4 (8.696%) PRINCE2
2 4 (8.696%) Problem Management
2 4 (8.696%) Change Control
2 4 (8.696%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (6.522%) High Availability
3 3 (6.522%) Project Management
3 3 (6.522%) Project Planning
4 2 (4.348%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (4.348%) Change Management
4 2 (4.348%) Business Continuity
5 1 (2.174%) Migration
5 1 (2.174%) Use Case
5 1 (2.174%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (2.174%) Business Development
5 1 (2.174%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.174%) UML
5 1 (2.174%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) VBScript
1 7 (15.22%) VB
2 1 (2.174%) Java
2 1 (2.174%) SQL
Qualifications
1 31 (67.39%) Citrix Certification
2 22 (47.83%) CCEE
3 21 (45.65%) CCA
4 16 (34.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 16 (34.78%) MCITP
5 15 (32.61%) CCIA
6 12 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
7 10 (21.74%) CCEA
8 8 (17.39%) MCSE
9 7 (15.22%) MCSA
9 7 (15.22%) MCTS
9 7 (15.22%) CCAA
10 5 (10.87%) ITIL Certification
11 4 (8.696%) VCDX
11 4 (8.696%) NCDA
11 4 (8.696%) NCIE
11 4 (8.696%) VCAP
12 3 (6.522%) HP AIS
12 3 (6.522%) HP ASE
12 3 (6.522%) HP MASE
System Software
1 38 (82.61%) XenApp
2 35 (76.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (58.70%) XenDesktop
4 20 (43.48%) Hyper-V
5 15 (32.61%) Active Directory
6 13 (28.26%) vSphere
7 7 (15.22%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (6.522%) VMware ESX
9 2 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
9 2 (4.348%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (2.174%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 2 (4.348%) Backup Exec
1 2 (4.348%) SCCM
1 2 (4.348%) SCVMM
2 1 (2.174%) Puppet
2 1 (2.174%) SCOM
Vendors
1 46 (100.00%) Citrix
2 35 (76.09%) VMware
3 17 (36.96%) Microsoft
4 8 (17.39%) HP
5 7 (15.22%) Cisco
6 6 (13.04%) EMC
7 5 (10.87%) AppSense
7 5 (10.87%) IBM
7 5 (10.87%) NetApp
8 4 (8.696%) Dell
8 4 (8.696%) Veeam
9 2 (4.348%) ProCurve
9 2 (4.348%) Symantec
10 1 (2.174%) Sophos
10 1 (2.174%) Google
10 1 (2.174%) PlateSpin
10 1 (2.174%) Novell
10 1 (2.174%) Hitachi
10 1 (2.174%) Rackspace
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
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Salary: £25,000 - £35,000 + car/allow + bens
Posted: 28 May 2013
England: North-West, North West
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Axica Recruitment
Salary: £35,000 - £40,000 per year
Posted: 17 June 2013
North West
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Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £60,000 to £70,000 per annum Bonus + Car or Allowance + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
North West
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Salary: From £60,000 to £80,000 per annum Commissions & Benefits
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