The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Nottingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 Nottingham region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 49 70 92
Rank change year-on-year
+21 +22
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 41 16 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 4.357% 1.533% 0.577%
As % of the System Software category 37.96% 25.00% 8.333%
Number of salaries quoted 38 15 7
Average salary £40,000 £28,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -20.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,200 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
108 64 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 11.48% 6.130% 6.925%
Number of salaries quoted 93 57 74
Average salary £41,500 £37,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.66% +10.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,500 £25,300
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £43,000 £52,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Nottinghamshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

Nottingham vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Nottingham region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Nottingham vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 48 (92.31%) VMware
2 39 (75.00%) Windows
2 39 (75.00%) SAN
3 38 (73.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (50.00%) Citrix
5 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
5 23 (44.23%) Windows Server 2003
6 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
6 20 (38.46%) XenApp
6 20 (38.46%) NetBackup
7 19 (36.54%) Oracle
7 19 (36.54%) Linux
8 18 (34.62%) Firewall
8 18 (34.62%) XenDesktop
9 17 (32.69%) Citrix Certification
10 16 (30.77%) CCA
10 16 (30.77%) XenServer
10 16 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
10 16 (30.77%) Replication
10 16 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 15 (28.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (28.85%) Hyper-V
12 14 (26.92%) iSCSI
12 14 (26.92%) Project Planning
12 14 (26.92%) Data Management
12 14 (26.92%) Fibre Channel
12 14 (26.92%) CCIA
13 13 (25.00%) Bash shell
13 13 (25.00%) Network Design
13 13 (25.00%) Debian

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.923%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 11 (21.15%) MS Exchange
2 9 (17.31%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (13.46%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (3.846%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.923%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.923%) Exchange Server 2000
6 1 (1.923%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.923%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 39 (75.00%) SAN
2 18 (34.62%) Firewall
3 14 (26.92%) iSCSI
3 14 (26.92%) Fibre Channel
4 13 (25.00%) VLAN
4 13 (25.00%) MPLS
5 4 (7.692%) TCP/IP
5 4 (7.692%) WAN
6 2 (3.846%) MGCP
6 2 (3.846%) H.323
6 2 (3.846%) VoIP
6 2 (3.846%) Cisco ICM
6 2 (3.846%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.923%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.923%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.923%) NAS
7 1 (1.923%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (38.46%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (25.00%) MySQL
3 4 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (3.846%) Capistrano
General
1 2 (3.846%) Finance
1 2 (3.846%) Banking
1 2 (3.846%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 16 (30.77%) Consultant
2 13 (25.00%) Architect
2 13 (25.00%) Developer
3 8 (15.38%) Technical Consultant
4 7 (13.46%) Citrix Consultant
5 6 (11.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (9.615%) Support Engineer
7 4 (7.692%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (7.692%) IT Support Engineer
7 4 (7.692%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 4 (7.692%) IT Support
8 3 (5.769%) Server Technician
8 3 (5.769%) Citrix Technical Consultant
8 3 (5.769%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
8 3 (5.769%) Analyst
8 3 (5.769%) Infrastructure Analyst
9 2 (3.846%) Administrator
9 2 (3.846%) Systems Administrator
9 2 (3.846%) Senior Technical Consultant
10 1 (1.923%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (30.77%) Replication
2 3 (5.769%) Clustering
3 2 (3.846%) IVR
3 2 (3.846%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 39 (75.00%) Windows
2 23 (44.23%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (36.54%) Linux
4 16 (30.77%) Windows Server 2008
5 15 (28.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 13 (25.00%) Debian
7 9 (17.31%) UNIX
8 7 (13.46%) Windows Vista
9 6 (11.54%) AIX
10 4 (7.692%) Windows XP
10 4 (7.692%) Windows 8
11 2 (3.846%) HPUX
12 1 (1.923%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (26.92%) Project Planning
1 14 (26.92%) Data Management
2 13 (25.00%) Network Design
2 13 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 7 (13.46%) Validation
4 6 (11.54%) ITIL
5 4 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.692%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.769%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (3.846%) Contact Management
7 2 (3.846%) E-Commerce
7 2 (3.846%) Business Continuity
8 1 (1.923%) Business Development
8 1 (1.923%) Migration
8 1 (1.923%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 13 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 13 (25.00%) Python
1 13 (25.00%) Perl
1 13 (25.00%) VBScript
2 8 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (32.69%) Citrix Certification
2 16 (30.77%) CCA
2 16 (30.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 14 (26.92%) CCIA
4 9 (17.31%) CCEE
5 8 (15.38%) MCSE
5 8 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
5 8 (15.38%) MCITP
6 7 (13.46%) CCEA
7 5 (9.615%) CCNA
7 5 (9.615%) Cisco Certification
8 3 (5.769%) CCAA
8 3 (5.769%) VCAP
8 3 (5.769%) VCDX
9 2 (3.846%) SC Cleared
9 2 (3.846%) Security Cleared
9 2 (3.846%) Degree
9 2 (3.846%) NCDA
9 2 (3.846%) NCIE
10 1 (1.923%) MCTS
System Software
1 38 (73.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (38.46%) XenApp
3 18 (34.62%) XenDesktop
4 16 (30.77%) XenServer
5 15 (28.85%) Hyper-V
6 13 (25.00%) NFS
7 7 (13.46%) Active Directory
8 4 (7.692%) VMware ESX
8 4 (7.692%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (5.769%) VMware Server
9 3 (5.769%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (38.46%) NetBackup
2 11 (21.15%) Backup Exec
3 2 (3.846%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.923%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 48 (92.31%) VMware
2 26 (50.00%) Citrix
3 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
4 19 (36.54%) Oracle
5 13 (25.00%) Mercator
5 13 (25.00%) Veritas
6 6 (11.54%) NetApp
7 5 (9.615%) HP
7 5 (9.615%) Cisco
8 2 (3.846%) Wyse
8 2 (3.846%) Symantec
8 2 (3.846%) Novell
8 2 (3.846%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.846%) Avaya
8 2 (3.846%) SAP
8 2 (3.846%) AppSense
8 2 (3.846%) ION Trading
8 2 (3.846%) PlateSpin
8 2 (3.846%) Vizioncore
8 2 (3.846%) Veeam