The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 19 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 71 75 98
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +23
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 25 18 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 2.296% 1.535% 0.977%
As % of the System Software category 20.33% 23.38% 10.61%
Number of salaries quoted 23 15 13
Average salary £40,000 £26,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.94% -33.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,600 £25,000 £33,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,400 £52,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
All System Software
Nottinghamshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
123 77 132
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 11.29% 6.564% 9.211%
Number of salaries quoted 104 67 114
Average salary £45,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+28.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
vSphere
East Midlands

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire 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 Nottinghamshire region.

Nottinghamshire vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Nottinghamshire vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
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Job
Vacancies
Nottingham +1 25 £40,000 +50.94%
vSphere
East Midlands

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 47 (92.16%) VMware
2 39 (76.47%) SAN
3 38 (74.51%) Windows
3 38 (74.51%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (52.94%) Citrix
5 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
5 23 (45.10%) Windows Server 2003
6 20 (39.22%) SQL Server
6 20 (39.22%) XenApp
6 20 (39.22%) NetBackup
7 19 (37.25%) Oracle
7 19 (37.25%) Linux
8 18 (35.29%) Citrix Certification
8 18 (35.29%) Firewall
8 18 (35.29%) XenDesktop
9 17 (33.33%) CCA
10 16 (31.37%) XenServer
10 16 (31.37%) Replication
11 15 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 15 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 15 (29.41%) Hyper-V
12 14 (27.45%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (27.45%) iSCSI
12 14 (27.45%) Project Planning
12 14 (27.45%) Data Management
12 14 (27.45%) Fibre Channel
12 14 (27.45%) CCIA
13 13 (25.49%) Bash shell
13 13 (25.49%) Network Design
13 13 (25.49%) Debian

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Nottinghamshire 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 (1.961%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 9 (17.65%) MS Exchange
2 7 (13.73%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (9.804%) Exchange Server 2007
4 4 (7.843%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (3.922%) NetWeaver
6 1 (1.961%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.961%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.961%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 39 (76.47%) SAN
2 18 (35.29%) Firewall
3 14 (27.45%) iSCSI
3 14 (27.45%) Fibre Channel
4 13 (25.49%) VLAN
4 13 (25.49%) MPLS
5 4 (7.843%) TCP/IP
6 2 (3.922%) Cisco ICM
6 2 (3.922%) MGCP
6 2 (3.922%) H.323
6 2 (3.922%) VoIP
6 2 (3.922%) WAN
6 2 (3.922%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.961%) Unified Communications
7 1 (1.961%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (1.961%) LAN
7 1 (1.961%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (39.22%) SQL Server
2 13 (25.49%) PostgreSQL
2 13 (25.49%) MySQL
3 4 (7.843%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (7.843%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (3.922%) Capistrano
General
1 2 (3.922%) Banking
1 2 (3.922%) Marketing
1 2 (3.922%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (31.37%) Consultant
2 13 (25.49%) Architect
2 13 (25.49%) Developer
3 8 (15.69%) Technical Consultant
4 7 (13.73%) Citrix Consultant
5 5 (9.804%) Support Engineer
5 5 (9.804%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) IT Support Engineer
6 4 (7.843%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 4 (7.843%) IT Support
6 4 (7.843%) Senior Consultant
7 3 (5.882%) Server Technician
7 3 (5.882%) Citrix Technical Consultant
7 3 (5.882%) Analyst
7 3 (5.882%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 2 (3.922%) Senior Technical Consultant
8 2 (3.922%) Administrator
8 2 (3.922%) Systems Administrator
9 1 (1.961%) Network Engineer
9 1 (1.961%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 16 (31.37%) Replication
2 2 (3.922%) IVR
2 2 (3.922%) Visualisation
3 1 (1.961%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 38 (74.51%) Windows
2 23 (45.10%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (37.25%) Linux
4 15 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (27.45%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (25.49%) Debian
7 9 (17.65%) UNIX
8 7 (13.73%) Windows Vista
9 6 (11.76%) AIX
10 4 (7.843%) Windows XP
10 4 (7.843%) Windows 8
11 2 (3.922%) HPUX
12 1 (1.961%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (27.45%) Project Planning
1 14 (27.45%) Data Management
2 13 (25.49%) Network Design
2 13 (25.49%) Load Balancing
3 7 (13.73%) Validation
4 6 (11.76%) ITIL
5 4 (7.843%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (7.843%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (5.882%) Technical Architecture
7 2 (3.922%) Business Continuity
7 2 (3.922%) Contact Management
7 2 (3.922%) E-Commerce
8 1 (1.961%) Migration
8 1 (1.961%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (1.961%) Business Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (25.49%) Bash shell
1 13 (25.49%) PowerShell
1 13 (25.49%) Python
1 13 (25.49%) Perl
1 13 (25.49%) VBScript
2 6 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (35.29%) Citrix Certification
2 17 (33.33%) CCA
3 15 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (27.45%) CCIA
5 9 (17.65%) CCEE
6 7 (13.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 7 (13.73%) CCEA
6 7 (13.73%) MCSE
6 7 (13.73%) MCITP
7 3 (5.882%) VCAP
7 3 (5.882%) CCAA
7 3 (5.882%) CCNA
7 3 (5.882%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (5.882%) VCDX
8 2 (3.922%) MCTS
8 2 (3.922%) Degree
8 2 (3.922%) SC Cleared
8 2 (3.922%) Security Cleared
8 2 (3.922%) NCDA
8 2 (3.922%) NCIE
System Software
1 38 (74.51%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (39.22%) XenApp
3 18 (35.29%) XenDesktop
4 16 (31.37%) XenServer
5 15 (29.41%) Hyper-V
6 13 (25.49%) NFS
7 8 (15.69%) Active Directory
8 4 (7.843%) VMware ESX
8 4 (7.843%) VMware Workstation
8 4 (7.843%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (5.882%) VMware Server
9 3 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (39.22%) NetBackup
2 11 (21.57%) Backup Exec
3 2 (3.922%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.922%) Vagrant
4 1 (1.961%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 47 (92.16%) VMware
2 27 (52.94%) Citrix
3 23 (45.10%) Microsoft
4 19 (37.25%) Oracle
5 13 (25.49%) Mercator
5 13 (25.49%) Veritas
6 5 (9.804%) HP
6 5 (9.804%) Cisco
7 4 (7.843%) NetApp
8 2 (3.922%) AppSense
8 2 (3.922%) ION Trading
8 2 (3.922%) PlateSpin
8 2 (3.922%) Vizioncore
8 2 (3.922%) Veeam
8 2 (3.922%) Wyse
8 2 (3.922%) Symantec
8 2 (3.922%) Novell
8 2 (3.922%) Red Hat
8 2 (3.922%) Avaya
8 2 (3.922%) SAP