The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware 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 Vendors for the Oxford region.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 20 42 49
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +7
Permanent jobs citing VMware 87 25 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 8.674% 3.698% 3.345%
As % of the Vendors category 18.55% 10.82% 8.382%
Number of salaries quoted 77 22 20
Average salary £45,000 £35,750 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.87% -35.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,800 £25,250 £37,350
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £56,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £39,000 £39,000
% change year-on-year
-2.56% -
All Vendors
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
469 231 346
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 46.76% 34.17% 39.91%
Number of salaries quoted 416 211 276
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £46,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -13.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £26,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £68,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
VMware
Oxfordshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VMware across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Oxford VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Salary Trend

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

Oxford VMware Salary Trend

VMware
Salary Histogram

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

Oxford VMware Salary Histogram

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing VMware 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 VMware.

1 85 (62.50%) Windows
2 78 (57.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (40.44%) Citrix
4 52 (38.24%) MS Exchange
5 51 (37.50%) Active Directory
6 47 (34.56%) SAN
7 41 (30.15%) Microsoft
8 40 (29.41%) TCP/IP
9 38 (27.94%) Windows Server 2008
10 34 (25.00%) Firewall
11 31 (22.79%) Cisco
12 29 (21.32%) Windows Server 2003
13 26 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
14 25 (18.38%) MS Excel
15 23 (16.91%) Project Management
15 23 (16.91%) Linux
16 21 (15.44%) SQL
16 21 (15.44%) NetApp
17 18 (13.24%) DNS
17 18 (13.24%) vSphere
18 17 (12.50%) CCNA
19 16 (11.76%) HP
19 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
19 16 (11.76%) ITIL
19 16 (11.76%) SharePoint
19 16 (11.76%) Hyper-V
19 16 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
20 15 (11.03%) Lync
21 14 (10.29%) Exchange Server 2010
21 14 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing VMware 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 VMware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (5.147%) ActiveMQ
2 3 (2.206%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.471%) Application Packaging
4 1 (0.735%) .NET
4 1 (0.735%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 52 (38.24%) MS Exchange
2 16 (11.76%) SharePoint
3 15 (11.03%) Lync
4 14 (10.29%) Exchange Server 2010
5 13 (9.559%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (7.353%) Apache
7 9 (6.618%) IIS
8 7 (5.147%) Amazon EC2
8 7 (5.147%) Amazon S3
8 7 (5.147%) Apache Solr
9 6 (4.412%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 3 (2.206%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (1.471%) SharePoint 2010
12 1 (0.735%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.735%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 25 (18.38%) MS Excel
2 14 (10.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 47 (34.56%) SAN
2 40 (29.41%) TCP/IP
3 34 (25.00%) Firewall
4 18 (13.24%) DNS
5 13 (9.559%) DHCP
6 12 (8.824%) VPN
7 11 (8.088%) Cisco ASA
7 11 (8.088%) VoIP
8 6 (4.412%) VLAN
9 5 (3.676%) Cisco IOS
9 5 (3.676%) LAN
9 5 (3.676%) Internet
9 5 (3.676%) NetScaler
10 4 (2.941%) PBX
10 4 (2.941%) WAN
10 4 (2.941%) iSCSI
11 3 (2.206%) VRRP
11 3 (2.206%) BGP
11 3 (2.206%) IPsec
12 2 (1.471%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (9.559%) SQL Server
2 7 (5.147%) Hadoop
2 7 (5.147%) MySQL
2 7 (5.147%) Neo4j
2 7 (5.147%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 7 (5.147%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.735%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (0.735%) Microsoft Analysis Services
3 1 (0.735%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (5.147%) TeamCity
2 3 (2.206%) LoadRunner
2 3 (2.206%) Rational Robot
3 2 (1.471%) Subversion
4 1 (0.735%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (3.676%) Finance
2 4 (2.941%) Telecoms
3 3 (2.206%) Games
4 2 (1.471%) Marketing
5 1 (0.735%) Local Government
5 1 (0.735%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (0.735%) Automotive
5 1 (0.735%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 41 (30.15%) Consultant
2 24 (17.65%) Technical Consultant
3 16 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 15 (11.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) Administrator
5 14 (10.29%) Systems Administrator
5 14 (10.29%) Systems Engineer
5 14 (10.29%) IT Manager
6 12 (8.824%) Support Consultant
6 12 (8.824%) Linux Administrator
6 12 (8.824%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 9 (6.618%) Infrastructure Manager
7 9 (6.618%) Technical Support
8 8 (5.882%) Technical Support Consultant
8 8 (5.882%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 8 (5.882%) Server Engineer
9 7 (5.147%) IT Support
9 7 (5.147%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 7 (5.147%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
10 6 (4.412%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 11 (8.088%) Clustering
2 8 (5.882%) Replication
3 6 (4.412%) IaaS
3 6 (4.412%) Blackberry
4 5 (3.676%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.676%) EqualLogic
4 5 (3.676%) PaaS
4 5 (3.676%) Management Information System
5 4 (2.941%) Client/Server
6 3 (2.206%) Online Games
6 3 (2.206%) iPad
7 2 (1.471%) Celerra
8 1 (0.735%) Online Gambling
8 1 (0.735%) SaaS
8 1 (0.735%) CLARiiON
8 1 (0.735%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 85 (62.50%) Windows
2 38 (27.94%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (21.32%) Windows Server 2003
4 23 (16.91%) Linux
5 10 (7.353%) Solaris
5 10 (7.353%) Windows 7
6 8 (5.882%) UNIX
6 8 (5.882%) Windows XP
7 4 (2.941%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.206%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.735%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (16.91%) Project Management
2 16 (11.76%) ITIL
3 14 (10.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 8 (5.882%) Configuration Management
4 8 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (5.147%) Business Continuity
5 7 (5.147%) High Availability
5 7 (5.147%) Infrastructure Management
6 6 (4.412%) Change Management
6 6 (4.412%) Asset Management
7 4 (2.941%) Demand Management
7 4 (2.941%) Operations Management
7 4 (2.941%) Software Engineering
7 4 (2.941%) Network Load Balancing
8 3 (2.206%) Investment Management
8 3 (2.206%) Logistics
8 3 (2.206%) Network Design
8 3 (2.206%) Requirements Management
8 3 (2.206%) PRINCE2
9 2 (1.471%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.44%) SQL
2 2 (1.471%) Bash shell
3 1 (0.735%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.735%) C
3 1 (0.735%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (19.12%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (12.50%) CCNA
3 16 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
3 16 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 14 (10.29%) MCITP
5 10 (7.353%) CCNP
6 9 (6.618%) MCSE
7 7 (5.147%) Citrix Certification
7 7 (5.147%) CCEE
8 6 (4.412%) CCIA
8 6 (4.412%) Degree
8 6 (4.412%) NCDA
9 5 (3.676%) NCIE
9 5 (3.676%) MCTS
9 5 (3.676%) CCAA
10 4 (2.941%) VCAP
10 4 (2.941%) CCEA
11 3 (2.206%) RHCE
12 2 (1.471%) CCA
12 2 (1.471%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.618%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (4.412%) PCI DSS
3 3 (2.206%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.735%) SLA
System Software
1 78 (57.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 51 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 18 (13.24%) vSphere
4 16 (11.76%) Hyper-V
5 12 (8.824%) XenServer
6 11 (8.088%) XenApp
7 8 (5.882%) XenDesktop
8 7 (5.147%) Xen
8 7 (5.147%) VMware ESX
9 6 (4.412%) Terminal Services
10 4 (2.941%) VMware ESXi
10 4 (2.941%) Postfix
11 3 (2.206%) Oracle RAC
12 2 (1.471%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.471%) Samba
12 2 (1.471%) NFS
12 2 (1.471%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.735%) VMware Server
13 1 (0.735%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 14 (10.29%) SCCM
2 13 (9.559%) Backup Exec
3 10 (7.353%) Puppet
4 8 (5.882%) SCOM
4 8 (5.882%) WSUS
5 6 (4.412%) NetBackup
6 3 (2.206%) HP SiteScope
7 1 (0.735%) Unicenter
7 1 (0.735%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 55 (40.44%) Citrix
2 41 (30.15%) Microsoft
3 31 (22.79%) Cisco
4 21 (15.44%) NetApp
5 16 (11.76%) HP
6 11 (8.088%) EMC
7 10 (7.353%) Veeam
8 8 (5.882%) Red Hat
8 8 (5.882%) Apple
9 7 (5.147%) WatchGuard
9 7 (5.147%) Dell
10 6 (4.412%) Barracuda Networks
11 5 (3.676%) IBM
12 4 (2.941%) McAfee
12 4 (2.941%) Brocade
13 3 (2.206%) 3PAR
13 3 (2.206%) Juniper
13 3 (2.206%) Oracle
13 3 (2.206%) Symantec
14 2 (1.471%) AppSense
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Rapidly expanding, technology-focused company is looking for a Windows Systems Administrator! This is a challenging, varied role. You must have experience of IIS 7, VMware ESX 4...
Pro-Quest Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £47,000 per annum + bonus + benefits (Inc. flexi-time)
Posted: 18 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
This role will be broken down as follows: Technical Architecture - 40% (e.g... maintenance of documentation and processes) Knowledge & Experience: You must have good experience of providing Virtualisation...
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Essential skills include: Microsoft Windows 2003/2007/2008 and XP Window Servers 2008/2012 Hyper V VMware Exchange 2010/2012 Veeam Hands on experience Firewalls Sans MCSE qualified...
Roc Search
Posted: 13 June 2013
Oxford, South East
My Oxford based client is currently looking for an Infrastructure Systems Administrator to join their team on a permanent basis. You will be part of the team who...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 11 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Microsoft Technical Consultant: The Role My client are a leading UK based IT support outsource provider partnering with some of the most formidable IT companies operating today. Due...
Computer People
Salary: £45000.00 per annum + Car + Pension
Posted: 13 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Aximis (West) Limited
Salary: Up to £55K basic + Benefits
Posted: 16 June 2013
Oxford, Oxfordshire
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £45,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013