The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 24 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 81 61 70
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +9
Permanent jobs citing Xen 6 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.581% 0.158% 0.750%
As % of the System Software category 6.000% 1.923% 12.24%
Number of salaries quoted 6 1 0
Average salary £66,250 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+39.47% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
100 52 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 9.681% 8.202% 6.125%
Number of salaries quoted 90 45 38
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,250 £25,000 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £66,250
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Xen
Oxfordshire

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Oxford Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Apache
1 8 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 8 (100.00%) Replication
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
2 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Clustering
2 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Neo4j
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 6 (75.00%) Apache Solr
2 6 (75.00%) Hadoop
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) tcsh
3 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
3 2 (25.00%) YUM
3 2 (25.00%) Ruby
3 2 (25.00%) XMPP
3 2 (25.00%) PKI
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
3 2 (25.00%) SQLite
3 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (25.00%) Cobbler

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (25.00%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 8 (100.00%) Apache
2 6 (75.00%) ActiveMQ
2 6 (75.00%) Apache Solr
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon EC2
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon S3
3 2 (25.00%) nginx
3 2 (25.00%) Mathematica
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) AMQP
1 2 (25.00%) SSH
1 2 (25.00%) LDAP
1 2 (25.00%) DHCP
1 2 (25.00%) Kerberos
1 2 (25.00%) DNS
1 2 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
2 6 (75.00%) Neo4j
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 6 (75.00%) Amazon RDS
2 6 (75.00%) Hadoop
3 2 (25.00%) SQLite
3 2 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (75.00%) TeamCity
2 2 (25.00%) GCC
2 2 (25.00%) GDB
2 2 (25.00%) Git (software)
2 2 (25.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 8 (100.00%) Administrator
2 7 (87.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 7 (87.50%) Linux Administrator
3 6 (75.00%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 6 (75.00%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 6 (75.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Replication
2 6 (75.00%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (75.00%) High Availability
2 6 (75.00%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) tcsh
1 2 (25.00%) Bash shell
1 2 (25.00%) Ruby
1 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
1 2 (25.00%) C
1 2 (25.00%) C++
1 2 (25.00%) Perl
1 2 (25.00%) Python
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (25.00%) qmail
2 2 (25.00%) Postfix
2 2 (25.00%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (25.00%) YUM
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (25.00%) Cobbler
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) VMware
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat