The first table below looks at the demand for Xen skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 117 107 101
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -6
Permanent jobs citing Xen 5 1 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 0.273% 0.068% 0.309%
As % of the System Software category 2.451% 0.813% 5.155%
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
Average salary £60,000 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.31% -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Oxfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
204 123 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 11.13% 8.356% 5.988%
Number of salaries quoted 187 114 85
Average salary £37,500 £35,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.63% -1.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £25,332 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
South East

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire Xen Salary Histogram

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Oxford -14 5 £60,000 +26.31%
Xen
South East

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 7 (100.00%) MySQL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 5 (71.43%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Clustering
2 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Neo4j
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Management
2 5 (71.43%) Apache Solr
2 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) tcsh
3 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
3 2 (28.57%) YUM
3 2 (28.57%) Ruby
3 2 (28.57%) XMPP
3 2 (28.57%) PKI
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 2 (28.57%) SQLite
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
3 2 (28.57%) Cobbler

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 (28.57%) XMPP
Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) Apache
2 5 (71.43%) ActiveMQ
2 5 (71.43%) Apache Solr
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) nginx
3 2 (28.57%) Mathematica
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) LDAP
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) Kerberos
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) SSL
1 2 (28.57%) SSH
1 2 (28.57%) AMQP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
2 5 (71.43%) Hadoop
2 5 (71.43%) Neo4j
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 5 (71.43%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (28.57%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (28.57%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) TeamCity
2 2 (28.57%) Git (software)
2 2 (28.57%) GCC
2 2 (28.57%) GDB
2 2 (28.57%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
2 6 (85.71%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 6 (85.71%) Linux Administrator
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 5 (71.43%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 2 (28.57%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Replication
2 5 (71.43%) Clustering
3 2 (28.57%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Configuration Management
2 5 (71.43%) High Availability
2 5 (71.43%) Infrastructure Management
3 2 (28.57%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C
1 2 (28.57%) C++
1 2 (28.57%) Perl
1 2 (28.57%) Python
1 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
1 2 (28.57%) MATLAB
1 2 (28.57%) Ruby
1 2 (28.57%) tcsh
1 2 (28.57%) Bash shell
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) qmail
2 2 (28.57%) Postfix
2 2 (28.57%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Puppet
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Spacewalk
2 2 (28.57%) Cobbler
2 2 (28.57%) YUM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
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