The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Preston 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 Preston region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 29 33 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 0.847% 0.826% -
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 50.00% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Preston
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Preston 3.390% 1.653% 2.128%
Number of salaries quoted 4 2 1
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £21,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% +62.79%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Lancashire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Preston 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 Preston region.

Preston vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) HP SIM
2 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Lync
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Preston 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 2 (66.67%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (66.67%) Lync
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (66.67%) BizTalk Server
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) VLAN
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
1 2 (66.67%) Wireless
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) VoIP
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) NetScaler
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Storage Systems Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Enterprise Storage
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Solaris
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) VCAP
1 1 (33.33%) CCEE
1 1 (33.33%) CCAA
1 1 (33.33%) CCIA
1 1 (33.33%) NCDA
1 1 (33.33%) NCIE
1 1 (33.33%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) XenServer
3 1 (33.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) WhatsUp Gold
1 2 (66.67%) HP SIM
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft