The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 118 108 92
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -16
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 14 25 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.665% 1.107% 1.182%
As % of the System Software category 4.255% 11.96% 13.75%
Number of salaries quoted 7 25 10
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £77,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -38.70%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,700 £40,000 £67,250
10% offered a salary of more than £54,000 £60,000 £85,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.50% +5.62%
All System Software
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
329 209 160
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 15.62% 9.252% 8.593%
Number of salaries quoted 279 182 109
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £28,500 £31,100
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £85,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
VMware ESX
Berkshire

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

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

Reading VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

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

Reading VMware ESX Salary Histogram

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 31 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (90.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (90.32%) vSphere
3 27 (87.10%) Windows
3 27 (87.10%) SAN
4 18 (58.06%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (54.84%) HP
5 17 (54.84%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (48.39%) SQL
7 14 (45.16%) EMC
8 13 (41.94%) Clustering
9 12 (38.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 12 (38.71%) Active Directory
9 12 (38.71%) NetApp
9 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
9 12 (38.71%) ITIL
10 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
10 11 (35.48%) Citrix
11 10 (32.26%) Cisco
11 10 (32.26%) Linux
11 10 (32.26%) Firewall
11 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
12 9 (29.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 9 (29.03%) XenApp
12 9 (29.03%) MySQL
12 9 (29.03%) Perl
12 9 (29.03%) Apache
12 9 (29.03%) JBoss
12 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
13 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (16.13%) COM
2 1 (3.226%) CGI
2 1 (3.226%) .NET
2 1 (3.226%) J2EE
2 1 (3.226%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 9 (29.03%) Apache
2 8 (25.81%) Tomcat
3 6 (19.35%) MS Exchange
4 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2000
4 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (9.677%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (6.452%) Lync
6 1 (3.226%) WebLogic
6 1 (3.226%) IIS
6 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (25.81%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 27 (87.10%) SAN
2 10 (32.26%) Firewall
3 7 (22.58%) Unified Communications
4 4 (12.90%) Cisco Nexus
5 2 (6.452%) NetScaler
5 2 (6.452%) LAN
5 2 (6.452%) DHCP
5 2 (6.452%) TCP/IP
6 1 (3.226%) DNS
6 1 (3.226%) WAN
6 1 (3.226%) BIG-IP
6 1 (3.226%) NAS
6 1 (3.226%) NetScreen
6 1 (3.226%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (38.71%) SQL Server
2 9 (29.03%) MySQL
3 8 (25.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (3.226%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 8 (25.81%) Finance
2 6 (19.35%) Retail
2 6 (19.35%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.452%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (32.26%) Consultant
2 9 (29.03%) Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Systems Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Linux Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Linux Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
3 8 (25.81%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 7 (22.58%) Architect
5 6 (19.35%) Solutions Architect
5 6 (19.35%) Virtualisation Architect
5 6 (19.35%) Customer Solutions Architect
6 5 (16.13%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 4 (12.90%) Senior Consultant
7 4 (12.90%) Technical Consultant
8 3 (9.677%) Senior Technical Consultant
9 2 (6.452%) Support Engineer
9 2 (6.452%) 3rd Line Support
9 2 (6.452%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 2 (6.452%) VMware Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 13 (41.94%) Clustering
2 5 (16.13%) Celerra
3 4 (12.90%) EqualLogic
4 3 (9.677%) CLARiiON
5 1 (3.226%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 27 (87.10%) Windows
2 17 (54.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (32.26%) Linux
4 9 (29.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (25.81%) CentOS
5 8 (25.81%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (25.81%) Debian
5 8 (25.81%) Ubuntu
6 2 (6.452%) Windows 2000
6 2 (6.452%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.452%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.226%) HPUX
7 1 (3.226%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (38.71%) ITIL
2 8 (25.81%) Service Delivery
3 6 (19.35%) Network Architecture
4 3 (9.677%) Data Management
4 3 (9.677%) Business Development
5 2 (6.452%) Change Management
5 2 (6.452%) PRINCE2
5 2 (6.452%) Project Management
5 2 (6.452%) High Availability
5 2 (6.452%) Migration
6 1 (3.226%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.226%) Software Architecture
6 1 (3.226%) Validation
6 1 (3.226%) Operations Management
6 1 (3.226%) Project Planning
6 1 (3.226%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (48.39%) SQL
2 9 (29.03%) Perl
3 8 (25.81%) PHP
3 8 (25.81%) Python
3 8 (25.81%) Ruby
3 8 (25.81%) Java
3 8 (25.81%) Bash shell
4 6 (19.35%) PowerShell
5 1 (3.226%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (38.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (32.26%) Security Cleared
3 8 (25.81%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (22.58%) MCITP
4 7 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 7 (22.58%) DV Cleared
5 6 (19.35%) Citrix Certification
5 6 (19.35%) NCDA
5 6 (19.35%) NCIE
6 5 (16.13%) CCEE
6 5 (16.13%) CCIA
6 5 (16.13%) MCTS
7 4 (12.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (12.90%) MCSE
7 4 (12.90%) VCAP
7 4 (12.90%) VCDX
8 3 (9.677%) HP AIS
8 3 (9.677%) HP ASE
8 3 (9.677%) HP MASE
8 3 (9.677%) CCAA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.81%) SLA
2 1 (3.226%) QA
System Software
1 28 (90.32%) VMware Infrastructure
1 28 (90.32%) vSphere
2 18 (58.06%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (38.71%) Active Directory
4 9 (29.03%) XenApp
5 8 (25.81%) XenServer
5 8 (25.81%) XenDesktop
6 6 (19.35%) Hyper-V
7 1 (3.226%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 4 (12.90%) NetBackup
2 3 (9.677%) Backup Exec
2 3 (9.677%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (6.452%) SCCM
3 2 (6.452%) SCOM
3 2 (6.452%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 31 (100.00%) VMware
2 17 (54.84%) HP
3 14 (45.16%) EMC
4 12 (38.71%) NetApp
5 11 (35.48%) Citrix
5 11 (35.48%) Microsoft
6 10 (32.26%) Cisco
7 9 (29.03%) JBoss
7 9 (29.03%) Red Hat
8 6 (19.35%) Fujitsu
9 5 (16.13%) Symantec
9 5 (16.13%) Dell
10 3 (9.677%) CommVault
11 2 (6.452%) AppSense
11 2 (6.452%) Northgate
12 1 (3.226%) Brocade
12 1 (3.226%) PlateSpin
12 1 (3.226%) Wyse
12 1 (3.226%) Novell
12 1 (3.226%) Veritas