The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT jobs advertised for the Rickmansworth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors for the Rickmansworth region.

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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 21 20 5
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -15
Permanent jobs citing VMware 8 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 6.061% 3.636% 11.54%
As % of the Vendors category 14.04% 5.714% 21.43%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 2
Average salary £29,000 £60,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-51.66% +50.00%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-3.75% +3.89%
All Vendors
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
57 35 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 43.18% 63.64% 53.85%
Number of salaries quoted 51 14 12
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £36,150 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
VMware
Hertfordshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth VMware Salary Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 21 (60.00%) Cisco
2 20 (57.14%) TCP/IP
3 19 (54.29%) Solaris
4 18 (51.43%) vSphere
5 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
5 17 (48.57%) Sun
5 17 (48.57%) Finance
6 16 (45.71%) Windows
6 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2008
7 14 (40.00%) DNS
7 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
8 13 (37.14%) EMC
8 13 (37.14%) Perl
8 13 (37.14%) Shell Script
8 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
8 13 (37.14%) Hyper-V
9 12 (34.29%) UNIX
10 11 (31.43%) Citrix
10 11 (31.43%) HP
10 11 (31.43%) LDAP
10 11 (31.43%) MS Excel
10 11 (31.43%) Red Hat
10 11 (31.43%) VMware ESX
10 11 (31.43%) SSH
11 10 (28.57%) MS Office
12 9 (25.71%) Oracle
12 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
12 9 (25.71%) LAN
12 9 (25.71%) Network Management
13 8 (22.86%) NAS

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 3 (8.571%) Middleware
2 1 (2.857%) COM
2 1 (2.857%) Web Services
2 1 (2.857%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 8 (22.86%) Apache
2 2 (5.714%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (5.714%) WebLogic
3 1 (2.857%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (2.857%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 11 (31.43%) MS Excel
2 10 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 20 (57.14%) TCP/IP
2 14 (40.00%) DNS
3 11 (31.43%) LDAP
3 11 (31.43%) SSH
4 9 (25.71%) LAN
5 8 (22.86%) NAS
6 3 (8.571%) Network Security
6 3 (8.571%) DHCP
6 3 (8.571%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server
1 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 17 (48.57%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Legal
3 1 (2.857%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) UNIX Engineer
1 11 (31.43%) Senior UNIX Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) Technical Architect
3 7 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) Technical Support
4 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
5 5 (14.29%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (11.43%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 3 (8.571%) Wintel Engineer
7 3 (8.571%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (8.571%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) Desktop Support
8 2 (5.714%) Desktop Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) Desktop Support Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Technical Support
9 1 (2.857%) Citrix Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) CLARiiON
1 8 (22.86%) Symmetrix
1 8 (22.86%) Celerra
2 2 (5.714%) Blackberry
2 2 (5.714%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 19 (54.29%) Solaris
2 16 (45.71%) Windows
2 16 (45.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (37.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (34.29%) UNIX
5 8 (22.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (14.29%) Windows 7
6 5 (14.29%) Linux
7 2 (5.714%) Windows XP
8 1 (2.857%) VMS
8 1 (2.857%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (25.71%) Network Management
2 3 (8.571%) Operations Management
3 1 (2.857%) Security Architecture
3 1 (2.857%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (37.14%) Shell Script
1 13 (37.14%) Perl
2 7 (20.00%) AWK
3 6 (17.14%) Bourne shell
3 6 (17.14%) C-shell
3 6 (17.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (25.71%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.857%) MCSE
3 1 (2.857%) CCNA
System Software
1 18 (51.43%) vSphere
2 17 (48.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (37.14%) Hyper-V
4 11 (31.43%) VMware ESX
5 6 (17.14%) Active Directory
6 3 (8.571%) XenServer
7 2 (5.714%) Xen
8 1 (2.857%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) NetBackup
2 3 (8.571%) WSUS
3 1 (2.857%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 21 (60.00%) Cisco
2 17 (48.57%) Sun
3 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 13 (37.14%) EMC
5 11 (31.43%) Citrix
5 11 (31.43%) HP
5 11 (31.43%) Red Hat
6 9 (25.71%) Oracle
7 8 (22.86%) Brocade
8 7 (20.00%) CommVault
8 7 (20.00%) Veritas
9 3 (8.571%) LANDesk
10 2 (5.714%) VocaLink
11 1 (2.857%) BMC