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

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Rickmansworth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
13 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Rickmansworth 9.774% 9.375% -
Number of salaries quoted 13 2 0
Average salary £29,000 £57,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-49.56% -
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Hertfordshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Rickmansworth 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 Rickmansworth region.

Rickmansworth vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 18 (100.00%) Solaris
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (88.89%) Sun
3 13 (72.22%) EMC
4 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
4 12 (66.67%) Perl
5 11 (61.11%) UNIX
5 11 (61.11%) Finance
6 10 (55.56%) SSH
6 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
6 10 (55.56%) HP
6 10 (55.56%) TCP/IP
6 10 (55.56%) DNS
6 10 (55.56%) Cisco
6 10 (55.56%) LDAP
6 10 (55.56%) Red Hat
6 10 (55.56%) VMware ESX
7 8 (44.44%) CLARiiON
7 8 (44.44%) Symmetrix
7 8 (44.44%) Apache
7 8 (44.44%) Oracle
7 8 (44.44%) NAS
7 8 (44.44%) Brocade
7 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 8 (44.44%) Celerra
8 7 (38.89%) AWK
8 7 (38.89%) NetBackup
8 7 (38.89%) CommVault
8 7 (38.89%) Veritas
9 5 (27.78%) Bourne shell

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Rickmansworth 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 3 (16.67%) Middleware
2 1 (5.556%) Web Services
2 1 (5.556%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Apache
2 2 (11.11%) WebLogic
3 1 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) SSH
1 10 (55.56%) TCP/IP
1 10 (55.56%) DNS
1 10 (55.56%) LDAP
2 8 (44.44%) NAS
General
1 11 (61.11%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Senior UNIX Engineer
1 10 (55.56%) UNIX Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Architect
3 7 (38.89%) Infrastructure Architect
3 7 (38.89%) Technical Architect
4 6 (33.33%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) CLARiiON
1 8 (44.44%) Symmetrix
1 8 (44.44%) Celerra
2 2 (11.11%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 18 (100.00%) Solaris
2 11 (61.11%) UNIX
3 8 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (27.78%) Linux
5 1 (5.556%) AIX
5 1 (5.556%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Operations Management
2 1 (5.556%) SOA
2 1 (5.556%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 12 (66.67%) Shell Script
1 12 (66.67%) Perl
2 7 (38.89%) AWK
3 5 (27.78%) Bourne shell
3 5 (27.78%) C-shell
3 5 (27.78%) Python
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) Hyper-V
1 10 (55.56%) VMware ESX
2 1 (5.556%) Oracle RAC
2 1 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (38.89%) NetBackup
2 1 (5.556%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (88.89%) Sun
3 13 (72.22%) EMC
4 10 (55.56%) HP
4 10 (55.56%) Cisco
4 10 (55.56%) Red Hat
5 8 (44.44%) Oracle
5 8 (44.44%) Brocade
6 7 (38.89%) CommVault
6 7 (38.89%) Veritas
7 2 (11.11%) VocaLink
8 1 (5.556%) BMC