The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 21 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 Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 127 97 139
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +42
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 28 54 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.884% 1.548% 0.588%
As % of the System Software category 10.89% 18.56% 9.615%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 20
Average salary £35,000 £45,250 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.65% -9.50%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.93%
All System Software
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
257 291 208
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 8.112% 8.340% 6.112%
Number of salaries quoted 153 193 153
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £48,250 £50,000 £49,600
UK excluding London average salary £38,946 £39,000 £37,875
% change year-on-year
-0.13% +2.97%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Glasgow -19 12 £35,000 -15.66%
Aberdeen +10 8 £30,500 -32.96%
Edinburgh -5 3 £33,750 -43.75%
North Lanarkshire +3 1 - -
West Lothian -10 1 - -
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £39,250 -
Argyll and Bute - 1 - -
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 66 (97.06%) VMware
2 54 (79.41%) Windows
3 52 (76.47%) Active Directory
4 51 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
5 45 (66.18%) MS Exchange
6 41 (60.29%) Microsoft
7 38 (55.88%) Windows Server 2008
8 30 (44.12%) Exchange Server 2007
9 29 (42.65%) Windows Server 2003
10 28 (41.18%) Exchange Server 2010
11 24 (35.29%) Citrix
12 23 (33.82%) MS Excel
13 21 (30.88%) SCCM
14 19 (27.94%) XenApp
15 16 (23.53%) SAN
16 15 (22.06%) ITIL
16 15 (22.06%) Exchange Server 2003
16 15 (22.06%) Windows 7
16 15 (22.06%) Degree
17 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
18 12 (17.65%) MS Office
18 12 (17.65%) CommVault
18 12 (17.65%) NetApp
19 11 (16.18%) Service Delivery
20 10 (14.71%) Finance
20 10 (14.71%) Cisco
20 10 (14.71%) SCOM
21 9 (13.24%) WSUS
21 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
22 8 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 1 (1.471%) XML
1 1 (1.471%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 45 (66.18%) MS Exchange
2 30 (44.12%) Exchange Server 2007
3 28 (41.18%) Exchange Server 2010
4 15 (22.06%) Exchange Server 2003
5 8 (11.76%) SharePoint
6 6 (8.824%) Lotus Notes
7 4 (5.882%) IIS
7 4 (5.882%) Lync
7 4 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.471%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 23 (33.82%) MS Excel
2 12 (17.65%) MS Office
3 6 (8.824%) MS PowerPoint
3 6 (8.824%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.412%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.941%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 16 (23.53%) SAN
2 8 (11.76%) DNS
2 8 (11.76%) DHCP
3 7 (10.29%) WAN
4 6 (8.824%) Firewall
4 6 (8.824%) LAN
5 5 (7.353%) TCP/IP
6 4 (5.882%) VPN
6 4 (5.882%) Cisco PIX
6 4 (5.882%) NetScaler
7 2 (2.941%) FTP
7 2 (2.941%) Internet
8 1 (1.471%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (4.412%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (1.471%) MS Access
General
1 10 (14.71%) Finance
2 3 (4.412%) Advertising
2 3 (4.412%) Back Office
3 2 (2.941%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.471%) Legal
4 1 (1.471%) Banking
4 1 (1.471%) Retail
4 1 (1.471%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 10 (14.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) Consultant
4 8 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 8 (11.76%) Support Analyst
5 6 (8.824%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
6 5 (7.353%) Administrator
7 4 (5.882%) Systems Support
7 4 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
7 4 (5.882%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 3 (4.412%) IT Support
8 3 (4.412%) Sales Consultant
8 3 (4.412%) Server Support
8 3 (4.412%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 3 (4.412%) Senior Support Engineer
8 3 (4.412%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (2.941%) IT Administrator
9 2 (2.941%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.824%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (5.882%) Thin Client
2 4 (5.882%) Blackberry
2 4 (5.882%) Fat Client
3 3 (4.412%) EqualLogic
3 3 (4.412%) CCTV
4 2 (2.941%) Statistics
5 1 (1.471%) EMV
5 1 (1.471%) CLARiiON
5 1 (1.471%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 54 (79.41%) Windows
2 38 (55.88%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (42.65%) Windows Server 2003
4 15 (22.06%) Windows 7
5 8 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 4 (5.882%) Windows Vista
7 2 (2.941%) Solaris
7 2 (2.941%) UNIX
7 2 (2.941%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (1.471%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (22.06%) ITIL
2 11 (16.18%) Service Delivery
3 8 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (8.824%) ITIL V2
4 6 (8.824%) Capacity Management
4 6 (8.824%) Time Management
5 5 (7.353%) Service Management
6 4 (5.882%) Security Management
6 4 (5.882%) Load Balancing
7 3 (4.412%) Network Architecture
7 3 (4.412%) Change Control
7 3 (4.412%) Project Management
7 3 (4.412%) ITSM
7 3 (4.412%) Change Management
7 3 (4.412%) Asset Management
8 2 (2.941%) Validation
8 2 (2.941%) CRM
8 2 (2.941%) BCP
8 2 (2.941%) RDF
8 2 (2.941%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.412%) C
2 2 (2.941%) SQL
3 1 (1.471%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.471%) T-SQL
3 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
3 1 (1.471%) C#
3 1 (1.471%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (22.06%) Degree
2 9 (13.24%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (8.824%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (8.824%) MCSE
4 3 (4.412%) NCDA
4 3 (4.412%) NCIE
4 3 (4.412%) CCA
4 3 (4.412%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (4.412%) MCITP
5 2 (2.941%) MCP
5 2 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.941%) CCNA
5 2 (2.941%) Security Cleared
5 2 (2.941%) CCAA
6 1 (1.471%) VCP4
6 1 (1.471%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.471%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.824%) SLA
System Software
1 52 (76.47%) Active Directory
2 51 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (27.94%) XenApp
4 7 (10.29%) Hyper-V
4 7 (10.29%) XenDesktop
5 6 (8.824%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (8.824%) XenServer
5 6 (8.824%) VMware ESX
6 4 (5.882%) VMware Workstation
7 2 (2.941%) NFS
7 2 (2.941%) Terminal Server
8 1 (1.471%) Terminal Services
8 1 (1.471%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 21 (30.88%) SCCM
2 10 (14.71%) SCOM
3 9 (13.24%) WSUS
4 8 (11.76%) Backup Exec
5 3 (4.412%) HP SIM
5 3 (4.412%) SCVMM
5 3 (4.412%) OpenView
6 1 (1.471%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 66 (97.06%) VMware
2 41 (60.29%) Microsoft
3 24 (35.29%) Citrix
4 12 (17.65%) CommVault
4 12 (17.65%) NetApp
5 10 (14.71%) Cisco
6 8 (11.76%) HP
7 7 (10.29%) Symantec
7 7 (10.29%) EMC
7 7 (10.29%) Altiris
8 6 (8.824%) Postini
8 6 (8.824%) Lotus
9 4 (5.882%) Dell
10 3 (4.412%) Remedy
11 2 (2.941%) Sun
12 1 (1.471%) SolarWinds
12 1 (1.471%) Fujitsu
12 1 (1.471%) Avaya
12 1 (1.471%) Hitachi
12 1 (1.471%) Sage
Glasgow, Scotland
Cathcart Associates are working with a hugely successful IT Services company who are looking to recruit an Infrastructure Consultant for a permanent position within their Technical division in...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Car/ Allowance + Benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
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Cathcart Associates
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 7 May 2013
Aberdeen, Scotland
Support and configure IT infrastructure, for example- high capacity/performance disk configurations and management as well as high-end workstation configuration ** Installation and operation of an effective backup...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £50000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 7 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Ideal Skills Strong experience with Windows server 2003/2008 Active Directory. Exchange 2003, 2007, 2010. Citrix Xenapp 5/6 / PS4/PS4.5. VMware - Vsphere 4 /vSphere 5... SCOM,...
Search Consultancy
Salary: competitive basic and package
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Key Responsibilities: ** Manage all Support incidents and maintain ownership of all outstanding support incidents on a daily basis ** Responsible for innovation and Leading the Service Desk team ** Initial...
Cathcart Associates
Salary: £25000 - £33000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Key Responsibilities: ** Manage all Support incidents and maintain ownership of all outstanding support incidents on a daily basis ** Responsible for innovation and Leading the Service Desk team ** Initial...
Cathcart Associates Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £33000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Windows Server 2008R2 / Windows Server 2003... Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008 App Sense Performance, Application and Environment Manager, EMC CLARiiON / NetApp,...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Experience in the following technologies is highly desirable; Microsoft SQL Server 2008, Citrix Technologies (including Xen Desktop 5.6, Xen Aapp v5/6, EdgSight, Zone Data Collector, Web...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: offer competitive package
Posted: 14 May 2013