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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 153 144 120
Rank change year-on-year
-9 -24
Permanent jobs citing Xen 4 10 36
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.128% 0.291% 1.047%
As % of the System Software category 1.575% 3.497% 17.48%
Number of salaries quoted 2 10 36
Average salary £35,500 £35,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.42% -22.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,100 £34,000 £34,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,900 £40,400 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
254 286 206
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 8.115% 8.316% 5.992%
Number of salaries quoted 153 192 151
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a salary of more than £23,950 £27,500 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £47,750 £50,000 £48,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
Xen
UK

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Salary Trend

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

Scotland Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 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 -17 3 £35,500 -11.25%
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Xen
UK

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing Xen 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 Xen.

1 6 (85.71%) VMware
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) VCP4
3 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
3 3 (42.86%) VCP5
3 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) Perl
4 2 (28.57%) PHP
4 2 (28.57%) Apache
4 2 (28.57%) MySQL
5 1 (14.29%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Firewall
5 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Debian
5 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (14.29%) Replication
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) EMC
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
5 1 (14.29%) Symantec
5 1 (14.29%) OSPF

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) HTML
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) DHCP
1 1 (14.29%) VPN
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) OSPF
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MySQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Informix
2 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (14.29%) SQLite
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Virtualisation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Replication
1 1 (14.29%) CLARiiON
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) FMCG
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Linux
2 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 1 (14.29%) Debian
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) ITIL
1 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
1 1 (14.29%) Service Management
1 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
1 1 (14.29%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Bash shell
2 2 (28.57%) Perl
2 2 (28.57%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) Ruby
3 1 (14.29%) Korn
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) C++
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 3 (42.86%) VCP4
1 3 (42.86%) VCP5
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (85.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (14.29%) Brocade
3 1 (14.29%) Fujitsu
Edinburgh, Midlothian
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