The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 24 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 Slough region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 57 55 26
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -29
Permanent jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 14 12 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 2.083% 1.799% 7.056%
As % of the System Software category 40.00% 23.53% 63.64%
Number of salaries quoted 13 11 20
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +1.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,700 £34,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £42,500 £43,875
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All System Software
Slough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
35 51 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 5.208% 7.646% 11.09%
Number of salaries quoted 32 39 30
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +3.22%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,750 £29,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
VMware Infrastructure
Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

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

Slough VMware Infrastructure Salary Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Slough region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Slough VMware Infrastructure Salary Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 49 (100.00%) VMware
2 34 (69.39%) Windows
3 29 (59.18%) HP
4 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
5 23 (46.94%) MCITP
5 23 (46.94%) Windows Server 2008
6 22 (44.90%) Active Directory
6 22 (44.90%) DNS
6 22 (44.90%) Cisco
6 22 (44.90%) Citrix
7 20 (40.82%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (38.78%) MCTS
9 17 (34.69%) CCNA
9 17 (34.69%) vSphere
10 16 (32.65%) XenServer
10 16 (32.65%) DHCP
10 16 (32.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 14 (28.57%) LAN
11 14 (28.57%) WAN
11 14 (28.57%) TCP/IP
12 13 (26.53%) Windows Server 2003
12 13 (26.53%) SQL Server
13 12 (24.49%) Linux
13 12 (24.49%) VMware ESX
14 11 (22.45%) Service Delivery
14 11 (22.45%) SQL Server 2005
14 11 (22.45%) LDAP
14 11 (22.45%) MS Exchange
14 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (22.45%) IBM

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (4.082%) CPAN
1 2 (4.082%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 11 (22.45%) MS Exchange
2 9 (18.37%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (10.20%) Apache
4 3 (6.122%) CMS
4 3 (6.122%) IIS
4 3 (6.122%) Alfresco
4 3 (6.122%) Drupal
4 3 (6.122%) WordPress
4 3 (6.122%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.082%) Confluence
5 2 (4.082%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (4.082%) Tomcat
5 2 (4.082%) WebLogic
6 1 (2.041%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (18.37%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (4.082%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 22 (44.90%) DNS
2 16 (32.65%) DHCP
3 14 (28.57%) LAN
3 14 (28.57%) WAN
3 14 (28.57%) TCP/IP
4 11 (22.45%) LDAP
5 9 (18.37%) VPN
5 9 (18.37%) SAN
6 8 (16.33%) VoIP
6 8 (16.33%) 802.11
6 8 (16.33%) SMTP
6 8 (16.33%) Wireless
7 6 (12.24%) NetScaler
8 4 (8.163%) iSCSI
9 3 (6.122%) Firewall
10 2 (4.082%) Unified Communications
10 2 (4.082%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (4.082%) OpenLDAP
10 2 (4.082%) NAS
10 2 (4.082%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (26.53%) SQL Server
2 11 (22.45%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (6.122%) MySQL
3 3 (6.122%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.082%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 2 (4.082%) Hudson
1 2 (4.082%) Gradle
1 2 (4.082%) Jenkins
1 2 (4.082%) Selenium
1 2 (4.082%) JIRA
1 2 (4.082%) IntelliJ
1 2 (4.082%) Ant
1 2 (4.082%) Subversion
General
1 6 (12.24%) Advertising
2 2 (4.082%) Publishing
2 2 (4.082%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.082%) Finance
3 1 (2.041%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (20.41%) Consultant
2 8 (16.33%) Technical Leader
3 5 (10.20%) Support Engineer
3 5 (10.20%) Citrix Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) VMware Consultant
3 5 (10.20%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 4 (8.163%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.163%) Administrator
5 3 (6.122%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (6.122%) Analyst
5 3 (6.122%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.122%) Network Engineer
5 3 (6.122%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 3 (6.122%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.122%) Linux Support
5 3 (6.122%) Linux Support Engineer
5 3 (6.122%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.082%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (4.082%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (20.41%) EqualLogic
2 5 (10.20%) Blackberry
3 3 (6.122%) Clustering
3 3 (6.122%) CCTV
4 2 (4.082%) Wiki
5 1 (2.041%) Replication
5 1 (2.041%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 34 (69.39%) Windows
2 23 (46.94%) Windows Server 2008
3 13 (26.53%) Windows Server 2003
4 12 (24.49%) Linux
5 8 (16.33%) CentOS
6 6 (12.24%) Ubuntu
7 4 (8.163%) UNIX
8 3 (6.122%) AIX
9 2 (4.082%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (4.082%) Solaris
10 1 (2.041%) Windows 2000
10 1 (2.041%) Windows NT
10 1 (2.041%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.45%) Service Delivery
2 9 (18.37%) ITIL
3 8 (16.33%) Time Management
4 6 (12.24%) Disaster Recovery
5 5 (10.20%) Change Management
6 4 (8.163%) Load Balancing
6 4 (8.163%) Migration
7 2 (4.082%) Capacity Management
7 2 (4.082%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (4.082%) Business Development
7 2 (4.082%) Kanban
7 2 (4.082%) Data Management
7 2 (4.082%) Information Management
7 2 (4.082%) ITSM
7 2 (4.082%) Security Management
7 2 (4.082%) Service Management
8 1 (2.041%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.041%) Business Continuity
8 1 (2.041%) Network Design
8 1 (2.041%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) C
1 5 (10.20%) Perl
2 3 (6.122%) PHP
2 3 (6.122%) SQL
2 3 (6.122%) Python
3 2 (4.082%) C-shell
3 2 (4.082%) Bash shell
3 2 (4.082%) Korn
3 2 (4.082%) Java
3 2 (4.082%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 23 (46.94%) MCITP
2 20 (40.82%) Cisco Certification
3 19 (38.78%) MCTS
4 17 (34.69%) CCNA
5 16 (32.65%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 11 (22.45%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (18.37%) MCSE
8 8 (16.33%) Citrix Certification
9 7 (14.29%) CCEE
9 7 (14.29%) CCIA
10 6 (12.24%) CCAA
11 5 (10.20%) MCSA
11 5 (10.20%) CCEA
11 5 (10.20%) Degree
11 5 (10.20%) VCAP
12 4 (8.163%) CCA
12 4 (8.163%) MCP
13 3 (6.122%) CCNP
14 2 (4.082%) VCDX
15 1 (2.041%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.082%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (44.90%) Active Directory
2 17 (34.69%) vSphere
3 16 (32.65%) XenServer
4 12 (24.49%) VMware ESX
5 11 (22.45%) XenApp
5 11 (22.45%) Hyper-V
6 9 (18.37%) XenDesktop
7 6 (12.24%) NFS
8 3 (6.122%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (6.122%) Xen
9 2 (4.082%) Sendmail
10 1 (2.041%) VMware Workstation
10 1 (2.041%) UAG
10 1 (2.041%) VMware ESXi
10 1 (2.041%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 4 (8.163%) SCCM
2 3 (6.122%) Plesk
2 3 (6.122%) HP SIM
3 2 (4.082%) Puppet
3 2 (4.082%) YUM
3 2 (4.082%) OpenView
3 2 (4.082%) Nagios
4 1 (2.041%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.041%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.041%) SCOM
4 1 (2.041%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 49 (100.00%) VMware
2 29 (59.18%) HP
3 24 (48.98%) Microsoft
4 22 (44.90%) Cisco
4 22 (44.90%) Citrix
5 11 (22.45%) IBM
6 9 (18.37%) NetApp
6 9 (18.37%) ProCurve
7 8 (16.33%) DataCore
8 7 (14.29%) Dell
9 6 (12.24%) Veeam
9 6 (12.24%) EMC
10 5 (10.20%) Red Hat
11 2 (4.082%) Huawei
11 2 (4.082%) Barracuda Networks
11 2 (4.082%) Sun
11 2 (4.082%) BEA
11 2 (4.082%) Remedy
11 2 (4.082%) Oracle
11 2 (4.082%) Vignette
Slough, Berkshire
The suitable Systems Administrator will have at least 3 years experience supporting and overseeing the following technologies, VMware, Windows, Linux & Cisco... VMware platform for Data Centre services that...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Also, good knowledge of supporting backup, storage and SANs (ideally HP, Netapp) coupled with virtualisation technologies, Citrix & VMware... Active Directory. SANs (HP, NetAPP) VMware. Citrix. Advantageous (not essential)...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £40000 - £45000.00 per annum + car allowance & bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
Slough, Berkshire
Working with vendors like Dell, Microsoft, VMware and Cisco for troubleshooting and support issues... Windows servers with its associated services like WWW, Active Directories and Domains, Group policies,...
eGain Communications
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum plus excellent benefits
Posted: 30 April 2013
Slough, UK
Familiar with RAID levels, ISCSI and SAN technology - Database installation and configuration, preferably Microsoft SQL and Oracle - Operating system installation, configuration and management of Microsoft windows O/S...
eGain
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 24 May 2013