The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Slough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere 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 vSphere
Rank 64 62 40
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -22
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 7 5 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Slough 1.042% 0.750% 4.032%
As % of the System Software category 20.00% 9.804% 36.36%
Number of salaries quoted 7 5 11
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £44,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
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%
vSphere
Berkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Slough 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 Slough region.

Slough vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 (94.74%) VMware
2 17 (89.47%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (63.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 11 (57.89%) VMware ESX
4 11 (57.89%) HP
5 9 (47.37%) Citrix
5 9 (47.37%) MS Excel
5 9 (47.37%) MCITP
6 8 (42.11%) Windows
7 7 (36.84%) NetApp
7 7 (36.84%) Citrix Certification
7 7 (36.84%) XenApp
7 7 (36.84%) XenServer
7 7 (36.84%) XenDesktop
7 7 (36.84%) CCEE
7 7 (36.84%) CCIA
8 6 (31.58%) NetScaler
8 6 (31.58%) CCAA
8 6 (31.58%) Veeam
8 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
8 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
9 5 (26.32%) CCEA
9 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (26.32%) MCTS
9 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (26.32%) VCAP
10 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
10 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
10 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Slough 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 Platforms
1 3 (15.79%) MS Exchange
1 3 (15.79%) CMS
1 3 (15.79%) WordPress
1 3 (15.79%) Alfresco
1 3 (15.79%) Drupal
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.263%) Lync
Applications
1 9 (47.37%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) NetScaler
2 4 (21.05%) iSCSI
2 4 (21.05%) SAN
3 2 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (10.53%) MPLS
3 2 (10.53%) DHCP
3 2 (10.53%) DNS
4 1 (5.263%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2005
1 4 (21.05%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) MySQL
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) Citrix Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) VMware Consultant
2 5 (26.32%) Virtualisation Consultant
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Support
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Support Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Linux Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Implementation Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Citrix Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Citrix Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Citrix Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) EqualLogic
1 2 (10.53%) CCTV
2 1 (5.263%) Mathematics
2 1 (5.263%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Ubuntu
4 3 (15.79%) CentOS
5 1 (5.263%) VMS
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (15.79%) Change Management
2 3 (15.79%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (10.53%) Capacity Management
3 2 (10.53%) Migration
3 2 (10.53%) ITSM
4 1 (5.263%) ITIL
4 1 (5.263%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (5.263%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Perl
1 3 (15.79%) PHP
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 2 (10.53%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (47.37%) MCITP
3 7 (36.84%) Citrix Certification
3 7 (36.84%) CCEE
3 7 (36.84%) CCIA
4 6 (31.58%) CCAA
5 5 (26.32%) CCEA
5 5 (26.32%) MCTS
5 5 (26.32%) VCAP
6 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
7 3 (15.79%) MCP
7 3 (15.79%) CCNP
7 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (15.79%) CCA
8 2 (10.53%) VCDX
9 1 (5.263%) MCSE
9 1 (5.263%) CCIE
9 1 (5.263%) HP AIS
9 1 (5.263%) HP ASE
9 1 (5.263%) NCDA
System Software
1 17 (89.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (57.89%) VMware ESX
3 7 (36.84%) XenApp
3 7 (36.84%) XenServer
3 7 (36.84%) XenDesktop
4 6 (31.58%) Active Directory
5 4 (21.05%) NFS
6 3 (15.79%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (5.263%) ISA Server
7 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
7 1 (5.263%) vCloud
7 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Plesk
2 2 (10.53%) HP SIM
2 2 (10.53%) SCCM
2 2 (10.53%) OpenView
3 1 (5.263%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) VMware
2 11 (57.89%) HP
3 9 (47.37%) Citrix
4 7 (36.84%) NetApp
5 6 (31.58%) Veeam
5 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco
6 4 (21.05%) IBM
7 3 (15.79%) Dell
7 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
8 2 (10.53%) Barracuda Networks
8 2 (10.53%) Huawei
8 2 (10.53%) Remedy
8 2 (10.53%) EMC
9 1 (5.263%) Oracle
9 1 (5.263%) AppSense