The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Solihull region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 18 June 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 Solihull region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 46 26 30
Rank change year-on-year
-20 +4
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 2 16 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 0.730% 7.373% 1.143%
As % of the System Software category 3.774% 32.65% 14.29%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 2
Average salary £42,500 £23,500 £38,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+80.85% -38.96%
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £42,500 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.35% +6.25%
All System Software
Solihull
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
53 49 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Solihull 19.34% 22.58% 8.000%
Number of salaries quoted 44 25 13
Average salary £35,500 £23,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+51.06% -31.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £20,500 £25,200
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £38,500 £35,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +3.89%
vSphere
West Midlands

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Solihull 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 Solihull region.

Solihull vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
2 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (50.00%) Automotive
2 2 (50.00%) ARCserve
2 2 (50.00%) McAfee
2 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (50.00%) MCTS
2 2 (50.00%) MCITP
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (50.00%) Linux

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Solihull 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 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
2 2 (50.00%) NAS
General
1 2 (50.00%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Senior Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (50.00%) MCTS
1 2 (50.00%) MCITP
1 2 (50.00%) MCSE
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCA
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCEE
2 1 (25.00%) CCAA
2 1 (25.00%) CCIA
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 1 (25.00%) XenApp
3 1 (25.00%) XenServer
3 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) ARCserve
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Symantec
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 2 (50.00%) McAfee
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix