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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
XenSource Xen
Rank 389 398 375
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -23
Permanent jobs citing Xen 44 41 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.199% 0.172% 0.214%
As % of the System Software category 1.784% 1.859% 2.257%
Number of salaries quoted 31 37 30
Average salary £39,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.89% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £31,300 £29,859
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £50,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
All System Software
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
2467 2206 2171
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 11.15% 9.276% 9.461%
Number of salaries quoted 2112 1895 1799
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,550 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
Xen
England

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Xen across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East Xen Salary Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +9 12 £27,000 -46.26%
Middlesex +10 9 £58,750 -
Berkshire -7 9 £45,000 -10.00%
Oxfordshire -13 6 £66,250 +39.47%
Hampshire -3 5 £6,000 -82.60%
East Sussex - 3 £32,000 -
Xen
England

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 57 (77.03%) Linux
1 57 (77.03%) VMware
2 54 (72.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 45 (60.81%) Microsoft
4 37 (50.00%) Windows
5 33 (44.59%) Apache
6 32 (43.24%) MySQL
7 27 (36.49%) SQL
8 26 (35.14%) DNS
9 25 (33.78%) UNIX
10 24 (32.43%) Cisco
10 24 (32.43%) SAN
11 22 (29.73%) IBM
12 21 (28.38%) TCP/IP
12 21 (28.38%) Citrix
13 20 (27.03%) EMC
13 20 (27.03%) AIX
13 20 (27.03%) Red Hat
14 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
14 19 (25.68%) CentOS
14 19 (25.68%) High Availability
15 18 (24.32%) Windows Server 2008
15 18 (24.32%) HP
16 17 (22.97%) Finance
16 17 (22.97%) Hyper-V
16 17 (22.97%) Puppet
16 17 (22.97%) Cisco Nexus
17 16 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
17 16 (21.62%) Active Directory
17 16 (21.62%) WAN

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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 12 (16.22%) Web Services
2 11 (14.86%) .NET
2 11 (14.86%) WebSphere
3 2 (2.703%) CPAN
3 2 (2.703%) X-Windows
3 2 (2.703%) XMPP
4 1 (1.351%) Django
4 1 (1.351%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.351%) XML
Application Platforms
1 33 (44.59%) Apache
2 14 (18.92%) SharePoint
3 13 (17.57%) IIS
4 8 (10.81%) nginx
5 6 (8.108%) ActiveMQ
5 6 (8.108%) Apache Solr
5 6 (8.108%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (8.108%) Amazon S3
6 4 (5.405%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (4.054%) Tomcat
8 2 (2.703%) WebLogic
8 2 (2.703%) Mathematica
8 2 (2.703%) Confluence
9 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (1.351%) Exchange Server 2007
9 1 (1.351%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (4.054%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.351%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 26 (35.14%) DNS
2 24 (32.43%) SAN
3 21 (28.38%) TCP/IP
4 17 (22.97%) Cisco Nexus
5 16 (21.62%) WAN
6 15 (20.27%) Firewall
7 14 (18.92%) SMTP
8 12 (16.22%) Internet
8 12 (16.22%) POP3
8 12 (16.22%) FTP
9 6 (8.108%) OpenLDAP
10 5 (6.757%) LDAP
11 4 (5.405%) SSH
12 3 (4.054%) LAN
12 3 (4.054%) VPN
13 2 (2.703%) DHCP
13 2 (2.703%) SSL
13 2 (2.703%) HTTP
13 2 (2.703%) Kerberos
13 2 (2.703%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (43.24%) MySQL
2 6 (8.108%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.108%) Hadoop
2 6 (8.108%) Neo4j
2 6 (8.108%) Amazon DynamoDB
2 6 (8.108%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.405%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (2.703%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.703%) SQLite
5 1 (1.351%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (1.351%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 7 (9.459%) Git (software)
2 6 (8.108%) TeamCity
3 4 (5.405%) Subversion
4 2 (2.703%) Ant
4 2 (2.703%) IntelliJ
4 2 (2.703%) JIRA
4 2 (2.703%) Selenium
4 2 (2.703%) Gradle
4 2 (2.703%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.703%) Hudson
4 2 (2.703%) GCC
4 2 (2.703%) GDB
General
1 17 (22.97%) Finance
2 6 (8.108%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.757%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (44.59%) Administrator
2 30 (40.54%) Consultant
3 28 (37.84%) Systems Administrator
4 16 (21.62%) Pre Sales Consultant
4 16 (21.62%) Sales Consultant
5 11 (14.86%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 11 (14.86%) Linux Administrator
6 10 (13.51%) Infrastructure Consultant
7 9 (12.16%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 9 (12.16%) Technical Pre Sales Consultant
7 9 (12.16%) Technical Consultant
8 7 (9.459%) Senior Linux Systems Administrator
8 7 (9.459%) Senior Linux Administrator
9 6 (8.108%) Junior
9 6 (8.108%) Junior Systems Administrator
10 5 (6.757%) Server Administrator
11 4 (5.405%) Team Leader
11 4 (5.405%) Implementation Consultant
11 4 (5.405%) Solutions Consultant
12 3 (4.054%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.16%) Clustering
2 8 (10.81%) Replication
3 5 (6.757%) Open Source
3 5 (6.757%) iSeries
4 4 (5.405%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.703%) AS400
5 2 (2.703%) PKI
5 2 (2.703%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 57 (77.03%) Linux
2 37 (50.00%) Windows
3 25 (33.78%) UNIX
4 20 (27.03%) AIX
5 19 (25.68%) CentOS
6 18 (24.32%) Windows Server 2008
7 15 (20.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (10.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 5 (6.757%) Windows XP
9 5 (6.757%) Solaris
10 3 (4.054%) Ubuntu
10 3 (4.054%) Debian
11 2 (2.703%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (1.351%) Mac OS
12 1 (1.351%) Windows 7
12 1 (1.351%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (25.68%) High Availability
2 13 (17.57%) Configuration Management
2 13 (17.57%) Business Continuity
3 11 (14.86%) Validation
4 10 (13.51%) Migration
5 8 (10.81%) ITSM
5 8 (10.81%) Service Management
5 8 (10.81%) WAN Optimisation
5 8 (10.81%) Infrastructure Management
6 4 (5.405%) ITIL
6 4 (5.405%) Change Control
7 2 (2.703%) Load Balancing
7 2 (2.703%) Kanban
7 2 (2.703%) Financial Analysis
8 1 (1.351%) Project Management
8 1 (1.351%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 27 (36.49%) SQL
2 11 (14.86%) Ruby
3 10 (13.51%) Python
4 7 (9.459%) Perl
5 6 (8.108%) PowerShell
5 6 (8.108%) Bash shell
6 5 (6.757%) VB
7 4 (5.405%) C
7 4 (5.405%) Java
7 4 (5.405%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.703%) C++
8 2 (2.703%) MATLAB
8 2 (2.703%) Korn
8 2 (2.703%) tcsh
8 2 (2.703%) C-shell
9 1 (1.351%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (25.68%) Security Cleared
2 10 (13.51%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.108%) Cisco Certification
3 6 (8.108%) CCNA
4 5 (6.757%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 5 (6.757%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (6.757%) MCSE
5 4 (5.405%) EMC Certification
5 4 (5.405%) VCP4
5 4 (5.405%) VCP5
6 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.351%) Degree
6 1 (1.351%) MCTS
6 1 (1.351%) MCITP
6 1 (1.351%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.351%) CCA
6 1 (1.351%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 54 (72.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (22.97%) Hyper-V
3 16 (21.62%) VMware ESXi
3 16 (21.62%) Active Directory
4 14 (18.92%) vSphere
5 8 (10.81%) Sendmail
6 4 (5.405%) Samba
7 2 (2.703%) NFS
7 2 (2.703%) XenServer
7 2 (2.703%) qmail
7 2 (2.703%) Postfix
8 1 (1.351%) UAG
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Puppet
2 14 (18.92%) Tivoli
2 14 (18.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 6 (8.108%) Nagios
4 4 (5.405%) MIMEsweeper
4 4 (5.405%) YUM
4 4 (5.405%) SCCM
4 4 (5.405%) SCOM
5 2 (2.703%) Red Hat Spacewalk
5 2 (2.703%) Cobbler
6 1 (1.351%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 57 (77.03%) VMware
2 45 (60.81%) Microsoft
3 24 (32.43%) Cisco
4 22 (29.73%) IBM
5 21 (28.38%) Citrix
6 20 (27.03%) EMC
6 20 (27.03%) Red Hat
7 18 (24.32%) HP
8 14 (18.92%) Dell
8 14 (18.92%) Oracle
9 13 (17.57%) Isilon
10 11 (14.86%) Juniper
10 11 (14.86%) Cognos
10 11 (14.86%) Lotus
11 10 (13.51%) Riverbed
12 4 (5.405%) CA
12 4 (5.405%) Sun
12 4 (5.405%) Fujitsu
13 2 (2.703%) Vignette
13 2 (2.703%) BEA
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