The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 23 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 65 68 62
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -6
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 21 21 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 2.524% 2.278% 1.746%
As % of the System Software category 13.21% 23.86% 22.45%
Number of salaries quoted 18 21 11
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £29,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +46.55%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
159 88 49
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 19.11% 9.544% 7.778%
Number of salaries quoted 149 88 43
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £23,000 £23,100
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Hampshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton 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 Southampton region.

Southampton vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (70.00%) Windows
4 20 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
6 11 (36.67%) HP
6 11 (36.67%) Citrix
6 11 (36.67%) MS Exchange
6 11 (36.67%) SAN
7 10 (33.33%) DNS
7 10 (33.33%) Cisco
8 9 (30.00%) NAS
8 9 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 8 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2003
9 8 (26.67%) MS Excel
9 8 (26.67%) DHCP
9 8 (26.67%) Linux
9 8 (26.67%) EMC
10 7 (23.33%) LAN
10 7 (23.33%) WAN
10 7 (23.33%) SQL
10 7 (23.33%) XenServer
11 6 (20.00%) XenDesktop
11 6 (20.00%) Veeam
11 6 (20.00%) XenApp
11 6 (20.00%) Degree
11 6 (20.00%) Firewall
12 5 (16.67%) Service Management
12 5 (16.67%) Symantec
12 5 (16.67%) Windows XP

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton 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 Development
1 2 (6.667%) Web Services
1 2 (6.667%) SAML
Application Platforms
1 11 (36.67%) MS Exchange
2 9 (30.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 8 (26.67%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (13.33%) IIS
5 2 (6.667%) Apache
5 2 (6.667%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (26.67%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 11 (36.67%) SAN
2 10 (33.33%) DNS
3 9 (30.00%) NAS
4 8 (26.67%) DHCP
5 7 (23.33%) LAN
5 7 (23.33%) WAN
6 6 (20.00%) Firewall
7 4 (13.33%) iSCSI
7 4 (13.33%) VPN
8 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
8 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (6.667%) Network Security
9 2 (6.667%) IMAP
9 2 (6.667%) SMTP
9 2 (6.667%) LDAP
9 2 (6.667%) DMZ
9 2 (6.667%) Wireless
10 1 (3.333%) Cisco PIX
General
1 3 (10.00%) Back Office
1 3 (10.00%) Manufacturing
2 2 (6.667%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Consultant
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 6 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
3 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 5 (16.67%) Citrix Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (13.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) Storage Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 4 (13.33%) Technical Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 3 (10.00%) Team Leader
6 2 (6.667%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (6.667%) Systems Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Technical Team Leader
6 2 (6.667%) Support Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Support Team Leader
6 2 (6.667%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
6 2 (6.667%) Systems Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (16.67%) Replication
2 3 (10.00%) Thin Client
2 3 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (10.00%) CLARiiON
3 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (6.667%) Open Source
4 1 (3.333%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.333%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 8 (26.67%) Linux
3 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
4 3 (10.00%) UNIX
4 3 (10.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 2 (6.667%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.667%) Mac OS X
5 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) Service Management
2 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (10.00%) Project Management
3 2 (6.667%) Capacity Management
3 2 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
3 2 (6.667%) Identity Management
4 1 (3.333%) ITIL
4 1 (3.333%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (23.33%) SQL
2 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.333%) Perl
3 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) Degree
2 5 (16.67%) CCA
2 5 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (16.67%) CCAA
3 1 (3.333%) MCSE
3 1 (3.333%) MCSA
3 1 (3.333%) CCNP
3 1 (3.333%) CCNA
3 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.333%) EMC Certification
3 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 25 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 7 (23.33%) XenServer
4 6 (20.00%) XenDesktop
4 6 (20.00%) XenApp
5 5 (16.67%) VMware ESX
6 3 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (6.667%) Shibboleth
7 2 (6.667%) Microsoft App-V
7 2 (6.667%) VMware Server
7 2 (6.667%) NFS
7 2 (6.667%) ISA Server
8 1 (3.333%) Samba
8 1 (3.333%) Terminal Services
8 1 (3.333%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Backup Exec
2 4 (13.33%) ARCserve
3 2 (6.667%) SCCM
3 2 (6.667%) SCOM
3 2 (6.667%) WSUS
3 2 (6.667%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 30 (100.00%) VMware
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 11 (36.67%) HP
3 11 (36.67%) Citrix
4 10 (33.33%) Cisco
5 8 (26.67%) EMC
6 6 (20.00%) Veeam
7 5 (16.67%) Symantec
8 2 (6.667%) Isilon
8 2 (6.667%) F5
8 2 (6.667%) Riverbed
8 2 (6.667%) Dell
8 2 (6.667%) Juniper
8 2 (6.667%) CommVault
9 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
9 1 (3.333%) Brocade
9 1 (3.333%) Foundry
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