The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT jobs advertised for the St Albans region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 17 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 St Albans region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 28 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -
Permanent jobs citing VMware ESX 7 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 3.889% 0.752% -
As % of the System Software category 33.33% 9.091% -
Number of salaries quoted 4 1 0
Average salary £28,500 £28,500 -
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,250 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+6.50% +5.62%
All System Software
St Albans
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
21 11 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in St Albans 11.67% 8.271% 9.497%
Number of salaries quoted 18 8 8
Average salary £28,500 £28,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.78% -37.77%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,250 £25,900 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £45,000 £28,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
VMware ESX
Hertfordshire

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

St Albans VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

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

St Albans VMware ESX Salary Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Vista
2 7 (87.50%) vSphere
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 7 (87.50%) IIS
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) NAS
2 7 (87.50%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
4 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (50.00%) Lync
5 2 (25.00%) Apple
6 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (12.50%) CAD
6 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
6 1 (12.50%) CentOS
6 1 (12.50%) Cacti
6 1 (12.50%) Postfix
6 1 (12.50%) Sendmail
6 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
6 1 (12.50%) snoop
6 1 (12.50%) Puppet
6 1 (12.50%) SSH
6 1 (12.50%) Nmap

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the St Albans region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) IIS
1 7 (87.50%) SharePoint
2 4 (50.00%) Lync
3 1 (12.50%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) NAS
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (12.50%) tcpdump
4 1 (12.50%) snoop
4 1 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) SSH
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
4 1 (12.50%) WLAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) FTP
4 1 (12.50%) HTTP
4 1 (12.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) IPv4
4 1 (12.50%) IPv6
4 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MySQL
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Support Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (37.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Help Desk Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (87.50%) Windows Vista
3 1 (12.50%) CentOS
3 1 (12.50%) UNIX
3 1 (12.50%) Solaris
3 1 (12.50%) Linux
3 1 (12.50%) FreeBSD
3 1 (12.50%) Windows NT
3 1 (12.50%) Debian
3 1 (12.50%) OpenBSD
3 1 (12.50%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) CAD
1 1 (12.50%) Process Management
1 1 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C
1 1 (12.50%) C++
1 1 (12.50%) Perl
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) Ruby
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (87.50%) vSphere
2 7 (87.50%) VMware ESXi
2 7 (87.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (12.50%) Samba
3 1 (12.50%) Nmap
3 1 (12.50%) Squid
3 1 (12.50%) Postfix
3 1 (12.50%) Sendmail
3 1 (12.50%) NFS
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Cacti
1 1 (12.50%) Puppet
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Cisco
4 2 (25.00%) Apple
5 1 (12.50%) Oracle
5 1 (12.50%) IBM
5 1 (12.50%) Sun
5 1 (12.50%) Dell
5 1 (12.50%) NetApp
5 1 (12.50%) Red Hat