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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 14 34 58
Rank change year-on-year
+20 +24
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 27 29 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 13.64% 6.004% 2.486%
As % of the System Software category 45.00% 32.58% 13.40%
Number of salaries quoted 27 25 13
Average salary £57,000 £75,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% +80.72%
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,250 £40,750
% change year-on-year
+0.59% +3.68%
All System Software
Staines
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
60 89 97
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Staines 30.30% 18.43% 18.55%
Number of salaries quoted 56 79 96
Average salary £56,500 £46,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.50% +12.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £41,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £72,500 £51,250 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%
vSphere
Surrey

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staines 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 Staines region.

Staines vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Staines region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Staines vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staines 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 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (96.43%) Cisco
3 23 (82.14%) ITIL
4 21 (75.00%) NetBackup
5 19 (67.86%) Linux
6 17 (60.71%) Red Hat
6 17 (60.71%) VMware ESX
6 17 (60.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
7 12 (42.86%) Clustering
8 11 (39.29%) Firewall
8 11 (39.29%) RHCE
8 11 (39.29%) MySQL
8 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
8 11 (39.29%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (39.29%) Puppet
8 11 (39.29%) Varnish
8 11 (39.29%) FWSM
9 10 (35.71%) UNIX
10 9 (32.14%) Windows
10 9 (32.14%) SAN
10 9 (32.14%) NetApp
10 9 (32.14%) Release Management
10 9 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
10 9 (32.14%) vCloud
10 9 (32.14%) 3PAR
11 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
11 8 (28.57%) NAS
11 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
11 8 (28.57%) Microsoft

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Staines 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 1 (3.571%) Middleware
1 1 (3.571%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) IIS
2 2 (7.143%) Escenic
Applications
1 8 (28.57%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (39.29%) TCP/IP
1 11 (39.29%) Firewall
1 11 (39.29%) Cisco ASA
1 11 (39.29%) FWSM
2 9 (32.14%) SAN
3 8 (28.57%) NAS
4 6 (21.43%) Internet
5 1 (3.571%) MPLS
5 1 (3.571%) OSPF
5 1 (3.571%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (39.29%) MySQL
2 6 (21.43%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (21.43%) Finance
2 1 (3.571%) Games
Job Titles
1 9 (32.14%) Consultant
1 9 (32.14%) Systems Administrator
1 9 (32.14%) Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Linux Systems Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Linux Administrator
2 6 (21.43%) Solutions Consultant
3 5 (17.86%) Infrastructure Architect
3 5 (17.86%) Architect
4 3 (10.71%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) UNIX Administrator
4 3 (10.71%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (3.571%) Business Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Sales Consultant
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Support
6 1 (3.571%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.571%) Support Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) Technical Support Specialist
6 1 (3.571%) Pre Sales Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 12 (42.86%) Clustering
2 6 (21.43%) N-Tier
3 1 (3.571%) Online Games
3 1 (3.571%) SaaS
3 1 (3.571%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 19 (67.86%) Linux
2 17 (60.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 10 (35.71%) UNIX
4 9 (32.14%) Windows
5 8 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
6 7 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (82.14%) ITIL
2 9 (32.14%) Release Management
2 9 (32.14%) Continuous Integration
3 4 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.571%) Change Control
4 1 (3.571%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (21.43%) C
Qualifications
1 11 (39.29%) RHCE
2 2 (7.143%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (3.571%) MCTS
3 1 (3.571%) MCITP
3 1 (3.571%) Degree
3 1 (3.571%) CCDE
3 1 (3.571%) MCSE
3 1 (3.571%) CCNP
3 1 (3.571%) CCDA
3 1 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.571%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.571%) SAP Certification
System Software
1 17 (60.71%) VMware ESX
2 12 (42.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (39.29%) Varnish
4 9 (32.14%) vCloud
5 1 (3.571%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 21 (75.00%) NetBackup
2 11 (39.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 28 (100.00%) VMware
2 27 (96.43%) Cisco
3 17 (60.71%) Red Hat
4 9 (32.14%) NetApp
4 9 (32.14%) 3PAR
5 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
6 4 (14.29%) HP
6 4 (14.29%) Veritas
6 4 (14.29%) Symantec
7 1 (3.571%) SAP
7 1 (3.571%) Veeam
7 1 (3.571%) CheckPoint
7 1 (3.571%) Dell
7 1 (3.571%) EMC
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