The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 12 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 9.589% - -
As % of the System Software category 53.85% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £45,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
% change year-on-year
- +3.65%
All System Software
Sussex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
13 7 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sussex 17.81% 6.306% 10.64%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 5
Average salary £45,000 - £25,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sussex 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 Sussex region.

Sussex vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 7 (100.00%) Windows
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) SSL
2 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 6 (85.71%) IPsec
2 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) WSUS
2 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) McAfee
2 6 (85.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
2 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) VPN
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (85.71%) SCCM
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
2 6 (85.71%) McAfee ePO
3 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
4 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
4 1 (14.29%) NAS
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) SLA

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sussex 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 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2003
1 6 (85.71%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 6 (85.71%) SharePoint
1 6 (85.71%) MS Exchange
2 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (71.43%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SSL
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) IPsec
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) NAS
2 1 (14.29%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Support Team Leader
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Team Leader
1 4 (57.14%) Team Leader
1 4 (57.14%) Infrastructure Support Team Leader
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Junior IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Support Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Junior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2003
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
1 1 (14.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (14.29%) Hyper-V
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) WSUS
1 6 (85.71%) SCCM
1 6 (85.71%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
2 6 (85.71%) McAfee
2 6 (85.71%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix