The first part of the table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the System Software category.

Microsoft Hyper-V
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank233285370
Rank change year-on-year
Up+52Up+85
Matching permanent IT job ads1307981464
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.084 %0.800 %0.486 %
As % of the System Software category12.54 %10.62 %7.054 %
Number of salaries quoted1150804339
Average salary£40,500£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.70 %-5.55 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£28,050£29,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£62,500£100,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£42,500£45,000
% change year-on-year
-5.88 %-5.55 %
IT Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1042592356578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.645 %7.532 %6.890 %
Number of salaries quoted898675895345
Average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66 %-

Hyper-V
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Hyper-V Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK.

Hyper-V Salary Trend

Hyper-V
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Hyper-V over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

Hyper-V Salary Histogram

Hyper-V
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+501184£41,500-2.35 %
LondonUp+86484£42,500-
South EastDown-32274£40,000-11.11 %
West MidlandsUp+9106£35,250-21.66 %
North WestUp+2893£38,500-3.75 %
City of LondonUp+6890£48,500+25.16 %
East of EnglandUp+2582£42,500+6.25 %
SurreyDown-3566£40,000-
ScotlandUp+2357£37,000-3.89 %
BerkshireDown-1057£42,500-10.52 %
South WestUp+950£36,000-4.00 %
BuckinghamshireUp+3047£36,500-
BirminghamDown-1547£39,000-13.33 %
YorkshireUp+1245£35,000+7.69 %
Milton KeynesUp+3941£36,500-
West YorkshireUp+1640£35,000+7.69 %
HertfordshireUp+3439£42,500+24.63 %
LeedsUp+1739£35,000-17.64 %
CheshireUp+1738£36,750-13.52 %
ReadingUp+1238£45,000-47.05 %
GloucestershireUp+1529£32,500+8.33 %
ManchesterDown-1129£30,000-38.46 %
HampshireDown-1129£34,500+25.45 %
WalesUp+1728£32,250-5.14 %
South WalesUp+1827£31,000-8.82 %
East MidlandsDown-926£44,500+61.81 %
CambridgeshireDown-1124£42,500+6.25 %
LiverpoolNew entry-24£42,500-
MerseysideNew entry-24£42,500-
GloucesterDown-121£36,250+20.83 %

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

11923 (76.77 %)Windows
21908 (76.17 %)VMware
31598 (63.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
41511 (60.32 %)Microsoft
51204 (48.06 %)Active Directory
61203 (48.02 %)Windows Server 2008
71119 (44.67 %)Citrix
8830 (33.13 %)MS Exchange
9742 (29.62 %)Windows Server 2003
10707 (28.22 %)Microsoft Certification
11697 (27.82 %)MS Excel
12635 (25.35 %)SAN
13610 (24.35 %)Cisco
14599 (23.91 %)MCSE
15544 (21.72 %)Exchange Server 2010
16538 (21.48 %)SQL Server
17510 (20.36 %)HP
18497 (19.84 %)MCITP
19468 (18.68 %)XenApp
20466 (18.60 %)DNS
21441 (17.60 %)SQL
22428 (17.09 %)Firewall
23426 (17.01 %)Exchange Server 2007
24398 (15.89 %)vSphere
25393 (15.69 %)SCCM
26380 (15.17 %)Windows 7
27378 (15.09 %)XenServer
28365 (14.57 %)XenDesktop
29364 (14.53 %)ITIL
30357 (14.25 %)SharePoint

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
194 (3.752 %).NET
285 (3.393 %)Application Packaging
373 (2.914 %)WSH
472 (2.874 %)Forefront TMG
541 (1.637 %).NET Framework
633 (1.317 %)Web Services
722 (0.878 %)COM
820 (0.798 %)ASP
820 (0.798 %)XML
919 (0.758 %)ASP.NET
1016 (0.639 %)CSS
1115 (0.599 %)HTML
1214 (0.559 %)JMS
1214 (0.559 %)Middleware
1310 (0.399 %)WCF
1310 (0.399 %)COM+
149 (0.359 %)DCOM
149 (0.359 %)WPF
149 (0.359 %)jQuery
157 (0.279 %)Java EE
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1830 (33.13 %)MS Exchange
2544 (21.72 %)Exchange Server 2010
3426 (17.01 %)Exchange Server 2007
4357 (14.25 %)SharePoint
5332 (13.25 %)IIS
6239 (9.541 %)Exchange Server 2003
7143 (5.709 %)Lync
862 (2.475 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
951 (2.036 %)SharePoint Server
1050 (1.996 %)SharePoint 2010
1147 (1.876 %)Apache
1242 (1.677 %)Amazon EC2
1335 (1.397 %)Tomcat
1434 (1.357 %)Office Communications Server
1524 (0.958 %)Exchange Server 2000
1618 (0.719 %)CMS
1717 (0.679 %)Commerce Server
1814 (0.559 %)Lotus Notes
1911 (0.439 %)BizTalk Server
209 (0.359 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1697 (27.82 %)MS Excel
2175 (6.986 %)MS Office
375 (2.994 %)Office 365
454 (2.156 %)MS Visio
511 (0.439 %)MS PowerPoint
68 (0.319 %)InfoPath
75 (0.200 %)Google Apps
75 (0.200 %)MS Project
83 (0.120 %)MATLAB
83 (0.120 %)PowerPivot
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
137 (1.477 %)Dynamics CRM
28 (0.319 %)Dynamics AX
35 (0.200 %)GoldMine
44 (0.160 %)Oracle EBS
44 (0.160 %)assyst
52 (0.080 %)SoftGrid
61 (0.040 %)Dynamics NAV
61 (0.040 %)Google Analytics
61 (0.040 %)Oracle EBS R12
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1635 (25.35 %)SAN
2466 (18.60 %)DNS
3428 (17.09 %)Firewall
4312 (12.46 %)TCP/IP
5287 (11.46 %)DHCP
6185 (7.385 %)WAN
7182 (7.265 %)NAS
8169 (6.747 %)VPN
9167 (6.667 %)LAN
10136 (5.429 %)iSCSI
11104 (4.152 %)Wireless
12101 (4.032 %)VLAN
1379 (3.154 %)NetScaler
1379 (3.154 %)Internet
1477 (3.074 %)Cisco ASA
1565 (2.595 %)Fibre Channel
1650 (1.996 %)VoIP
1744 (1.756 %)Ethernet
1744 (1.756 %)MPLS
1833 (1.317 %)ADSL
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1538 (21.48 %)SQL Server
2182 (7.265 %)SQL Server 2008
3126 (5.030 %)SQL Server 2005
451 (2.036 %)MySQL
530 (1.198 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
618 (0.719 %)SQL Server 2000
716 (0.639 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
815 (0.599 %)DB2
815 (0.599 %)Oracle 8/8i
98 (0.319 %)MS Access
105 (0.200 %)Data Warehouse
105 (0.200 %)OLAP
105 (0.200 %)Informix
114 (0.160 %)RDBMS
114 (0.160 %)SQL Server Integration Services
123 (0.120 %)Oracle Exadata
132 (0.080 %)Microsoft Analysis Services
141 (0.040 %)Crystal Reports
141 (0.040 %)Data Mining
141 (0.040 %)OLTP
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
180 (3.194 %)MSI
273 (2.914 %)Wise Package Studio
315 (0.599 %)VSS/SourceSafe
412 (0.479 %)Team Foundation Server
58 (0.319 %)Selenium
65 (0.200 %)WebDriver
73 (0.120 %)NUnit
82 (0.080 %)Ant
82 (0.080 %)VisualSVN
82 (0.080 %)TortoiseSVN
91 (0.040 %)Fiddler
91 (0.040 %)Visual Studio
91 (0.040 %)WinRunner
91 (0.040 %)TestDirector
91 (0.040 %)QuickTest Pro
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1180 (7.186 %)Finance
255 (2.196 %)Telecoms
339 (1.557 %)Games
434 (1.357 %)Marketing
530 (1.198 %)German Language
626 (1.038 %)French Language
725 (0.998 %)Spanish Language
725 (0.998 %)Italian Language
824 (0.958 %)Retail
916 (0.639 %)Banking
1014 (0.559 %)Publishing
1113 (0.519 %)Legal
1113 (0.519 %)Hebrew Language
129 (0.359 %)Manufacturing
138 (0.319 %)Advertising
138 (0.319 %)Billing
146 (0.240 %)Law
146 (0.240 %)Arabic Language
146 (0.240 %)Russian Language
155 (0.200 %)Financial Institution
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1634 (25.31 %)Consultant
2270 (10.78 %)Analyst
3247 (9.860 %)Architect
4234 (9.341 %)Administrator
5223 (8.902 %)Support Engineer
6212 (8.463 %)Virtualisation Consultant
7188 (7.505 %)Infrastructure Engineer
8172 (6.866 %)Systems Administrator
9158 (6.307 %)Technical Consultant
10155 (6.188 %)Support Analyst
11130 (5.190 %)3rd Line Support
12126 (5.030 %)Systems Engineer
1396 (3.832 %)Infrastructure Consultant
1486 (3.433 %)Technical Support
1583 (3.313 %)Senior Consultant
1679 (3.154 %)Citrix Consultant
1777 (3.074 %)Applications Packager
1876 (3.034 %)Microsoft Consultant
1975 (2.994 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1975 (2.994 %)IT Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1203 (8.104 %)Clustering
2116 (4.631 %)Blackberry
387 (3.473 %)CLARiiON
463 (2.515 %)Replication
555 (2.196 %)Cloud Computing
641 (1.637 %)Fat Client
641 (1.637 %)iPhone
641 (1.637 %)Thin Client
641 (1.637 %)Management Information System
735 (1.397 %)Spread Betting
834 (1.357 %)EqualLogic
929 (1.158 %)SaaS
929 (1.158 %)Celerra
1028 (1.118 %)Smartphone
1126 (1.038 %)Computer Science
1224 (0.958 %)Open Source
1224 (0.958 %)HP StorageWorks
1323 (0.918 %)PMI
1417 (0.679 %)Client/Server
1516 (0.639 %)EMC Centera
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11923 (76.77 %)Windows
21203 (48.02 %)Windows Server 2008
3742 (29.62 %)Windows Server 2003
4380 (15.17 %)Windows 7
5265 (10.58 %)Windows XP
6242 (9.661 %)Linux
798 (3.912 %)UNIX
895 (3.792 %)Windows Vista
980 (3.194 %)Solaris
1041 (1.637 %)AIX
1137 (1.477 %)Windows 2000 Server
1235 (1.397 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1326 (1.038 %)Windows 2000
1326 (1.038 %)Mac OS X
1418 (0.719 %)Android
1513 (0.519 %)Ubuntu
1513 (0.519 %)Windows Mobile
1611 (0.439 %)CentOS
177 (0.279 %)Windows NT
185 (0.200 %)HPUX
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1364 (14.53 %)ITIL
2189 (7.545 %)Migration
3156 (6.228 %)Project Management
4135 (5.389 %)Disaster Recovery
5132 (5.269 %)Load Balancing
692 (3.673 %)Service Management
789 (3.553 %)Service Delivery
868 (2.715 %)Change Management
868 (2.715 %)CRM
967 (2.675 %)PRINCE2
1064 (2.555 %)Data Protection
1145 (1.796 %)Configuration Management
1244 (1.756 %)High Availability
1341 (1.637 %)E-Commerce
1439 (1.557 %)Business Continuity
1535 (1.397 %)Change Control
1633 (1.317 %)Capacity Planning
1633 (1.317 %)Network Load Balancing
1731 (1.238 %)Technical Architecture
1829 (1.158 %)Information Security
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1441 (17.60 %)SQL
2158 (6.307 %)PowerShell
3107 (4.271 %)VB
473 (2.914 %)VBScript
560 (2.395 %)Perl
651 (2.036 %)Java
740 (1.597 %)C#
837 (1.477 %)PHP
935 (1.397 %)Python
1029 (1.158 %)C
1126 (1.038 %)C++
1221 (0.838 %)Shell Script
1317 (0.679 %)T-SQL
1416 (0.639 %)JavaScript
1512 (0.479 %)Ruby
1610 (0.399 %)Korn
1610 (0.399 %)VB6
1610 (0.399 %)Delphi
179 (0.359 %)PowerHouse
187 (0.279 %)VB.NET
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1707 (28.22 %)Microsoft Certification
2599 (23.91 %)MCSE
3497 (19.84 %)MCITP
4340 (13.57 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5251 (10.02 %)Citrix Certification
6210 (8.383 %)CCA
7187 (7.465 %)Cisco Certification
8150 (5.988 %)Security Cleared
9140 (5.589 %)MCTS
10128 (5.110 %)CCEA
11126 (5.030 %)CCNA
12125 (4.990 %)SC Cleared
13111 (4.431 %)Degree
14109 (4.351 %)CCIA
1598 (3.912 %)MCP
1690 (3.593 %)MCSA
1777 (3.074 %)CCEE
1868 (2.715 %)ITIL Certification
1959 (2.355 %)VCP4
2058 (2.315 %)HP ASE
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
155 (2.196 %)SLA
223 (0.918 %)QA
320 (0.798 %)PCI DSS
320 (0.798 %)ISO 9001
417 (0.679 %)ISO/IEC 27001
51 (0.040 %)WAI
51 (0.040 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11598 (63.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
21204 (48.06 %)Active Directory
3468 (18.68 %)XenApp
4398 (15.89 %)vSphere
5378 (15.09 %)XenServer
6365 (14.57 %)XenDesktop
7221 (8.822 %)VMware ESX
8217 (8.663 %)Xen
9143 (5.709 %)VMware ESXi
1078 (3.114 %)Terminal Services
1170 (2.794 %)ISA Server
1268 (2.715 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1359 (2.355 %)UAG
1453 (2.116 %)NFS
1552 (2.076 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1640 (1.597 %)vCloud
1715 (0.599 %)VMware Server
1813 (0.519 %)SRDF
1912 (0.479 %)Terminal Server
208 (0.319 %)EMC RecoverPoint
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1393 (15.69 %)SCCM
2234 (9.341 %)SCOM
3183 (7.305 %)SCVMM
4106 (4.232 %)Backup Exec
598 (3.912 %)NetBackup
694 (3.752 %)vCenter
736 (1.437 %)WSUS
835 (1.397 %)Norton AntiVirus
933 (1.317 %)ARCserve
1032 (1.277 %)Opalis
1119 (0.758 %)MOM
1217 (0.679 %)Legato
1217 (0.679 %)EMC NetWorker
1316 (0.639 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1415 (0.599 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1415 (0.599 %)Windows Intune
1513 (0.519 %)EMC TimeFinder
1611 (0.439 %)Tivoli
178 (0.319 %)Nagios
178 (0.319 %)Puppet
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11908 (76.17 %)VMware
21511 (60.32 %)Microsoft
31119 (44.67 %)Citrix
4610 (24.35 %)Cisco
5510 (20.36 %)HP
6357 (14.25 %)NetApp
7251 (10.02 %)EMC
8159 (6.347 %)Dell
9138 (5.509 %)Symantec
10136 (5.429 %)IBM
11126 (5.030 %)Oracle
1267 (2.675 %)AppSense
1366 (2.635 %)Veritas
1462 (2.475 %)CheckPoint
1558 (2.315 %)Red Hat
1648 (1.916 %)CommVault
1648 (1.916 %)Brocade
1747 (1.876 %)Apple
1845 (1.796 %)Veeam
1943 (1.717 %)PlateSpin