The first table below looks at the demand for Plesk skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Plesk 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 Systems Management category.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Parallels Plesk Panel
Rank 826 867 866
Rank change year-on-year
+41 -1
Permanent jobs citing Plesk 36 31 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.033% 0.026% 0.006%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.593% 0.543% 0.120%
Number of salaries quoted 34 30 7
Average salary £33,750 £36,250 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.89% +20.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £32,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £45,900
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-20.00% +25.00%
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6070 5710 5828
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.644% 4.730% 4.624%
Number of salaries quoted 4700 4738 4623
Average salary £45,000 £44,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.27% +3.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £29,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £61,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £41,500 £40,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.75% -

Plesk
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Plesk within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Plesk Jobs Demand Trend

Plesk
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Plesk within the UK.

Plesk Salary Trend

Plesk
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Plesk over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

Plesk Salary Histogram

Plesk
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Plesk within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +30 36 £33,750 -3.57%
South East +2 11 £27,500 -26.66%
London +36 9 £35,000 +7.69%
South West - 8 £38,750 -
City of London - 7 £35,000 -
Bournemouth - 5 £42,500 -
Dorset - 5 £42,500 -
Hampshire - 4 £27,500 -
Berkshire +5 3 £50,000 -
North West -12 3 £23,000 -29.23%
Basingstoke - 3 £27,500 -
Bristol - 3 £35,000 -
Manchester - 3 £23,000 -
Slough - 3 £50,000 -
Surrey - 3 £27,000 -
Yorkshire - 3 £20,000 -
West Midlands -23 2 £31,250 -16.66%
Shrewsbury - 2 £31,250 -
Shropshire - 2 £31,250 -
West Yorkshire - 2 £20,000 -
West Sussex -6 1 £25,500 -21.53%
South Yorkshire - 1 £20,000 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £20,000 -
York - 1 £20,000 -
Leeds - 1 £20,000 -
Huddersfield - 1 - -
Harrogate - 1 £20,000 -
Egham - 1 £31,000 -
East Grinstead - 1 £25,500 -
Bradford - 1 £20,000 -

Plesk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Plesk 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 Plesk.

1 61 (87.14%) MySQL
2 60 (85.71%) PHP
3 54 (77.14%) Linux
4 38 (54.29%) Apache
5 36 (51.43%) CSS
6 33 (47.14%) HTML
7 32 (45.71%) JavaScript
7 32 (45.71%) Drupal
8 26 (37.14%) VMware
9 24 (34.29%) WordPress
10 23 (32.86%) Magento
10 23 (32.86%) Red Hat
11 22 (31.43%) E-Commerce
11 22 (31.43%) jQuery
12 21 (30.00%) CentOS
13 20 (28.57%) LAMP
13 20 (28.57%) Windows
13 20 (28.57%) OOP
14 19 (27.14%) SQL
14 19 (27.14%) Subversion
14 19 (27.14%) Ubuntu
14 19 (27.14%) VMware Infrastructure
15 18 (25.71%) HTML5
16 17 (24.29%) Marketing
16 17 (24.29%) Web Development
16 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
16 17 (24.29%) Adobe
17 15 (21.43%) OO
17 15 (21.43%) CMS
17 15 (21.43%) nginx

Plesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Plesk 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 Plesk. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (51.43%) CSS
2 33 (47.14%) HTML
3 22 (31.43%) jQuery
4 20 (28.57%) LAMP
5 18 (25.71%) HTML5
6 11 (15.71%) CSS3
7 7 (10.00%) Adobe AIR
7 7 (10.00%) CodeIgniter
7 7 (10.00%) XHTML
7 7 (10.00%) Flash
8 6 (8.571%) .NET
9 3 (4.286%) XAMPP
10 2 (2.857%) COM
11 1 (1.429%) SOAP
11 1 (1.429%) XML
11 1 (1.429%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 38 (54.29%) Apache
2 32 (45.71%) Drupal
3 24 (34.29%) WordPress
4 23 (32.86%) Magento
5 15 (21.43%) CMS
5 15 (21.43%) nginx
6 13 (18.57%) ExpressionEngine
7 7 (10.00%) IIS
8 5 (7.143%) Alfresco
8 5 (7.143%) Joomla!
8 5 (7.143%) Facebook Platform
9 4 (5.714%) SharePoint
10 3 (4.286%) SharePoint Server
11 2 (2.857%) MS Exchange
11 2 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2013
11 2 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
11 2 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2010
12 1 (1.429%) Lync
12 1 (1.429%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 12 (17.14%) Photoshop
2 6 (8.571%) MS Excel
3 4 (5.714%) Adobe Illustrator
3 4 (5.714%) InDesign
4 1 (1.429%) Fireworks
Communications & Networking
1 13 (18.57%) DNS
2 7 (10.00%) FTP
3 6 (8.571%) TCP/IP
4 5 (7.143%) POP3
4 5 (7.143%) Internet
4 5 (7.143%) Firewall
5 4 (5.714%) SMTP
5 4 (5.714%) WAN
5 4 (5.714%) IMAP
6 3 (4.286%) iSCSI
6 3 (4.286%) SSH
7 2 (2.857%) SAN
7 2 (2.857%) ADSL
7 2 (2.857%) LAN
8 1 (1.429%) Unified Communications
8 1 (1.429%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (1.429%) PBX
8 1 (1.429%) SMS
8 1 (1.429%) LDAP
8 1 (1.429%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (87.14%) MySQL
2 8 (11.43%) SQL Server
3 6 (8.571%) SQL Server 2005
3 6 (8.571%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (2.857%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 19 (27.14%) Subversion
2 7 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (1.429%) Git (software)
General
1 17 (24.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 34 (48.57%) Developer
2 21 (30.00%) PHP Developer
3 18 (25.71%) Web Developer
4 15 (21.43%) Linux Engineer
5 12 (17.14%) PHP Web Developer
6 9 (12.86%) Systems Engineer
7 8 (11.43%) Support Engineer
8 7 (10.00%) Administrator
9 6 (8.571%) Systems Administrator
9 6 (8.571%) Linux Administrator
9 6 (8.571%) Drupal Developer
10 5 (7.143%) Designer
10 5 (7.143%) PHP Drupal Developer
10 5 (7.143%) Linux Systems Administrator
11 4 (5.714%) Web Designer
11 4 (5.714%) Systems Support
11 4 (5.714%) Systems Support Engineer
11 4 (5.714%) Linux Support
11 4 (5.714%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (5.714%) PHP MySQL Developer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Mobile App
2 4 (5.714%) Clustering
3 3 (4.286%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.286%) Replication
4 2 (2.857%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.857%) Social Media
4 2 (2.857%) Open Source
5 1 (1.429%) Social Network
5 1 (1.429%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 54 (77.14%) Linux
2 21 (30.00%) CentOS
3 20 (28.57%) Windows
4 19 (27.14%) Ubuntu
5 15 (21.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (11.43%) Windows Server 2008
7 6 (8.571%) Debian
8 4 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (1.429%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (31.43%) E-Commerce
2 20 (28.57%) OOP
3 17 (24.29%) Web Development
4 15 (21.43%) OO
5 12 (17.14%) Content Management
6 11 (15.71%) Release Management
7 7 (10.00%) MVC
7 7 (10.00%) SEO
8 6 (8.571%) ITIL
9 4 (5.714%) Service Delivery
9 4 (5.714%) Load Balancing
10 3 (4.286%) Unit Testing
10 3 (4.286%) Problem Management
10 3 (4.286%) Change Control
10 3 (4.286%) TDD
11 2 (2.857%) Web Design
11 2 (2.857%) Change Management
11 2 (2.857%) Email Marketing
12 1 (1.429%) Online Marketing
12 1 (1.429%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 60 (85.71%) PHP
2 32 (45.71%) JavaScript
3 19 (27.14%) SQL
4 13 (18.57%) PHP5
5 11 (15.71%) Perl
6 8 (11.43%) Python
7 7 (10.00%) ActionScript
8 4 (5.714%) PHP4
9 2 (2.857%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.429%) ActionScript 3.0
10 1 (1.429%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (15.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (2.857%) LPIC
2 2 (2.857%) RHCE
3 1 (1.429%) HND
3 1 (1.429%) MCSA
3 1 (1.429%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (1.429%) Degree
3 1 (1.429%) RHCT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) SLA
2 6 (8.571%) QA
System Software
1 19 (27.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.571%) VMware ESX
2 6 (8.571%) vSphere
3 4 (5.714%) Xen
3 4 (5.714%) Active Directory
3 4 (5.714%) Hyper-V
4 3 (4.286%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (4.286%) Forefront TMG
4 3 (4.286%) NFS
5 2 (2.857%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.429%) qmail
6 1 (1.429%) Postfix
6 1 (1.429%) Sendmail
6 1 (1.429%) XenApp
6 1 (1.429%) XenServer
6 1 (1.429%) Varnish
6 1 (1.429%) vCloud
6 1 (1.429%) Squid
6 1 (1.429%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (1.429%) Cacti
1 1 (1.429%) Nagios
Vendors
1 26 (37.14%) VMware
2 23 (32.86%) Red Hat
3 17 (24.29%) Microsoft
3 17 (24.29%) Adobe
4 13 (18.57%) Ensim
5 7 (10.00%) Cisco
6 6 (8.571%) Facebook
6 6 (8.571%) Twitter
7 5 (7.143%) NetApp
8 4 (5.714%) Google
9 3 (4.286%) Nimsoft
10 2 (2.857%) Sun
10 2 (2.857%) HP
10 2 (2.857%) 3PAR
11 1 (1.429%) Polycom
11 1 (1.429%) EMC
11 1 (1.429%) Intel
11 1 (1.429%) Juniper
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
The PHP developer will be: A PHP developer with experience delivering CMS-driven sites... Experience developing with PHP5, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, Wordpress etc. Plesk and Unix knowledge would...
Nuepc
Salary: From £18,000 to £25,000 per annum
Posted: 20 May 2013
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3+ years experience directly related to Linux system administration. Well versed in: Cisco Hardware/Software. Networking (BGP, IPv4. IPv6) DNS, Apache, Bind, MyDNS, nginx reverse proxy, LiteSpeed, Plesk...
Nimbus Hosting Ltd
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013