The first table below looks at the demand for SCVMM skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SCVMM over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)
Rank 763 778 783
Rank change year-on-year
+15 +5
Permanent jobs citing SCVMM 101 122 87
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.093% 0.099% 0.071%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.658% 2.097% 1.534%
Number of salaries quoted 89 104 54
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £35,000 £40,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £70,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £47,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -20.83%
All Systems Management
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
6090 5818 5671
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 5.599% 4.744% 4.639%
Number of salaries quoted 4719 4834 4487
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 £30,275 £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% -

SCVMM
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SCVMM Jobs Demand Trend

SCVMM
Salary Trend

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

SCVMM Salary Trend

SCVMM
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SCVMM over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 within the UK.

SCVMM Salary Histogram

SCVMM
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SCVMM within the UK over the 3 months to 22 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 -10 78 £50,000 -
South East -5 24 £52,500 +23.52%
London +21 20 £50,000 -16.66%
West Midlands -6 14 £55,000 +4.76%
Berkshire +9 13 £60,000 +44.57%
East of England +7 11 £50,000 +5.26%
Cambridge +6 10 £50,000 +5.26%
Cambridgeshire +6 10 £50,000 +5.26%
Reading +5 10 £58,750 +67.85%
Surrey +17 9 £38,250 +31.89%
Yorkshire -5 8 £50,000 -4.76%
Birmingham -13 7 £50,000 -4.76%
Midlands - 7 £50,000 -
West Yorkshire +2 6 £50,000 -4.76%
Leeds -7 6 £50,000 -4.76%
Egham -11 5 £37,500 +29.31%
Buckinghamshire - 5 £52,500 -
Coventry - 5 £60,000 -
Milton Keynes - 5 £52,500 -
Hampshire - 4 £55,000 -
Scotland +1 3 £26,500 -28.37%
North West -10 3 £45,000 -14.28%
Oxfordshire -13 3 £52,500 -8.69%
Maidenhead - 3 £50,000 -
Glasgow - 3 £26,500 -
South West - 3 £67,500 -
Merseyside +21 2 £52,500 -
Derby +16 2 £51,250 -
Liverpool +14 2 £52,500 -
City of London +12 2 £48,750 -18.75%

SCVMM
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM.

1 197 (89.55%) Microsoft
2 188 (85.45%) SCCM
3 182 (82.73%) SCOM
4 180 (81.82%) Hyper-V
5 136 (61.82%) Windows
6 112 (50.91%) Active Directory
6 112 (50.91%) Microsoft Certification
7 102 (46.36%) MCITP
8 101 (45.91%) Windows Server 2008
9 95 (43.18%) MS Excel
10 93 (42.27%) VMware
11 86 (39.09%) VMware Infrastructure
12 72 (32.73%) MCTS
13 69 (31.36%) Data Protection
14 66 (30.00%) MCSE
15 57 (25.91%) Citrix
16 50 (22.73%) MS Exchange
16 50 (22.73%) Windows 7
17 46 (20.91%) Microsoft App-V
18 43 (19.55%) Exchange Server 2010
19 42 (19.09%) Migration
19 42 (19.09%) Clustering
20 40 (18.18%) SharePoint
21 33 (15.00%) Dell
21 33 (15.00%) DNS
21 33 (15.00%) XenApp
22 32 (14.55%) XenDesktop
22 32 (14.55%) HP
23 30 (13.64%) SAN
23 30 (13.64%) Lync

SCVMM
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SCVMM 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 SCVMM. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (0.909%) Application Packaging
1 2 (0.909%) .NET
1 2 (0.909%) ASP.NET
2 1 (0.455%) COM
2 1 (0.455%) XML
Application Platforms
1 50 (22.73%) MS Exchange
2 43 (19.55%) Exchange Server 2010
3 40 (18.18%) SharePoint
4 30 (13.64%) Lync
5 16 (7.273%) Exchange Server 2007
6 13 (5.909%) IIS
7 12 (5.455%) Exchange Server 2013
8 9 (4.091%) Office Communications Server
9 5 (2.273%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2003
9 5 (2.273%) Windows Azure
9 5 (2.273%) SharePoint 2010
9 5 (2.273%) SharePoint 2013
10 1 (0.455%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.455%) Exchange Server 2000
Applications
1 95 (43.18%) MS Excel
2 17 (7.727%) Office 365
3 11 (5.000%) MS PowerPoint
4 5 (2.273%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 17 (7.727%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 33 (15.00%) DNS
2 30 (13.64%) SAN
3 28 (12.73%) DHCP
4 12 (5.455%) VPN
4 12 (5.455%) iSCSI
5 10 (4.545%) VoIP
5 10 (4.545%) VLAN
6 8 (3.636%) TCP/IP
7 6 (2.727%) Firewall
8 5 (2.273%) WAN
8 5 (2.273%) LAN
8 5 (2.273%) PBX
8 5 (2.273%) Cisco ASA
9 4 (1.818%) Unified Communications
9 4 (1.818%) Fibre Channel
10 3 (1.364%) IP Telephony
10 3 (1.364%) NAS
10 3 (1.364%) NetScaler
11 2 (0.909%) IPv6
11 2 (0.909%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (9.545%) SQL Server
2 15 (6.818%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (3.182%) SQL Server 2012
3 7 (3.182%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (0.909%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (4.545%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (0.909%) Visual Studio
2 2 (0.909%) Subversion
3 1 (0.455%) AdminStudio
General
1 3 (1.364%) Back Office
1 3 (1.364%) Finance
2 2 (0.909%) Legal
3 1 (0.455%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 164 (74.55%) Consultant
2 48 (21.82%) Microsoft Consultant
3 38 (17.27%) Technical Consultant
4 23 (10.45%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 23 (10.45%) Data Consultant
5 14 (6.364%) Technical Specialist
6 12 (5.455%) SCCM Consultant
7 11 (5.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 11 (5.000%) Management Consultant
8 9 (4.091%) Microsoft Specialist
8 9 (4.091%) Virtualisation Specialist
8 9 (4.091%) Senior Consultant
8 9 (4.091%) Applications Specialist
8 9 (4.091%) Applications Consultant
8 9 (4.091%) Citrix Specialist
8 9 (4.091%) Citrix Consultant
9 8 (3.636%) Support Engineer
10 6 (2.727%) Architect
10 6 (2.727%) Analyst
10 6 (2.727%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 42 (19.09%) Clustering
2 7 (3.182%) EqualLogic
3 6 (2.727%) PKI
4 4 (1.818%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (0.909%) SaaS
5 2 (0.909%) Celerra
5 2 (0.909%) CLARiiON
6 1 (0.455%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.455%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 136 (61.82%) Windows
2 101 (45.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 50 (22.73%) Windows 7
4 26 (11.82%) Windows Server 2003
5 20 (9.091%) UNIX
6 19 (8.636%) Windows 8
7 17 (7.727%) Solaris
7 17 (7.727%) OpenVMS
8 15 (6.818%) Windows Server 2012
9 9 (4.091%) Linux
10 5 (2.273%) Windows Vista
11 3 (1.364%) SUSE
11 3 (1.364%) Windows XP
12 1 (0.455%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.36%) Data Protection
2 42 (19.09%) Migration
3 22 (10.00%) High Availability
4 21 (9.545%) ITIL
5 20 (9.091%) Service Delivery
6 19 (8.636%) Disaster Recovery
7 11 (5.000%) ITSM
7 11 (5.000%) Service Management
8 9 (4.091%) Identity Management
9 6 (2.727%) Network Load Balancing
10 5 (2.273%) CRM
10 5 (2.273%) Network Management
11 4 (1.818%) Capacity Planning
12 3 (1.364%) Asset Management
12 3 (1.364%) Software Distribution
13 2 (0.909%) Capacity Management
13 2 (0.909%) Software Testing
13 2 (0.909%) Technical Architecture
13 2 (0.909%) Continuous Integration
13 2 (0.909%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.636%) SQL
2 7 (3.182%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.364%) VBScript
4 2 (0.909%) T-SQL
4 2 (0.909%) C#
5 1 (0.455%) C
Qualifications
1 112 (50.91%) Microsoft Certification
2 102 (46.36%) MCITP
3 72 (32.73%) MCTS
4 66 (30.00%) MCSE
5 20 (9.091%) MCSA
6 14 (6.364%) Microsoft Certified Master
7 13 (5.909%) Citrix Certification
8 12 (5.455%) CCIA
9 11 (5.000%) CCEE
9 11 (5.000%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (4.545%) CCA
10 10 (4.545%) CCEA
11 9 (4.091%) CCAA
12 5 (2.273%) Security Cleared
12 5 (2.273%) VTSP
13 4 (1.818%) VCP5
13 4 (1.818%) VCP4
14 2 (0.909%) NCDA
14 2 (0.909%) NCIE
14 2 (0.909%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (0.909%) QA
2 1 (0.455%) ISO 9001
2 1 (0.455%) ISO/IEC 20000
System Software
1 180 (81.82%) Hyper-V
2 112 (50.91%) Active Directory
3 86 (39.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 46 (20.91%) Microsoft App-V
5 33 (15.00%) XenApp
6 32 (14.55%) XenDesktop
7 30 (13.64%) UAG
8 21 (9.545%) Forefront TMG
9 19 (8.636%) XenServer
10 18 (8.182%) vSphere
11 8 (3.636%) VMware ESX
12 6 (2.727%) Terminal Services
13 4 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
14 2 (0.909%) Terminal Server
15 1 (0.455%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 1 (0.455%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.455%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 188 (85.45%) SCCM
2 182 (82.73%) SCOM
3 22 (10.00%) Backup Exec
4 15 (6.818%) Opalis
5 5 (2.273%) Norton AntiVirus
5 5 (2.273%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 3 (1.364%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.909%) OpenView
8 1 (0.455%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.455%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 197 (89.55%) Microsoft
2 93 (42.27%) VMware
3 57 (25.91%) Citrix
4 33 (15.00%) Dell
5 32 (14.55%) HP
6 22 (10.00%) Symantec
7 19 (8.636%) Cisco
8 17 (7.727%) SAP
9 9 (4.091%) NetApp
10 8 (3.636%) EMC
11 6 (2.727%) Sophos
12 3 (1.364%) Veritas
12 3 (1.364%) Oracle
12 3 (1.364%) Brocade
13 2 (0.909%) ProCurve
13 2 (0.909%) LANDesk
13 2 (0.909%) Altiris
14 1 (0.455%) Wyse
14 1 (0.455%) CommVault
14 1 (0.455%) WatchGuard
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