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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Varnish
Rank 716 820 840
Rank change year-on-year
+104 +20
Permanent jobs citing Varnish 142 76 31
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.132% 0.063% 0.025%
As % of the System Software category 1.379% 0.728% 0.332%
Number of salaries quoted 129 50 29
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,500 £55,100 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £36,000 £31,250
% change year-on-year
+25.00% +15.20%
All System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10296 10437 9340
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 9.552% 8.630% 7.565%
Number of salaries quoted 8670 9011 7656
Average salary £40,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.61% +3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +2.63%

Varnish
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Varnish Jobs Demand Trend

Varnish
Salary Trend

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

Varnish Salary Trend

Varnish
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Varnish over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

Varnish Salary Histogram

Varnish
Top 21 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Varnish within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +100 142 £50,000 +5.26%
London +74 105 £50,000 +5.26%
South East +23 18 £57,000 +34.11%
City of London +15 16 £55,000 +12.82%
Surrey +29 15 £57,000 +34.11%
Staines - 11 £57,000 -
North West +3 8 £35,000 +2.94%
Manchester -19 8 £35,000 +2.94%
Bristol - 6 £35,000 -
South West - 6 £35,000 -
East of England - 3 £47,500 -
Hertfordshire - 3 £47,500 -
East Sussex - 3 £45,000 -
Hemel Hempstead - 3 £47,500 -
Brighton - 2 £48,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £40,000 -
Woking - 2 £66,250 -
West Bromwich - 2 £40,000 -
Uxbridge - 1 £55,000 -
Eastbourne - 1 £45,000 -
Chertsey - 1 £65,000 -

Varnish
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Varnish 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 Varnish.

1 226 (81.59%) MySQL
2 213 (76.90%) Linux
3 171 (61.73%) Apache
4 151 (54.51%) nginx
5 127 (45.85%) PHP
6 77 (27.80%) LAMP
7 74 (26.71%) Git (software)
7 74 (26.71%) Puppet
8 71 (25.63%) CentOS
9 70 (25.27%) Apache Solr
10 69 (24.91%) Web Services
11 68 (24.55%) Red Hat
11 68 (24.55%) Memcached
12 64 (23.10%) HTML
12 64 (23.10%) Ruby
13 60 (21.66%) Open Source
14 59 (21.30%) JavaScript
15 56 (20.22%) CSS
16 53 (19.13%) Perl
17 52 (18.77%) Continuous Integration
17 52 (18.77%) Redis
18 51 (18.41%) TDD
18 51 (18.41%) Python
19 50 (18.05%) TCP/IP
20 48 (17.33%) Degree
21 47 (16.97%) E-Commerce
21 47 (16.97%) Java
21 47 (16.97%) OO
22 46 (16.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
23 44 (15.88%) Subversion

Varnish
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Varnish 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 Varnish. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 77 (27.80%) LAMP
2 69 (24.91%) Web Services
3 68 (24.55%) Memcached
4 64 (23.10%) HTML
5 56 (20.22%) CSS
6 39 (14.08%) Ruby on Rails
7 36 (13.00%) HTML5
7 36 (13.00%) Zend Framework
7 36 (13.00%) jQuery
8 35 (12.64%) RESTful
9 32 (11.55%) Ajax
10 26 (9.386%) CSS3
10 26 (9.386%) Mustache
11 20 (7.220%) REST
12 19 (6.859%) Django
13 18 (6.498%) .NET
14 13 (4.693%) SOAP
14 13 (4.693%) XML
15 11 (3.971%) ASP.NET
15 11 (3.971%) WSGI
Application Platforms
1 171 (61.73%) Apache
2 151 (54.51%) nginx
3 70 (25.27%) Apache Solr
4 37 (13.36%) Magento
5 30 (10.83%) Tomcat
6 28 (10.11%) IIS
7 24 (8.664%) Drupal
8 23 (8.303%) CMS
9 13 (4.693%) Jetty
10 12 (4.332%) Amazon AWS
11 11 (3.971%) Alfresco
12 9 (3.249%) GlassFish
12 9 (3.249%) ActiveMQ
13 8 (2.888%) Google App Engine
14 7 (2.527%) Joomla!
15 5 (1.805%) WordPress
15 5 (1.805%) Moodle
16 4 (1.444%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (1.444%) Escenic
17 3 (1.083%) Amazon ELB
Applications
1 11 (3.971%) Google Apps
2 5 (1.805%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 8 (2.888%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 50 (18.05%) TCP/IP
2 36 (13.00%) DNS
3 33 (11.91%) Firewall
4 32 (11.55%) HTTP
5 20 (7.220%) DHCP
6 17 (6.137%) SSL
7 13 (4.693%) Cisco ASA
7 13 (4.693%) FWSM
8 12 (4.332%) SAN
8 12 (4.332%) FTP
8 12 (4.332%) VPN
8 12 (4.332%) SMTP
9 8 (2.888%) Internet
10 6 (2.166%) POP3
10 6 (2.166%) IMAP
10 6 (2.166%) Network Security
10 6 (2.166%) iSCSI
11 5 (1.805%) SSH
12 3 (1.083%) Intranet
12 3 (1.083%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 226 (81.59%) MySQL
2 52 (18.77%) Redis
3 41 (14.80%) MongoDB
4 35 (12.64%) SQL Server
5 25 (9.025%) NoSQL
6 16 (5.776%) PostgreSQL
7 13 (4.693%) RDBMS
8 12 (4.332%) CouchDB
9 11 (3.971%) Sybase ASE
10 9 (3.249%) SQL Server 2008
11 8 (2.888%) Hadoop
11 8 (2.888%) Riak
12 5 (1.805%) Big Data
13 3 (1.083%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (1.083%) Oracle 8/8i
14 2 (0.722%) InterSystems Cache
14 2 (0.722%) Couchbase
14 2 (0.722%) Apache Cassandra
15 1 (0.361%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 74 (26.71%) Git (software)
2 44 (15.88%) Subversion
3 31 (11.19%) PHPUnit
3 31 (11.19%) Jenkins
4 25 (9.025%) Behat
5 22 (7.942%) Capistrano
6 11 (3.971%) Cucumber
6 11 (3.971%) TeamCity
6 11 (3.971%) RSpec
7 9 (3.249%) Redmine
8 6 (2.166%) Cobertura
8 6 (2.166%) GitHub
9 5 (1.805%) Hudson
9 5 (1.805%) Maven
9 5 (1.805%) JIRA
10 3 (1.083%) Eclipse
10 3 (1.083%) IntelliJ
10 3 (1.083%) Mercurial
10 3 (1.083%) Phing
11 2 (0.722%) Selenium
General
1 20 (7.220%) Games
2 19 (6.859%) Publishing
3 14 (5.054%) Marketing
4 9 (3.249%) Retail
5 8 (2.888%) Music
5 8 (2.888%) Electronics
6 7 (2.527%) Telecoms
7 5 (1.805%) Finance
7 5 (1.805%) Banking
7 5 (1.805%) Investment Banking
8 3 (1.083%) Pharmaceutical
9 2 (0.722%) Music Industry
10 1 (0.361%) Automotive
10 1 (0.361%) Legal
10 1 (0.361%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 118 (42.60%) Developer
2 79 (28.52%) Administrator
3 61 (22.02%) Systems Administrator
4 55 (19.86%) PHP Developer
5 43 (15.52%) Linux Administrator
6 40 (14.44%) Senior Developer
7 38 (13.72%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 34 (12.27%) Senior PHP Developer
9 29 (10.47%) Web Developer
10 24 (8.664%) Systems Engineer
11 21 (7.581%) Web Administrator
12 19 (6.859%) Linux Engineer
13 18 (6.498%) Junior
13 18 (6.498%) DevOps Engineer
14 15 (5.415%) Web Engineer
15 14 (5.054%) Ruby on Rails Developer
16 13 (4.693%) Operations Engineer
17 12 (4.332%) Drupal Developer
17 12 (4.332%) Ruby Developer
17 12 (4.332%) Python Developer
Miscellaneous
1 60 (21.66%) Open Source
2 37 (13.36%) Computer Science
3 27 (9.747%) Clustering
4 25 (9.025%) W3C
5 20 (7.220%) Online Games
6 17 (6.137%) IaaS
7 16 (5.776%) Digital Media
8 12 (4.332%) Mobile App
9 11 (3.971%) PaaS
10 10 (3.610%) Replication
11 7 (2.527%) Contract for Difference
12 6 (2.166%) Management Information System
13 5 (1.805%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 4 (1.444%) Data Protection Act
15 3 (1.083%) iDTV
16 2 (0.722%) Blackberry
16 2 (0.722%) Taxonomies
16 2 (0.722%) Ontologies
16 2 (0.722%) Blog
16 2 (0.722%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 213 (76.90%) Linux
2 71 (25.63%) CentOS
3 46 (16.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 37 (13.36%) Windows
5 27 (9.747%) Ubuntu
6 23 (8.303%) Android
7 19 (6.859%) Debian
8 18 (6.498%) Windows Server 2008
8 18 (6.498%) Apple iOS
9 17 (6.137%) UNIX
10 12 (4.332%) FreeBSD
11 4 (1.444%) Gentoo
11 4 (1.444%) Mac OS X
12 3 (1.083%) Windows Mobile
13 1 (0.361%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (18.77%) Continuous Integration
2 51 (18.41%) TDD
3 47 (16.97%) OO
3 47 (16.97%) E-Commerce
4 37 (13.36%) Scrum
5 36 (13.00%) Load Balancing
6 33 (11.91%) BDD
7 29 (10.47%) Automated Testing
8 27 (9.747%) MVC
9 22 (7.942%) Web Development
10 21 (7.581%) ITIL
11 19 (6.859%) OOP
11 19 (6.859%) Configuration Management
12 18 (6.498%) High Availability
13 17 (6.137%) Agile Software Development
14 15 (5.415%) SOA
15 14 (5.054%) Capacity Planning
16 13 (4.693%) Project Management
17 12 (4.332%) OOD
17 12 (4.332%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 127 (45.85%) PHP
2 64 (23.10%) Ruby
3 59 (21.30%) JavaScript
4 53 (19.13%) Perl
5 51 (18.41%) Python
6 47 (16.97%) Java
7 26 (9.386%) Bash shell
8 19 (6.859%) SQL
9 18 (6.498%) PHP5
10 9 (3.249%) C
11 8 (2.888%) PowerShell
12 7 (2.527%) Scala
13 6 (2.166%) Shell Script
14 5 (1.805%) C#
Qualifications
1 48 (17.33%) Degree
2 15 (5.415%) RHCE
3 1 (0.361%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (0.361%) MCITP
3 1 (0.361%) MCSE
3 1 (0.361%) MCSA
3 1 (0.361%) CCNA
3 1 (0.361%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (0.361%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.249%) QA
2 8 (2.888%) SLA
3 2 (0.722%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (7.220%) NFS
2 18 (6.498%) Gluster
3 15 (5.415%) Samba
4 13 (4.693%) VMware ESX
4 13 (4.693%) vSphere
5 12 (4.332%) VirtualBox
6 9 (3.249%) Sendmail
7 8 (2.888%) Squid
8 7 (2.527%) Xen
8 7 (2.527%) Postfix
9 2 (0.722%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 74 (26.71%) Puppet
2 33 (11.91%) Nagios
3 25 (9.025%) ZABBIX
4 15 (5.415%) Ganglia
5 13 (4.693%) NetBackup
6 11 (3.971%) Cacti
6 11 (3.971%) YUM
6 11 (3.971%) Cobbler
7 2 (0.722%) OpenView
8 1 (0.361%) Plesk
Vendors
1 68 (24.55%) Red Hat
2 43 (15.52%) Zend
3 34 (12.27%) VMware
4 32 (11.55%) Cisco
5 21 (7.581%) Juniper
5 21 (7.581%) Google
6 17 (6.137%) Oracle
7 11 (3.971%) Sybase
7 11 (3.971%) Dell
8 10 (3.610%) Microsoft
9 5 (1.805%) JBoss
10 4 (1.444%) NetApp
10 4 (1.444%) Apple
10 4 (1.444%) Akamai
10 4 (1.444%) Rackspace
11 3 (1.083%) Percona
12 2 (0.722%) Twitter
12 2 (0.722%) RightScale
12 2 (0.722%) Sony
12 2 (0.722%) Toshiba
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Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum +bens+bonus
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
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Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
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Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + bonus, medical insurance, pension
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Exc Bens
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Salary: £57000 per annum + Competitive Benefits
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Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + (dependant on experience) + Benefits
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London
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Salary: £75000 - £80001 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
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Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum
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