The first table below looks at the demand for VCAP in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VCAP over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Advanced Professional (VCAP, VCAP4)
Rank 822 861 862
Rank change year-on-year
+39 +1
Permanent jobs citing VCAP 40 38 19
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.031% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.134% 0.113% 0.058%
Number of salaries quoted 31 32 8
Average salary £50,000 £51,250 £61,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.43% -16.32%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £34,250 £30,300
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £66,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £52,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year
-4.76% +25.00%
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29882 33504 32557
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.65% 27.76% 26.17%
Number of salaries quoted 24050 28534 27195
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%

VCAP
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VCAP Jobs Demand Trend

VCAP
Salary Trend

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

VCAP Salary Trend

VCAP
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VCAP over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 within the UK.

VCAP Salary Histogram

VCAP
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCAP within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +27 37 £50,000 -4.76%
London +52 10 £50,000 +4.16%
Yorkshire +11 10 £55,000 +22.22%
West Yorkshire +5 10 £55,000 +12.82%
Leeds -6 10 £55,000 +12.82%
Birmingham -10 10 £47,500 -19.14%
West Midlands -11 10 £46,250 -21.27%
Sheffield - 9 £55,000 -
South Yorkshire - 9 £55,000 -
York +7 6 £55,000 +22.22%
North West +6 6 £37,500 -
North Yorkshire +1 6 £55,000 +22.22%
Bradford - 6 £55,000 -
Wakefield - 6 £55,000 -
East of England - 6 £40,000 -
Reading +2 5 £46,250 -35.08%
Berkshire +2 5 £45,000 -21.73%
South East -2 5 £45,000 -18.18%
Manchester -16 5 £37,500 +25.00%
Doncaster - 5 £55,000 -
Dewsbury - 5 £55,000 -
Slough - 4 £46,250 -
East Midlands -1 3 £45,000 -14.28%
Nottinghamshire -3 3 £45,000 -14.28%
Nottingham -4 3 £45,000 -14.28%
Newbury - 3 £45,000 -
Leicester - 3 £45,000 -
Oxford - 3 £45,000 -
Basingstoke - 3 £45,000 -
Derby - 3 £45,000 -

VCAP
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VCAP 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 VCAP.

1 80 (100.00%) VMware
2 71 (88.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 65 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 52 (65.00%) Citrix
4 52 (65.00%) Cisco
5 38 (47.50%) Microsoft
6 37 (46.25%) vSphere
7 34 (42.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 33 (41.25%) Citrix Certification
9 32 (40.00%) VCDX
10 29 (36.25%) XenServer
11 25 (31.25%) XenApp
11 25 (31.25%) EMC
11 25 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (31.25%) MCSE
12 23 (28.75%) NetApp
12 23 (28.75%) ITIL
12 23 (28.75%) CCNP
12 23 (28.75%) Hyper-V
12 23 (28.75%) CCEE
13 22 (27.50%) XenDesktop
14 21 (26.25%) Windows
15 19 (23.75%) HP
16 17 (21.25%) SAN
16 17 (21.25%) MCITP
16 17 (21.25%) CCIA
17 16 (20.00%) CCA
18 15 (18.75%) Firewall
18 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
18 15 (18.75%) Unified Communications

VCAP
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VCAP 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 VCAP. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.500%) IIS
2 3 (3.750%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.750%) MS Exchange
3 2 (2.500%) Lync
Applications
1 14 (17.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (21.25%) SAN
2 15 (18.75%) Firewall
2 15 (18.75%) Unified Communications
3 14 (17.50%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (16.25%) VoIP
5 12 (15.00%) LAN
5 12 (15.00%) WAN
5 12 (15.00%) Cisco PIX
5 12 (15.00%) Network Security
6 10 (12.50%) FWSM
6 10 (12.50%) WLAN
6 10 (12.50%) Wireless
7 6 (7.500%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (6.250%) VPN
8 5 (6.250%) MPLS
9 4 (5.000%) NetScaler
10 3 (3.750%) SMTP
10 3 (3.750%) DNS
10 3 (3.750%) SSL
10 3 (3.750%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.000%) MySQL
1 4 (5.000%) Data Mining
General
1 10 (12.50%) Advertising
2 5 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 40 (50.00%) Consultant
2 24 (30.00%) Architect
3 14 (17.50%) Technical Architect
4 11 (13.75%) VMware Consultant
5 10 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 9 (11.25%) Virtualisation Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
7 8 (10.00%) Technical Consultant
7 8 (10.00%) Network Consultant
8 6 (7.500%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (5.000%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
9 4 (5.000%) VMware Architect
10 3 (3.750%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.750%) Virtualisation Engineer
10 3 (3.750%) Pre Sales Consultant
10 3 (3.750%) Technical Design Consultant
10 3 (3.750%) VMware Engineer
10 3 (3.750%) VMware Technical Consultant
11 2 (2.500%) Cisco Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.750%) Clustering
2 6 (7.500%) SaaS
3 3 (3.750%) Celerra
3 3 (3.750%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.250%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 21 (26.25%) Windows
2 6 (7.500%) Windows Server 2008
2 6 (7.500%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (5.000%) CentOS
3 4 (5.000%) Linux
4 3 (3.750%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (1.250%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (28.75%) ITIL
2 12 (15.00%) Network Design
3 10 (12.50%) Network Management
4 6 (7.500%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (2.500%) Supplier Management
5 2 (2.500%) Business Continuity
5 2 (2.500%) Operations Management
6 1 (1.250%) Service Delivery
6 1 (1.250%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (1.250%) High Availability
6 1 (1.250%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 71 (88.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 34 (42.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 33 (41.25%) Citrix Certification
4 32 (40.00%) VCDX
5 25 (31.25%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (31.25%) MCSE
6 23 (28.75%) CCNP
6 23 (28.75%) CCEE
7 17 (21.25%) MCITP
7 17 (21.25%) CCIA
8 16 (20.00%) CCA
9 14 (17.50%) CCDA
9 14 (17.50%) CCIE
10 13 (16.25%) CCDP
10 13 (16.25%) NCDA
10 13 (16.25%) NCIE
11 12 (15.00%) VCP5
11 12 (15.00%) CCIP
11 12 (15.00%) CCDE
11 12 (15.00%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (15.00%) ISO 9000
1 12 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (81.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (46.25%) vSphere
3 29 (36.25%) XenServer
4 25 (31.25%) XenApp
5 23 (28.75%) Hyper-V
6 22 (27.50%) XenDesktop
7 15 (18.75%) Active Directory
8 13 (16.25%) VMware ESX
9 4 (5.000%) vCloud
10 3 (3.750%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) CiscoWorks
2 2 (2.500%) SCCM
2 2 (2.500%) SCOM
3 1 (1.250%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 80 (100.00%) VMware
2 52 (65.00%) Citrix
2 52 (65.00%) Cisco
3 38 (47.50%) Microsoft
4 25 (31.25%) EMC
5 23 (28.75%) NetApp
6 19 (23.75%) HP
7 14 (17.50%) CheckPoint
8 12 (15.00%) PlateSpin
9 11 (13.75%) Dell
10 8 (10.00%) Novell
11 6 (7.500%) DataCore
11 6 (7.500%) FalconStor
11 6 (7.500%) Blue Coat
11 6 (7.500%) Red Hat
11 6 (7.500%) Juniper
12 5 (6.250%) Twitter
13 3 (3.750%) Computacenter
14 2 (2.500%) F5
14 2 (2.500%) Huawei
London
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Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum + bonus + car + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West London
ROLE DIMENSIONS Taking escalations from the L1 and L2s... Advanced understanding of operating systems ( Linux, or windows)... MCSE/MCSA/RHCE/RHCSA essential. VCAP4-DCA or equivalent experience required.
Rackspace
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 13 May 2013