The first table below looks at the demand for VCP4 in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VCP4 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4)
Rank 806 853 858
Rank change year-on-year
+47 +5
Permanent jobs citing VCP4 52 43 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.048% 0.036% 0.011%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.175% 0.128% 0.040%
Number of salaries quoted 47 39 11
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% -18.18%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-5.88% -
All Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
29773 33643 32244
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 27.62% 27.82% 26.12%
Number of salaries quoted 23976 28605 26864
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £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%

VCP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VCP4 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

VCP4 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP4
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VCP4 within the UK.

VCP4 Salary Trend

VCP4
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VCP4 over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

VCP4 Salary Histogram

VCP4
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VCP4 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 +36 45 £45,000 -
London +30 17 £47,500 -9.52%
South East +12 8 £43,750 +9.37%
City of London +2 6 £47,000 -10.47%
Scotland +2 6 £35,500 -8.97%
West Midlands -18 6 £35,500 +4.41%
Glasgow - 6 £35,500 -
East of England -6 4 £59,000 +31.11%
Solihull -11 4 £35,500 -
Berkshire - 4 £47,500 -
Yorkshire - 4 £40,000 -
South West +7 3 £24,000 -40.00%
East Midlands +4 3 £47,500 +18.75%
Hampshire - 3 £22,500 -
Dorset - 3 £24,000 -
Nottinghamshire +1 2 £50,000 +25.00%
Nottingham +1 2 £50,000 +25.00%
Bedfordshire -22 2 £59,000 +31.11%
Bournemouth - 2 £24,000 -
Reading - 2 £53,750 -
Buckinghamshire -6 1 £60,000 +50.00%
Luton -8 1 £59,000 +31.11%
Milton Keynes -11 1 £60,000 +50.00%
Birmingham -27 1 £42,500 +30.76%
Surrey - 1 £39,000 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £60,000 -
North Yorkshire - 1 £47,500 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Hertfordshire - 1 £60,000 -
Cheshire - 1 - -

VCP4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VCP4 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 VCP4.

1 89 (97.80%) VMware
1 89 (97.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 82 (90.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 63 (69.23%) Windows
4 51 (56.04%) Microsoft
5 44 (48.35%) SAN
6 43 (47.25%) Active Directory
6 43 (47.25%) VCP5
7 42 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
7 42 (46.15%) Cisco
8 38 (41.76%) vSphere
9 36 (39.56%) Windows Server 2003
10 33 (36.26%) Citrix
10 33 (36.26%) Hyper-V
11 28 (30.77%) TCP/IP
12 26 (28.57%) HP
13 25 (27.47%) DNS
13 25 (27.47%) MS Excel
13 25 (27.47%) MCITP
14 24 (26.37%) Microsoft Certification
15 23 (25.27%) EMC
16 20 (21.98%) VMware ESX
17 18 (19.78%) Linux
17 18 (19.78%) MCSE
18 17 (18.68%) MS Exchange
18 17 (18.68%) DHCP
18 17 (18.68%) CCA
18 17 (18.68%) Citrix Certification
19 16 (17.58%) Terminal Services
19 16 (17.58%) iSCSI

VCP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing VCP4 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 VCP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (3.297%) LAMP
2 1 (1.099%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 17 (18.68%) MS Exchange
2 16 (17.58%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (9.890%) Exchange Server 2003
4 7 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
4 7 (7.692%) IIS
5 6 (6.593%) SharePoint
6 2 (2.198%) Apache
7 1 (1.099%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 1 (1.099%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 25 (27.47%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.297%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.099%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 44 (48.35%) SAN
2 28 (30.77%) TCP/IP
3 25 (27.47%) DNS
4 17 (18.68%) DHCP
5 16 (17.58%) iSCSI
6 12 (13.19%) LAN
7 11 (12.09%) LDAP
8 10 (10.99%) NAS
8 10 (10.99%) Firewall
9 9 (9.890%) Fibre Channel
10 8 (8.791%) SSL
10 8 (8.791%) SMTP
10 8 (8.791%) FTP
10 8 (8.791%) HTTP
11 7 (7.692%) WAN
12 6 (6.593%) Network Security
13 3 (3.297%) VLAN
13 3 (3.297%) VPN
14 2 (2.198%) DMZ
14 2 (2.198%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.791%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.495%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (4.396%) MySQL
General
1 5 (5.495%) Advertising
1 5 (5.495%) Finance
2 1 (1.099%) Manufacturing
2 1 (1.099%) Banking
2 1 (1.099%) Retail
2 1 (1.099%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 25 (27.47%) Consultant
2 16 (17.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 15 (16.48%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 11 (12.09%) Administrator
5 7 (7.692%) Support Engineer
5 7 (7.692%) Architect
5 7 (7.692%) Analyst
6 6 (6.593%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (6.593%) 3rd Line Support
6 6 (6.593%) Technical Consultant
6 6 (6.593%) Storage Administrator
6 6 (6.593%) VMware Engineer
7 5 (5.495%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 5 (5.495%) Systems Engineer
7 5 (5.495%) Technical Architect
8 4 (4.396%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 4 (4.396%) Technical Analyst
8 4 (4.396%) Implementation Consultant
8 4 (4.396%) Solutions Consultant
8 4 (4.396%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.495%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (3.297%) CLARiiON
2 3 (3.297%) Celerra
2 3 (3.297%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (3.297%) SaaS
3 2 (2.198%) Open Source
3 2 (2.198%) Computer Science
4 1 (1.099%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.099%) Symmetrix
4 1 (1.099%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 63 (69.23%) Windows
2 42 (46.15%) Windows Server 2008
3 36 (39.56%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (19.78%) Linux
5 5 (5.495%) UNIX
6 4 (4.396%) Windows 2000
6 4 (4.396%) Solaris
6 4 (4.396%) Windows 7
7 3 (3.297%) SUSE
8 2 (2.198%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.099%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (14.29%) ITIL
2 9 (9.890%) Validation
3 7 (7.692%) Project Management
3 7 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (5.495%) OpenUP
4 5 (5.495%) Service Delivery
5 4 (4.396%) BCP
5 4 (4.396%) Business Continuity
6 3 (3.297%) CRM
7 2 (2.198%) Change Management
7 2 (2.198%) Supplier Management
8 1 (1.099%) Risk Assessment
8 1 (1.099%) TOGAF
8 1 (1.099%) High Availability
8 1 (1.099%) Migration
8 1 (1.099%) SOA
8 1 (1.099%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (16.48%) SQL
2 5 (5.495%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.396%) VB
4 2 (2.198%) PHP
5 1 (1.099%) Python
Qualifications
1 89 (97.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 43 (47.25%) VCP5
3 25 (27.47%) MCITP
4 24 (26.37%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (19.78%) MCSE
6 17 (18.68%) CCA
6 17 (18.68%) Citrix Certification
7 11 (12.09%) MCTS
8 7 (7.692%) Security Cleared
9 6 (6.593%) VCAP
10 5 (5.495%) HP AIS
10 5 (5.495%) HP ASE
10 5 (5.495%) HP MASE
10 5 (5.495%) EMC Certification
10 5 (5.495%) Cisco Certification
10 5 (5.495%) MCSA
11 4 (4.396%) NCDA
11 4 (4.396%) NCIE
11 4 (4.396%) SC Cleared
12 3 (3.297%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (12.09%) SLA
2 2 (2.198%) BS7799
System Software
1 82 (90.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 43 (47.25%) Active Directory
3 38 (41.76%) vSphere
4 33 (36.26%) Hyper-V
5 20 (21.98%) VMware ESX
6 16 (17.58%) XenApp
6 16 (17.58%) XenServer
6 16 (17.58%) XenDesktop
6 16 (17.58%) Terminal Services
6 16 (17.58%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
7 7 (7.692%) Xen
8 2 (2.198%) VMFS
9 1 (1.099%) vCloud
9 1 (1.099%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 8 (8.791%) SCOM
2 7 (7.692%) HP SIM
3 6 (6.593%) NetBackup
4 5 (5.495%) ARCserve
5 4 (4.396%) SCVMM
6 2 (2.198%) SCCM
6 2 (2.198%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.099%) WSUS
7 1 (1.099%) Norton AntiVirus
7 1 (1.099%) MOM
7 1 (1.099%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 89 (97.80%) VMware
2 51 (56.04%) Microsoft
3 42 (46.15%) Cisco
4 33 (36.26%) Citrix
5 26 (28.57%) HP
6 23 (25.27%) EMC
7 14 (15.38%) NetApp
8 13 (14.29%) AppSense
9 12 (13.19%) PlateSpin
10 11 (12.09%) CommVault
11 9 (9.890%) Novell
11 9 (9.890%) Vizioncore
12 8 (8.791%) Wyse
13 7 (7.692%) Dell
14 5 (5.495%) IBM
15 4 (4.396%) Symantec
16 3 (3.297%) McAfee
16 3 (3.297%) Hitachi
17 2 (2.198%) Veritas
17 2 (2.198%) Red Hat
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Key Skills required for this role are VMware Virtualisation, ideally VCP5 or VCP4, Citrix Application and citrix Virtualisation ideally CCA and Microsoft HyperV, ideally MCTSor MCITP... Microsoft Active...
Net Talent
Posted: 15 May 2013
Jersey, Channel Isles
Virtualization Consultant/ VMWare Engineer/ VMWare Consultant... - Additional knowledge of storage solutions such as HP-SAN and/or NetApp highly desirable. - Additional professional certification from the likes of NetApp,...
Randstad Technologies
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Bens + Bonus + On-call + Pension
Posted: 16 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
This will include IT infrastructure support both remotely and on-site, as well as that you will be responsible for design and delivery of small to large scale...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum + Benfits
Posted: 2 May 2013
City, London
Technical skills and qualification: VMware VCP 4. Citrix CCA - XenApp / XenDesktop / XenServer. Strong understanding of administering Windows 2003 & 2008 server operating systems. Strong understanding of Microsoft Terminal Services (...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
UK
Essential: VMware VCP 4. Citrix CCA - XenApp / XenDesktop / XenServer. Strong understanding of administering Windows 2003 & 2008 server operating systems. Strong understanding of Microsoft Terminal Services (2003 & 2008) & Citrix...
TurnerFox Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum = £5,000 commission, Car, Health Car
Posted: 13 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
Netbackup, ARCServe, Commvault) Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V) A VCP4/5 certification would be desirable; you would also be required on occasion to travel as per...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands
Netbackup, ARCServe, Commvault) Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V) A VCP4/5 certification would be desirable; you would also be required on occasion to travel as per...
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
Netbackup, ARCServe, Commvault) Virtualisation technologies (e.g. VMware, Hyper-V) A VCP4/5 certification would be desirable; you would also be required on occasion to travel as per...
QUANTICA
Salary: £32000 - £39000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013