The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Specialist role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Virtualisation Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Specialist
Rank 843 889 821
Rank change year-on-year
+46 -68
Permanent jobs requiring a Virtualisation Specialist 16 7 68
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.014% 0.006% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.006% 0.056%
Number of salaries quoted 15 7 66
Average salary £42,500 £49,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.26% +22.50%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £49,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-18.36% +22.50%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104260 112424 121400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.39% 94.97% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86734 96496 103078
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Virtualisation Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Virtualisation Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Specialist
Salary Trend

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

Virtualisation Specialist Salary Trend

Virtualisation Specialist
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Virtualisation Specialist Salary Histogram

Virtualisation Specialist
Top 26 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +19 13 £40,000 -18.36% 5
London +19 3 £59,500 +20.81% 4
South East +15 3 £40,000 -5.88%
Southampton - 3 £40,000 -
Hampshire - 3 £40,000 -
Midlands - 3 £50,000 -
Gloucestershire - 2 £43,750 - 1
South Wales - 2 £52,500 -
South West - 2 £43,750 - 1
Wales - 2 £52,500 -
West Midlands - 2 £40,000 -
Birmingham - 2 £47,500 -
Cardiff - 2 £52,500 -
Cheltenham - 2 £43,750 - 1
City of London +6 1 - - 3
Channel Islands - 1 £45,000 -
Coventry - 1 £40,000 -
Jersey - 1 £45,000 -
Leamington Spa - 1 £40,000 -
Bromley - 1 £49,000 -
Bromsgrove - 1 £40,000 -
Solihull - 1 £40,000 -
Warwickshire - 1 £40,000 -
Worcestershire - 1 £40,000 -
Wolverhampton - 1 £40,000 -
Worcester - 1 £40,000 -

Virtualisation Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Specialist in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Specialist in their job title.

1 23 (69.70%) VMware
1 23 (69.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (60.61%) Citrix
3 17 (51.52%) XenDesktop
4 16 (48.48%) SAN
5 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
5 14 (42.42%) Hyper-V
6 12 (36.36%) XenApp
6 12 (36.36%) MCITP
6 12 (36.36%) MCSE
6 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (33.33%) Solaris
7 11 (33.33%) EMC
8 10 (30.30%) CCA
8 10 (30.30%) Citrix Certification
8 10 (30.30%) UNIX
8 10 (30.30%) Microsoft App-V
9 9 (27.27%) SCCM
9 9 (27.27%) SCVMM
9 9 (27.27%) SAP Business One
9 9 (27.27%) CCEE
9 9 (27.27%) CCAA
9 9 (27.27%) CCIA
9 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
9 9 (27.27%) SAP
9 9 (27.27%) SharePoint
9 9 (27.27%) OpenVMS
9 9 (27.27%) CCEA
10 8 (24.24%) Cisco
10 8 (24.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

Virtualisation Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Specialist in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 9 (27.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (6.061%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (6.061%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (3.030%) CloudStack
3 1 (3.030%) Apache
3 1 (3.030%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (27.27%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 16 (48.48%) SAN
2 7 (21.21%) NAS
3 4 (12.12%) Firewall
4 2 (6.061%) TCP/IP
4 2 (6.061%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.030%) NetScaler
5 1 (3.030%) FWSM
5 1 (3.030%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (3.030%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.030%) BIG-IP
5 1 (3.030%) LAN
5 1 (3.030%) WAN
5 1 (3.030%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.030%) MySQL
General
1 3 (9.091%) Finance
1 3 (9.091%) Advertising
2 1 (3.030%) Banking
2 1 (3.030%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (3.030%) Open Source
2 1 (3.030%) iPad
2 1 (3.030%) CLARiiON
2 1 (3.030%) Clustering
2 1 (3.030%) Replication
2 1 (3.030%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 11 (33.33%) Solaris
2 10 (30.30%) UNIX
3 9 (27.27%) OpenVMS
4 7 (21.21%) Windows
5 4 (12.12%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (9.091%) Linux
7 2 (6.061%) SUSE
8 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (27.27%) Service Delivery
2 1 (3.030%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (3.030%) Business Development
2 1 (3.030%) Load Balancing
2 1 (3.030%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.061%) PowerHouse
2 1 (3.030%) Shell Script
2 1 (3.030%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (36.36%) MCITP
1 12 (36.36%) MCSE
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (30.30%) CCA
2 10 (30.30%) Citrix Certification
3 9 (27.27%) CCEE
3 9 (27.27%) CCAA
3 9 (27.27%) CCIA
3 9 (27.27%) CCEA
4 8 (24.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.061%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (6.061%) NCDA
5 2 (6.061%) NCIE
5 2 (6.061%) MCTS
5 2 (6.061%) VCAP
6 1 (3.030%) VCP5
6 1 (3.030%) Degree
6 1 (3.030%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.030%) Security Cleared
6 1 (3.030%) VCP4
System Software
1 23 (69.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (51.52%) XenDesktop
3 14 (42.42%) Hyper-V
4 12 (36.36%) XenApp
5 10 (30.30%) Microsoft App-V
6 7 (21.21%) vSphere
7 4 (12.12%) VMware ESX
8 2 (6.061%) Active Directory
8 2 (6.061%) vCloud
9 1 (3.030%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 9 (27.27%) SCCM
1 9 (27.27%) SCVMM
2 3 (9.091%) ARCserve
3 2 (6.061%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (3.030%) Zenoss
4 1 (3.030%) Nagios
Vendors
1 23 (69.70%) VMware
2 20 (60.61%) Citrix
3 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
4 11 (33.33%) EMC
5 9 (27.27%) SAP
6 8 (24.24%) Cisco
7 5 (15.15%) NetApp
8 3 (9.091%) Red Hat
9 2 (6.061%) Veritas
9 2 (6.061%) HP
9 2 (6.061%) Symantec
9 2 (6.061%) McAfee
9 2 (6.061%) Veeam
9 2 (6.061%) Capita
9 2 (6.061%) Brocade
10 1 (3.030%) F5
10 1 (3.030%) FalconStor
10 1 (3.030%) AppSense
10 1 (3.030%) Apple
10 1 (3.030%) CheckPoint
City, London
Experienced Unix Engineer with expertise around Virtualisation is required by leading Technology Services company located in London. The successful Unix Engineer will predominantly be responsible for contributing to...
Incisive Ltd
Salary: £65000 - £80000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
My client a market leading organisation is currently in the market for a virtualisation specialist looking to move into the Flexpod arena. The ideal candidate with have solid...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
City of London
Active DV Clearance... Expert level knowledge of VMware ESXi and Mircosoft Hyper-V. VMware Certified Professional (Qualification) Proven experience of configuring virtual switches and data stores... Knowledge of...
Salary: £300 - £400 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
London, South East
CIL is committed to equal opportunity and is an REC "Diversity Pledged Recruiter". If you do not hear from us within 7 days then unfortunately your application has...
Church International
Salary: £60,000 - £80,000 per year
Posted: 12 June 2013