The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications currently tracked.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank349372400
Rank change year-on-year
Up+23Up+28
Matching permanent IT job ads793677413
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.658 %0.552 %0.433 %
As % of the Qualifications category2.369 %2.106 %1.786 %
Number of salaries quoted704500302
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£32,300£32,500£35,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£57,500
UK excluding London average salary£44,000£42,500£45,000
% change year-on-year
+3.52 %-5.55 %
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryAll Qualifications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
334753214123123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK27.76 %26.21 %24.22 %
Number of salaries quoted284762683119147
Average salary£42,500£41,000£41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65 %-1.20 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£27,500£26,000£25,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£65,000£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£38,500£38,000
% change year-on-year
+3.89 %+1.31 %

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Demand Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Salary Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Salary Histogram

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandUp+9732£45,000-
LondonUp+29282£48,000+1.05 %
South EastDown-35223£42,500-9.57 %
City of LondonUp+4993£52,500-8.69 %
SurreyUp+362£43,000+3.61 %
North WestDown-954£41,000+9.33 %
BerkshireDown-2649£42,500-19.04 %
West MidlandsDown-642£50,000+53.84 %
East MidlandsUp+837£36,000+10.76 %
East of EnglandUp+2035£45,000+24.13 %
HampshireUp+1332£42,500+13.33 %
MidlandsUp+931£60,000-1.63 %
YorkshireUp+528£47,500+72.72 %
ScotlandUp+3326£45,000+38.46 %
BirminghamUp+525£50,000+38.88 %
West YorkshireUp+623£48,750+77.27 %
ManchesterUp+423£40,000+6.66 %
SouthamptonDown-1222£42,500+23.18 %
NottinghamshireUp+2821£35,000-9.67 %
NottinghamUp+2221£35,000-9.67 %
StainesUp+1721£46,500+12.04 %
BedfordshireUp+921£45,000-28.00 %
ReadingDown-921£52,500-25.00 %
South WalesNew entry-20£42,500-
WalesNew entry-20£42,500-
LeedsDown-217£50,000+81.81 %
CheshireDown-1317£28,500-18.57 %
MerseysideNew entry-16£45,750-
LutonNew entry-15£45,000-
EdinburghUp+2413£60,000+84.61 %

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

11627 (100.00 %)VMware
21160 (71.30 %)VMware Infrastructure
31031 (63.37 %)Windows
4803 (49.35 %)Microsoft
5792 (48.68 %)Citrix
6723 (44.44 %)vSphere
7677 (41.61 %)Microsoft Certification
8664 (40.81 %)SAN
9580 (35.65 %)MCSE
10578 (35.53 %)Windows Server 2008
11574 (35.28 %)Cisco
12559 (34.36 %)MCITP
13511 (31.41 %)Active Directory
14506 (31.10 %)Citrix Certification
15461 (28.33 %)HP
16458 (28.15 %)MS Exchange
17452 (27.78 %)Windows Server 2003
18437 (26.86 %)CCA
19431 (26.49 %)XenApp
20425 (26.12 %)NetApp
21377 (23.17 %)Cisco Certification
22369 (22.68 %)XenDesktop
23368 (22.62 %)EMC
24348 (21.39 %)VMware ESX
25340 (20.90 %)Hyper-V
26333 (20.47 %)Exchange Server 2007
27316 (19.42 %)Exchange Server 2010
28291 (17.89 %)MS Excel
29266 (16.35 %)XenServer
30247 (15.18 %)SQL Server

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
121 (1.291 %)ASP
215 (0.922 %).NET
37 (0.430 %)Application Packaging
46 (0.369 %)Velocity
55 (0.307 %)LAMP
64 (0.246 %)COM
64 (0.246 %)Java RMI
73 (0.184 %)Middleware
82 (0.123 %)Web Services
82 (0.123 %)ASP.NET
91 (0.061 %)HTML
91 (0.061 %)ODBC
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1458 (28.15 %)MS Exchange
2333 (20.47 %)Exchange Server 2007
3316 (19.42 %)Exchange Server 2010
4171 (10.51 %)SharePoint
5137 (8.420 %)Exchange Server 2003
676 (4.671 %)IIS
772 (4.425 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
838 (2.336 %)Apache
934 (2.090 %)SharePoint 2010
1021 (1.291 %)Lotus Notes
1113 (0.799 %)Exchange Server 2000
1211 (0.676 %)Lync
1211 (0.676 %)Office Communications Server
139 (0.553 %)Site Server
145 (0.307 %)SAS
145 (0.307 %)Lotus Domino
145 (0.307 %)Exchange Server 5.5
154 (0.246 %)SharePoint Server
154 (0.246 %)Office Project Server
154 (0.246 %)Tomcat
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1291 (17.89 %)MS Excel
251 (3.135 %)MS Office
330 (1.844 %)MS Visio
414 (0.860 %)Google Apps
59 (0.553 %)Office 365
59 (0.553 %)MS Project
61 (0.061 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.184 %)Dynamics CRM
22 (0.123 %)SunGard APT
22 (0.123 %)FastVal
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1664 (40.81 %)SAN
2207 (12.72 %)Firewall
3180 (11.06 %)TCP/IP
4171 (10.51 %)DNS
5163 (10.02 %)NAS
6126 (7.744 %)LAN
7117 (7.191 %)DHCP
8114 (7.007 %)NetScaler
9111 (6.822 %)WAN
10101 (6.208 %)VPN
1181 (4.978 %)iSCSI
1279 (4.856 %)Internet
1365 (3.995 %)VLAN
1450 (3.073 %)Wireless
1548 (2.950 %)Fibre Channel
1634 (2.090 %)Network Security
1726 (1.598 %)Cisco Nexus
1824 (1.475 %)DMZ
1916 (0.983 %)WAAS
2014 (0.860 %)Unified Communications
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1247 (15.18 %)SQL Server
277 (4.733 %)SQL Server 2005
367 (4.118 %)SQL Server 2008
431 (1.905 %)MySQL
58 (0.492 %)SQL Server 2000
64 (0.246 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
72 (0.123 %)Oracle 11g
72 (0.123 %)RDBMS
72 (0.123 %)Oracle 10g
72 (0.123 %)Informix
81 (0.061 %)Oracle Reports
81 (0.061 %)Oracle 8/8i
81 (0.061 %)Oracle 9i
81 (0.061 %)MS Access
81 (0.061 %)MSDE
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
11 (0.061 %)Ant
11 (0.061 %)MSI
11 (0.061 %)InstallShield
11 (0.061 %)Team Foundation Server
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1144 (8.851 %)Finance
224 (1.475 %)Banking
322 (1.352 %)Advertising
418 (1.106 %)Telecoms
516 (0.983 %)Marketing
613 (0.799 %)Retail
613 (0.799 %)Law
711 (0.676 %)Back Office
88 (0.492 %)Legal
94 (0.246 %)Billing
94 (0.246 %)Online Betting
103 (0.184 %)Investment Banking
112 (0.123 %)Financial Institution
121 (0.061 %)Pharmaceutical
121 (0.061 %)Publishing
121 (0.061 %)Games
121 (0.061 %)Local Government
121 (0.061 %)Music
121 (0.061 %)Music Industry
121 (0.061 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1669 (41.12 %)Consultant
2231 (14.20 %)Virtualisation Consultant
3169 (10.39 %)Technical Consultant
4138 (8.482 %)Architect
5134 (8.236 %)Support Engineer
6123 (7.560 %)Infrastructure Engineer
7108 (6.638 %)Analyst
8107 (6.577 %)Senior Consultant
9100 (6.146 %)Storage Consultant
1092 (5.655 %)VMware Consultant
1186 (5.286 %)VMware Engineer
1284 (5.163 %)3rd Line Support
1377 (4.733 %)Citrix Consultant
1377 (4.733 %)Infrastructure Consultant
1474 (4.548 %)Pre Sales Consultant
1566 (4.057 %)Systems Engineer
1654 (3.319 %)Administrator
1747 (2.889 %)Server Engineer
1846 (2.827 %)Wintel Engineer
1945 (2.766 %)Technical Architect
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1146 (8.974 %)CLARiiON
2128 (7.867 %)Clustering
369 (4.241 %)EqualLogic
460 (3.688 %)Celerra
460 (3.688 %)Blackberry
559 (3.626 %)Cloud Computing
649 (3.012 %)Replication
735 (2.151 %)HP StorageWorks
825 (1.537 %)Symmetrix DMX
920 (1.229 %)Enterprise Storage
1019 (1.168 %)Fat Client
1019 (1.168 %)Thin Client
1118 (1.106 %)Symmetrix
1213 (0.799 %)Wiki
1310 (0.615 %)Management Information System
1310 (0.615 %)SaaS
148 (0.492 %)Client/Server
157 (0.430 %)Biometrics
157 (0.430 %)Computer Science
166 (0.369 %)Eucalyptus
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11031 (63.37 %)Windows
2578 (35.53 %)Windows Server 2008
3452 (27.78 %)Windows Server 2003
4229 (14.07 %)Linux
599 (6.085 %)Windows XP
682 (5.040 %)UNIX
775 (4.610 %)Windows Vista
775 (4.610 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
861 (3.749 %)Windows 7
938 (2.336 %)Solaris
1032 (1.967 %)Windows 2000
1130 (1.844 %)Windows 2000 Server
1217 (1.045 %)HPUX
1316 (0.983 %)AIX
148 (0.492 %)Windows NT
156 (0.369 %)Debian
165 (0.307 %)zOS
173 (0.184 %)CentOS
182 (0.123 %)OpenVMS
191 (0.061 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1217 (13.34 %)ITIL
2107 (6.577 %)Service Delivery
369 (4.241 %)Project Management
466 (4.057 %)Migration
564 (3.934 %)Disaster Recovery
656 (3.442 %)Capacity Planning
747 (2.889 %)Project Planning
843 (2.643 %)Change Management
942 (2.581 %)Problem Management
1040 (2.459 %)Load Balancing
1135 (2.151 %)PRINCE2
1228 (1.721 %)Network Management
1326 (1.598 %)High Availability
1425 (1.537 %)Service Management
1524 (1.475 %)Incident Management
1621 (1.291 %)Change Control
1720 (1.229 %)Technical Architecture
1817 (1.045 %)Business Continuity
1916 (0.983 %)CRM
1916 (0.983 %)E-Commerce
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1181 (11.12 %)SQL
241 (2.520 %)Perl
336 (2.213 %)PowerShell
422 (1.352 %)VB
520 (1.229 %)VBScript
619 (1.168 %)C
712 (0.738 %)PHP
811 (0.676 %)Shell Script
910 (0.615 %)Python
105 (0.307 %)Bash shell
112 (0.123 %)Ruby
121 (0.061 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1677 (41.61 %)Microsoft Certification
2580 (35.65 %)MCSE
3559 (34.36 %)MCITP
4506 (31.10 %)Citrix Certification
5437 (26.86 %)CCA
6377 (23.17 %)Cisco Certification
7245 (15.06 %)CCNA
8204 (12.54 %)NCIE
9187 (11.49 %)NCDA
10173 (10.63 %)CCEE
11172 (10.57 %)MCTS
12170 (10.45 %)MCP
13146 (8.974 %)CCIA
14143 (8.789 %)VCAP
15140 (8.605 %)MCSA
16138 (8.482 %)CCEA
17107 (6.577 %)HP ASE
1899 (6.085 %)VCP4
1994 (5.778 %)VCP5
2092 (5.655 %)HP AIS
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
132 (1.967 %)SLA
27 (0.430 %)QA
31 (0.061 %)ISO 9000
31 (0.061 %)ISO/IEC 27001
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11160 (71.30 %)VMware Infrastructure
2723 (44.44 %)vSphere
3511 (31.41 %)Active Directory
4431 (26.49 %)XenApp
5369 (22.68 %)XenDesktop
6348 (21.39 %)VMware ESX
7340 (20.90 %)Hyper-V
8266 (16.35 %)XenServer
9195 (11.99 %)VMware ESXi
10121 (7.437 %)vCloud
1146 (2.827 %)Terminal Services
1233 (2.028 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1329 (1.782 %)VMware Server
1428 (1.721 %)Xen
1524 (1.475 %)NFS
1615 (0.922 %)EMC RecoverPoint
1713 (0.799 %)ISA Server
1812 (0.738 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1911 (0.676 %)Squid
2010 (0.615 %)MetaFrame
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1184 (11.31 %)vCenter
265 (3.995 %)SCCM
345 (2.766 %)Backup Exec
438 (2.336 %)SCOM
537 (2.274 %)NetBackup
629 (1.782 %)SCVMM
728 (1.721 %)Nagios
819 (1.168 %)HP SIM
917 (1.045 %)EMC NetWorker
1016 (0.983 %)Norton AntiVirus
1115 (0.922 %)ARCserve
1115 (0.922 %)SolarWinds Orion
1213 (0.799 %)WSUS
1311 (0.676 %)Cacti
1410 (0.615 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1410 (0.615 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
157 (0.430 %)MOM
157 (0.430 %)MIMEsweeper
166 (0.369 %)Legato
175 (0.307 %)Tivoli
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11627 (100.00 %)VMware
2803 (49.35 %)Microsoft
3792 (48.68 %)Citrix
4574 (35.28 %)Cisco
5461 (28.33 %)HP
6425 (26.12 %)NetApp
7368 (22.62 %)EMC
8151 (9.281 %)Dell
9113 (6.945 %)IBM
1086 (5.286 %)Red Hat
1179 (4.856 %)3PAR
1277 (4.733 %)AppSense
1375 (4.610 %)Symantec
1461 (3.749 %)Veeam
1551 (3.135 %)Brocade
1648 (2.950 %)Oracle
1734 (2.090 %)PlateSpin
1831 (1.905 %)Altiris
1930 (1.844 %)Veritas
2028 (1.721 %)DataCore