The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Infrastructure 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 of the System Software category.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank8088129
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+41
Matching permanent IT job ads374632811739
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK3.106 %2.676 %1.821 %
As % of the System Software category35.93 %35.53 %26.44 %
Number of salaries quoted325326981333
Average salary£42,500£42,500£42,500
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£26,395
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£61,250£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000
IT Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1042592356578
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK8.645 %7.532 %6.890 %
Number of salaries quoted898675895345
Average salary£41,000£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.50 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£26,000£25,000£24,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,500£37,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66 %-

VMware Infrastructure
Demand Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK.

VMware Infrastructure Salary Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

VMware Infrastructure Salary Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure 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+73447£42,500-
LondonUp+191534£47,500+6.14 %
South EastDown-15801£40,000-5.88 %
City of LondonUp+60419£50,000+5.26 %
North WestNo change0292£37,500+7.14 %
SurreyDown-9244£42,500+6.25 %
East of EnglandDown-2195£42,500-
YorkshireUp+21163£40,000+23.07 %
West MidlandsDown-6158£40,000-5.88 %
BerkshireDown-33151£42,500-2.85 %
ScotlandUp+49149£37,000-4.51 %
ManchesterUp+8144£35,000+7.69 %
South WestDown-17133£32,500-7.14 %
East MidlandsUp+23116£33,250+0.75 %
West YorkshireUp+7108£40,000+23.07 %
HampshireUp+33107£35,000-3.44 %
LeedsUp+1594£40,000+6.66 %
BirminghamDown-676£40,500-10.00 %
CheshireDown-1471£35,000-
MerseysideUp+2464£42,500+41.66 %
ReadingDown-1658£50,000-20.00 %
CambridgeshireUp+1757£40,000-
BuckinghamshireDown-3256£37,500-16.66 %
OxfordshireUp+2454£35,000-34.88 %
LiverpoolUp+2253£42,500-34.61 %
HertfordshireDown-1653£50,000+11.11 %
WalesUp+3751£35,000+16.66 %
South WalesUp+3548£35,000+16.66 %
CambridgeUp+3245£38,750+3.33 %
NottinghamshireUp+3041£35,000-

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

17403 (100.00 %)VMware
25029 (67.93 %)Windows
33623 (48.94 %)Microsoft
43025 (40.86 %)Citrix
52933 (39.62 %)Active Directory
62630 (35.53 %)Windows Server 2008
72345 (31.68 %)SAN
82184 (29.50 %)Windows Server 2003
92085 (28.16 %)Cisco
102023 (27.33 %)MS Exchange
111686 (22.77 %)Linux
121654 (22.34 %)Microsoft Certification
131598 (21.59 %)Hyper-V
141558 (21.05 %)vSphere
151534 (20.72 %)MS Excel
161507 (20.36 %)HP
171372 (18.53 %)MCSE
181339 (18.09 %)Firewall
191307 (17.66 %)SQL Server
201297 (17.52 %)SQL
211283 (17.33 %)DNS
221224 (16.53 %)ITIL
231166 (15.75 %)Exchange Server 2010
241160 (15.67 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
251117 (15.09 %)NetApp
261083 (14.63 %)TCP/IP
271066 (14.40 %)VMware ESX
281064 (14.37 %)XenApp
291046 (14.13 %)Finance
301026 (13.86 %)Exchange Server 2007

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1259 (3.499 %).NET
2220 (2.972 %)Web Services
3111 (1.499 %)HTML
4108 (1.459 %)XML
5100 (1.351 %)Middleware
693 (1.256 %)WebSphere
792 (1.243 %)Application Packaging
888 (1.189 %)ASP.NET
970 (0.946 %)CSS
1068 (0.919 %)LAMP
1162 (0.837 %)J2EE
1260 (0.810 %).NET Framework
1351 (0.689 %)ASP
1447 (0.635 %)Forefront TMG
1538 (0.513 %)COM
1636 (0.486 %)jQuery
1733 (0.446 %)Ajax
1832 (0.432 %)JSP
1927 (0.365 %)JMS
2025 (0.338 %)Spring
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
12023 (27.33 %)MS Exchange
21166 (15.75 %)Exchange Server 2010
31026 (13.86 %)Exchange Server 2007
4695 (9.388 %)SharePoint
4695 (9.388 %)IIS
5606 (8.186 %)Exchange Server 2003
6507 (6.849 %)Apache
7210 (2.837 %)Tomcat
8205 (2.769 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
9159 (2.148 %)Lync
1086 (1.162 %)Office Communications Server
1185 (1.148 %)Amazon EC2
1281 (1.094 %)SharePoint 2010
1364 (0.865 %)WebLogic
1455 (0.743 %)Exchange Server 2000
1553 (0.716 %)Lotus Notes
1649 (0.662 %)SharePoint Server
1747 (0.635 %)nginx
1832 (0.432 %)Amazon AWS
1926 (0.351 %)BizTalk Server
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
11534 (20.72 %)MS Excel
2528 (7.132 %)MS Office
3247 (3.336 %)MS Visio
451 (0.689 %)Office 365
542 (0.567 %)MS PowerPoint
629 (0.392 %)Google Apps
718 (0.243 %)MS Project
811 (0.149 %)Acrobat
95 (0.068 %)Spreadsheet
103 (0.041 %)PowerPivot
103 (0.041 %)MATLAB
103 (0.041 %)InfoPath
111 (0.014 %)FrameMaker
111 (0.014 %)3ds Max
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
127 (0.365 %)Dynamics CRM
221 (0.284 %)Oracle EBS
319 (0.257 %)SoftGrid
416 (0.216 %)Oracle EBS R12
513 (0.176 %)Summit
612 (0.162 %)Oracle 11i
612 (0.162 %)BASE24
711 (0.149 %)Sage MMS
711 (0.149 %)Line 100
89 (0.122 %)Dynamics NAV
98 (0.108 %)Line 500
107 (0.095 %)SunGard AvantGard
107 (0.095 %)Oracle Financials
116 (0.081 %)Dynamics AX
124 (0.054 %)Oracle ERP
124 (0.054 %)assyst
124 (0.054 %)SAP ERP
133 (0.041 %)Remedy ITSM
133 (0.041 %)Oracle Applications
133 (0.041 %)Oracle HRMS
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
12345 (31.68 %)SAN
21339 (18.09 %)Firewall
31283 (17.33 %)DNS
41083 (14.63 %)TCP/IP
5838 (11.32 %)WAN
6826 (11.16 %)LAN
7812 (10.97 %)DHCP
8613 (8.280 %)NAS
9556 (7.510 %)VPN
10477 (6.443 %)Internet
11338 (4.566 %)iSCSI
12315 (4.255 %)VLAN
13305 (4.120 %)NetScaler
14291 (3.931 %)VoIP
15206 (2.783 %)Wireless
16180 (2.431 %)Fibre Channel
17173 (2.337 %)MPLS
18144 (1.945 %)HTTP
19139 (1.878 %)Network Security
20132 (1.783 %)FTP
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
11307 (17.66 %)SQL Server
2340 (4.593 %)SQL Server 2005
3335 (4.525 %)SQL Server 2008
4324 (4.377 %)MySQL
573 (0.986 %)SQL Server 2000
666 (0.892 %)Oracle 8/8i
759 (0.797 %)DB2
848 (0.648 %)RDBMS
946 (0.621 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1027 (0.365 %)Data Warehouse
1122 (0.297 %)Oracle 10g
1122 (0.297 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1221 (0.284 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1319 (0.257 %)PostgreSQL
1418 (0.243 %)MongoDB
1517 (0.230 %)Crystal Reports
1616 (0.216 %)Informix
1712 (0.162 %)OLAP
1811 (0.149 %)ETL
1910 (0.135 %)Oracle 11g
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
186 (1.162 %)Subversion
248 (0.648 %)Git (software)
341 (0.554 %)Visual Studio
428 (0.378 %)MSI
525 (0.338 %)Eclipse
624 (0.324 %)Team Foundation Server
721 (0.284 %)Selenium
820 (0.270 %)VSS/SourceSafe
919 (0.257 %)Ant
919 (0.257 %)NUnit
1016 (0.216 %)TeamCity
1115 (0.203 %)JIRA
1212 (0.162 %)Hudson
1310 (0.135 %)Eclipse RCP
1310 (0.135 %)JUnit
149 (0.122 %)FitNesse
158 (0.108 %)Maven
158 (0.108 %)TestComplete
166 (0.081 %)NCover
166 (0.081 %)Oracle Forms
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11046 (14.13 %)Finance
2225 (3.039 %)Banking
3199 (2.688 %)Telecoms
4150 (2.026 %)Retail
5110 (1.486 %)Games
6104 (1.405 %)Law
7103 (1.391 %)Marketing
886 (1.162 %)Back Office
983 (1.121 %)Legal
1056 (0.756 %)Advertising
1152 (0.702 %)Investment Banking
1249 (0.662 %)Manufacturing
1337 (0.500 %)German Language
1431 (0.419 %)Italian Language
1431 (0.419 %)French Language
1530 (0.405 %)Spanish Language
1628 (0.378 %)Financial Institution
1727 (0.365 %)Front Office
1823 (0.311 %)International Banking
1922 (0.297 %)Electronics
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11332 (17.99 %)Consultant
2906 (12.24 %)Analyst
3709 (9.577 %)Administrator
4702 (9.483 %)Architect
5617 (8.334 %)Support Engineer
6589 (7.956 %)Systems Administrator
7526 (7.105 %)Infrastructure Engineer
8457 (6.173 %)Support Analyst
9393 (5.309 %)Technical Consultant
10373 (5.038 %)Systems Engineer
11337 (4.552 %)Virtualisation Consultant
12334 (4.512 %)3rd Line Support
13267 (3.607 %)Technical Support
14243 (3.282 %)Infrastructure Analyst
15212 (2.864 %)IT Support
16187 (2.526 %)Citrix Consultant
17181 (2.445 %)Linux Administrator
18176 (2.377 %)Infrastructure Manager
18176 (2.377 %)Network Engineer
19171 (2.310 %)Project Manager
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1541 (7.308 %)Clustering
2327 (4.417 %)Blackberry
3314 (4.242 %)Replication
4271 (3.661 %)CLARiiON
5187 (2.526 %)Cloud Computing
6142 (1.918 %)Computer Science
7118 (1.594 %)Enterprise Storage
8117 (1.580 %)Fat Client
8117 (1.580 %)Thin Client
9102 (1.378 %)SaaS
10101 (1.364 %)EqualLogic
1195 (1.283 %)Management Information System
1291 (1.229 %)Celerra
1389 (1.202 %)Client/Server
1487 (1.175 %)Symmetrix
1584 (1.135 %)Symmetrix DMX
1676 (1.027 %)Open Source
1761 (0.824 %)Hedge funds
1858 (0.783 %)Mathematics
1957 (0.770 %)Online Games
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
15029 (67.93 %)Windows
22630 (35.53 %)Windows Server 2008
32184 (29.50 %)Windows Server 2003
41686 (22.77 %)Linux
5874 (11.81 %)UNIX
6710 (9.591 %)Windows 7
7693 (9.361 %)Windows XP
8431 (5.822 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9410 (5.538 %)Windows Vista
10375 (5.066 %)Solaris
11211 (2.850 %)Windows 2000 Server
12193 (2.607 %)CentOS
13178 (2.404 %)AIX
14117 (1.580 %)Debian
15114 (1.540 %)Ubuntu
1693 (1.256 %)Windows 2000
1748 (0.648 %)Mac OS X
1839 (0.527 %)HPUX
1927 (0.365 %)Mac OS
2025 (0.338 %)Windows Mobile
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
11224 (16.53 %)ITIL
2552 (7.456 %)Disaster Recovery
3434 (5.862 %)Project Management
4415 (5.606 %)Migration
5402 (5.430 %)Service Delivery
6292 (3.944 %)Load Balancing
7263 (3.553 %)PRINCE2
8222 (2.999 %)Change Management
9203 (2.742 %)Service Management
10190 (2.567 %)E-Commerce
11180 (2.431 %)Incident Management
12167 (2.256 %)Configuration Management
13158 (2.134 %)Business Continuity
14150 (2.026 %)Capacity Planning
15141 (1.905 %)Problem Management
16136 (1.837 %)Capacity Management
17121 (1.634 %)Technical Architecture
18115 (1.553 %)CRM
19111 (1.499 %)Network Management
2096 (1.297 %)Change Control
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
11297 (17.52 %)SQL
2374 (5.052 %)Perl
3269 (3.634 %)PowerShell
4243 (3.282 %)Java
5228 (3.080 %)PHP
6214 (2.891 %)Python
7190 (2.567 %)Bash shell
8177 (2.391 %)VBScript
9165 (2.229 %)C
10154 (2.080 %)VB
10154 (2.080 %)Shell Script
11120 (1.621 %)C#
12100 (1.351 %)JavaScript
1383 (1.121 %)C++
1460 (0.810 %)Ruby
1532 (0.432 %)T-SQL
1629 (0.392 %)Korn
1727 (0.365 %)VB.NET
1817 (0.230 %)PL/SQL
1916 (0.216 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
11654 (22.34 %)Microsoft Certification
21372 (18.53 %)MCSE
31160 (15.67 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4988 (13.35 %)MCITP
5690 (9.321 %)Cisco Certification
6669 (9.037 %)Citrix Certification
7530 (7.159 %)Degree
8520 (7.024 %)CCA
9470 (6.349 %)CCNA
10370 (4.998 %)MCP
11335 (4.525 %)MCSA
12268 (3.620 %)Security Cleared
13254 (3.431 %)CCEE
14250 (3.377 %)CCEA
15245 (3.309 %)MCTS
16210 (2.837 %)CCNP
17204 (2.756 %)CCIA
18199 (2.688 %)SC Cleared
19166 (2.242 %)NCDA
20157 (2.121 %)ITIL Certification
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1261 (3.526 %)SLA
2111 (1.499 %)QA
363 (0.851 %)PCI DSS
443 (0.581 %)ISO/IEC 27001
530 (0.405 %)ISO 9001
615 (0.203 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
712 (0.162 %)COBIT
83 (0.041 %)HIPAA
83 (0.041 %)BS7799
83 (0.041 %)ISO/IEC 17799
92 (0.027 %)ISO 9000
101 (0.014 %)GAAP
101 (0.014 %)ISO 14001
101 (0.014 %)WAI
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12933 (39.62 %)Active Directory
21598 (21.59 %)Hyper-V
31558 (21.05 %)vSphere
41066 (14.40 %)VMware ESX
51064 (14.37 %)XenApp
6873 (11.79 %)XenDesktop
7630 (8.510 %)XenServer
8517 (6.984 %)VMware ESXi
9382 (5.160 %)Xen
10167 (2.256 %)Terminal Services
11163 (2.202 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12154 (2.080 %)vCloud
13137 (1.851 %)NFS
14129 (1.743 %)ISA Server
15121 (1.634 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1697 (1.310 %)VMware Server
1753 (0.716 %)Samba
1753 (0.716 %)MetaFrame
1848 (0.648 %)VMware Workstation
1939 (0.527 %)Terminal Server
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1459 (6.200 %)SCCM
2394 (5.322 %)SCOM
3338 (4.566 %)vCenter
4335 (4.525 %)NetBackup
5331 (4.471 %)Backup Exec
6145 (1.959 %)Nagios
7144 (1.945 %)WSUS
8121 (1.634 %)SCVMM
9107 (1.445 %)Norton AntiVirus
1086 (1.162 %)Tivoli
1178 (1.054 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1272 (0.973 %)Puppet
1369 (0.932 %)HP SIM
1466 (0.892 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1557 (0.770 %)ARCserve
1653 (0.716 %)Cacti
1749 (0.662 %)MOM
1842 (0.567 %)OpenView
1940 (0.540 %)Legato
2038 (0.513 %)McAfee ePO
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
17403 (100.00 %)VMware
23623 (48.94 %)Microsoft
33025 (40.86 %)Citrix
42085 (28.16 %)Cisco
51507 (20.36 %)HP
61117 (15.09 %)NetApp
7996 (13.45 %)EMC
8643 (8.686 %)Red Hat
9601 (8.118 %)Oracle
10532 (7.186 %)Symantec
11453 (6.119 %)IBM
12408 (5.511 %)Dell
13218 (2.945 %)CheckPoint
14215 (2.904 %)Juniper
15207 (2.796 %)AppSense
16202 (2.729 %)Veritas
17180 (2.431 %)Brocade
18145 (1.959 %)Veeam
19143 (1.932 %)3PAR
20140 (1.891 %)F5