The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware 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 Vendors currently tracked.

The figures below represent the IT job market in general and are NOT representative of salaries within VMware, Inc.

VMware
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank404869
Rank change year-on-year
Up+8Up+21
Matching permanent IT job ads613853272990
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK5.090 %4.344 %3.132 %
As % of the Vendors category10.68 %9.262 %7.056 %
Number of salaries quoted529044472428
Average salary£42,500£40,500£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.93 %+1.25 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,000£27,500£25,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£60,000£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£39,000£38,500£37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.29 %+2.66 %
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
574595751742374
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK47.65 %46.91 %44.38 %
Number of salaries quoted484194776133886
Average salary£45,000£45,000£45,000
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£28,500£27,500£26,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£70,000£70,000£72,500
UK excluding London average salary£40,000£40,000£40,000

VMware
Demand Trend

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

VMware Demand Trend

VMware
Salary Trend

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

VMware Salary Trend

VMware
Salary Histogram

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

VMware Salary Histogram

VMware
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 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+55634£42,500+4.93 %
LondonUp+162366£47,500+5.55 %
South EastNo change01360£40,500-2.40 %
City of LondonUp+34660£48,000+1.05 %
North WestUp+5479£35,000-
SurreyDown-2441£42,500+2.40 %
East of EnglandUp+2374£41,500-2.35 %
YorkshireUp+8267£37,500+25.00 %
West MidlandsDown-2267£37,500-
BerkshireDown-3266£42,500-
South WestDown-11237£35,000-
ManchesterUp+9235£34,000+3.03 %
ScotlandUp+53233£37,500-2.59 %
HampshireUp+52202£35,000-6.66 %
East MidlandsUp+11184£35,000+2.94 %
West YorkshireUp+1174£37,500+15.38 %
LeedsUp+11140£40,000+14.28 %
CheshireNo change0140£35,000-
WalesUp+45125£35,000+11.11 %
South WalesUp+39117£35,000+11.11 %
BirminghamNo change0114£40,500+1.25 %
ReadingUp+5112£42,500-15.00 %
HertfordshireDown-23105£45,000-
CambridgeshireUp+21103£37,750+7.85 %
StainesNo change091£47,500+14.45 %
MerseysideUp+3287£42,500+41.66 %
BuckinghamshireDown-2780£40,000-11.11 %
OxfordshireUp+2071£35,000-17.64 %
GloucestershireUp+1071£39,250+20.76 %
LiverpoolUp+2969£42,500-12.82 %

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

18361 (68.32 %)Windows
27403 (60.49 %)VMware Infrastructure
35653 (46.19 %)Microsoft
44842 (39.57 %)Active Directory
54638 (37.90 %)Citrix
64289 (35.05 %)Windows Server 2008
73782 (30.90 %)Cisco
83769 (30.80 %)SAN
93639 (29.74 %)Windows Server 2003
103339 (27.28 %)MS Exchange
113023 (24.70 %)Linux
122617 (21.38 %)Microsoft Certification
132529 (20.67 %)MS Excel
142433 (19.88 %)HP
152361 (19.29 %)SQL Server
162315 (18.92 %)SQL
172307 (18.85 %)vSphere
182149 (17.56 %)ITIL
192133 (17.43 %)Firewall
202105 (17.20 %)MCSE
211967 (16.07 %)DNS
221908 (15.59 %)Hyper-V
231829 (14.95 %)Finance
241827 (14.93 %)VMware ESX
251774 (14.50 %)TCP/IP
261773 (14.49 %)Exchange Server 2010
271627 (13.29 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
281621 (13.25 %)Exchange Server 2007
291603 (13.10 %)NetApp
301512 (12.35 %)EMC

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1417 (3.407 %).NET
2273 (2.231 %)Web Services
3184 (1.504 %)WebSphere
4168 (1.373 %)XML
5152 (1.242 %)HTML
6151 (1.234 %)J2EE
7132 (1.079 %)Middleware
8131 (1.070 %)CSS
9125 (1.021 %)ASP.NET
10113 (0.923 %)LAMP
11100 (0.817 %)Application Packaging
1293 (0.760 %).NET Framework
1381 (0.662 %)Forefront TMG
1470 (0.572 %)ASP
1553 (0.433 %)COM
1648 (0.392 %)jQuery
1747 (0.384 %)JSP
1845 (0.368 %)Spring
1845 (0.368 %)Ajax
1942 (0.343 %)Servlets
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
13339 (27.28 %)MS Exchange
21773 (14.49 %)Exchange Server 2010
31621 (13.25 %)Exchange Server 2007
41348 (11.01 %)IIS
51128 (9.217 %)Exchange Server 2003
61108 (9.054 %)SharePoint
7921 (7.526 %)Apache
8379 (3.097 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
9376 (3.072 %)Tomcat
10198 (1.618 %)Lync
11148 (1.209 %)WebLogic
12124 (1.013 %)SharePoint 2010
13111 (0.907 %)Amazon EC2
14104 (0.850 %)Office Communications Server
1592 (0.752 %)Lotus Notes
1691 (0.744 %)BizTalk Server
1783 (0.678 %)SharePoint Server
1875 (0.613 %)Exchange Server 2000
1965 (0.531 %)CMS
2061 (0.498 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12529 (20.67 %)MS Excel
2797 (6.513 %)MS Office
3247 (2.018 %)MS Visio
459 (0.482 %)Office 365
547 (0.384 %)MS PowerPoint
644 (0.360 %)Google Apps
727 (0.221 %)MS Project
812 (0.098 %)InfoPath
911 (0.090 %)Acrobat
108 (0.065 %)Spreadsheet
114 (0.033 %)MATLAB
123 (0.025 %)PowerPivot
131 (0.008 %)FrameMaker
131 (0.008 %)3ds Max
131 (0.008 %)QuarkXPress
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
140 (0.327 %)Dynamics CRM
223 (0.188 %)Oracle EBS
319 (0.155 %)Dynamics NAV
319 (0.155 %)SoftGrid
417 (0.139 %)Oracle EBS R12
515 (0.123 %)Summit
613 (0.106 %)SunGard AvantGard
712 (0.098 %)Oracle 11i
712 (0.098 %)BASE24
811 (0.090 %)Line 100
811 (0.090 %)Line 500
811 (0.090 %)Sage MMS
910 (0.082 %)Prophet
107 (0.057 %)Sage 200
107 (0.057 %)SAP ERP
107 (0.057 %)Oracle Financials
116 (0.049 %)Dynamics AX
116 (0.049 %)Maximo
125 (0.041 %)FLEXCUBE
125 (0.041 %)SyteLine
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
13769 (30.80 %)SAN
22133 (17.43 %)Firewall
31967 (16.07 %)DNS
41774 (14.50 %)TCP/IP
51332 (10.88 %)LAN
61330 (10.87 %)WAN
71235 (10.09 %)DHCP
8877 (7.166 %)VPN
9861 (7.035 %)NAS
10838 (6.848 %)Internet
11479 (3.914 %)VoIP
11479 (3.914 %)VLAN
12433 (3.538 %)iSCSI
13333 (2.721 %)NetScaler
14326 (2.664 %)Wireless
15273 (2.231 %)MPLS
16272 (2.223 %)Cisco ASA
17264 (2.157 %)HTTP
18260 (2.125 %)Fibre Channel
19256 (2.092 %)Network Security
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
12361 (19.29 %)SQL Server
2631 (5.156 %)SQL Server 2008
3606 (4.952 %)MySQL
4602 (4.919 %)SQL Server 2005
5162 (1.324 %)SQL Server 2000
6105 (0.858 %)Oracle 8/8i
7101 (0.825 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
891 (0.744 %)DB2
965 (0.531 %)RDBMS
1056 (0.458 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1056 (0.458 %)PostgreSQL
1151 (0.417 %)Oracle 10g
1151 (0.417 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1247 (0.384 %)MongoDB
1334 (0.278 %)NoSQL
1432 (0.261 %)Data Warehouse
1526 (0.212 %)Crystal Reports
1526 (0.212 %)Oracle 11g
1625 (0.204 %)Informix
1719 (0.155 %)DTS
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1121 (0.989 %)Subversion
257 (0.466 %)Git (software)
356 (0.458 %)Team Foundation Server
441 (0.335 %)Visual Studio
539 (0.319 %)Eclipse
636 (0.294 %)Hudson
735 (0.286 %)MSI
829 (0.237 %)Selenium
928 (0.229 %)Ant
1024 (0.196 %)TeamCity
1120 (0.163 %)Maven
1120 (0.163 %)VSS/SourceSafe
1219 (0.155 %)NUnit
1219 (0.155 %)JIRA
1312 (0.098 %)FitNesse
1312 (0.098 %)JUnit
1410 (0.082 %)Eclipse RCP
158 (0.065 %)TestComplete
167 (0.057 %)InstallShield
167 (0.057 %)Capistrano
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
11829 (14.95 %)Finance
2380 (3.105 %)Banking
3356 (2.909 %)Telecoms
4256 (2.092 %)Retail
5183 (1.495 %)Marketing
6181 (1.479 %)Law
7179 (1.463 %)Games
8172 (1.405 %)Back Office
9160 (1.307 %)Legal
1099 (0.809 %)Advertising
1188 (0.719 %)Investment Banking
1281 (0.662 %)Manufacturing
1379 (0.646 %)German Language
1448 (0.392 %)Financial Institution
1544 (0.360 %)Publishing
1640 (0.327 %)Front Office
1640 (0.327 %)Pharmaceutical
1737 (0.302 %)French Language
1833 (0.270 %)Italian Language
1931 (0.253 %)Spanish Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
11706 (13.94 %)Consultant
21678 (13.71 %)Analyst
31276 (10.43 %)Administrator
41112 (9.086 %)Support Engineer
51004 (8.204 %)Architect
6973 (7.951 %)Systems Administrator
7934 (7.632 %)Infrastructure Engineer
8848 (6.929 %)Support Analyst
9706 (5.769 %)3rd Line Support
10616 (5.034 %)Systems Engineer
11502 (4.102 %)Infrastructure Analyst
12496 (4.053 %)Technical Consultant
13464 (3.791 %)Technical Support
14337 (2.754 %)Virtualisation Consultant
15335 (2.737 %)IT Support
16311 (2.541 %)Linux Administrator
17309 (2.525 %)Project Manager
18308 (2.517 %)Infrastructure Manager
19297 (2.427 %)Network Engineer
20284 (2.321 %)Server Support
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1871 (7.117 %)Clustering
2559 (4.568 %)Blackberry
3393 (3.211 %)Replication
4358 (2.925 %)CLARiiON
5261 (2.133 %)Cloud Computing
6198 (1.618 %)Computer Science
7168 (1.373 %)Enterprise Storage
8157 (1.283 %)Management Information System
9149 (1.218 %)Thin Client
9149 (1.218 %)Fat Client
10141 (1.152 %)Client/Server
11134 (1.095 %)SaaS
11134 (1.095 %)EqualLogic
12133 (1.087 %)Open Source
13122 (0.997 %)Celerra
14110 (0.899 %)Symmetrix
1597 (0.793 %)Symmetrix DMX
1687 (0.711 %)Hedge funds
1786 (0.703 %)Online Games
1877 (0.629 %)Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
18361 (68.32 %)Windows
24289 (35.05 %)Windows Server 2008
33639 (29.74 %)Windows Server 2003
43023 (24.70 %)Linux
51506 (12.31 %)UNIX
61017 (8.310 %)Windows XP
7970 (7.926 %)Windows 7
8822 (6.717 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9703 (5.744 %)Solaris
10410 (3.350 %)Windows Vista
11340 (2.778 %)Windows 2000 Server
12338 (2.762 %)AIX
13261 (2.133 %)CentOS
14206 (1.683 %)Windows 2000
15186 (1.520 %)Debian
16169 (1.381 %)Ubuntu
17127 (1.038 %)HPUX
1866 (0.539 %)Mac OS X
1937 (0.302 %)SUSE
2036 (0.294 %)Android
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
12149 (17.56 %)ITIL
2809 (6.611 %)Project Management
3807 (6.594 %)Disaster Recovery
4647 (5.287 %)Service Delivery
5519 (4.241 %)Load Balancing
6509 (4.159 %)Migration
7493 (4.028 %)PRINCE2
8376 (3.072 %)E-Commerce
9357 (2.917 %)Service Management
10352 (2.876 %)Change Management
11313 (2.558 %)Configuration Management
12280 (2.288 %)Capacity Planning
13263 (2.149 %)Business Continuity
14252 (2.059 %)Problem Management
15221 (1.806 %)Incident Management
16181 (1.479 %)Technical Architecture
16181 (1.479 %)Capacity Management
17180 (1.471 %)CRM
18170 (1.389 %)Network Management
19154 (1.258 %)Change Control
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
12315 (18.92 %)SQL
2564 (4.609 %)Perl
3520 (4.249 %)PowerShell
4435 (3.555 %)Java
5318 (2.598 %)PHP
6312 (2.549 %)VBScript
7291 (2.378 %)Bash shell
8284 (2.321 %)Python
9268 (2.190 %)C
10255 (2.084 %)Shell Script
11227 (1.855 %)C#
12203 (1.659 %)VB
13141 (1.152 %)C++
14136 (1.111 %)JavaScript
1592 (0.752 %)Ruby
1676 (0.621 %)T-SQL
1738 (0.311 %)VB.NET
1836 (0.294 %)Korn
1930 (0.245 %)PL/SQL
2020 (0.163 %)VBA
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
12617 (21.38 %)Microsoft Certification
22105 (17.20 %)MCSE
31627 (13.29 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
41377 (11.25 %)MCITP
51247 (10.19 %)Cisco Certification
6898 (7.338 %)CCNA
7880 (7.191 %)Degree
8819 (6.692 %)Citrix Certification
9652 (5.328 %)CCA
10606 (4.952 %)MCP
11526 (4.298 %)MCSA
12493 (4.028 %)Security Cleared
13369 (3.015 %)CCNP
14366 (2.991 %)MCTS
15351 (2.868 %)SC Cleared
16287 (2.345 %)CCEA
17276 (2.255 %)CCEE
18240 (1.961 %)NCDA
19237 (1.937 %)NCIE
20228 (1.863 %)CCIA
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1477 (3.898 %)SLA
2155 (1.267 %)QA
3100 (0.817 %)ISO/IEC 27001
492 (0.752 %)PCI DSS
554 (0.441 %)ISO 9001
623 (0.188 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
717 (0.139 %)COBIT
84 (0.033 %)BS7799
93 (0.025 %)ISO/IEC 17799
93 (0.025 %)HIPAA
102 (0.016 %)ISO 9000
111 (0.008 %)GAAP
111 (0.008 %)ISO 14001
111 (0.008 %)WAI
111 (0.008 %)DICOM
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
17403 (60.49 %)VMware Infrastructure
24842 (39.57 %)Active Directory
32307 (18.85 %)vSphere
41908 (15.59 %)Hyper-V
51827 (14.93 %)VMware ESX
61456 (11.90 %)XenApp
7992 (8.106 %)XenDesktop
8735 (6.006 %)XenServer
9693 (5.663 %)VMware ESXi
10442 (3.612 %)Xen
11253 (2.067 %)Citrix Presentation Server
12249 (2.035 %)Terminal Services
13201 (1.642 %)NFS
14180 (1.471 %)ISA Server
15179 (1.463 %)vCloud
16171 (1.397 %)VMware Server
17121 (0.989 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1898 (0.801 %)MetaFrame
1985 (0.695 %)VMware Workstation
2077 (0.629 %)UAG
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1709 (5.793 %)SCCM
2577 (4.715 %)SCOM
3549 (4.486 %)Backup Exec
4542 (4.429 %)NetBackup
5413 (3.375 %)vCenter
6239 (1.953 %)Nagios
7196 (1.602 %)WSUS
8151 (1.234 %)Tivoli
9139 (1.136 %)Puppet
10135 (1.103 %)SCVMM
11122 (0.997 %)Norton AntiVirus
12116 (0.948 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
13101 (0.825 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
13101 (0.825 %)EMC NetWorker
1487 (0.711 %)HP SIM
1583 (0.678 %)MOM
1681 (0.662 %)Cacti
1766 (0.539 %)ARCserve
1865 (0.531 %)McAfee ePO
1957 (0.466 %)OpenView
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
15653 (46.19 %)Microsoft
24638 (37.90 %)Citrix
33782 (30.90 %)Cisco
42433 (19.88 %)HP
51603 (13.10 %)NetApp
61512 (12.35 %)EMC
71167 (9.536 %)Red Hat
81029 (8.408 %)Oracle
9802 (6.553 %)Symantec
10637 (5.205 %)IBM
11594 (4.854 %)Dell
12425 (3.473 %)Veritas
13388 (3.170 %)CheckPoint
14373 (3.048 %)Juniper
15303 (2.476 %)Brocade
16277 (2.263 %)JBoss
17249 (2.035 %)AppSense
18241 (1.969 %)Sun
19209 (1.708 %)Altiris
20200 (1.634 %)3PAR