The first part of the table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere 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 vSphere
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank243309432
Rank change year-on-year
Up+66Up+123
Matching permanent IT job ads1245902358
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK1.032 %0.736 %0.375 %
As % of the System Software category11.94 %9.767 %5.442 %
Number of salaries quoted1098738309
Average salary£42,500£42,500£45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.55 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£30,000
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£57,500£60,000£60,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£40,750£42,500
% change year-on-year
+4.29 %-4.11 %
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 %-

vSphere
Demand Trend

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

vSphere Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

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

vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere 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+581137£42,500-
LondonUp+43436£46,000+2.22 %
South EastDown-17291£42,500-5.55 %
North WestUp+50135£37,500-
City of LondonUp+1895£47,500-5.00 %
SurreyUp+2589£45,000+8.43 %
East of EnglandUp+2772£42,500+13.33 %
ManchesterUp+2366£37,500-3.22 %
ScotlandUp+4254£45,250-9.50 %
YorkshireUp+1351£40,000+23.07 %
BerkshireDown-3749£40,000-3.61 %
West YorkshireUp+1748£40,000+23.07 %
South WestDown-448£40,000+15.94 %
HampshireUp+1446£42,500+6.25 %
East MidlandsUp+2244£41,250+25.00 %
CheshireUp+1343£35,000-
LeedsUp+1043£40,000+14.28 %
West MidlandsUp+640£47,500-2.56 %
MidlandsUp+1832£60,000-4.00 %
StainesUp+2529£75,000+80.72 %
East SussexUp+629£37,500-
GloucestershireDown-229£40,500+20.89 %
BrightonUp+626£37,500-
BoltonNew entry-26£37,000-
ReadingDown-324£40,000-5.88 %
MerseysideNew entry-23£42,500-
CambridgeshireDown-722£35,000-
BedfordshireUp+821£45,000-21.73 %
SouthamptonDown-1821£42,500+46.55 %
HertfordshireUp+2120£45,000+8.43 %

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

12307 (93.67 %)VMware
21821 (73.93 %)Windows
31558 (63.26 %)VMware Infrastructure
41249 (50.71 %)Microsoft
51125 (45.68 %)Citrix
61120 (45.47 %)SAN
71039 (42.18 %)Windows Server 2008
81025 (41.62 %)Active Directory
9979 (39.75 %)Windows Server 2003
10903 (36.66 %)MS Exchange
11829 (33.66 %)Cisco
12759 (30.82 %)VMware ESX
13723 (29.35 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14699 (28.38 %)HP
15666 (27.04 %)XenApp
16629 (25.54 %)Linux
17613 (24.89 %)SQL Server
18565 (22.94 %)Exchange Server 2010
19558 (22.66 %)Microsoft Certification
20542 (22.01 %)XenDesktop
21521 (21.15 %)Exchange Server 2007
22503 (20.42 %)NetApp
23491 (19.94 %)EMC
24486 (19.73 %)Firewall
25484 (19.65 %)DNS
26470 (19.08 %)MS Excel
27457 (18.55 %)MCSE
28437 (17.74 %)DHCP
29404 (16.40 %)TCP/IP
29404 (16.40 %)VMware ESXi

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
167 (2.720 %)Web Services
262 (2.517 %)J2EE
351 (2.071 %).NET
441 (1.665 %)LAMP
535 (1.421 %)XML
629 (1.177 %)COM
721 (0.853 %)WSH
721 (0.853 %)HTML
820 (0.812 %)WebSphere
916 (0.650 %).NET Framework
916 (0.650 %)Forefront TMG
1015 (0.609 %)CSS
1112 (0.487 %)Middleware
1112 (0.487 %)Software Packaging
129 (0.365 %)WCF
129 (0.365 %)WPF
129 (0.365 %)jQuery
138 (0.325 %)ASP
138 (0.325 %)Windows SharePoint Services
147 (0.284 %)JSP
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1903 (36.66 %)MS Exchange
2565 (22.94 %)Exchange Server 2010
3521 (21.15 %)Exchange Server 2007
4266 (10.80 %)IIS
4266 (10.80 %)SharePoint
5229 (9.298 %)Exchange Server 2003
6200 (8.120 %)Apache
7133 (5.400 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
872 (2.923 %)Tomcat
971 (2.883 %)WebLogic
1050 (2.030 %)SharePoint 2010
1139 (1.583 %)Lync
1230 (1.218 %)Lotus Notes
1326 (1.056 %)Amazon AWS
1421 (0.853 %)CMS
1515 (0.609 %)Drupal
1613 (0.528 %)Exchange Server 2000
1613 (0.528 %)Lotus Domino
1710 (0.406 %)Office Communications Server
1710 (0.406 %)EPiServer CMS
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1470 (19.08 %)MS Excel
2145 (5.887 %)MS Office
338 (1.543 %)MS Visio
427 (1.096 %)Google Apps
514 (0.568 %)Office 365
64 (0.162 %)MS PowerPoint
71 (0.041 %)InfoPath
71 (0.041 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
112 (0.487 %)Dynamics NAV
112 (0.487 %)Dynamics CRM
27 (0.284 %)SoftGrid
35 (0.203 %)SunGard APT
35 (0.203 %)FastVal
44 (0.162 %)Line 500
53 (0.122 %)Oracle EBS
62 (0.081 %)Remedy ITSM
62 (0.081 %)Remedy AR System
71 (0.041 %)Oracle iProcurement
71 (0.041 %)SAP R/3
71 (0.041 %)FLEXCUBE
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11120 (45.47 %)SAN
2486 (19.73 %)Firewall
3484 (19.65 %)DNS
4437 (17.74 %)DHCP
5404 (16.40 %)TCP/IP
6279 (11.33 %)LAN
7257 (10.43 %)Internet
8237 (9.622 %)NAS
9233 (9.460 %)WAN
10202 (8.201 %)iSCSI
11187 (7.592 %)VPN
12161 (6.537 %)VLAN
13146 (5.928 %)NetScaler
1493 (3.776 %)MPLS
1589 (3.613 %)VoIP
1679 (3.207 %)Fibre Channel
1775 (3.045 %)Cisco ASA
1874 (3.004 %)IPsec
1967 (2.720 %)SSL
2066 (2.680 %)Wireless
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1613 (24.89 %)SQL Server
2205 (8.323 %)MySQL
3177 (7.186 %)SQL Server 2005
4173 (7.024 %)SQL Server 2008
555 (2.233 %)SQL Server 2000
622 (0.893 %)Oracle 8/8i
717 (0.690 %)NoSQL
814 (0.568 %)Oracle 10g
913 (0.528 %)RDBMS
107 (0.284 %)Informix
107 (0.284 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
116 (0.244 %)Oracle 11g
122 (0.081 %)TOAD
131 (0.041 %)ETL
131 (0.041 %)PerformancePoint
131 (0.041 %)EDRMS
131 (0.041 %)SQL Server Integration Services
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
138 (1.543 %)Subversion
228 (1.137 %)Git (software)
38 (0.325 %)Team Foundation Server
46 (0.244 %)VSS/SourceSafe
46 (0.244 %)ClearCase
46 (0.244 %)ClearQuest
55 (0.203 %)MSI
64 (0.162 %)TeamCity
72 (0.081 %)Hudson
72 (0.081 %)Maven
81 (0.041 %)JIRA
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1283 (11.49 %)Finance
268 (2.761 %)Telecoms
342 (1.705 %)Banking
440 (1.624 %)Back Office
537 (1.502 %)Retail
634 (1.380 %)Law
722 (0.893 %)Legal
821 (0.853 %)Investment Banking
821 (0.853 %)Marketing
918 (0.731 %)Advertising
1010 (0.406 %)Publishing
118 (0.325 %)Manufacturing
127 (0.284 %)Games
136 (0.244 %)Financial Institution
144 (0.162 %)German Language
153 (0.122 %)Billing
162 (0.081 %)Pharmaceutical
171 (0.041 %)Italian Language
171 (0.041 %)French Language
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1627 (25.46 %)Consultant
2259 (10.52 %)Analyst
3235 (9.541 %)Administrator
4218 (8.851 %)Infrastructure Engineer
5210 (8.526 %)Support Engineer
5210 (8.526 %)Virtualisation Consultant
6203 (8.242 %)Architect
7196 (7.958 %)Systems Engineer
8194 (7.877 %)Systems Administrator
9177 (7.186 %)Technical Consultant
10151 (6.131 %)3rd Line Support
11117 (4.750 %)VMware Consultant
12110 (4.466 %)Infrastructure Analyst
13108 (4.385 %)Support Analyst
14102 (4.141 %)Citrix Consultant
1584 (3.410 %)Infrastructure Consultant
1682 (3.329 %)Storage Consultant
1779 (3.207 %)Technical Support
1877 (3.126 %)VMware Engineer
1974 (3.004 %)Network Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1199 (8.080 %)CLARiiON
2160 (6.496 %)Clustering
2160 (6.496 %)Blackberry
395 (3.857 %)Replication
491 (3.695 %)EqualLogic
556 (2.274 %)Enterprise Storage
635 (1.421 %)Celerra
733 (1.340 %)SaaS
832 (1.299 %)Cloud Computing
929 (1.177 %)N-Tier
1025 (1.015 %)Symmetrix
1025 (1.015 %)HP StorageWorks
1124 (0.974 %)PMI
1223 (0.934 %)Thin Client
1223 (0.934 %)Fat Client
1320 (0.812 %)Management Information System
1417 (0.690 %)Computer Science
1516 (0.650 %)Open Source
1614 (0.568 %)Hedge funds
1614 (0.568 %)EMC Centera
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11821 (73.93 %)Windows
21039 (42.18 %)Windows Server 2008
3979 (39.75 %)Windows Server 2003
4629 (25.54 %)Linux
5256 (10.39 %)Windows XP
6255 (10.35 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7252 (10.23 %)UNIX
8199 (8.080 %)Solaris
9192 (7.795 %)Windows 7
10103 (4.182 %)Windows Vista
1189 (3.613 %)AIX
1269 (2.801 %)HPUX
1368 (2.761 %)CentOS
1444 (1.786 %)Windows 2000 Server
1539 (1.583 %)Debian
1633 (1.340 %)Ubuntu
1732 (1.299 %)Windows 2000
1816 (0.650 %)Mac OS X
196 (0.244 %)Windows Mobile
196 (0.244 %)VMS
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1371 (15.06 %)ITIL
2179 (7.268 %)Service Delivery
3170 (6.902 %)Disaster Recovery
4138 (5.603 %)Project Management
5122 (4.953 %)Migration
684 (3.410 %)PRINCE2
780 (3.248 %)Capacity Planning
878 (3.167 %)Configuration Management
964 (2.598 %)Project Planning
1062 (2.517 %)Web Development
1160 (2.436 %)Change Management
1259 (2.395 %)Software Architecture
1354 (2.192 %)Incident Management
1451 (2.071 %)CRM
1545 (1.827 %)Problem Management
1642 (1.705 %)Load Balancing
1737 (1.502 %)Change Control
1834 (1.380 %)Business Continuity
1931 (1.259 %)Root Cause Analysis
1931 (1.259 %)Time Management
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1394 (16.00 %)SQL
2168 (6.821 %)Perl
3129 (5.238 %)PowerShell
483 (3.370 %)C#
483 (3.370 %)VBScript
566 (2.680 %)PHP
662 (2.517 %)Java
752 (2.111 %)Python
850 (2.030 %)C
944 (1.786 %)C++
1039 (1.583 %)Bash shell
1134 (1.380 %)Shell Script
1232 (1.299 %)Ruby
1314 (0.568 %)JavaScript
149 (0.365 %)Korn
149 (0.365 %)VB.NET
157 (0.284 %)VB
162 (0.081 %)VB6
162 (0.081 %)T-SQL
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1723 (29.35 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2558 (22.66 %)Microsoft Certification
3457 (18.55 %)MCSE
4401 (16.28 %)MCITP
5347 (14.09 %)Citrix Certification
6306 (12.42 %)CCA
7270 (10.96 %)Cisco Certification
8181 (7.349 %)CCNA
9166 (6.740 %)CCEE
10155 (6.293 %)Degree
11134 (5.441 %)MCSA
12120 (4.872 %)MCP
13114 (4.629 %)CCEA
13114 (4.629 %)Security Cleared
14102 (4.141 %)MCTS
1598 (3.979 %)NCDA
1598 (3.979 %)CCIA
1697 (3.938 %)NCIE
1781 (3.289 %)VCP4
1875 (3.045 %)SC Cleared
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
186 (3.492 %)SLA
221 (0.853 %)ISO/IEC 27001
317 (0.690 %)QA
49 (0.365 %)ISO 9001
54 (0.162 %)BS7799
63 (0.122 %)PCI DSS
72 (0.081 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
81 (0.041 %)ISO 9000
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
11558 (63.26 %)VMware Infrastructure
21025 (41.62 %)Active Directory
3759 (30.82 %)VMware ESX
4666 (27.04 %)XenApp
5542 (22.01 %)XenDesktop
6404 (16.40 %)VMware ESXi
7398 (16.16 %)Hyper-V
8341 (13.84 %)XenServer
9147 (5.968 %)vCloud
10115 (4.669 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1167 (2.720 %)Terminal Services
1250 (2.030 %)NFS
1344 (1.786 %)ISA Server
1439 (1.583 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1538 (1.543 %)Xen
1628 (1.137 %)MetaFrame
1725 (1.015 %)Samba
1823 (0.934 %)Postfix
1823 (0.934 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1922 (0.893 %)PowerConvert
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1350 (14.21 %)vCenter
2199 (8.080 %)SCCM
3191 (7.755 %)NetBackup
4187 (7.592 %)SCOM
5177 (7.186 %)Backup Exec
692 (3.735 %)WSUS
753 (2.152 %)Puppet
849 (1.989 %)SCVMM
945 (1.827 %)Tivoli
1039 (1.583 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1137 (1.502 %)Cacti
1137 (1.502 %)McAfee ePO
1231 (1.259 %)HP SIM
1231 (1.259 %)Nagios
1231 (1.259 %)Norton AntiVirus
1321 (0.853 %)HP Data Protector
1420 (0.812 %)SolarWinds Orion
1515 (0.609 %)EMC NetWorker
1515 (0.609 %)MOM
1612 (0.487 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12307 (93.67 %)VMware
21249 (50.71 %)Microsoft
31125 (45.68 %)Citrix
4829 (33.66 %)Cisco
5699 (28.38 %)HP
6503 (20.42 %)NetApp
7491 (19.94 %)EMC
8322 (13.07 %)Red Hat
9231 (9.379 %)Symantec
10229 (9.298 %)Dell
10229 (9.298 %)Oracle
11163 (6.618 %)IBM
12161 (6.537 %)Brocade
13114 (4.629 %)Veritas
14109 (4.425 %)AppSense
15103 (4.182 %)Veeam
1688 (3.573 %)Juniper
1783 (3.370 %)CheckPoint
1869 (2.801 %)JBoss
1959 (2.395 %)3PAR