The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Xserve in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Xserve over the 3 months to 22 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Apple Xserve
Rank 861 899 860
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -39
Permanent jobs citing Xserve 3 1 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.003% 0.001% 0.008%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.008% 0.002% 0.024%
Number of salaries quoted 3 1 10
Average salary £29,500 £21,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+37.20% -24.56%
UK excluding London average salary £29,500 - £25,000
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
36288 40562 42377
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 33.36% 33.07% 34.67%
Number of salaries quoted 29785 34194 35534
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £28,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £82,500 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £39,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-2.50% +6.66%

Xserve
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Xserve within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Xserve Jobs Demand Trend

Xserve
Salary Trend

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

Xserve Salary Trend

Xserve
Top 6 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xserve within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +34 3 £29,500 +37.20%
South West - 2 £29,500 -
Devon - 2 £29,500 -
Plymouth - 2 £29,500 -
West Midlands - 1 £32,500 -
Birmingham - 1 £32,500 -

Xserve
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Xserve 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 Xserve.

1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe
2 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) Advertising
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) COM
2 1 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) SSL

Xserve
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Xserve 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 Xserve. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) COM
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
1 1 (33.33%) Wireless
1 1 (33.33%) VPN
1 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) IT Support
3 1 (33.33%) Mac Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
1 1 (33.33%) Mac OS X
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Apple
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Adobe