The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wakefield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited vSphere 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 of the System Software category for the Wakefield region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 26 27 24
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -3
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 8 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 5.797% 1.042% 4.211%
As % of the System Software category 24.24% 3.333% 80.00%
Number of salaries quoted 8 1 4
Average salary £53,750 £37,300 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+44.10% +14.76%
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +5.59%
All System Software
Wakefield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
33 30 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wakefield 23.91% 31.25% 5.263%
Number of salaries quoted 29 16 5
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +23.07%
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
West Yorkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing vSphere across the Wakefield region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Wakefield vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing vSphere across the Wakefield region.

Wakefield vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing vSphere across the Wakefield region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Wakefield vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (94.74%) HP
2 18 (94.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (84.21%) EMC
4 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
4 12 (63.16%) SAN
4 12 (63.16%) Windows
4 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
5 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
5 11 (57.89%) SQL
5 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
5 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (57.89%) Exchange Server 2007
6 10 (52.63%) Celerra
6 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 10 (52.63%) DNS
6 10 (52.63%) DHCP
6 10 (52.63%) ProCurve
6 10 (52.63%) Replication
6 10 (52.63%) Lync
7 9 (47.37%) Firewall
7 9 (47.37%) Telecoms
8 8 (42.11%) Citrix
9 7 (36.84%) Dell
9 7 (36.84%) Citrix Certification
9 7 (36.84%) CCEA
9 7 (36.84%) Cisco
9 7 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 7 (36.84%) CCEE
9 7 (36.84%) CCIA

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wakefield region 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.

Application Platforms
1 11 (57.89%) MS Exchange
1 11 (57.89%) Exchange Server 2007
2 10 (52.63%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.263%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Prophet
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) SAN
2 10 (52.63%) DNS
2 10 (52.63%) DHCP
3 9 (47.37%) Firewall
4 1 (5.263%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.263%) Internet
4 1 (5.263%) LAN
4 1 (5.263%) WAN
4 1 (5.263%) SNMP
4 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.263%) VPN
4 1 (5.263%) NetScaler
4 1 (5.263%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (5.263%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
General
1 9 (47.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Systems Manager
2 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 6 (31.58%) Solutions Architect
3 4 (21.05%) Virtualisation Architect
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Support
5 1 (5.263%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Support Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (52.63%) Celerra
1 10 (52.63%) Replication
2 6 (31.58%) SaaS
3 1 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (63.16%) Windows
1 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
2 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.263%) Service Management
2 1 (5.263%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) SQL
2 1 (5.263%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 7 (36.84%) Citrix Certification
1 7 (36.84%) CCEA
1 7 (36.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 7 (36.84%) CCEE
1 7 (36.84%) CCIA
2 6 (31.58%) VCDX
2 6 (31.58%) VCAP
2 6 (31.58%) CCNP
2 6 (31.58%) CCDA
2 6 (31.58%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (31.58%) CCA
3 2 (10.53%) MCITP
4 1 (5.263%) MCTS
4 1 (5.263%) MCP
4 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (5.263%) CCAA
System Software
1 18 (94.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
3 7 (36.84%) XenApp
3 7 (36.84%) XenServer
3 7 (36.84%) XenDesktop
4 6 (31.58%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.263%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 1 (5.263%) Terminal Server
5 1 (5.263%) Terminal Services
5 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) SCOM
2 1 (5.263%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (94.74%) HP
3 16 (84.21%) EMC
4 11 (57.89%) Microsoft
5 10 (52.63%) ProCurve
6 8 (42.11%) Citrix
7 7 (36.84%) Dell
7 7 (36.84%) Cisco
8 6 (31.58%) DataCore
8 6 (31.58%) FalconStor
8 6 (31.58%) Blue Coat
8 6 (31.58%) PlateSpin
8 6 (31.58%) Juniper
8 6 (31.58%) NetApp
9 2 (10.53%) IBM
10 1 (5.263%) WatchGuard
10 1 (5.263%) Brocade
10 1 (5.263%) Symantec
10 1 (5.263%) Avaya
10 1 (5.263%) Intel