Wales VMware ESX Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX Server skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VMware ESX Server
Location Aberdeen Andover Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chesterfield City of London Clapham Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Isle of Man Kent Kingston Upon Thames Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Rochdale Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Surbiton Surrey Sussex Taunton Thames Valley UK Wakefield Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Wigan Winchester Woking Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	103	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.098 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£35,500	-
Average salary	£38,750	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£42,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£38,957	£40,192
% change on same period last year	-3.07 %
System Software Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	143	130
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.093 %	0.058 %
Salaries quoted	129	122
Average minimum salary	£30,707	£26,644
Average salary	£35,801	£28,672
% change on same period last year	+24.86 %
Average maximum salary	£40,895	£30,700
UK excluding London average salary	£35,494	£34,771
% change on same period last year	+2.08 %
VMware ESX UK

VMware ESX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

VMware ESX
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Wales region.

VMware ESX
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

VMware ESX
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	-	2	£38,750	-
North Wales	-	1	-	-

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VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 8 (100.00 %) VMware 2 7 (87.50 %) SAN 3 5 (62.50 %) HP 3 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 3 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 4 4 (50.00 %) LAN 4 4 (50.00 %) WAN 4 4 (50.00 %) Windows 5 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 5 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 5 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 6 2 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 6 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 6 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 6 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP

6 2 (25.00 %) IIS 7 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 7 1 (12.50 %) SQL 7 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 7 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 7 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 7 1 (12.50 %) Linux 7 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 7 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 7 1 (12.50 %) MQSeries 7 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier 7 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 7 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 7 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 7 1 (12.50 %) DNS

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 2 (25.00 %) MS Exchange 1 2 (25.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 2 (25.00 %) IIS 2 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Application Server 2 1 (12.50 %) MQSeries 2 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere MQ 2 1 (12.50 %) Exchange Server 2000
Communications & Networking 1 7 (87.50 %) SAN 2 4 (50.00 %) LAN 2 4 (50.00 %) WAN 3 2 (25.00 %) Firewall 4 1 (12.50 %) DHCP 4 1 (12.50 %) HTTP 4 1 (12.50 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (12.50 %) DNS 4 1 (12.50 %) NetScreen 4 1 (12.50 %) Cisco PIX	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Finance 1 1 (12.50 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 2 (25.00 %) Senior Infrastructure Consultant 1 2 (25.00 %) Senior Support Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) Infrastructure Consultant 1 2 (25.00 %) Senior Support Consultant 1 2 (25.00 %) Senior Consultant 1 2 (25.00 %) Consultant 1 2 (25.00 %) Systems Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) Support Engineer 1 2 (25.00 %) Support Consultant 2 1 (12.50 %) Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architect 2 1 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Server Engineer 2 1 (12.50 %) Lead Systems Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) N-Tier 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems 1 4 (50.00 %) Windows 2 3 (37.50 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (25.00 %) Windows XP 4 1 (12.50 %) Solaris 4 1 (12.50 %) Linux 4 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (12.50 %) Tru64 4 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (12.50 %) ITIL 1 1 (12.50 %) Workflow 1 1 (12.50 %) Data Protection
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) MCSE 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Certification
System Software 1 3 (37.50 %) Active Directory 1 3 (37.50 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (12.50 %) VMware GSX 2 1 (12.50 %) Backup Exec 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft Virtual Server	Systems Management 1 1 (12.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 1 1 (12.50 %) MOM 1 1 (12.50 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 8 (100.00 %) VMware 2 5 (62.50 %) HP 2 5 (62.50 %) Cisco 2 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Oracle 3 1 (12.50 %) VERITAS 3 1 (12.50 %) Red Hat 3 1 (12.50 %) Compaq 3 1 (12.50 %) Juniper 3 1 (12.50 %) SonicWALL