The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 103 125 120
Rank change year-on-year
+22 -5
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 71 49 23
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.917% 1.505% 0.786%
As % of the System Software category 18.16% 15.26% 8.846%
Number of salaries quoted 62 39 14
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,800 £27,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +5.59%
All System Software
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
391 321 260
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 10.56% 9.859% 8.883%
Number of salaries quoted 336 247 213
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £21,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Salary Histogram

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

West Yorkshire vSphere Salary Histogram

vSphere
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 West Yorkshire region 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
Leeds +9 60 £45,000 +12.50%
Wakefield +1 8 £53,750 +44.10%
Bradford +18 7 £55,000 +96.42%
Pontefract +1 5 £38,000 +1.87%
Dewsbury - 5 £55,000 -
Huddersfield - 1 £55,000 -
Wetherby - 1 £30,250 -
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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.

1 115 (94.26%) VMware
2 88 (72.13%) Windows
3 85 (69.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 68 (55.74%) Windows Server 2008
5 66 (54.10%) Active Directory
6 63 (51.64%) Microsoft
7 62 (50.82%) Citrix
7 62 (50.82%) SAN
8 60 (49.18%) HP
9 51 (41.80%) Windows Server 2003
10 50 (40.98%) MS Exchange
11 47 (38.52%) Linux
11 47 (38.52%) Firewall
12 46 (37.70%) XenServer
13 37 (30.33%) SQL
14 36 (29.51%) EMC
15 35 (28.69%) Cisco
16 32 (26.23%) TCP/IP
16 32 (26.23%) XenApp
17 29 (23.77%) XenDesktop
17 29 (23.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 28 (22.95%) DNS
19 26 (21.31%) DHCP
19 26 (21.31%) SQL Server
19 26 (21.31%) Disaster Recovery
19 26 (21.31%) NetApp
19 26 (21.31%) VMware ESX
20 24 (19.67%) ProCurve
20 24 (19.67%) Exchange Server 2007
21 22 (18.03%) SCOM

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Development
1 7 (5.738%) .NET
2 3 (2.459%) Web Services
3 2 (1.639%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.639%) WebSphere
3 2 (1.639%) Java EE
3 2 (1.639%) Middleware
3 2 (1.639%) J2EE
4 1 (0.820%) HTML
4 1 (0.820%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 50 (40.98%) MS Exchange
2 24 (19.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 18 (14.75%) SharePoint
4 16 (13.11%) Exchange Server 2010
5 15 (12.30%) IIS
5 15 (12.30%) Lync
6 6 (4.918%) SharePoint Server
6 6 (4.918%) Apache
7 5 (4.098%) Exchange Server 2000
8 3 (2.459%) Office Communications Server
9 2 (1.639%) WebLogic
9 2 (1.639%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.820%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.820%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.820%) Amazon AWS
10 1 (0.820%) SAS
10 1 (0.820%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
10 1 (0.820%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 19 (15.57%) MS Excel
2 17 (13.93%) MS Office
3 4 (3.279%) Google Apps
Business Applications
1 1 (0.820%) Prophet
1 1 (0.820%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 62 (50.82%) SAN
2 47 (38.52%) Firewall
3 32 (26.23%) TCP/IP
4 28 (22.95%) DNS
5 26 (21.31%) DHCP
6 14 (11.48%) Network Security
7 11 (9.016%) VoIP
7 11 (9.016%) Cisco ASA
8 10 (8.197%) VPN
9 9 (7.377%) Internet
9 9 (7.377%) NetScaler
10 8 (6.557%) Unified Communications
10 8 (6.557%) SSH
10 8 (6.557%) FTP
10 8 (6.557%) HTTP
10 8 (6.557%) SMTP
11 7 (5.738%) WAN
11 7 (5.738%) iSCSI
11 7 (5.738%) Fibre Channel
11 7 (5.738%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (21.31%) SQL Server
2 11 (9.016%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (7.377%) SQL Server 2005
4 5 (4.098%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.639%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.639%) MySQL
6 1 (0.820%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.820%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.820%) Crystal Reports
6 1 (0.820%) Data Mining
6 1 (0.820%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 5 (4.098%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.639%) Subversion
2 2 (1.639%) Maven
2 2 (1.639%) Ant
2 2 (1.639%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.820%) Git (software)
General
1 16 (13.11%) Telecoms
2 5 (4.098%) Finance
3 3 (2.459%) Marketing
4 1 (0.820%) Games
Job Titles
1 22 (18.03%) Architect
1 22 (18.03%) Solutions Architect
2 21 (17.21%) Consultant
3 20 (16.39%) Administrator
4 16 (13.11%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (12.30%) Support Engineer
6 10 (8.197%) Systems Manager
6 10 (8.197%) Virtualisation Consultant
7 9 (7.377%) Systems Engineer
7 9 (7.377%) IT Administrator
8 8 (6.557%) VMware Consultant
8 8 (6.557%) Technical Consultant
9 7 (5.738%) Senior Consultant
10 6 (4.918%) Network Architect
10 6 (4.918%) Senior Systems Engineer
11 5 (4.098%) Analyst
11 5 (4.098%) Support Analyst
11 5 (4.098%) Senior Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.098%) Senior Technical Consultant
11 5 (4.098%) Citrix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 21 (17.21%) Celerra
2 16 (13.11%) Replication
3 15 (12.30%) Clustering
4 8 (6.557%) Fat Client
4 8 (6.557%) Thin Client
5 7 (5.738%) SaaS
6 6 (4.918%) EqualLogic
6 6 (4.918%) CLARiiON
7 3 (2.459%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.639%) IVR
8 2 (1.639%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.639%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.639%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.820%) IaaS
9 1 (0.820%) PaaS
9 1 (0.820%) Blackberry
9 1 (0.820%) NHS
9 1 (0.820%) Firmware
9 1 (0.820%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 88 (72.13%) Windows
2 68 (55.74%) Windows Server 2008
3 51 (41.80%) Windows Server 2003
4 47 (38.52%) Linux
5 15 (12.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 11 (9.016%) Windows 7
7 8 (6.557%) Debian
8 7 (5.738%) UNIX
8 7 (5.738%) Windows Server 2012
9 5 (4.098%) CentOS
10 4 (3.279%) Windows XP
10 4 (3.279%) HPUX
10 4 (3.279%) Windows 8
11 1 (0.820%) Mac OS X
11 1 (0.820%) Mac OS X Server
11 1 (0.820%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (21.31%) Disaster Recovery
2 18 (14.75%) ITIL
3 9 (7.377%) Business Continuity
3 9 (7.377%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (6.557%) Load Balancing
4 8 (6.557%) Service Delivery
5 7 (5.738%) Project Management
6 6 (4.918%) Data Management
7 5 (4.098%) Configuration Management
7 5 (4.098%) Business Development
7 5 (4.098%) Problem Management
7 5 (4.098%) Network Design
8 4 (3.279%) Asset Management
8 4 (3.279%) E-Commerce
8 4 (3.279%) ERP
8 4 (3.279%) High Availability
9 3 (2.459%) Change Control
9 3 (2.459%) Capacity Management
9 3 (2.459%) Infrastructure Management
9 3 (2.459%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (30.33%) SQL
2 11 (9.016%) Perl
2 11 (9.016%) PowerShell
2 11 (9.016%) Bash shell
3 6 (4.918%) Java
4 5 (4.098%) Python
4 5 (4.098%) VBScript
5 4 (3.279%) PHP
5 4 (3.279%) C
6 2 (1.639%) AWK
6 2 (1.639%) Jython
7 1 (0.820%) C++
Qualifications
1 29 (23.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 18 (14.75%) Citrix Certification
3 17 (13.93%) MCITP
3 17 (13.93%) CCEE
3 17 (13.93%) CCIA
4 16 (13.11%) CCEA
5 12 (9.836%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (9.016%) CCA
6 11 (9.016%) VCDX
7 10 (8.197%) VCAP
8 9 (7.377%) MCP
8 9 (7.377%) MCSE
8 9 (7.377%) MCTS
9 8 (6.557%) CCAA
9 8 (6.557%) NCDA
9 8 (6.557%) NCIE
9 8 (6.557%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (4.918%) CCDA
10 6 (4.918%) CCNP
11 2 (1.639%) HP ASE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.918%) SLA
System Software
1 85 (69.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 66 (54.10%) Active Directory
3 46 (37.70%) XenServer
4 32 (26.23%) XenApp
5 29 (23.77%) XenDesktop
6 26 (21.31%) VMware ESX
7 13 (10.66%) Hyper-V
8 12 (9.836%) VMware ESXi
9 7 (5.738%) Terminal Services
10 5 (4.098%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 4 (3.279%) Microsoft App-V
12 2 (1.639%) Samba
12 2 (1.639%) Xen
12 2 (1.639%) NFS
13 1 (0.820%) VirtualBox
13 1 (0.820%) SpamAssassin
13 1 (0.820%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.820%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 22 (18.03%) SCOM
2 15 (12.30%) SCCM
3 11 (9.016%) Backup Exec
4 10 (8.197%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
5 6 (4.918%) NetBackup
5 6 (4.918%) Nagios
6 5 (4.098%) Cacti
7 4 (3.279%) McAfee ePO
8 2 (1.639%) SCVMM
8 2 (1.639%) WSUS
8 2 (1.639%) Puppet
9 1 (0.820%) PureDisk
9 1 (0.820%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 115 (94.26%) VMware
2 63 (51.64%) Microsoft
3 62 (50.82%) Citrix
4 60 (49.18%) HP
5 36 (29.51%) EMC
6 35 (28.69%) Cisco
7 26 (21.31%) NetApp
8 24 (19.67%) ProCurve
9 19 (15.57%) Dell
10 17 (13.93%) IBM
11 16 (13.11%) Symantec
11 16 (13.11%) Juniper
12 15 (12.30%) Red Hat
13 13 (10.66%) Veeam
14 9 (7.377%) Brocade
15 7 (5.738%) CommVault
15 7 (5.738%) Blue Coat
16 6 (4.918%) DataCore
16 6 (4.918%) FalconStor
16 6 (4.918%) PlateSpin
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Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits + On-Call
Posted: 21 May 2013
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Salary: Negotiable on experience
Posted: 16 May 2013
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