The first table below looks at the demand for Xen 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 Xen 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
XenSource Xen
Rank 170 158 132
Rank change year-on-year
-12 -26
Permanent jobs citing Xen 1 15 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.027% 0.461% 0.376%
As % of the System Software category 0.256% 4.673% 4.231%
Number of salaries quoted 1 8 11
Average salary £21,000 £39,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-46.49% -1.87%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £40,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year
+12.50% -8.57%
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%
Xen
Yorkshire

Xen
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Xen Jobs Demand Trend

Xen
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire Xen Salary Trend

Xen
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen 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 -8 1 £21,000 -40.00%
Xen
Yorkshire

Xen
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) ProCurve
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) FTP

Xen
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Xen 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 Xen. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) SSH
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) SMTP
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) FTP
2 2 (66.67%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
3 1 (33.33%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Storage Systems Administrator
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Debian
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) CentOS
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Perl
2 1 (33.33%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) vSphere
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) NFS
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) ProCurve
2 2 (66.67%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) F5