The first table below looks at the demand for XenServer 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 XenServer over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Citrix XenServer
Rank 130 122 130
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +8
Permanent jobs citing XenServer 44 49 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.210% 1.537% 0.801%
As % of the System Software category 11.70% 15.56% 8.727%
Number of salaries quoted 38 32 22
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £51,750 £44,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
All System Software
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
376 315 275
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 10.34% 9.884% 9.176%
Number of salaries quoted 326 240 228
Average salary £36,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.85% +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%
XenServer
Yorkshire

XenServer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire XenServer Jobs Demand Trend

XenServer
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire XenServer Salary Trend

XenServer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing XenServer across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Yorkshire XenServer Salary Histogram

XenServer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing XenServer within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 -5 37 £45,000 +12.50%
Wakefield -9 12 £53,750 +34.37%
Bradford - 8 £53,750 -
Dewsbury - 5 £55,000 -
Huddersfield - 2 £40,750 -
Halifax - 1 £26,500 -
XenServer
Yorkshire

XenServer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer.

1 67 (98.53%) Citrix
2 65 (95.59%) VMware
3 49 (72.06%) XenApp
4 46 (67.65%) vSphere
5 44 (64.71%) Windows
6 39 (57.35%) VMware Infrastructure
7 35 (51.47%) XenDesktop
8 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2008
8 30 (44.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 29 (42.65%) SAN
10 26 (38.24%) Active Directory
11 25 (36.76%) Citrix Certification
11 25 (36.76%) Microsoft
12 24 (35.29%) HP
13 23 (33.82%) Windows Server 2003
13 23 (33.82%) MS Exchange
14 22 (32.35%) TCP/IP
14 22 (32.35%) CCEA
14 22 (32.35%) MCITP
14 22 (32.35%) Firewall
15 21 (30.88%) Microsoft Certification
15 21 (30.88%) Cisco
15 21 (30.88%) Linux
16 19 (27.94%) NetApp
17 18 (26.47%) CCEE
17 18 (26.47%) CCIA
18 17 (25.00%) CCA
18 17 (25.00%) MCSE
18 17 (25.00%) VMware ESX
19 16 (23.53%) MCP

XenServer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing XenServer 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 XenServer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (8.824%) .NET
2 1 (1.471%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 23 (33.82%) MS Exchange
2 11 (16.18%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (14.71%) Exchange Server 2003
4 6 (8.824%) IIS
5 5 (7.353%) Exchange Server 2000
6 4 (5.882%) SharePoint
6 4 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (4.412%) SharePoint Server
7 3 (4.412%) Apache
8 1 (1.471%) Office Communications Server
8 1 (1.471%) Lync
Applications
1 12 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.471%) Office 365
2 1 (1.471%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 29 (42.65%) SAN
2 22 (32.35%) TCP/IP
2 22 (32.35%) Firewall
3 12 (17.65%) Network Security
4 10 (14.71%) DHCP
4 10 (14.71%) DNS
4 10 (14.71%) NetScaler
5 7 (10.29%) Unified Communications
6 6 (8.824%) FTP
6 6 (8.824%) HTTP
6 6 (8.824%) SMTP
6 6 (8.824%) SSH
6 6 (8.824%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (7.353%) Cisco Nexus
8 4 (5.882%) Wireless
9 3 (4.412%) BIG-IP
10 2 (2.941%) VoIP
10 2 (2.941%) VPN
11 1 (1.471%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.824%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.471%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.471%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (1.471%) Telecoms
1 1 (1.471%) Finance
Job Titles
1 24 (35.29%) Consultant
2 17 (25.00%) Architect
2 17 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 14 (20.59%) Technical Consultant
4 11 (16.18%) Senior Consultant
4 11 (16.18%) Senior Technical Consultant
5 7 (10.29%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 7 (10.29%) Administrator
5 7 (10.29%) Systems Administrator
6 6 (8.824%) Support Engineer
6 6 (8.824%) Network Architect
6 6 (8.824%) VMware Consultant
7 5 (7.353%) Server Engineer
7 5 (7.353%) Citrix Consultant
8 4 (5.882%) Virtualisation Architect
9 3 (4.412%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 3 (4.412%) 3rd Line Support
9 3 (4.412%) Pre Sales Consultant
9 3 (4.412%) Sales Consultant
10 2 (2.941%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) SaaS
1 7 (10.29%) Clustering
2 2 (2.941%) Celerra
2 2 (2.941%) CLARiiON
2 2 (2.941%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.471%) PaaS
3 1 (1.471%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.471%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (1.471%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.471%) Firmware
3 1 (1.471%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 44 (64.71%) Windows
2 30 (44.12%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (33.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 21 (30.88%) Linux
5 6 (8.824%) Windows 2000 Server
6 4 (5.882%) UNIX
6 4 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (4.412%) CentOS
7 3 (4.412%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (4.412%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (8.824%) Business Development
2 5 (7.353%) Load Balancing
2 5 (7.353%) Data Management
3 4 (5.882%) High Availability
4 3 (4.412%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (4.412%) Problem Management
4 3 (4.412%) ITIL
5 2 (2.941%) Technical Architecture
5 2 (2.941%) Capacity Management
5 2 (2.941%) Performance Management
6 1 (1.471%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (1.471%) Change Control
6 1 (1.471%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (1.471%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (1.471%) Service Management
6 1 (1.471%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.471%) Business Continuity
6 1 (1.471%) Information Security
6 1 (1.471%) Data Analysis
6 1 (1.471%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (23.53%) SQL
2 7 (10.29%) Bash shell
2 7 (10.29%) Perl
3 3 (4.412%) PHP
4 1 (1.471%) VB6
4 1 (1.471%) VB
4 1 (1.471%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 30 (44.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 25 (36.76%) Citrix Certification
3 22 (32.35%) CCEA
3 22 (32.35%) MCITP
4 21 (30.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 18 (26.47%) CCEE
5 18 (26.47%) CCIA
6 17 (25.00%) CCA
6 17 (25.00%) MCSE
7 16 (23.53%) MCP
7 16 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
8 12 (17.65%) CCNP
9 10 (14.71%) CCNA
10 9 (13.24%) CCAA
10 9 (13.24%) VCDX
10 9 (13.24%) MCTS
11 8 (11.76%) VCAP
11 8 (11.76%) NCDA
11 8 (11.76%) NCIE
12 6 (8.824%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.471%) SLA
System Software
1 49 (72.06%) XenApp
2 46 (67.65%) vSphere
3 39 (57.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 35 (51.47%) XenDesktop
5 26 (38.24%) Active Directory
6 17 (25.00%) VMware ESX
7 13 (19.12%) Hyper-V
8 4 (5.882%) Microsoft App-V
8 4 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.471%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 1 (1.471%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (1.471%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 5 (7.353%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 5 (7.353%) SCOM
1 5 (7.353%) NetBackup
1 5 (7.353%) Backup Exec
2 4 (5.882%) SCCM
3 2 (2.941%) SCVMM
4 1 (1.471%) PureDisk
4 1 (1.471%) WSUS
Vendors
1 67 (98.53%) Citrix
2 65 (95.59%) VMware
3 25 (36.76%) Microsoft
4 24 (35.29%) HP
5 21 (30.88%) Cisco
6 19 (27.94%) NetApp
7 12 (17.65%) Juniper
7 12 (17.65%) EMC
8 10 (14.71%) IBM
9 9 (13.24%) Veeam
9 9 (13.24%) Dell
10 6 (8.824%) CommVault
10 6 (8.824%) Blue Coat
10 6 (8.824%) PlateSpin
10 6 (8.824%) Kaspersky
10 6 (8.824%) DataCore
10 6 (8.824%) FalconStor
11 5 (7.353%) Symantec
12 3 (4.412%) F5
12 3 (4.412%) Brocade
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will be responsible for: * Windows 08/12 Environments (Server and Desktop infrastructure)- design, build, configure, test, maintain * Manage and monitor MS Servers including Active Directory, DNS, DHCP *...
Mortimer Spinks
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Castleford, Leeds, York, Bradford, Huddersfield,...
Microsoft recommended Active Directory strategy management - Strong experience of Server virtualisation technologies utilising Citrix XenServer - Strong Windows Server and Desktop OS - Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery - Ability to adapt...
inTalent
Salary: £25,000 - £27,000 per year
Posted: 23 May 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
My client a value added distributor of servers, data storage, network security, enterprise software, virtualisation and access infrastructure are currently in the market for Citrix Consultant - Citrix -CCEE -...
Jam Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Car + Bonus + Pension + Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013