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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 51 58 53
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -5
Permanent jobs citing vSphere 8 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 1.882% 0.708% 0.252%
As % of the System Software category 21.62% 11.54% 3.704%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 0
Average salary £53,750 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.15% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £42,500 £40,250
% change year-on-year
-1.17% +5.59%
All System Software
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
37 26 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 8.706% 6.132% 6.801%
Number of salaries quoted 16 14 15
Average salary £52,500 £47,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.52% +18.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £26,000 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £41,750 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £39,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.28% +4.00%
vSphere
North Yorkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York vSphere Salary Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (88.89%) HP
3 7 (77.78%) Dell
3 7 (77.78%) Citrix
3 7 (77.78%) Cisco
3 7 (77.78%) Citrix Certification
3 7 (77.78%) CCEA
3 7 (77.78%) VMware ESX
3 7 (77.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (77.78%) XenApp
3 7 (77.78%) XenServer
3 7 (77.78%) XenDesktop
3 7 (77.78%) CCEE
3 7 (77.78%) CCIA
4 6 (66.67%) VCAP
4 6 (66.67%) SaaS
4 6 (66.67%) DataCore
4 6 (66.67%) FalconStor
4 6 (66.67%) VCDX
4 6 (66.67%) Blue Coat
4 6 (66.67%) PlateSpin
4 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (66.67%) Juniper
4 6 (66.67%) NetApp
4 6 (66.67%) CCNP
4 6 (66.67%) CCDA
4 6 (66.67%) CCA
4 6 (66.67%) EMC
5 2 (22.22%) MCITP

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 1 (11.11%) LAMP
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
1 1 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon SQS
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon EC2
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) SAN
1 1 (11.11%) SNMP
1 1 (11.11%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SimpleDB
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon RDS
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
1 6 (66.67%) Solutions Architect
2 4 (44.44%) Virtualisation Architect
3 2 (22.22%) VMware Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Solutions Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Server Support
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Administrator
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Technical Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (66.67%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Ubuntu
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (11.11%) Service Management
1 1 (11.11%) ITIL
1 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
1 1 (11.11%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) Citrix Certification
1 7 (77.78%) CCEA
1 7 (77.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 7 (77.78%) CCEE
1 7 (77.78%) CCIA
2 6 (66.67%) VCAP
2 6 (66.67%) VCDX
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (66.67%) CCNP
2 6 (66.67%) CCDA
2 6 (66.67%) CCA
3 2 (22.22%) MCITP
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (11.11%) MCP
4 1 (11.11%) MCTS
4 1 (11.11%) CCAA
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (77.78%) VMware ESX
2 7 (77.78%) XenApp
2 7 (77.78%) XenServer
2 7 (77.78%) XenDesktop
3 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (88.89%) HP
3 7 (77.78%) Dell
3 7 (77.78%) Citrix
3 7 (77.78%) Cisco
4 6 (66.67%) DataCore
4 6 (66.67%) FalconStor
4 6 (66.67%) Blue Coat
4 6 (66.67%) PlateSpin
4 6 (66.67%) Juniper
4 6 (66.67%) NetApp
4 6 (66.67%) EMC
5 1 (11.11%) IBM
5 1 (11.11%) Veeam