DEC VAX
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term VAX in permanent job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that cited VAX over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 838 876 1272
Rank change year-on-year +38 +396 -
Permanent jobs citing VAX 4 11 3
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.004% 0.014% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.013% 0.033% 0.004%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 0
10th Percentile £37,525 - -
25th Percentile £37,563 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £39,750 £40,000 -
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% - -
75th Percentile £42,188 - -
90th Percentile £42,375 £46,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £39,750 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year -20.50% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

VAX falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 30,081 33,205 84,438
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.28% 41.15% 48.18%
Number of salaries quoted 18,138 20,787 36,075
10th Percentile £30,000 £35,416 £34,500
25th Percentile £40,013 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £64,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -14.06% +2.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £85,000 £83,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £107,500 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

VAX
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing VAX as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for VAX in the UK

VAX
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing VAX.

Salary trend for VAX in the UK

VAX
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing VAX within the UK over the 6 months to 26 July 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +29 4 £39,750 -0.63%
UK excluding London -26 4 £39,750 -20.50%
South West - 3 £39,500 -
Work from Home - 3 £39,500 -
South East - 1 £40,000 -

VAX
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
1 4 (100.00%) GCP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (100.00%) MySQL
1 4 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) IT Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) IT Systems Administrator
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 4 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 3 (75.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science
1 3 (75.00%) Containerisation
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Office Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 4 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Centreon
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) EMC
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 4 (100.00%) Sybase
1 4 (100.00%) Veeam
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Red Hat