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 have cited VAX over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 902 972 -
Rank change year-on-year +70 - -
Permanent jobs citing VAX 8 7 0
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.008% 0.007% -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.023% 0.016% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37,500 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 -
75th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 -
90th Percentile - £50,000 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 -
% change year-on-year -20.00% - -

All Generic Skills
UK

VAX is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 35,003 44,179 74,705
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 35.43% 42.72% 47.46%
Number of salaries quoted 23,080 23,931 34,283
10th Percentile £28,000 £35,017 £34,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £46,250 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +4.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £86,250 £84,153
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 6 May 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 +105 8 £40,000 -
UK excluding London -3 8 £40,000 -20.00%
South West - 7 £40,000 -
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 8 (100.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) AWS
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) GCP
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) MySQL
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Administrator
1 7 (87.50%) Systems Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) IT Administrator
2 3 (37.50%) IT Systems Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Linux
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Windows 10
1 8 (100.00%) Windows 7
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 8 (100.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Continuous Improvement
1 5 (62.50%) Office Automation
2 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
2 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 3 (37.50%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (100.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) XenApp
2 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (100.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 8 (100.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Centreon
1 8 (100.00%) Citrix
1 8 (100.00%) EMC
1 8 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (100.00%) Sybase
1 8 (100.00%) Veeam
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat