Xen Jobs

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Xen skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Xen over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Xen Project UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	711	752	774
Rank change year-on-year	+41	+22
Permanent jobs citing Xen	161	172	198
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.18%	0.18%	0.18%
As % of the System Software category	1.42%	1.39%	1.52%
Number of salaries quoted	156	147	134
Median salary	£57,500	£50,000	£50,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+15.00%	-
90% offered a salary of more than	£37,500	£40,000	£32,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£75,000	£87,500
UK excluding London median salary	£57,500	£42,500	£42,500
% change year-on-year	+35.29%	-

Xen is in the system software skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

System Software Skills UK
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills	11339	12341	13042
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	12.87%	12.71%	11.78%
Number of salaries quoted	9621	10508	10784
Median salary	£44,000	£42,500	£41,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	+3.52%	+3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than	£26,000	£25,000	£25,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£65,000	£67,500
UK excluding London median salary	£38,500	£39,000	£37,500
% change year-on-year	-1.28%	+4.00%

Xen
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing Xen as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the System Software category.

Xen
Salary Trend

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

Xen
Salary Histogram

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Xen over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Xen
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Xen within the UK over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	+31	151	£57,500	+15.00%	20
London	-9	60	£57,500	-11.53%	8
North West	-20	35	£37,500	-11.76%	4
Yorkshire	+25	34	£57,500	+35.29%	2
West Yorkshire	+18	26	£60,000	+41.17%	2
Leeds	+7	25	£60,000	+41.17%	2
Manchester	-13	25	£57,500	+35.29%	1
Wigan	-	11	£37,500	-
Warrington	-	10	£37,500	-	2
Cheshire	-	10	£37,500	-	3
City of London	+29	8	£65,000	-3.70%
Sheffield	-2	8	£57,500	+15.00%
South Yorkshire	-5	8	£57,500	+15.00%
East Midlands	+29	7	£35,000	-22.22%	1
South West	+3	6	£60,000	-11.11%
South East	+47	5	£65,000	+73.33%	5
Derbyshire	+12	5	£35,000	-22.22%
Derby	+10	5	£35,000	-24.73%
Bristol	-20	5	£60,000	-11.11%
East of England	+4	4	£55,000	+18.91%
Berkshire	+31	3	£52,500	+61.53%
Cambridgeshire	-3	3	£58,500	+26.48%
Cambridge	-13	3	£58,500	+26.48%
Croydon	-	3	£30,000	-
Slough	-	2	£51,250	-
Nottingham	-	2	£60,000	-	1
Oxford	-	2	£65,000	-
Nottinghamshire	-	2	£60,000	-	1
Oxfordshire	-	2	£65,000	-
Reading	+21	1	£52,500	+61.53%

Xen
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT jobs citing Xen also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads with a requirement for Xen.

1	306 (94.15%)	Linux
2	223 (68.62%)	Puppet
3	213 (65.54%)	DevOps
4	204 (62.77%)	Agile Software Development
5	200 (61.54%)	Opscode Chef
6	183 (56.31%)	Python
7	165 (50.77%)	Continuous Integration
8	159 (48.92%)	VMware
9	158 (48.62%)	OpenStack
10	157 (48.31%)	Ruby
11	152 (46.77%)	Bash Shell
12	151 (46.46%)	VMware Infrastructure
13	143 (44.00%)	Oracle
14	128 (39.38%)	Unix
14	128 (39.38%)	Ansible

15	127 (39.08%)	Windows
15	127 (39.08%)	Configuration Management
16	126 (38.77%)	SQL
17	125 (38.46%)	Shell Script
18	124 (38.15%)	vSphere
19	119 (36.62%)	XenServer
20	117 (36.00%)	CloudStack
21	116 (35.69%)	Scrum
22	112 (34.46%)	DSDM
23	110 (33.85%)	EnterpriseDB
24	109 (33.54%)	Amazon AWS
25	105 (32.31%)	Cobbler
26	103 (31.69%)	KVM
27	100 (30.77%)	Git (software)
28	95 (29.23%)	RUP

Xen
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	158 (48.62%)	OpenStack
2	117 (36.00%)	CloudStack
3	48 (14.77%)	Apache
3	48 (14.77%)	WebSphere
4	33 (10.15%)	JBoss
5	32 (9.85%)	WebLogic
6	30 (9.23%)	nginx
7	27 (8.31%)	Tomcat
8	19 (5.85%)	IIS
9	14 (4.31%)	Oracle Coherence
10	11 (3.38%)	MS Exchange
11	9 (2.77%)	Cloud Foundry
12	8 (2.46%)	Jetty
13	7 (2.15%)	DataSynapse
13	7 (2.15%)	Oracle HTTP Server
14	6 (1.85%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	5 (1.54%)	SharePoint
16	4 (1.23%)	Elasticsearch
17	3 (0.92%)	Confluence
17	3 (0.92%)	Skype for Business

Business Applications
1	7 (2.15%)	RMDS
2	3 (0.92%)	Magento
2	3 (0.92%)	OpenCart
3	2 (0.62%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	109 (33.54%)	Amazon AWS
2	18 (5.54%)	Microsoft Azure
3	13 (4.00%)	IaaS
4	11 (3.38%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	10 (3.08%)	Amazon EC2
6	9 (2.77%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	8 (2.46%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	8 (2.46%)	Office 365
8	6 (1.85%)	Amazon S3
8	6 (1.85%)	CloudFront
9	5 (1.54%)	G Suite
9	5 (1.54%)	SaaS
9	5 (1.54%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	4 (1.23%)	IBM Cloud
10	4 (1.23%)	SoftLayer
11	3 (0.92%)	Amazon ELB
11	3 (0.92%)	AWS CloudTrail
11	3 (0.92%)	DigitalOcean
11	3 (0.92%)	Google Compute Engine
11	3 (0.92%)	PaaS

Communications & Networking
1	88 (27.08%)	Firewall
2	58 (17.85%)	TCP/IP
3	37 (11.38%)	DNS
4	24 (7.38%)	SAN
4	24 (7.38%)	WAN
5	23 (7.08%)	LAN
5	23 (7.08%)	NAS
6	22 (6.77%)	HTTP
7	18 (5.54%)	iSCSI
8	14 (4.31%)	FCoE
8	14 (4.31%)	Fibre Channel
8	14 (4.31%)	Multicast
9	11 (3.38%)	Internet
10	10 (3.08%)	Network Security
11	9 (2.77%)	BGP
12	8 (2.46%)	DHCP
12	8 (2.46%)	SSL
12	8 (2.46%)	VPN
13	7 (2.15%)	MPLS
13	7 (2.15%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	67 (20.62%)	MySQL
2	25 (7.69%)	PostgreSQL
3	16 (4.92%)	Hadoop
3	16 (4.92%)	SQL Server
4	15 (4.62%)	HBase
5	12 (3.69%)	MongoDB
5	12 (3.69%)	NoSQL
6	9 (2.77%)	Amazon RDS
6	9 (2.77%)	MariaDB
7	8 (2.46%)	Apache Cassandra
7	8 (2.46%)	Redis
8	7 (2.15%)	Relational Database
9	4 (1.23%)	Oracle Database
10	3 (0.92%)	Big Data
10	3 (0.92%)	CouchDB
11	2 (0.62%)	Amazon DynamoDB
11	2 (0.62%)	BigQuery
11	2 (0.62%)	Data Warehouse
11	2 (0.62%)	Riak
12	1 (0.31%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	100 (30.77%)	Git (software)
2	71 (21.85%)	Jenkins
3	45 (13.85%)	TeamCity
4	37 (11.38%)	Subversion
5	30 (9.23%)	NuGet
6	11 (3.38%)	JMeter
6	11 (3.38%)	Vagrant
7	6 (1.85%)	JIRA
8	5 (1.54%)	GoCD
8	5 (1.54%)	Travis CI
9	4 (1.23%)	GCC
10	3 (0.92%)	JUnit
10	3 (0.92%)	Maven
10	3 (0.92%)	Octopus Deploy
10	3 (0.92%)	RSpec
11	2 (0.62%)	Atlassian Bamboo
11	2 (0.62%)	GitLab
11	2 (0.62%)	Talend Open Studio
12	1 (0.31%)	Bugzilla
12	1 (0.31%)	MSBuild

General
1	26 (8.00%)	Finance
2	11 (3.38%)	Retail
3	10 (3.08%)	Banking
4	8 (2.46%)	Games
5	7 (2.15%)	Investment Banking
6	6 (1.85%)	Telecoms
7	3 (0.92%)	Marketing
8	2 (0.62%)	Back Office
9	1 (0.31%)	Advertising
9	1 (0.31%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	159 (48.92%)	DevOps Engineer
2	75 (23.08%)	Platform Engineer
3	50 (15.38%)	Linux Engineer
4	32 (9.85%)	Infrastructure Engineer
5	31 (9.54%)	Operations Engineer
6	25 (7.69%)	IT Engineer
7	23 (7.08%)	Administrator
8	22 (6.77%)	Systems Administrator
9	21 (6.46%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
9	21 (6.46%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
10	20 (6.15%)	Wintel Engineer
11	19 (5.85%)	Network Engineer
12	18 (5.54%)	Architect
13	17 (5.23%)	AWS Engineer
13	17 (5.23%)	Systems Engineer
14	16 (4.92%)	Linux Administrator
14	16 (4.92%)	Linux Systems Administrator
15	15 (4.62%)	Build and Release Engineer
15	15 (4.62%)	Build Engineer
15	15 (4.62%)	Release Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	43 (13.23%)	LAMP
2	34 (10.46%)	.NET
3	15 (4.62%)	LEMP Stack
4	14 (4.31%)	XML
5	12 (3.69%)	RabbitMQ
5	12 (3.69%)	Web Services
6	11 (3.38%)	HTML
7	10 (3.08%)	LAPP Stack
7	10 (3.08%)	Middleware
8	9 (2.77%)	Sensu
9	8 (2.46%)	ActiveMQ
10	7 (2.15%)	Rendezvous
10	7 (2.15%)	Ultra Messaging
10	7 (2.15%)	XSLT
11	6 (1.85%)	HornetQ
11	6 (1.85%)	JMX
12	4 (1.23%)	AngularJS
12	4 (1.23%)	Elastic Stack
12	4 (1.23%)	JSON
12	4 (1.23%)	LLVM

Miscellaneous
1	20 (6.15%)	Data Centre
2	15 (4.62%)	Computer Science
3	7 (2.15%)	Clustering
3	7 (2.15%)	Enterprise Software
4	6 (1.85%)	Replication
5	5 (1.54%)	Analytical Skills
6	4 (1.23%)	Management Information System
7	3 (0.92%)	Blackberry
7	3 (0.92%)	Hybrid Cloud
7	3 (0.92%)	iPad
7	3 (0.92%)	Linux Command Line
7	3 (0.92%)	Mobile App
7	3 (0.92%)	User Experience
8	2 (0.62%)	Algorithms
8	2 (0.62%)	Fat Client
8	2 (0.62%)	Public Cloud
8	2 (0.62%)	Social Media
8	2 (0.62%)	Thin Client
8	2 (0.62%)	Virtual Team
9	1 (0.31%)	Grid Computing

Operating Systems
1	306 (94.15%)	Linux
2	128 (39.38%)	Unix
3	127 (39.08%)	Windows
4	62 (19.08%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	44 (13.54%)	Ubuntu
6	43 (13.23%)	CentOS
7	36 (11.08%)	Debian
8	28 (8.62%)	Windows Server
9	15 (4.62%)	Solaris
10	14 (4.31%)	Windows Server 2008
11	11 (3.38%)	Windows Server 2012
12	9 (2.77%)	Mac OS
13	5 (1.54%)	Windows Server 2003
14	4 (1.23%)	CoreOS
14	4 (1.23%)	Windows 10
15	3 (0.92%)	Android
15	3 (0.92%)	Apple iOS
15	3 (0.92%)	Windows 7
16	2 (0.62%)	Fedora
16	2 (0.62%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	213 (65.54%)	DevOps
2	204 (62.77%)	Agile Software Development
3	165 (50.77%)	Continuous Integration
4	127 (39.08%)	Configuration Management
5	116 (35.69%)	Scrum
6	112 (34.46%)	DSDM
7	95 (29.23%)	RUP
8	44 (13.54%)	Performance Tuning
9	40 (12.31%)	Continuous Delivery
10	39 (12.00%)	Disaster Recovery
11	38 (11.69%)	ITIL
12	34 (10.46%)	Open Source
13	30 (9.23%)	TDD
14	29 (8.92%)	Auto-Scaling
15	28 (8.62%)	Network Design
16	26 (8.00%)	Mentoring
17	25 (7.69%)	OWASP
18	19 (5.85%)	Ticket Management
19	17 (5.23%)	Load Balancing
20	14 (4.31%)	Benchmarking

Programming Languages
1	183 (56.31%)	Python
2	157 (48.31%)	Ruby
3	152 (46.77%)	Bash Shell
4	126 (38.77%)	SQL
5	125 (38.46%)	Shell Script
6	45 (13.85%)	Java
7	39 (12.00%)	PowerShell
8	38 (11.69%)	Perl
9	23 (7.08%)	PHP
10	14 (4.31%)	JavaScript
11	9 (2.77%)	C
12	6 (1.85%)	C++
13	5 (1.54%)	Go
14	4 (1.23%)	Groovy
15	3 (0.92%)	C#
15	3 (0.92%)	Jython
16	2 (0.62%)	C-shell
16	2 (0.62%)	Haskell
16	2 (0.62%)	Scala
16	2 (0.62%)	sed

Qualifications
1	20 (6.15%)	AWS Certification
1	20 (6.15%)	Degree
2	14 (4.31%)	Computer Science Degree
3	6 (1.85%)	Cisco Certification
4	5 (1.54%)	CCNA
5	4 (1.23%)	CCNP
5	4 (1.23%)	CISSP
5	4 (1.23%)	Microsoft Certification
6	3 (0.92%)	CISM
6	3 (0.92%)	Master's Degree
6	3 (0.92%)	MCSE
7	2 (0.62%)	CISA
7	2 (0.62%)	LPIC
7	2 (0.62%)	MCITP
8	1 (0.31%)	CEH
8	1 (0.31%)	CompTIA Security+
8	1 (0.31%)	GSEC
8	1 (0.31%)	JNCIS
8	1 (0.31%)	Oracle Certification
8	1 (0.31%)	Security+ Certification

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	43 (13.23%)	QA
2	25 (7.69%)	SLA
3	8 (2.46%)	PCI DSS
4	7 (2.15%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	3 (0.92%)	DICOM
5	3 (0.92%)	HL7
6	1 (0.31%)	FIPS 140-2

System Software
1	151 (46.46%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	124 (38.15%)	vSphere
3	119 (36.62%)	XenServer
4	103 (31.69%)	KVM
5	78 (24.00%)	Hyper-V
6	48 (14.77%)	Virtual Machines
7	40 (12.31%)	Docker
8	34 (10.46%)	VirtualBox
9	24 (7.38%)	NFS
10	23 (7.08%)	Active Directory
11	14 (4.31%)	Oracle RAC
11	14 (4.31%)	SRDF
12	12 (3.69%)	Varnish
13	10 (3.08%)	XenApp
14	9 (2.77%)	iptables
14	9 (2.77%)	QEMU
14	9 (2.77%)	XenDesktop
15	7 (2.15%)	Microsoft App-V
16	6 (1.85%)	Snort
16	6 (1.85%)	vCloud

Systems Management
1	223 (68.62%)	Puppet
2	200 (61.54%)	Opscode Chef
3	128 (39.38%)	Ansible
4	105 (32.31%)	Cobbler
5	94 (28.92%)	Tivoli
6	45 (13.85%)	Terraform
7	44 (13.54%)	Nagios
8	16 (4.92%)	Graphite
9	15 (4.62%)	Salt
10	14 (4.31%)	Packer
10	14 (4.31%)	ZABBIX
11	12 (3.69%)	logstash
12	11 (3.38%)	Cacti
12	11 (3.38%)	HAProxy
13	9 (2.77%)	CFEngine
13	9 (2.77%)	Kubernetes
14	7 (2.15%)	Mesos
15	6 (1.85%)	Kibana
16	5 (1.54%)	SCCM
16	5 (1.54%)	ThinApp

Vendors
1	159 (48.92%)	VMware
2	143 (44.00%)	Oracle
3	110 (33.85%)	EnterpriseDB
4	83 (25.54%)	Microsoft
5	70 (21.54%)	Red Hat
6	62 (19.08%)	Cisco
7	47 (14.46%)	Juniper
8	31 (9.54%)	Citrix
9	20 (6.15%)	EMC
9	20 (6.15%)	NetApp
10	15 (4.62%)	IBM
10	15 (4.62%)	Intel
11	14 (4.31%)	Sybase
12	11 (3.38%)	Google
12	11 (3.38%)	New Relic
13	10 (3.08%)	HP
14	7 (2.15%)	TIBCO
15	6 (1.85%)	F5
15	6 (1.85%)	Symantec
15	6 (1.85%)	Veeam