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 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Xen Project UK
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	707	761	789
Rank change year-on-year	+54	+28
Permanent jobs citing Xen	167	172	195
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.19%	0.18%	0.18%
As % of the System Software category	1.45%	1.39%	1.50%
Number of salaries quoted	161	147	133
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	£32,800
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	11512	12340	13028
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	12.87%	12.71%	11.75%
Number of salaries quoted	9775	10512	10778
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	£38,000	£39,000	£37,500
% change year-on-year	-2.56%	+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 26 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 26 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	+24	157	£57,500	+15.00%	21
London	-5	63	£58,750	-9.61%	8
North West	-17	37	£37,500	-11.76%	4
Yorkshire	+6	34	£57,500	+35.29%	2
West Yorkshire	+20	26	£60,000	+41.17%	2
Manchester	-25	26	£60,000	+41.17%	1
Leeds	+12	25	£60,000	+41.17%	2
Wigan	-	11	£37,500	-
Warrington	-	10	£37,500	-	2
Cheshire	-	10	£37,500	-	3
City of London	+26	9	£67,500	-
East Midlands	+27	8	£35,000	-22.22%	1
Sheffield	+2	8	£57,500	+15.00%
South Yorkshire	-3	8	£57,500	+15.00%
Derby	+14	6	£35,000	-24.73%
Derbyshire	+13	6	£35,000	-22.22%
South West	-9	6	£60,000	-11.11%	1
South East	+54	5	£65,000	+73.33%	5
Bristol	-24	5	£60,000	-11.11%
East of England	0	4	£55,000	+18.91%
Berkshire	+22	3	£52,500	+61.53%
Cambridge	-11	3	£58,500	+26.48%
Cambridgeshire	-15	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	+19	1	£52,500	+61.53%

Xen
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 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	308 (93.90%)	Linux
2	225 (68.60%)	Puppet
3	215 (65.55%)	DevOps
4	205 (62.50%)	Agile Software Development
5	202 (61.59%)	Opscode Chef
6	185 (56.40%)	Python
7	167 (50.91%)	Continuous Integration
8	162 (49.39%)	OpenStack
9	161 (49.09%)	VMware
10	160 (48.78%)	Ruby
11	154 (46.95%)	Bash Shell
12	153 (46.65%)	VMware Infrastructure
13	145 (44.21%)	Oracle
14	130 (39.63%)	Unix
15	129 (39.33%)	Ansible

16	128 (39.02%)	Windows
16	128 (39.02%)	Configuration Management
17	127 (38.72%)	SQL
18	126 (38.41%)	Shell Script
19	125 (38.11%)	vSphere
20	120 (36.59%)	XenServer
21	118 (35.98%)	CloudStack
22	117 (35.67%)	Scrum
23	113 (34.45%)	DSDM
24	111 (33.84%)	EnterpriseDB
24	111 (33.84%)	Amazon AWS
25	106 (32.32%)	Cobbler
26	101 (30.79%)	KVM
27	99 (30.18%)	Git (software)
28	96 (29.27%)	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	162 (49.39%)	OpenStack
2	118 (35.98%)	CloudStack
3	48 (14.63%)	Apache
4	47 (14.33%)	WebSphere
5	33 (10.06%)	JBoss
6	32 (9.76%)	WebLogic
7	30 (9.15%)	nginx
8	27 (8.23%)	Tomcat
9	20 (6.10%)	IIS
10	13 (3.96%)	MS Exchange
11	12 (3.66%)	Oracle Coherence
12	9 (2.74%)	Cloud Foundry
13	8 (2.44%)	Jetty
14	6 (1.83%)	DataSynapse
14	6 (1.83%)	Oracle HTTP Server
14	6 (1.83%)	WebSphere Application Server
15	5 (1.52%)	SharePoint
16	4 (1.22%)	Elasticsearch
17	3 (0.91%)	Joomla!
17	3 (0.91%)	Skype for Business

Business Applications
1	6 (1.83%)	RMDS
2	3 (0.91%)	Magento
2	3 (0.91%)	OpenCart
3	2 (0.61%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	111 (33.84%)	Amazon AWS
2	19 (5.79%)	Microsoft Azure
3	14 (4.27%)	IaaS
4	12 (3.66%)	Google Cloud Platform
5	10 (3.05%)	Amazon EC2
6	9 (2.74%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	8 (2.44%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	8 (2.44%)	Office 365
8	6 (1.83%)	Amazon S3
8	6 (1.83%)	CloudFront
8	6 (1.83%)	SaaS
9	5 (1.52%)	G Suite
9	5 (1.52%)	Virtual Private Cloud
10	4 (1.22%)	DigitalOcean
10	4 (1.22%)	IBM Cloud
10	4 (1.22%)	SoftLayer
11	3 (0.91%)	Amazon ELB
11	3 (0.91%)	AWS CloudTrail
11	3 (0.91%)	Google Compute Engine
11	3 (0.91%)	Route 53

Communications & Networking
1	89 (27.13%)	Firewall
2	58 (17.68%)	TCP/IP
3	38 (11.59%)	DNS
4	23 (7.01%)	SAN
5	22 (6.71%)	WAN
6	21 (6.40%)	HTTP
6	21 (6.40%)	LAN
6	21 (6.40%)	NAS
7	16 (4.88%)	iSCSI
8	12 (3.66%)	FCoE
8	12 (3.66%)	Fibre Channel
8	12 (3.66%)	Multicast
9	11 (3.35%)	Internet
9	11 (3.35%)	Network Security
10	9 (2.74%)	BGP
10	9 (2.74%)	VPN
11	8 (2.44%)	DHCP
11	8 (2.44%)	MPLS
11	8 (2.44%)	SSL
11	8 (2.44%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	68 (20.73%)	MySQL
2	26 (7.93%)	PostgreSQL
3	18 (5.49%)	SQL Server
4	14 (4.27%)	Hadoop
4	14 (4.27%)	MongoDB
5	13 (3.96%)	HBase
6	12 (3.66%)	NoSQL
7	9 (2.74%)	Amazon RDS
7	9 (2.74%)	Apache Cassandra
7	9 (2.74%)	MariaDB
7	9 (2.74%)	Redis
8	7 (2.13%)	Relational Database
9	5 (1.52%)	Oracle Database
10	3 (0.91%)	Big Data
10	3 (0.91%)	CouchDB
11	2 (0.61%)	Amazon DynamoDB
11	2 (0.61%)	BigQuery
11	2 (0.61%)	Data Warehouse
11	2 (0.61%)	Riak
12	1 (0.30%)	RDBMS

Development Applications
1	99 (30.18%)	Git (software)
2	72 (21.95%)	Jenkins
3	46 (14.02%)	TeamCity
4	37 (11.28%)	Subversion
5	30 (9.15%)	NuGet
6	12 (3.66%)	Vagrant
7	11 (3.35%)	JMeter
8	6 (1.83%)	JIRA
8	6 (1.83%)	Travis CI
9	5 (1.52%)	GoCD
10	4 (1.22%)	GCC
11	3 (0.91%)	JUnit
11	3 (0.91%)	Maven
11	3 (0.91%)	Octopus Deploy
11	3 (0.91%)	RSpec
12	2 (0.61%)	Atlassian Bamboo
12	2 (0.61%)	GitLab
12	2 (0.61%)	Talend Open Studio
13	1 (0.30%)	MSBuild
13	1 (0.30%)	NeoLoad

General
1	24 (7.32%)	Finance
2	12 (3.66%)	Retail
3	9 (2.74%)	Banking
4	8 (2.44%)	Games
5	6 (1.83%)	Investment Banking
5	6 (1.83%)	Telecoms
6	3 (0.91%)	Marketing
7	2 (0.61%)	Back Office
8	1 (0.30%)	Advertising
8	1 (0.30%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	161 (49.09%)	DevOps Engineer
2	76 (23.17%)	Platform Engineer
3	52 (15.85%)	Linux Engineer
4	32 (9.76%)	Infrastructure Engineer
5	31 (9.45%)	Operations Engineer
6	25 (7.62%)	IT Engineer
7	23 (7.01%)	Administrator
8	22 (6.71%)	Linux DevOps Engineer
8	22 (6.71%)	Linux/Unix DevOps
8	22 (6.71%)	Systems Administrator
9	20 (6.10%)	Network Engineer
9	20 (6.10%)	Wintel Engineer
10	18 (5.49%)	Systems Engineer
11	17 (5.18%)	AWS Engineer
12	16 (4.88%)	Architect
12	16 (4.88%)	Linux Administrator
12	16 (4.88%)	Linux Systems Administrator
13	15 (4.57%)	Build and Release Engineer
13	15 (4.57%)	Build Engineer
13	15 (4.57%)	Release Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	44 (13.41%)	LAMP
2	35 (10.67%)	.NET
3	15 (4.57%)	LEMP Stack
4	13 (3.96%)	Web Services
4	13 (3.96%)	XML
5	12 (3.66%)	RabbitMQ
6	10 (3.05%)	HTML
6	10 (3.05%)	LAPP Stack
7	9 (2.74%)	Middleware
7	9 (2.74%)	Sensu
8	8 (2.44%)	ActiveMQ
9	6 (1.83%)	HornetQ
9	6 (1.83%)	JMX
9	6 (1.83%)	Rendezvous
9	6 (1.83%)	Ultra Messaging
9	6 (1.83%)	XSLT
10	5 (1.52%)	Elastic Stack
11	4 (1.22%)	AngularJS
11	4 (1.22%)	JSON
11	4 (1.22%)	LLVM

Miscellaneous
1	21 (6.40%)	Data Centre
2	15 (4.57%)	Computer Science
3	8 (2.44%)	Clustering
3	8 (2.44%)	Replication
4	7 (2.13%)	Enterprise Software
5	5 (1.52%)	Analytical Skills
6	4 (1.22%)	Blackberry
6	4 (1.22%)	Linux Command Line
6	4 (1.22%)	Management Information System
7	3 (0.91%)	Hybrid Cloud
7	3 (0.91%)	iPad
7	3 (0.91%)	Mobile App
7	3 (0.91%)	User Experience
8	2 (0.61%)	Algorithms
8	2 (0.61%)	Fat Client
8	2 (0.61%)	Public Cloud
8	2 (0.61%)	Social Media
8	2 (0.61%)	Thin Client
8	2 (0.61%)	Virtual Team
9	1 (0.30%)	Grid Computing

Operating Systems
1	308 (93.90%)	Linux
2	130 (39.63%)	Unix
3	128 (39.02%)	Windows
4	62 (18.90%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5	44 (13.41%)	CentOS
5	44 (13.41%)	Ubuntu
6	36 (10.98%)	Debian
7	31 (9.45%)	Windows Server
8	14 (4.27%)	Windows Server 2008
9	13 (3.96%)	Solaris
10	11 (3.35%)	Windows Server 2012
11	10 (3.05%)	Mac OS
12	5 (1.52%)	CoreOS
12	5 (1.52%)	Windows Server 2003
13	4 (1.22%)	Android
13	4 (1.22%)	Apple iOS
13	4 (1.22%)	Windows 10
14	3 (0.91%)	Windows 7
15	2 (0.61%)	Fedora
15	2 (0.61%)	VMS

Processes & Methodologies
1	215 (65.55%)	DevOps
2	205 (62.50%)	Agile Software Development
3	167 (50.91%)	Continuous Integration
4	128 (39.02%)	Configuration Management
5	117 (35.67%)	Scrum
6	113 (34.45%)	DSDM
7	96 (29.27%)	RUP
8	42 (12.80%)	Performance Tuning
9	40 (12.20%)	Continuous Delivery
10	39 (11.89%)	Disaster Recovery
10	39 (11.89%)	ITIL
11	34 (10.37%)	Open Source
12	30 (9.15%)	TDD
13	29 (8.84%)	Auto-Scaling
14	28 (8.54%)	Network Design
15	26 (7.93%)	Mentoring
16	25 (7.62%)	OWASP
17	19 (5.79%)	Ticket Management
18	18 (5.49%)	Load Balancing
19	14 (4.27%)	High Availability

Programming Languages
1	185 (56.40%)	Python
2	160 (48.78%)	Ruby
3	154 (46.95%)	Bash Shell
4	127 (38.72%)	SQL
5	126 (38.41%)	Shell Script
6	45 (13.72%)	Java
7	39 (11.89%)	Perl
7	39 (11.89%)	PowerShell
8	24 (7.32%)	PHP
9	13 (3.96%)	JavaScript
10	9 (2.74%)	C
11	7 (2.13%)	C++
12	6 (1.83%)	Go
13	4 (1.22%)	C#
13	4 (1.22%)	Groovy
14	3 (0.91%)	Jython
14	3 (0.91%)	Scala
15	2 (0.61%)	C-shell
15	2 (0.61%)	Haskell
15	2 (0.61%)	sed

Qualifications
1	21 (6.40%)	Degree
2	20 (6.10%)	AWS Certification
3	14 (4.27%)	Computer Science Degree
4	6 (1.83%)	Cisco Certification
5	5 (1.52%)	CCNA
5	5 (1.52%)	Microsoft Certification
6	4 (1.22%)	CCNP
6	4 (1.22%)	CISSP
6	4 (1.22%)	MCSE
7	3 (0.91%)	CISM
7	3 (0.91%)	Master's Degree
7	3 (0.91%)	MCITP
8	2 (0.61%)	CISA
8	2 (0.61%)	LPIC
8	2 (0.61%)	Oracle Certification
9	1 (0.30%)	CEH
9	1 (0.30%)	GSEC
9	1 (0.30%)	JNCIS
9	1 (0.30%)	MCSD
9	1 (0.30%)	PhD

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	43 (13.11%)	QA
2	25 (7.62%)	SLA
3	9 (2.74%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	9 (2.74%)	PCI DSS
4	3 (0.91%)	DICOM
4	3 (0.91%)	HL7
5	1 (0.30%)	FIPS 140-2

System Software
1	153 (46.65%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	125 (38.11%)	vSphere
3	120 (36.59%)	XenServer
4	101 (30.79%)	KVM
5	77 (23.48%)	Hyper-V
6	49 (14.94%)	Virtual Machines
7	41 (12.50%)	Docker
8	35 (10.67%)	VirtualBox
9	24 (7.32%)	Active Directory
10	22 (6.71%)	NFS
11	12 (3.66%)	Oracle RAC
11	12 (3.66%)	SRDF
11	12 (3.66%)	Varnish
12	11 (3.35%)	XenApp
13	10 (3.05%)	XenDesktop
14	9 (2.74%)	iptables
14	9 (2.74%)	QEMU
15	8 (2.44%)	Microsoft App-V
16	7 (2.13%)	vCloud
17	6 (1.83%)	Snort

Systems Management
1	225 (68.60%)	Puppet
2	202 (61.59%)	Opscode Chef
3	129 (39.33%)	Ansible
4	106 (32.32%)	Cobbler
5	95 (28.96%)	Tivoli
6	46 (14.02%)	Terraform
7	45 (13.72%)	Nagios
8	16 (4.88%)	Graphite
8	16 (4.88%)	Salt
9	15 (4.57%)	Packer
9	15 (4.57%)	ZABBIX
10	12 (3.66%)	logstash
11	11 (3.35%)	Cacti
11	11 (3.35%)	HAProxy
12	10 (3.05%)	Kubernetes
13	9 (2.74%)	CFEngine
14	7 (2.13%)	Mesos
15	6 (1.83%)	Kibana
15	6 (1.83%)	ThinApp
16	5 (1.52%)	SCCM

Vendors
1	161 (49.09%)	VMware
2	145 (44.21%)	Oracle
3	111 (33.84%)	EnterpriseDB
4	86 (26.22%)	Microsoft
5	72 (21.95%)	Red Hat
6	61 (18.60%)	Cisco
7	48 (14.63%)	Juniper
8	32 (9.76%)	Citrix
9	20 (6.10%)	EMC
10	19 (5.79%)	NetApp
11	15 (4.57%)	IBM
12	13 (3.96%)	Intel
13	12 (3.66%)	Google
13	12 (3.66%)	New Relic
13	12 (3.66%)	Sybase
14	11 (3.35%)	HP
15	7 (2.13%)	CheckPoint
15	7 (2.13%)	F5
15	7 (2.13%)	SaltStack
15	7 (2.13%)	Symantec