Quoting from IT Week:
Deployments of virtual desktop PCs and servers are being held up by a lack of appropriate engineering skills, according to a survey published yesterday.
Research conducted by Coleman Parkes on behalf of IT consultants Avanade, indicates that 53 percent of British businesses are unable to implement desktop and server virtualisation due to a lack of relevant expertise…
Read the whole article at source.
Impressive skills required by virtualization professionals are a real thing as I wrote already in October 2006. Companies inability to promptly recognize and award such competencies is a fact as well.
virtualization.info Job Board can testify the low amount of requests for virtualization professionals in US, where adoption rate is higher than everywhere.