The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Belfast region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Vendors for the Belfast region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 29 11 22
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +11
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 19 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 2.062% 11.73% 6.728%
As % of the Vendors category 7.407% 24.36% 13.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 13
Average daily rate £348 £260 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.65% -20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £306 £260 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £390 £350 £370
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Belfast
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
54 78 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Belfast 27.84% 48.15% 48.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 17 54
Average daily rate £375 £265 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.50% -18.46%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £256 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £352 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
Average hourly rate - - £19.45
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
County Antrim

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the Belfast region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Belfast VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware across the Belfast region.

Belfast VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Belfast region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Belfast VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the Belfast region.

Belfast VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing VMware also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VMware.

1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
3 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 2 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
4 2 (25.00%) Xen
4 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (25.00%) CommVault
4 2 (25.00%) NetApp
4 2 (25.00%) Symantec
4 2 (25.00%) HP
4 2 (25.00%) Dell
4 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 2 (25.00%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Replication
5 1 (12.50%) Change Management
5 1 (12.50%) Firewall
5 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) SharePoint

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Belfast region citing VMware also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited VMware. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (12.50%) Lync
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 1 (12.50%) MS Office
2 1 (12.50%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (12.50%) Firewall
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix Technical Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Consultant
1 2 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix Consultant
2 1 (12.50%) Exchange Specialist
2 1 (12.50%) DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Design Authority
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Design Architect
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle DBA
2 1 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Architecture
1 1 (12.50%) Change Management
System Software
1 4 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) VMware ESX
3 2 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (25.00%) Xen
3 2 (25.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (12.50%) XenServer
4 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
4 1 (12.50%) SRDF
4 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
3 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 2 (25.00%) CommVault
3 2 (25.00%) NetApp
3 2 (25.00%) Symantec
3 2 (25.00%) HP
3 2 (25.00%) Dell
3 2 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (12.50%) Oracle