The first table below looks at the demand for vCloud skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vCloud over the 3 months to 21 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 of the System Software category for the Berkshire 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vCloud
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing vCloud 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-22.75% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
282 232 257
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.42% 7.436% 8.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 79 97
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £165 £234 £259
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 35 22
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £30.77
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -34.99%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vCloud
South East

vCloud
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing vCloud across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Berkshire vCloud Jobs Demand Trend

vCloud
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire vCloud Daily Rate Trend

vCloud
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing vCloud 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 vCloud.

1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
1 2 (100.00%) Web Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing

vCloud
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing vCloud 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 vCloud. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) HTML
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Ajax
1 2 (100.00%) jQuery
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Web Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft