Birmingham VMware ESX Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX Server skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 7 January 2009 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VMware ESX Server
Location Aberdeen Andover Barking Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Leeds London Luton Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Reading Scotland Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Street Surrey Swindon Teesside Thames Valley UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Jan 2009	Same period last year
Rank	41	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	2.941 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£335	£333
% change on same period last year	+0.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.29	£34.97
% change on same period last year	-16.23 %
System Software Birmingham
Matching contract IT job ads	34	78
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.068 %	0.098 %
Daily rates quoted	2	5
Average minimum daily rate	£375	£212
Average daily rate	£375	£229
% change on same period last year	+63.75 %
Average maximum daily rate	£375	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£314	£315
% change on same period last year	-0.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	13	39
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.76	£20.13
Average hourly rate	£15.90	£20.98
% change on same period last year	-24.21 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.04	£21.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.18	£20.42
% change on same period last year	+3.73 %
VMware ESX West Midlands

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VMware ESX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware ESX across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware ESX
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 3 (100.00 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Government 3 1 (33.33 %) SQL 3 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 3 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 January 2009, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2003 1 1 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2007	General 1 1 (33.33 %) Government 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 2 (66.67 %) Consultant 1 2 (66.67 %) Citrix Consultant 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) IT Support Engineer	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) MCSE 1 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft Certification	System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) Active Directory 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Vendors 1 3 (100.00 %) VMware 2 2 (66.67 %) Citrix