The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 34 38 32
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 9 16 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 2.032% 2.532% 2.386%
As % of the System Software category 22.50% 30.77% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 10
Average daily rate £260 £288 £258
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.56% +11.65%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £225 £252
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £375 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+4.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
40 52 33
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 9.029% 8.228% 6.561%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 22 15
Average daily rate £365 £301 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.46% -25.80%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £170 £204 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 5
Average hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.71% +34.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.50 £11.60 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.30 £31.80 £16.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Birmingham VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Birmingham VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Birmingham VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (76.47%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
4 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2008
5 8 (47.06%) Citrix
6 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (35.29%) NetApp
7 6 (35.29%) HP
8 5 (29.41%) DNS
8 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
8 5 (29.41%) Cisco
8 5 (29.41%) Finance
9 4 (23.53%) Firewall
9 4 (23.53%) Clustering
9 4 (23.53%) SAN
9 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
9 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
9 4 (23.53%) DHCP
10 3 (17.65%) LAN
10 3 (17.65%) Linux
10 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000
10 3 (17.65%) ITIL
10 3 (17.65%) C
10 3 (17.65%) VB
10 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
10 3 (17.65%) CCNA
10 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
10 3 (17.65%) Migration
10 3 (17.65%) Banking

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) JMS
1 1 (5.882%) Java RMI
1 1 (5.882%) COM
1 1 (5.882%) JDBC
1 1 (5.882%) SOAP
1 1 (5.882%) Web Services
1 1 (5.882%) XML
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) Middleware
1 1 (5.882%) JMX
1 1 (5.882%) WebSphere
1 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) MS Exchange
2 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.882%) Apache
4 1 (5.882%) Tomcat
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Application Server
4 1 (5.882%) IIS
4 1 (5.882%) IBM HTTP Server
4 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Process Server
4 1 (5.882%) ESB
4 1 (5.882%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.76%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
1 5 (29.41%) TCP/IP
2 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 4 (23.53%) SAN
2 4 (23.53%) DHCP
3 3 (17.65%) LAN
4 2 (11.76%) iSCSI
4 2 (11.76%) VLAN
4 2 (11.76%) MPLS
4 2 (11.76%) WAN
4 2 (11.76%) FTP
4 2 (11.76%) HTTP
5 1 (5.882%) SNMP
5 1 (5.882%) Ethernet
5 1 (5.882%) SMTP
5 1 (5.882%) LDAP
5 1 (5.882%) NetScreen
5 1 (5.882%) VPN
5 1 (5.882%) HTTPS
5 1 (5.882%) IIOP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 1 (5.882%) DB2
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MSI
General
1 5 (29.41%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Corporate Banking
2 3 (17.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Consultant
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Engineer
2 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (5.882%) Architect
3 1 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Senior Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Applications Packager
3 1 (5.882%) Network Manager
3 1 (5.882%) Network Support
3 1 (5.882%) Storage Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Support Manager
3 1 (5.882%) WebSphere Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (5.882%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (5.882%) Storage Manager
3 1 (5.882%) VMware Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) EqualLogic
3 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
3 1 (5.882%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 13 (76.47%) Windows
2 9 (52.94%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (17.65%) Linux
4 3 (17.65%) Windows 2000
5 2 (11.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (11.76%) Windows 7
5 2 (11.76%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.882%) UNIX
6 1 (5.882%) AIX
6 1 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) ITIL
1 3 (17.65%) Migration
1 3 (17.65%) Wealth Management
1 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
1 3 (17.65%) Fund Management
1 3 (17.65%) Business Transformation
2 2 (11.76%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) SOA
3 1 (5.882%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.882%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (5.882%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (5.882%) Data Management
3 1 (5.882%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) C
1 3 (17.65%) VB
2 2 (11.76%) Shell Script
3 1 (5.882%) Java
3 1 (5.882%) SQL
3 1 (5.882%) Jython
3 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) CCNA
1 3 (17.65%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 1 (5.882%) Degree
3 1 (5.882%) VCP4
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Active Directory
2 3 (17.65%) XenServer
3 2 (11.76%) vSphere
3 2 (11.76%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (5.882%) VMware ESX
4 1 (5.882%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.882%) XenDesktop
4 1 (5.882%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) WSUS
2 1 (5.882%) ZENworks
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli
2 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (5.882%) SCCM
2 1 (5.882%) Data Guard
2 1 (5.882%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 8 (47.06%) Citrix
4 6 (35.29%) NetApp
4 6 (35.29%) HP
5 5 (29.41%) Cisco
6 2 (11.76%) Veeam
6 2 (11.76%) SonicWALL
6 2 (11.76%) Red Hat
6 2 (11.76%) Dell
6 2 (11.76%) IBM
7 1 (5.882%) Oracle
7 1 (5.882%) Novell
7 1 (5.882%) EMC
7 1 (5.882%) Juniper
7 1 (5.882%) WatchGuard
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