The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V 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 Bolton 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
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank - 6 -
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bolton - 4.545% -
As % of the System Software category - 33.33% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+6.06% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £23.50 £12.00
% change year-on-year
+6.38% +95.83%
All System Software
Bolton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
2 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bolton 40.00% 13.64% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
Average daily rate £228 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Hyper-V
Manchester

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bolton Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bolton region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) SAS
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bolton region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
1 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Service Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Technical Services Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Manager
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft