The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Bristol 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 48 56 47
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 5 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.375% 0.588% 0.310%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.724% 3.067% 1.852%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 5 2
Average daily rate £388 £135 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+187.03% -40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+116.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
116 163 108
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 21.72% 19.18% 16.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 92 59
Average daily rate £355 £413 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.93% +10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £221 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £575 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 14 8
Average hourly rate £13.50 £17.50 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.85% -53.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £11.00 £7.19
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £38.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £23.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.17% -8.00%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
South West

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Bristol VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the Bristol region.

Bristol VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the Bristol region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Bristol VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP).

1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) PKI
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Service Management

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VoIP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Management
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Management
1 1 (50.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) CCA
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) MCTS
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint