The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills 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 Infrastructure over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 40 57 46
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -11
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 12 8 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 2.348% 0.957% 1.529%
As % of the System Software category 32.43% 17.78% 22.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 3
Average daily rate £313 £186 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+67.78% -19.02%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £272 £125 £226
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £363 £336
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
37 45 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 7.241% 5.383% 6.728%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 26 15
Average daily rate £349 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.25% -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £135 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £405 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 11
Average hourly rate £17.00 £21.00 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.04% +44.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £17.85 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £94.50 £21.35 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
South West

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol 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 Bristol region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Bristol 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 Bristol region.

Bristol VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Windows
3 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 8 (44.44%) Cisco
6 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
6 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
6 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
6 5 (27.78%) Cisco IPT
7 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
7 4 (22.22%) vSphere
7 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
7 4 (22.22%) Firewall
7 4 (22.22%) Linux
7 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
8 3 (16.67%) CCNP
8 3 (16.67%) CCNA
8 3 (16.67%) DNS
8 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (16.67%) Dell
8 3 (16.67%) Citrix
8 3 (16.67%) MCSE
8 3 (16.67%) SQL
8 3 (16.67%) SAN
8 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
8 3 (16.67%) SCCM
8 3 (16.67%) SCOM
8 3 (16.67%) PKI

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol 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 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (27.78%) MS Exchange
2 4 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (5.556%) SharePoint
4 1 (5.556%) IIS
4 1 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (5.556%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco IPT
2 4 (22.22%) Firewall
3 3 (16.67%) DNS
3 3 (16.67%) SAN
4 2 (11.11%) WAN
4 2 (11.11%) DHCP
4 2 (11.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (11.11%) LAN
5 1 (5.556%) VoIP
5 1 (5.556%) VPN
5 1 (5.556%) Wireless
5 1 (5.556%) MPLS
5 1 (5.556%) Unified Communications
5 1 (5.556%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (27.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco IPT Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Support
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Support Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Analyst
4 1 (5.556%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) IT Support
4 1 (5.556%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Technical Support Consultant
4 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) EqualLogic
2 2 (11.11%) Clustering
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.556%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (61.11%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (44.44%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
6 1 (5.556%) AIX
6 1 (5.556%) UNIX
6 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
6 1 (5.556%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
2 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
3 2 (11.11%) Software Deployment
4 1 (5.556%) Migration
4 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.556%) Service Management
4 1 (5.556%) Quality Management
4 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
4 1 (5.556%) Project Management
4 1 (5.556%) Capacity Management
4 1 (5.556%) Problem Management
4 1 (5.556%) Data Protection
4 1 (5.556%) Project Planning
4 1 (5.556%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (16.67%) CCNP
2 3 (16.67%) CCNA
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (16.67%) MCSE
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) CCVP
3 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (11.11%) MCTS
3 2 (11.11%) MCITP
3 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.556%) CCA
4 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (5.556%) MCSA
4 1 (5.556%) MCP
4 1 (5.556%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (22.22%) vSphere
3 2 (11.11%) XenApp
3 2 (11.11%) XenDesktop
3 2 (11.11%) VMware ESX
4 1 (5.556%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (5.556%) Terminal Server
4 1 (5.556%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 3 (16.67%) SCCM
1 3 (16.67%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) Backup Exec
2 1 (5.556%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 3 (16.67%) Dell
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
5 2 (11.11%) SonicWALL
5 2 (11.11%) CommVault
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) HP
5 2 (11.11%) Symantec
5 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.556%) Juniper
6 1 (5.556%) Genesys
6 1 (5.556%) McAfee
6 1 (5.556%) Alcatel-Lucent
6 1 (5.556%) ProCurve
6 1 (5.556%) PlateSpin
Bristol, Avon, South West
Customer facing Cisco certified IPT/UC Level 2 Engineer required to be on-site in Bristol for 9 months- Your role will focus on the following:- Maintenance operations,...
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Posted: 4 May 2013