The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 June 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 Cambridge 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 35 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.633% 0.943% -
As % of the Qualifications category 3.175% 4.651% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 0
Average daily rate - £283 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £313 £295
% change year-on-year
+4.00% +5.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £175.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+1300.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
63 86 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 19.94% 20.28% 17.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 44 17
Average daily rate £300 £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £160 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £409 £390
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 23 13
Average hourly rate £37.00 £14.80 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+150.00% +23.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.55 £11.50 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.85 £47.75 £25.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridge region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 4 (100.00%) EMC
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) Brocade
2 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) NCIE
2 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) IBM

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

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Administrator
1 4 (100.00%) Storage Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) NCIE
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) EMC
1 4 (100.00%) NetApp
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Brocade
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) IBM