The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESXi skills 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 ESXi over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESXi
Rank 35 47 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.304% 0.236% -
As % of the System Software category 1.887% 2.632% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £213 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £313 £363
% change year-on-year
+8.80% -13.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £21.96
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -8.92%
All System Software
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
53 38 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 16.11% 8.962% 12.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 12
Average daily rate £310 £290 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -14.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £220
10% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 11
Average hourly rate £16.38 £37.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.33% +200.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.05 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.80 £47.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware ESXi
Cambridgeshire

VMware ESXi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge VMware ESXi Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge VMware ESXi Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESXi
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) ISA Server
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

VMware ESXi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Applications Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix