The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 19 21 27
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware 17 28 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 5.167% 6.604% 2.734%
As % of the Vendors category 10.90% 15.91% 8.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 5
Average daily rate £345 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £193 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £333 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 0
Average hourly rate £31.00 £38.75 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
156 176 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.42% 41.51% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 37
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
Cambridgeshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridge VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 36 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (51.85%) Linux
3 24 (44.44%) EMC
4 23 (42.59%) VMware ESX
5 18 (33.33%) NetApp
6 17 (31.48%) ITIL
6 17 (31.48%) Apache
6 17 (31.48%) Perl
6 17 (31.48%) EMC NetWorker
7 16 (29.63%) DHCP
7 16 (29.63%) DNS
8 14 (25.93%) Red Hat
9 13 (24.07%) SQL
9 13 (24.07%) Oracle
10 12 (22.22%) Cisco
10 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
11 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
11 11 (20.37%) Windows
11 11 (20.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
13 9 (16.67%) SAP
13 9 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 9 (16.67%) ERP
13 9 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
14 8 (14.81%) Replication
14 8 (14.81%) UNIX
14 8 (14.81%) Java
14 8 (14.81%) Web Services
14 8 (14.81%) Tomcat
14 8 (14.81%) vSphere

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (14.81%) Web Services
2 4 (7.407%) Middleware
2 4 (7.407%) Spring
2 4 (7.407%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (7.407%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.407%) J2EE
2 4 (7.407%) Swing
2 4 (7.407%) JSON
2 4 (7.407%) RESTful
3 1 (1.852%) XML
3 1 (1.852%) HTML
3 1 (1.852%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 17 (31.48%) Apache
2 8 (14.81%) Tomcat
3 6 (11.11%) IIS
4 5 (9.259%) MS Exchange
5 4 (7.407%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2010
6 3 (5.556%) Amazon AWS
7 2 (3.704%) SharePoint
8 1 (1.852%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (1.852%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (1.852%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (29.63%) DHCP
1 16 (29.63%) DNS
2 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 6 (11.11%) Ethernet
3 5 (9.259%) SAN
4 4 (7.407%) BIG-IP
4 4 (7.407%) NAS
5 2 (3.704%) LAN
5 2 (3.704%) WAN
5 2 (3.704%) VLAN
6 1 (1.852%) FCoE
6 1 (1.852%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.852%) NetScaler
6 1 (1.852%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.852%) Network Security
6 1 (1.852%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (1.852%) HTTP
6 1 (1.852%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.407%) MySQL
1 4 (7.407%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (1.852%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.852%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.852%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (7.407%) Maven
1 4 (7.407%) Subversion
1 4 (7.407%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (1.852%) Finance
1 1 (1.852%) Publishing
1 1 (1.852%) Front Office
1 1 (1.852%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (55.56%) Administrator
2 22 (40.74%) Systems Administrator
3 8 (14.81%) Linux Administrator
4 7 (12.96%) Storage Administrator
4 7 (12.96%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 4 (7.407%) Developer
5 4 (7.407%) Java Developer
6 3 (5.556%) Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Senior Systems Engineer
7 2 (3.704%) Consultant
7 2 (3.704%) Storage Consultant
8 1 (1.852%) Build Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Citrix Architect
8 1 (1.852%) Backup Specialist
8 1 (1.852%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Rollout Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 1 (1.852%) Applications Support Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Linux Engineer
8 1 (1.852%) Senior Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.81%) Replication
2 6 (11.11%) Device Driver
2 6 (11.11%) VHDL
2 6 (11.11%) Verilog
2 6 (11.11%) Cloud Computing
3 4 (7.407%) Informatics
3 4 (7.407%) PKI
3 4 (7.407%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.704%) LIMS
4 2 (3.704%) Biology
5 1 (1.852%) Open Source
5 1 (1.852%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.852%) Thin Client
5 1 (1.852%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 28 (51.85%) Linux
2 11 (20.37%) Windows
2 11 (20.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (14.81%) UNIX
4 7 (12.96%) Windows Server 2008
4 7 (12.96%) HPUX
5 6 (11.11%) Embedded Linux
6 5 (9.259%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.704%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.852%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.852%) CentOS
8 1 (1.852%) Windows XP
8 1 (1.852%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) ITIL
2 10 (18.52%) Infrastructure Management
3 9 (16.67%) ERP
4 7 (12.96%) Migration
5 6 (11.11%) Data Analysis
5 6 (11.11%) Electronic Design Automation
6 5 (9.259%) Configuration Management
7 4 (7.407%) Information Management
7 4 (7.407%) MVC
7 4 (7.407%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (7.407%) TDD
7 4 (7.407%) Unit Testing
8 3 (5.556%) E-business
9 1 (1.852%) ITIL V3
9 1 (1.852%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (1.852%) PRINCE2
9 1 (1.852%) PRINCE
9 1 (1.852%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (31.48%) Perl
2 13 (24.07%) SQL
3 8 (14.81%) Java
4 7 (12.96%) T-SQL
5 6 (11.11%) C
6 4 (7.407%) Lisp
6 4 (7.407%) Shell Script
6 4 (7.407%) Ruby
6 4 (7.407%) C#
6 4 (7.407%) Python
7 2 (3.704%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.852%) PHP
8 1 (1.852%) VBScript
8 1 (1.852%) VB
Qualifications
1 7 (12.96%) RHCE
2 6 (11.11%) OCP
2 6 (11.11%) Oracle Certification
2 6 (11.11%) Degree
3 4 (7.407%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 4 (7.407%) PhD
4 2 (3.704%) NCIE
4 2 (3.704%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.852%) CCA
5 1 (1.852%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (1.852%) RHCA
5 1 (1.852%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) JTAG
2 2 (3.704%) GAMP
2 2 (3.704%) GxP
System Software
1 36 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (42.59%) VMware ESX
3 11 (20.37%) Active Directory
4 9 (16.67%) Oracle RMAN
5 8 (14.81%) vSphere
6 6 (11.11%) Xen
7 3 (5.556%) XenApp
7 3 (5.556%) NFS
8 2 (3.704%) Hyper-V
8 2 (3.704%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.852%) XenDesktop
9 1 (1.852%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (1.852%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 17 (31.48%) EMC NetWorker
2 9 (16.67%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (5.556%) Puppet
4 1 (1.852%) SCCM
4 1 (1.852%) SCOM
4 1 (1.852%) NetBackup
4 1 (1.852%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 24 (44.44%) EMC
2 18 (33.33%) NetApp
3 14 (25.93%) Red Hat
4 13 (24.07%) Oracle
5 12 (22.22%) Cisco
5 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 9 (16.67%) SAP
7 8 (14.81%) Brocade
8 7 (12.96%) Citrix
9 4 (7.407%) IBM
9 4 (7.407%) JBoss
10 3 (5.556%) Akamai
11 1 (1.852%) HP
11 1 (1.852%) Dell
11 1 (1.852%) Lotus
11 1 (1.852%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.852%) AppSense