The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 35 45 -
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 4 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% 0.935% -
As % of the System Software category 3.922% 10.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 0
Average daily rate £350 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.66% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +116.85%
All System Software
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
51 40 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 15.18% 9.346% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 17 13
Average daily rate £286 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.09% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £185 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £380 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 11
Average hourly rate £18.50 £37.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.66% +200.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £47.50 £13.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
Cambridgeshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) VMware ESX
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 7 (87.50%) SAP
2 7 (87.50%) ITIL
2 7 (87.50%) EMC
2 7 (87.50%) Perl
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
2 7 (87.50%) HPUX
2 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 7 (87.50%) Apache
2 7 (87.50%) ERP
2 7 (87.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 4 (50.00%) SQL
4 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
4 4 (50.00%) OCP
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (50.00%) RHCE
4 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
4 4 (50.00%) PKI
4 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (50.00%) Migration
4 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) Apache
2 1 (12.50%) IIS
2 1 (12.50%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) DHCP
1 8 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Administrator
2 7 (87.50%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (37.50%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (25.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) HPUX
1 7 (87.50%) Linux
2 4 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (12.50%) Windows
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) ITIL
1 7 (87.50%) ERP
2 4 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 4 (50.00%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Perl
2 4 (50.00%) SQL
2 4 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) OCP
1 4 (50.00%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (50.00%) RHCE
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware ESX
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle RMAN
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 3 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (87.50%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 7 (87.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (12.50%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) Red Hat
2 7 (87.50%) SAP
2 7 (87.50%) EMC
2 7 (87.50%) Oracle
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 2 (25.00%) Citrix