The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 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 Qualifications for the Cambridgeshire 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 Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 48 57 50
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -7
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 0.366% 0.729% 0.189%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.887% 4.167% 1.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £275 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -24.13%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+116.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
106 120 88
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 19.38% 17.49% 16.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 66 33
Average daily rate £310 £290 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% +16.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £160 £152
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 19 22
Average hourly rate £35.25 £16.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+120.31% +23.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.15 £12.23 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.20 £47.50 £18.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
East of England

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Cambridge +9 2 - -
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
East of England

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
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%) Infrastructure Management
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
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