The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills 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 ESX 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 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 ESX Server
Rank 43 57 47
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -10
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 7 5 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.280% 0.729% 0.756%
As % of the System Software category 8.537% 7.463% 6.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 3
Average daily rate £350 £269 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.23% -23.21%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
82 67 65
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.99% 9.767% 12.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 29 26
Average daily rate £310 £300 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -3.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £207 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £395 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 14 26
Average hourly rate £16.38 £22.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.56% +69.23%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £47.50 £13.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX 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 +14 7 £350 +30.23%
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (83.33%) EMC
3 15 (62.50%) EMC NetWorker
3 15 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (58.33%) ITIL
5 12 (50.00%) NetApp
6 10 (41.67%) Cisco
7 8 (33.33%) Linux
7 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
7 8 (33.33%) Replication
7 8 (33.33%) Brocade
8 7 (29.17%) vSphere
8 7 (29.17%) Oracle RMAN
8 7 (29.17%) Apache
8 7 (29.17%) HPUX
8 7 (29.17%) Oracle
8 7 (29.17%) SAP
8 7 (29.17%) Perl
8 7 (29.17%) DNS
8 7 (29.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 7 (29.17%) ERP
8 7 (29.17%) DHCP
9 6 (25.00%) SQL
9 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
10 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
10 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
11 4 (16.67%) Citrix
11 4 (16.67%) OCP
11 4 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
11 4 (16.67%) RHCE

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (29.17%) Apache
2 3 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 3 (12.50%) MS Exchange
3 1 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
3 1 (4.167%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (29.17%) DNS
1 7 (29.17%) DHCP
2 2 (8.333%) Firewall
2 2 (8.333%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (8.333%) VLAN
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (4.167%) NetScaler
3 1 (4.167%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (4.167%) FCoE
3 1 (4.167%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (4.167%) LDAP
Development Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Subversion
General
1 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 19 (79.17%) Administrator
2 11 (45.83%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (29.17%) Storage Administrator
4 3 (12.50%) Linux Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Consultant
5 2 (8.333%) Linux Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.333%) Storage Consultant
6 1 (4.167%) Citrix Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Architect
6 1 (4.167%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (33.33%) Replication
2 4 (16.67%) PKI
3 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 8 (33.33%) Linux
2 7 (29.17%) HPUX
3 4 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (12.50%) Windows
5 1 (4.167%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (4.167%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (58.33%) ITIL
2 7 (29.17%) ERP
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (16.67%) Migration
4 4 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 3 (12.50%) E-business
6 2 (8.333%) Configuration Management
7 1 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (4.167%) ITIL V3
7 1 (4.167%) IC Design
7 1 (4.167%) Software Engineering
7 1 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (4.167%) PRINCE
7 1 (4.167%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Perl
2 6 (25.00%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 1 (4.167%) PowerShell
4 1 (4.167%) Shell Script
4 1 (4.167%) VBScript
4 1 (4.167%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) OCP
1 4 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (16.67%) RHCE
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (8.333%) NCIE
3 1 (4.167%) Degree
System Software
1 15 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (29.17%) vSphere
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle RMAN
3 5 (20.83%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.167%) XenApp
4 1 (4.167%) XenDesktop
4 1 (4.167%) Samba
4 1 (4.167%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (4.167%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.167%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (62.50%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (29.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 1 (4.167%) AppManager
Vendors
1 24 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (83.33%) EMC
3 12 (50.00%) NetApp
4 10 (41.67%) Cisco
5 8 (33.33%) Red Hat
5 8 (33.33%) Brocade
6 7 (29.17%) Oracle
6 7 (29.17%) SAP
7 5 (20.83%) Microsoft
8 4 (16.67%) Citrix
8 4 (16.67%) IBM
9 2 (8.333%) CheckPoint
10 1 (4.167%) AppSense
10 1 (4.167%) Cadence
10 1 (4.167%) CommVault
10 1 (4.167%) Dell
10 1 (4.167%) Sun