The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 40 48 44
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 13 15 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 2.385% 2.199% 1.373%
As % of the System Software category 16.88% 21.43% 11.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 6
Average daily rate £350 £325 £331
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -1.88%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 1
Average hourly rate £31.00 £38.75 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +43.51%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £21.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+23.25% -4.14%
All System Software
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
77 70 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 14.13% 10.26% 11.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 30 25
Average daily rate £310 £300 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.33% -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £209 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £388 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 13 22
Average hourly rate £17.50 £29.75 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.17% +128.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £47.50 £19.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 21 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 11 £350 +7.69%
Peterborough - 2 - -
VMware Infrastructure
East of England

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 53 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (41.51%) Linux
3 19 (35.85%) Windows
4 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
5 14 (26.42%) VMware ESX
5 14 (26.42%) EMC
5 14 (26.42%) Citrix
6 13 (24.53%) NetApp
6 13 (24.53%) MSI
6 13 (24.53%) VB
6 13 (24.53%) Microsoft App-V
7 12 (22.64%) VBScript
7 12 (22.64%) InstallShield
7 12 (22.64%) SLA
8 11 (20.75%) Cisco
8 11 (20.75%) Perl
8 11 (20.75%) Apache
8 11 (20.75%) Validation
8 11 (20.75%) EMC NetWorker
9 10 (18.87%) ITIL
9 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Management
10 8 (15.09%) UNIX
10 8 (15.09%) Java
10 8 (15.09%) DHCP
10 8 (15.09%) Tomcat
10 8 (15.09%) DNS
10 8 (15.09%) SAN
10 8 (15.09%) Red Hat
10 8 (15.09%) Terminal Services
10 8 (15.09%) SCCM

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (13.21%) Web Services
2 4 (7.547%) J2EE
2 4 (7.547%) Swing
2 4 (7.547%) Middleware
2 4 (7.547%) JSON
2 4 (7.547%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (7.547%) Spring
2 4 (7.547%) Hibernate
2 4 (7.547%) RESTful
3 1 (1.887%) COM
Application Platforms
1 11 (20.75%) Apache
2 8 (15.09%) Tomcat
3 6 (11.32%) MS Exchange
4 5 (9.434%) Exchange Server 2010
4 5 (9.434%) IIS
5 4 (7.547%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (5.660%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (5.660%) SharePoint
7 1 (1.887%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.887%) Lync
7 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (1.887%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (3.774%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (15.09%) DHCP
1 8 (15.09%) DNS
1 8 (15.09%) SAN
2 6 (11.32%) Ethernet
3 5 (9.434%) NAS
3 5 (9.434%) TCP/IP
4 4 (7.547%) BIG-IP
5 3 (5.660%) HTTP
6 1 (1.887%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (1.887%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (1.887%) VLAN
6 1 (1.887%) Firewall
6 1 (1.887%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.887%) Internet
6 1 (1.887%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.547%) MySQL
1 4 (7.547%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 13 (24.53%) MSI
2 12 (22.64%) InstallShield
3 5 (9.434%) Subversion
3 5 (9.434%) AdminStudio
4 4 (7.547%) Maven
4 4 (7.547%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (1.887%) Telecoms
1 1 (1.887%) Finance
1 1 (1.887%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 18 (33.96%) Administrator
2 14 (26.42%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (24.53%) Applications Packager
4 7 (13.21%) Linux Administrator
5 6 (11.32%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (7.547%) Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Java Developer
6 4 (7.547%) Software Packager
7 3 (5.660%) Backup Specialist
7 3 (5.660%) Storage Administrator
8 1 (1.887%) VMware Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) Virtualisation Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) Wintel Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.887%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (1.887%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (15.09%) Replication
2 6 (11.32%) Device Driver
2 6 (11.32%) VHDL
2 6 (11.32%) Verilog
2 6 (11.32%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (9.434%) Computer Science
4 4 (7.547%) Informatics
5 2 (3.774%) LIMS
5 2 (3.774%) Biology
6 1 (1.887%) Open Source
6 1 (1.887%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.887%) Clustering
6 1 (1.887%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (41.51%) Linux
2 19 (35.85%) Windows
3 8 (15.09%) UNIX
4 6 (11.32%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (7.547%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.547%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (5.660%) HPUX
7 1 (1.887%) CentOS
7 1 (1.887%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.887%) Debian
7 1 (1.887%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.887%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (20.75%) Validation
2 10 (18.87%) ITIL
2 10 (18.87%) Infrastructure Management
3 6 (11.32%) Electronic Design Automation
4 5 (9.434%) Configuration Management
5 4 (7.547%) Unit Testing
5 4 (7.547%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (7.547%) TDD
5 4 (7.547%) Information Management
5 4 (7.547%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.547%) MVC
6 3 (5.660%) E-business
6 3 (5.660%) ERP
7 1 (1.887%) Software Engineering
7 1 (1.887%) IC Design
Programming Languages
1 13 (24.53%) VB
2 12 (22.64%) VBScript
3 11 (20.75%) Perl
4 8 (15.09%) Java
5 6 (11.32%) SQL
5 6 (11.32%) C
6 5 (9.434%) Shell Script
7 4 (7.547%) C#
7 4 (7.547%) Python
7 4 (7.547%) Lisp
7 4 (7.547%) Ruby
8 1 (1.887%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft Certification
1 7 (13.21%) MCSE
2 4 (7.547%) PhD
3 2 (3.774%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (3.774%) NCIE
4 1 (1.887%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (22.64%) SLA
2 6 (11.32%) JTAG
System Software
1 14 (26.42%) VMware ESX
2 13 (24.53%) Microsoft App-V
3 8 (15.09%) Terminal Services
4 6 (11.32%) Xen
5 5 (9.434%) Active Directory
6 4 (7.547%) NFS
7 3 (5.660%) vSphere
7 3 (5.660%) Oracle RMAN
8 2 (3.774%) XenApp
9 1 (1.887%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.887%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (1.887%) VMware Server
9 1 (1.887%) Samba
9 1 (1.887%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 11 (20.75%) EMC NetWorker
2 8 (15.09%) SCCM
3 4 (7.547%) ARCserve
4 3 (5.660%) Puppet
4 3 (5.660%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (1.887%) SCOM
5 1 (1.887%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.887%) Backup Exec
5 1 (1.887%) AppManager
Vendors
1 53 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (33.96%) Microsoft
3 14 (26.42%) EMC
3 14 (26.42%) Citrix
4 13 (24.53%) NetApp
5 11 (20.75%) Cisco
6 8 (15.09%) Red Hat
6 8 (15.09%) Brocade
7 7 (13.21%) Remedy
7 7 (13.21%) Oracle
8 4 (7.547%) JBoss
9 3 (5.660%) Akamai
9 3 (5.660%) SAP
10 2 (3.774%) IBM
11 1 (1.887%) Cadence
11 1 (1.887%) Sun
11 1 (1.887%) Intel
11 1 (1.887%) CommVault
11 1 (1.887%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.887%) Symantec