The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Workstation 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 Workstation 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 Workstation
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £340 £260
% change year-on-year
-18.38% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - £20.00
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 Workstation
East of England

VMware Workstation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CommVault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence
1 1 (100.00%) IC Design
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Degree

VMware Workstation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (100.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (100.00%) Lync
1 1 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) LDAP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (100.00%) VLAN
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) IC Design
1 1 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) NFS
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Terminal Services
1 1 (100.00%) Samba
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) AppManager
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Sun
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) CommVault
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Cadence