The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 28 26 42
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware 22 41 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 4.022% 5.977% 1.701%
As % of the Vendors category 8.029% 12.65% 4.478%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 28 6
Average daily rate £340 £308 £344
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.56% -10.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £193 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £353 £356
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 1
Average hourly rate £20.00 £38.75 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.38% +43.51%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274 324 201
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 50.09% 47.23% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 117 159 78
Average daily rate £325 £325 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.83%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £223 £219 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 31 50
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.75 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.04% +164.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £47.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
East of England

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridgeshire VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Cambridgeshire VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware 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 +2 17 £345 +15.00%
Peterborough +1 2 - -
VMware
East of England

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 54 (65.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (43.37%) Microsoft
3 35 (42.17%) Windows
4 29 (34.94%) Linux
5 27 (32.53%) Citrix
6 26 (31.33%) EMC
7 24 (28.92%) VMware ESX
8 21 (25.30%) Active Directory
9 19 (22.89%) NetApp
10 18 (21.69%) ITIL
11 17 (20.48%) Apache
11 17 (20.48%) Perl
11 17 (20.48%) DHCP
11 17 (20.48%) DNS
11 17 (20.48%) EMC NetWorker
12 15 (18.07%) vSphere
12 15 (18.07%) SLA
12 15 (18.07%) Red Hat
13 14 (16.87%) Microsoft App-V
13 14 (16.87%) Cisco
13 14 (16.87%) SQL
13 14 (16.87%) VB
14 13 (15.66%) Oracle
14 13 (15.66%) VBScript
14 13 (15.66%) MSI
15 12 (14.46%) InstallShield
15 12 (14.46%) MS Exchange
15 12 (14.46%) XenApp
15 12 (14.46%) Windows Server 2008
16 11 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (9.639%) Web Services
2 4 (4.819%) J2EE
2 4 (4.819%) Swing
2 4 (4.819%) Middleware
2 4 (4.819%) Hibernate
2 4 (4.819%) JSON
2 4 (4.819%) Ruby on Rails
2 4 (4.819%) Spring
2 4 (4.819%) RESTful
3 1 (1.205%) XML
3 1 (1.205%) COM
3 1 (1.205%) CSS
3 1 (1.205%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 17 (20.48%) Apache
2 12 (14.46%) MS Exchange
3 8 (9.639%) Tomcat
4 7 (8.434%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (8.434%) IIS
5 4 (4.819%) RabbitMQ
6 3 (3.614%) Amazon AWS
6 3 (3.614%) SharePoint
7 2 (2.410%) Exchange Server 2003
7 2 (2.410%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.205%) Lync
8 1 (1.205%) SharePoint 2010
8 1 (1.205%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 5 (6.024%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.205%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (7.229%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.48%) DHCP
1 17 (20.48%) DNS
2 11 (13.25%) TCP/IP
3 8 (9.639%) SAN
4 6 (7.229%) Ethernet
5 5 (6.024%) NAS
6 4 (4.819%) BIG-IP
7 3 (3.614%) VLAN
7 3 (3.614%) HTTP
8 2 (2.410%) LAN
8 2 (2.410%) WAN
8 2 (2.410%) Firewall
8 2 (2.410%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.410%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (1.205%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (1.205%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (1.205%) Network Security
9 1 (1.205%) FCoE
9 1 (1.205%) NetScaler
9 1 (1.205%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.434%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.819%) MySQL
2 4 (4.819%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.205%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.205%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.205%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 13 (15.66%) MSI
2 12 (14.46%) InstallShield
3 5 (6.024%) Subversion
3 5 (6.024%) AdminStudio
4 4 (4.819%) Maven
4 4 (4.819%) Git (software)
General
1 2 (2.410%) Finance
2 1 (1.205%) Publishing
2 1 (1.205%) Telecoms
2 1 (1.205%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (1.205%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 30 (36.14%) Administrator
2 22 (26.51%) Systems Administrator
3 13 (15.66%) Applications Packager
4 8 (9.639%) Linux Administrator
5 7 (8.434%) Storage Administrator
5 7 (8.434%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 4 (4.819%) Developer
6 4 (4.819%) Consultant
6 4 (4.819%) Java Developer
6 4 (4.819%) Software Packager
7 3 (3.614%) Backup Specialist
7 3 (3.614%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.614%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (3.614%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (2.410%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.410%) Storage Consultant
9 1 (1.205%) IT Support
9 1 (1.205%) Build Engineer
9 1 (1.205%) VMware Engineer
9 1 (1.205%) Virtualisation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.639%) Replication
2 6 (7.229%) VHDL
2 6 (7.229%) Verilog
2 6 (7.229%) Device Driver
2 6 (7.229%) Cloud Computing
3 5 (6.024%) Fat Client
3 5 (6.024%) Computer Science
3 5 (6.024%) Thin Client
4 4 (4.819%) Informatics
4 4 (4.819%) PKI
5 2 (2.410%) LIMS
5 2 (2.410%) Biology
6 1 (1.205%) Open Source
6 1 (1.205%) CMDB
6 1 (1.205%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.205%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 35 (42.17%) Windows
2 29 (34.94%) Linux
3 12 (14.46%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (13.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (9.639%) UNIX
6 7 (8.434%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (8.434%) HPUX
7 6 (7.229%) Embedded Linux
8 3 (3.614%) Windows 7
9 2 (2.410%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.205%) CentOS
10 1 (1.205%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (1.205%) Debian
10 1 (1.205%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (21.69%) ITIL
2 11 (13.25%) Validation
3 10 (12.05%) Infrastructure Management
4 9 (10.84%) ERP
5 8 (9.639%) Migration
6 6 (7.229%) Electronic Design Automation
6 6 (7.229%) Data Analysis
7 5 (6.024%) Change Control
7 5 (6.024%) Build Automation
7 5 (6.024%) Configuration Management
8 4 (4.819%) Service Delivery
8 4 (4.819%) MVC
8 4 (4.819%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (4.819%) TDD
8 4 (4.819%) Information Management
8 4 (4.819%) Unit Testing
9 3 (3.614%) Load Balancing
9 3 (3.614%) Release Management
9 3 (3.614%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (3.614%) E-business
Programming Languages
1 17 (20.48%) Perl
2 14 (16.87%) SQL
2 14 (16.87%) VB
3 13 (15.66%) VBScript
4 8 (9.639%) Java
5 7 (8.434%) T-SQL
6 6 (7.229%) C
6 6 (7.229%) PowerShell
7 5 (6.024%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.819%) C#
8 4 (4.819%) Python
8 4 (4.819%) Lisp
8 4 (4.819%) Ruby
9 1 (1.205%) PHP
Qualifications
1 8 (9.639%) MCSE
1 8 (9.639%) Microsoft Certification
2 7 (8.434%) Degree
2 7 (8.434%) RHCE
3 6 (7.229%) OCP
3 6 (7.229%) Oracle Certification
4 4 (4.819%) PhD
4 4 (4.819%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 2 (2.410%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (2.410%) NCIE
5 2 (2.410%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.205%) MCTS
6 1 (1.205%) RHCA
6 1 (1.205%) CCEE
6 1 (1.205%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (18.07%) SLA
2 6 (7.229%) JTAG
3 2 (2.410%) GAMP
3 2 (2.410%) GxP
System Software
1 54 (65.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 24 (28.92%) VMware ESX
3 21 (25.30%) Active Directory
4 15 (18.07%) vSphere
5 14 (16.87%) Microsoft App-V
6 12 (14.46%) XenApp
7 9 (10.84%) Oracle RMAN
8 8 (9.639%) Terminal Services
8 8 (9.639%) Hyper-V
9 7 (8.434%) XenDesktop
10 6 (7.229%) XenServer
10 6 (7.229%) Xen
11 4 (4.819%) NFS
11 4 (4.819%) IAG
12 2 (2.410%) VMware ESXi
13 1 (1.205%) VMware Server
13 1 (1.205%) vCloud
13 1 (1.205%) Samba
13 1 (1.205%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (1.205%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 17 (20.48%) EMC NetWorker
2 9 (10.84%) SCCM
2 9 (10.84%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 8 (9.639%) SCOM
4 4 (4.819%) ARCserve
5 3 (3.614%) Puppet
6 2 (2.410%) NetBackup
7 1 (1.205%) WSUS
7 1 (1.205%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.205%) Backup Exec
7 1 (1.205%) AppManager
Vendors
1 36 (43.37%) Microsoft
2 27 (32.53%) Citrix
3 26 (31.33%) EMC
4 19 (22.89%) NetApp
5 15 (18.07%) Red Hat
6 14 (16.87%) Cisco
7 13 (15.66%) Oracle
8 9 (10.84%) SAP
9 8 (9.639%) Brocade
10 7 (8.434%) Remedy
10 7 (8.434%) AppSense
11 6 (7.229%) Wyse
12 4 (4.819%) IBM
12 4 (4.819%) JBoss
13 3 (3.614%) Akamai
14 2 (2.410%) HP
14 2 (2.410%) Symantec
14 2 (2.410%) CheckPoint
15 1 (1.205%) Twitter
15 1 (1.205%) Cadence
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