The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Canary Wharf region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure 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 Canary Wharf 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 Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 49 48 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 2 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 0.518% 0.529% -
As % of the System Software category 25.00% 16.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £440 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Canary Wharf
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
8 12 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Canary Wharf 2.073% 3.175% 2.136%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 2
Average daily rate £176 £375 £563
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.06% -33.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £185 £533
10% offered a daily rate of more than £435 £550 £593
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware Infrastructure
London

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf 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 Canary Wharf region.

Canary Wharf VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) WSH
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) BladeLogic
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (100.00%) HP Operations Orchestration

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Canary Wharf 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 2 (100.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Python
1 2 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) BladeLogic
1 2 (100.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
1 2 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) BMC
1 2 (100.00%) NetIQ
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian