vSphere Contracts in Cheshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere 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 Cheshire 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 vSphere
Rank 62 51 65
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +14
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.138% 1.502% 0.722%
As % of the System Software category 1.149% 16.22% 7.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 4
Average daily rate - £328 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +26.05%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £41.74 £20.94
% change year-on-year
-28.12% +99.35%
Search 2 vSphere jobs in Cheshire
All System Software
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 87 74 89
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 12.02% 9.262% 9.185%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 34 46
Average daily rate £306 £325 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.84% +22.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £129 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 6 6
Average hourly rate £37.50 £20.00 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+87.50% +35.59%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £14.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £26.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cheshire vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Cheshire 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
Knutsford - 1 - -
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Top 21 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) MCTS
2 2 (66.67%) MCITP
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) AppSense

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Designer
1 2 (66.67%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 1 (33.33%) Support Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (66.67%) MCTS
1 2 (66.67%) MCITP
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) AppSense
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