The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Chester 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 22 - 17
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 2 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 1.550% - 2.920%
As % of the System Software category 8.696% - 44.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.54% -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +62.96%
All System Software
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
23 7 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 17.83% 6.195% 6.569%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
Average daily rate £358 £390 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -8.23%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £261 £390 £405
10% offered a daily rate of more than £455 £390 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+203.57% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Hyper-V
Cheshire

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (77.78%) Clustering
2 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 6 (66.67%) HP
3 6 (66.67%) SAN
3 6 (66.67%) DNS
3 6 (66.67%) Windows 2000
4 5 (55.56%) Windows NT
4 5 (55.56%) DHCP
4 5 (55.56%) Citrix
4 5 (55.56%) VMware
4 5 (55.56%) SCOM
5 3 (33.33%) SCVMM
6 2 (22.22%) Remedy
7 1 (11.11%) Change Management
7 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
7 1 (11.11%) LAN
7 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) SQL
7 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
1 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) SAN
1 6 (66.67%) DNS
2 5 (55.56%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) LAN
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Wintel Engineer
2 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 5 (55.56%) Wintel Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Wintel Specialist
4 2 (22.22%) Project Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Consultant
5 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) Operations Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Wintel Server Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) SharePoint Specialist
5 1 (11.11%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (77.78%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2003
2 7 (77.78%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (66.67%) Windows 2000
4 5 (55.56%) Windows NT
5 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) ITIL
2 6 (66.67%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) PowerShell
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Systems Management
1 7 (77.78%) SCCM
2 5 (55.56%) SCOM
3 3 (33.33%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) HP
2 5 (55.56%) Citrix
2 5 (55.56%) VMware
3 2 (22.22%) Remedy
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft