The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 16 18 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +4
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 9 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 6.383% 3.448% 1.220%
As % of the System Software category 29.03% 66.67% 15.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £240 £390 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-38.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £42.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
31 6 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 21.99% 5.172% 7.927%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
Average daily rate £358 £390 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -2.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 0
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
Cheshire

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester 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 Chester region.

Chester VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (72.73%) Windows
3 4 (36.36%) MS Office
3 4 (36.36%) ITIL
3 4 (36.36%) Citrix
4 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 3 (27.27%) AIX
4 3 (27.27%) Linux
4 3 (27.27%) UNIX
4 3 (27.27%) DNS
4 3 (27.27%) Local Government
4 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (27.27%) Clustering
5 2 (18.18%) Service Management
5 2 (18.18%) Change Management
5 2 (18.18%) SCCM
5 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
5 2 (18.18%) CRM
5 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 2 (18.18%) SAN
5 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
5 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
5 2 (18.18%) Tru64
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) XenApp
5 2 (18.18%) PowerHA
5 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 Platforms
1 1 (9.091%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) MS Office
2 1 (9.091%) MS Project
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 1 (9.091%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) DNS
2 2 (18.18%) SAN
3 1 (9.091%) NAS
3 1 (9.091%) DHCP
3 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.091%) VPN
3 1 (9.091%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (27.27%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) IT Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Consultant
2 2 (18.18%) Administrator
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Senior IT Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Wintel Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Wintel Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Virtualisation Project Manager
3 1 (9.091%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.091%) UNIX Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Information Security Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (9.091%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) DBA
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) AIX
2 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 3 (27.27%) UNIX
2 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000
3 2 (18.18%) Tru64
3 2 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Service Management
2 2 (18.18%) Change Management
2 2 (18.18%) CRM
2 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
2 2 (18.18%) Configuration Management
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.091%) Capacity Management
3 1 (9.091%) PRINCE
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) TOGAF
3 1 (9.091%) Critical Path Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Project Planning
3 1 (9.091%) Security Management
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
3 1 (9.091%) Migration
3 1 (9.091%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.091%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware ESX
1 2 (18.18%) XenApp
1 2 (18.18%) PowerHA
2 1 (9.091%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) SCCM
1 2 (18.18%) AppDNA
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) Citrix
3 3 (27.27%) Red Hat
4 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (9.091%) HP
5 1 (9.091%) Dell
5 1 (9.091%) Veritas
5 1 (9.091%) Cisco