The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cirencester 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 Cirencester 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 - - -
Contract jobs citing vSphere 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cirencester - - -
As % of the System Software category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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%
All System Software
Cirencester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cirencester - - 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
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%
vSphere
Gloucestershire

vSphere
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cirencester 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 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Domino
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cirencester 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 1 (100.00%) Lotus Notes
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus Domino
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Wintel Consultant
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) MCSE
1 1 (100.00%) MCSA
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (100.00%) MCITP
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (100.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Lotus
1 1 (100.00%) Symantec
1 1 (100.00%) Sophos
1 1 (100.00%) VMware