The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 18 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 City of London 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 187 184 229
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +45
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 28 38 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.406% 0.493% 0.189%
As % of the System Software category 5.157% 6.271% 3.387%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 13
Average daily rate £450 £381 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.03% -7.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £243 £273
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £575 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £324 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.42% -7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £23.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +17.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +62.96%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
543 606 561
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.875% 7.857% 5.593%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 348 335
Average daily rate £400 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £225 £216
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 62 83
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.25 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.23% -1.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.99 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Hyper-V
London

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the City of London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

City of London Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the City of London region.

City of London Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 42 (87.50%) VMware
2 31 (64.58%) Windows
3 27 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
4 26 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
4 26 (54.17%) Microsoft
5 24 (50.00%) Citrix
6 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
7 16 (33.33%) HP
8 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
9 14 (29.17%) SCCM
10 13 (27.08%) SCOM
10 13 (27.08%) vSphere
11 12 (25.00%) PowerShell
11 12 (25.00%) ITIL
12 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (22.92%) SAN
13 10 (20.83%) MCSE
13 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
13 10 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
14 9 (18.75%) DV Cleared
14 9 (18.75%) MCITP
15 8 (16.67%) IIS
15 8 (16.67%) SQL
15 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
15 8 (16.67%) Service Management
15 8 (16.67%) Service Delivery
15 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
15 8 (16.67%) Windows 7
16 7 (14.58%) VMware ESXi

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 Development
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (10.42%) ASP.NET
3 3 (6.250%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.167%) jQuery
4 2 (4.167%) ASP.NET MVC
4 2 (4.167%) CSS
4 2 (4.167%) K2 blackpearl
4 2 (4.167%) HTML
5 1 (2.083%) CSS3
5 1 (2.083%) SOAP
5 1 (2.083%) Web Services
5 1 (2.083%) XML
5 1 (2.083%) HTML5
5 1 (2.083%) WF
Application Platforms
1 8 (16.67%) IIS
2 7 (14.58%) SharePoint
3 5 (10.42%) MS Exchange
4 3 (6.250%) SharePoint 2010
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.167%) SharePoint 2013
5 2 (4.167%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (2.083%) Exchange Server 2013
6 1 (2.083%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (14.58%) MS Office
2 2 (4.167%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.167%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 11 (22.92%) SAN
2 8 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 7 (14.58%) Firewall
4 6 (12.50%) DNS
4 6 (12.50%) DHCP
5 4 (8.333%) NetScaler
5 4 (8.333%) VLAN
6 3 (6.250%) NAS
6 3 (6.250%) LAN
7 2 (4.167%) Intranet
7 2 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (2.083%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (2.083%) Internet
8 1 (2.083%) OSPF
8 1 (2.083%) BGP
8 1 (2.083%) EIGRP
8 1 (2.083%) SMTP
8 1 (2.083%) Kerberos
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.83%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) SQL Server 2008
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 4 (8.333%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (2.083%) InterSystems Cache
4 1 (2.083%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (6.250%) Visual Studio
1 3 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (2.083%) WiX
2 1 (2.083%) MSBuild
2 1 (2.083%) MSI
2 1 (2.083%) InstallShield
2 1 (2.083%) NUnit
2 1 (2.083%) CruiseControl
2 1 (2.083%) Subversion
General
1 5 (10.42%) Finance
2 4 (8.333%) Law
3 2 (4.167%) Marketing
4 1 (2.083%) Legal
4 1 (2.083%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (18.75%) Analyst
1 9 (18.75%) Architect
2 6 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
2 6 (12.50%) Systems Analyst
3 5 (10.42%) Administrator
3 5 (10.42%) Virtualisation Specialist
4 4 (8.333%) Senior Systems Administrator
4 4 (8.333%) Technical Architect
4 4 (8.333%) Senior Windows Administrator
4 4 (8.333%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 4 (8.333%) Windows Administrator
5 3 (6.250%) Build Engineer
5 3 (6.250%) Release Engineer
5 3 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (6.250%) Wintel Analyst
6 2 (4.167%) Virtualisation Architect
6 2 (4.167%) Citrix Architect
6 2 (4.167%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (4.167%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Statistics
1 4 (8.333%) Clustering
2 2 (4.167%) Blackberry
2 2 (4.167%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (2.083%) PaaS
3 1 (2.083%) EqualLogic
3 1 (2.083%) HP StorageWorks
3 1 (2.083%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 31 (64.58%) Windows
2 26 (54.17%) Windows Server 2008
3 20 (41.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (16.67%) Windows 7
5 4 (8.333%) HPUX
5 4 (8.333%) Windows XP
5 4 (8.333%) Mac OS X
6 3 (6.250%) Linux
6 3 (6.250%) Windows Vista
6 3 (6.250%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.083%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (25.00%) ITIL
2 8 (16.67%) Service Management
2 8 (16.67%) Service Delivery
2 8 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (8.333%) Data Management
3 4 (8.333%) Risk Analysis
3 4 (8.333%) Information Assurance
4 3 (6.250%) Project Management
4 3 (6.250%) Agile Project Management
4 3 (6.250%) Release Management
4 3 (6.250%) Scrum
4 3 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (6.250%) Business Development
4 3 (6.250%) CRM
4 3 (6.250%) Workflow
4 3 (6.250%) Migration
5 2 (4.167%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (4.167%) MVC
5 2 (4.167%) Product Marketing
6 1 (2.083%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 12 (25.00%) PowerShell
2 8 (16.67%) SQL
3 5 (10.42%) C#
4 2 (4.167%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.167%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
5 1 (2.083%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Certification
2 10 (20.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (20.83%) MCSE
2 10 (20.83%) Security Cleared
3 9 (18.75%) MCITP
3 9 (18.75%) DV Cleared
4 4 (8.333%) MCP
4 4 (8.333%) VCP4
4 4 (8.333%) MCSA
4 4 (8.333%) CCA
4 4 (8.333%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (6.250%) Degree
6 1 (2.083%) Microsoft Certified Master
6 1 (2.083%) VCP5
6 1 (2.083%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.083%) CCIE
6 1 (2.083%) MCTS
6 1 (2.083%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.333%) QA
System Software
1 27 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (31.25%) Active Directory
3 13 (27.08%) vSphere
4 7 (14.58%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (14.58%) XenServer
5 6 (12.50%) XenApp
6 4 (8.333%) XenDesktop
6 4 (8.333%) DFS Replication
7 2 (4.167%) VMware ESX
7 2 (4.167%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 1 (2.083%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (29.17%) SCCM
2 13 (27.08%) SCOM
3 5 (10.42%) WSUS
4 4 (8.333%) HP Data Protector
4 4 (8.333%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (6.250%) OpenView
5 3 (6.250%) HP SIM
6 2 (4.167%) SCVMM
7 1 (2.083%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (2.083%) Backup Exec
7 1 (2.083%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 42 (87.50%) VMware
2 26 (54.17%) Microsoft
3 24 (50.00%) Citrix
4 16 (33.33%) HP
5 7 (14.58%) IBM
6 5 (10.42%) Cisco
6 5 (10.42%) Symantec
7 4 (8.333%) Apple
7 4 (8.333%) Dell
7 4 (8.333%) Veeam
8 3 (6.250%) ArcSight
8 3 (6.250%) EMC
8 3 (6.250%) Altiris
9 1 (2.083%) AppSense
9 1 (2.083%) McAfee
9 1 (2.083%) Juniper
9 1 (2.083%) NetApp
9 1 (2.083%) Oracle
9 1 (2.083%) SAP
9 1 (2.083%) Broadcom