The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Virtual Server
Rank 208 205 237
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +32
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 7 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.102% 0.118% 0.010%
As % of the System Software category 1.284% 1.508% 0.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 1
Average daily rate £525 £330 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+59.09% -9.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £275 £210
% change year-on-year
+1.00% +30.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- +62.79%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
545 597 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.909% 7.846% 5.678%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 350 337
Average daily rate £388 £363 £385
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -5.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 59 86
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.43% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.99 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £34.10 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
Microsoft Virtual Server
London

Microsoft Virtual Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Virtual Server Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server across the City of London region.

City of London Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Microsoft Virtual Server Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server.

1 6 (75.00%) MS Office
2 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 5 (62.50%) Migration
3 4 (50.00%) QA
3 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
3 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 4 (50.00%) Service Management
3 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Change Management
3 4 (50.00%) Project Management
3 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 4 (50.00%) LAN
3 4 (50.00%) WAN
4 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) VBA
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
5 2 (25.00%) Data Security
5 2 (25.00%) Law
5 2 (25.00%) IIS
5 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
5 2 (25.00%) Document Management
5 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
6 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Banking
6 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
6 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (25.00%) IIS
1 2 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 6 (75.00%) MS Office
2 4 (50.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) DNS
2 1 (12.50%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
1 1 (12.50%) MS Access
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (62.50%) Finance
2 2 (25.00%) Law
2 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 4 (50.00%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Support
3 2 (25.00%) Support Analyst
3 2 (25.00%) Systems Support Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) MI Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (12.50%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Migration
2 4 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 4 (50.00%) Service Management
2 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 4 (50.00%) Change Management
2 4 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (25.00%) Data Security
3 2 (25.00%) Document Management
4 1 (12.50%) Business Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) Software Deployment
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
1 3 (37.50%) VBA
2 1 (12.50%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
1 1 (12.50%) SCOM
1 1 (12.50%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) IBM
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Business Objects
1 1 (12.50%) HP
1 1 (12.50%) EMC
1 1 (12.50%) Symantec