The first table below looks at the demand for VCP4 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 VCP4 over the 3 months to 21 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 Qualifications 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4)
Rank - 213 235
Contract jobs citing VCP4 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London - 0.051% 0.010%
As % of the Qualifications category - 0.375% 0.084%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £475 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +82.69%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £190 £225
% change year-on-year
+59.21% -15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 - £20.00
All Qualifications
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
963 1066 1188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 14.99% 13.56% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 627 638 756
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 £253 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £564 £600 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 50 51
Average hourly rate £41.50 £17.93 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+131.42% -14.60%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £13.00 £14.88
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £23.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
VCP4
London

VCP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP4 across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

City of London VCP4 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP4 across the City of London region.

City of London VCP4 Daily Rate Trend

VCP4
Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VCP4 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 VCP4.

1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (100.00%) VCP5

VCP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VCP4 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 VCP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) VMS
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Perl
1 1 (100.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) vSphere
1 1 (100.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) VMware