VMS Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VMS 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 VMS over the 3 months to 22 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 Operating Systems 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank 199 207 234
Rank change year-on-year
+8 +27
Contract jobs citing VMS 6 8 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.093% 0.100% 0.072%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.480% 0.507% 0.377%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 7
Average daily rate £270 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.00% -16.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £190 £244 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £563 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £225
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +66.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.43
All Operating Systems
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category		 1251 1579 1855
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 19.46% 19.79% 19.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 983 1239
Average daily rate £400 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 97 108
Average hourly rate £31.25 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.25% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
VMS
London

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMS across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London VMS Daily Rate Histogram

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMS 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 VMS.

1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 4 (30.77%) Banking
3 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
3 3 (23.08%) VMware
3 3 (23.08%) Solaris
3 3 (23.08%) SLA
3 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 2 (15.38%) vSphere
4 2 (15.38%) Softswitch
4 2 (15.38%) Network Management
4 2 (15.38%) Digital Media
4 2 (15.38%) VoIP
4 2 (15.38%) Sun
4 2 (15.38%) Nortel
4 2 (15.38%) Netcool
4 2 (15.38%) Apache
4 2 (15.38%) PHP
4 2 (15.38%) HND
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX
4 2 (15.38%) MySQL
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
4 2 (15.38%) BT
4 2 (15.38%) DPNSS
4 2 (15.38%) MGCP
4 2 (15.38%) SS7
4 2 (15.38%) Megaco

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMS 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 VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) LAMP
1 1 (7.692%) CSS
1 1 (7.692%) .NET
1 1 (7.692%) Gearman
1 1 (7.692%) Symfony
1 1 (7.692%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
2 1 (7.692%) IIS
2 1 (7.692%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (7.692%) lighttpd
2 1 (7.692%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Office
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Softswitch
1 2 (15.38%) VoIP
1 2 (15.38%) DPNSS
1 2 (15.38%) MGCP
1 2 (15.38%) SS7
1 2 (15.38%) Megaco
1 2 (15.38%) Q.931
1 2 (15.38%) H.323
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) Connectrix
2 1 (7.692%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) LAN
2 1 (7.692%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) SMTP
2 1 (7.692%) FTP
2 1 (7.692%) TCP/IP
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) MySQL
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 1 (7.692%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Jenkins
1 1 (7.692%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (30.77%) Banking
2 3 (23.08%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Administrator
2 2 (15.38%) Voice Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Voice Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Support Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Developer
2 2 (15.38%) Linux Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) COBOL Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
3 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Storage Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Computer Operator
3 1 (7.692%) Web Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Digital Media
2 1 (7.692%) VAX
2 1 (7.692%) CLARiiON
2 1 (7.692%) Symmetrix
2 1 (7.692%) EMC Centera
2 1 (7.692%) Replication
2 1 (7.692%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (7.692%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Linux
2 4 (30.77%) Windows
3 3 (23.08%) Solaris
4 2 (15.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (15.38%) UNIX
5 1 (7.692%) OpenVMS
5 1 (7.692%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Incident Management
2 2 (15.38%) Network Management
3 1 (7.692%) MVC
3 1 (7.692%) TDD
3 1 (7.692%) Validation
3 1 (7.692%) ITIL
3 1 (7.692%) SOA
3 1 (7.692%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.692%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PHP
2 1 (7.692%) C
2 1 (7.692%) COBOL
2 1 (7.692%) JavaScript
2 1 (7.692%) Perl
2 1 (7.692%) SQL
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) HND
2 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (7.692%) VCP5
2 1 (7.692%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) SLA
2 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 3 (23.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (15.38%) vSphere
2 2 (15.38%) VMware ESX
3 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (7.692%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Netcool
2 1 (7.692%) EMC TimeFinder
2 1 (7.692%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.692%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (7.692%) Control-M
2 1 (7.692%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) VMware
2 2 (15.38%) Sun
2 2 (15.38%) Nortel
2 2 (15.38%) Red Hat
2 2 (15.38%) BT
2 2 (15.38%) Huawei
3 1 (7.692%) Remedy
3 1 (7.692%) BMC
3 1 (7.692%) EMC
3 1 (7.692%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 1 (7.692%) Zend
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