The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX 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
VMware ESX Server
Rank 170 171 187
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +16
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 45 43 51
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.653% 0.565% 0.509%
As % of the System Software category 8.257% 7.203% 8.963%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 35 37
Average daily rate £425 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £245 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £465 £505 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 8
Average hourly rate - £27.50 £32.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.72%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -4.00%
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%
VMware ESX
London

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

City of London VMware ESX Daily Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 68 (100.00%) VMware
2 43 (63.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 41 (60.29%) Windows
4 34 (50.00%) Citrix
5 28 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (35.29%) SAN
7 21 (30.88%) Finance
8 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
9 18 (26.47%) Active Directory
10 17 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
10 17 (25.00%) XenApp
11 16 (23.53%) HP
12 15 (22.06%) IIS
12 15 (22.06%) VMware ESXi
13 14 (20.59%) vSphere
13 14 (20.59%) Banking
14 13 (19.12%) Cisco
14 13 (19.12%) EMC
15 12 (17.65%) ITIL
15 12 (17.65%) .NET
15 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
16 11 (16.18%) XenDesktop
16 11 (16.18%) VB
16 11 (16.18%) Linux
16 11 (16.18%) IBM
17 10 (14.71%) DNS
17 10 (14.71%) VBScript
17 10 (14.71%) Clustering
18 9 (13.24%) Firewall
18 9 (13.24%) DHCP

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (17.65%) .NET
2 4 (5.882%) Middleware
3 3 (4.412%) Web Services
4 2 (2.941%) ASP.NET
4 2 (2.941%) ADSI
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 15 (22.06%) IIS
2 7 (10.29%) SharePoint
2 7 (10.29%) MS Exchange
3 6 (8.824%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 4 (5.882%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 4 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2007
5 3 (4.412%) Apache
6 2 (2.941%) SharePoint Server
7 1 (1.471%) Drupal
7 1 (1.471%) OpenStack
7 1 (1.471%) Amazon AWS
7 1 (1.471%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.471%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (4.412%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.941%) MS Office
3 1 (1.471%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.941%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 24 (35.29%) SAN
2 10 (14.71%) DNS
3 9 (13.24%) Firewall
3 9 (13.24%) DHCP
4 7 (10.29%) TCP/IP
5 5 (7.353%) SNMP
6 4 (5.882%) NetScaler
6 4 (5.882%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (4.412%) SMTP
7 3 (4.412%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (4.412%) VLAN
7 3 (4.412%) NAS
8 2 (2.941%) FCoE
8 2 (2.941%) Fibre Channel
8 2 (2.941%) WAN
8 2 (2.941%) Internet
8 2 (2.941%) FTP
8 2 (2.941%) VPN
9 1 (1.471%) NetScreen
9 1 (1.471%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.824%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.882%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (5.882%) Oracle 11g
3 3 (4.412%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (4.412%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (2.941%) Oracle Exadata
5 1 (1.471%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (1.471%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.471%) Subversion
1 1 (1.471%) Git (software)
General
1 21 (30.88%) Finance
2 14 (20.59%) Banking
3 7 (10.29%) Investment Banking
4 4 (5.882%) Publishing
5 3 (4.412%) Law
6 2 (2.941%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.941%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.471%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (17.65%) Administrator
2 11 (16.18%) Architect
3 6 (8.824%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (7.353%) Consultant
4 5 (7.353%) Solutions Architect
4 5 (7.353%) Citrix Engineer
4 5 (7.353%) VMware Engineer
5 4 (5.882%) 3rd Line Support
5 4 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
6 3 (4.412%) Support Engineer
6 3 (4.412%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.412%) Wintel Engineer
6 3 (4.412%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 3 (4.412%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (2.941%) Citrix Architect
7 2 (2.941%) Exchange Consultant
7 2 (2.941%) Linux Support
7 2 (2.941%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.941%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 2 (2.941%) Messaging Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.71%) Clustering
2 6 (8.824%) Blackberry
3 5 (7.353%) iSeries
4 3 (4.412%) Thin Client
4 3 (4.412%) Fat Client
5 2 (2.941%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.471%) CLARiiON
6 1 (1.471%) Fixed Income
6 1 (1.471%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.471%) Derivative
6 1 (1.471%) IaaS
6 1 (1.471%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 41 (60.29%) Windows
2 28 (41.18%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (16.18%) Linux
5 5 (7.353%) Windows XP
5 5 (7.353%) Windows 7
6 4 (5.882%) Windows 2000
7 3 (4.412%) AIX
7 3 (4.412%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (2.941%) Windows NT
8 2 (2.941%) Solaris
9 1 (1.471%) VMS
9 1 (1.471%) HPUX
9 1 (1.471%) UNIX
9 1 (1.471%) Windows 2000 Server
9 1 (1.471%) CentOS
9 1 (1.471%) Ubuntu
9 1 (1.471%) Windows Vista
9 1 (1.471%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.65%) ITIL
2 7 (10.29%) Network Load Balancing
3 4 (5.882%) ITIL V3
3 4 (5.882%) SOA
4 3 (4.412%) Service Delivery
4 3 (4.412%) Load Balancing
4 3 (4.412%) High Availability
4 3 (4.412%) Change Control
5 2 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (2.941%) IT Governance
5 2 (2.941%) Asset Management
5 2 (2.941%) Service Management
5 2 (2.941%) GAP Analysis
5 2 (2.941%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (2.941%) Migration
6 1 (1.471%) Change Management
6 1 (1.471%) Configuration Management
6 1 (1.471%) Project Management
6 1 (1.471%) System Testing
6 1 (1.471%) Fault Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.65%) PowerShell
2 11 (16.18%) VB
3 10 (14.71%) VBScript
4 6 (8.824%) SQL
5 2 (2.941%) Perl
6 1 (1.471%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.471%) Python
6 1 (1.471%) C
6 1 (1.471%) Ruby
6 1 (1.471%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (10.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (7.353%) Citrix Certification
2 5 (7.353%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.353%) MCSE
3 3 (4.412%) CCEA
3 3 (4.412%) CCIA
3 3 (4.412%) VCP4
4 2 (2.941%) MCITP
5 1 (1.471%) CCNA
5 1 (1.471%) CCA
5 1 (1.471%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.471%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.471%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.471%) Degree
5 1 (1.471%) VCP5
5 1 (1.471%) CCEE
5 1 (1.471%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.941%) COBIT
2 1 (1.471%) ISO 9001
2 1 (1.471%) QA
System Software
1 43 (63.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (26.47%) Active Directory
3 17 (25.00%) XenApp
4 15 (22.06%) VMware ESXi
5 14 (20.59%) vSphere
6 11 (16.18%) XenDesktop
7 7 (10.29%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 5 (7.353%) vCloud
9 3 (4.412%) XenServer
9 3 (4.412%) Hyper-V
10 2 (2.941%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (2.941%) ISA Server
11 1 (1.471%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (1.471%) Oracle RAC
11 1 (1.471%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 4 (5.882%) Tivoli
2 3 (4.412%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (4.412%) SCCM
3 2 (2.941%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (2.941%) SCOM
3 2 (2.941%) Legato
3 2 (2.941%) MAILsweeper
3 2 (2.941%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (2.941%) NetBackup
3 2 (2.941%) Backup Exec
4 1 (1.471%) Nagios
4 1 (1.471%) MOM
4 1 (1.471%) ServiceCenter
4 1 (1.471%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.471%) Puppet
Vendors
1 68 (100.00%) VMware
2 34 (50.00%) Citrix
3 20 (29.41%) Microsoft
4 16 (23.53%) HP
5 13 (19.12%) Cisco
5 13 (19.12%) EMC
6 11 (16.18%) IBM
7 6 (8.824%) Red Hat
7 6 (8.824%) NetApp
7 6 (8.824%) AppSense
8 5 (7.353%) Oracle
8 5 (7.353%) Brocade
9 4 (5.882%) Siebel
9 4 (5.882%) Dell
10 3 (4.412%) Sophos
10 3 (4.412%) Clearswift
10 3 (4.412%) Veritas
10 3 (4.412%) F5
10 3 (4.412%) 3PAR
11 2 (2.941%) Leostream
City of London
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Posted: 6 June 2013