The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESXi 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 ESXi over the 3 months to 19 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESXi
Rank 185 203 241
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +38
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 25 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.369% 0.116% 0.100%
As % of the System Software category 4.690% 1.488% 1.757%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 7 5
Average daily rate £413 £365 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.01% +62.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £204
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £456 £246
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £340
% change year-on-year
- -4.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £27.00 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -1.81%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £20.00 £37.00
% change year-on-year
+100.00% -45.94%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
533 605 569
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 7.861% 7.816% 5.684%
Number of daily rates quoted 336 353 336
Average daily rate £388 £363 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.89% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 60 85
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 £11.50 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £33.65 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware ESXi
London

VMware ESXi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMware ESXi Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware ESXi Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESXi across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London VMware ESXi Daily Rate Histogram

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware ESXi Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESXi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi.

1 47 (97.92%) VMware
2 31 (64.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (60.42%) Windows
4 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 19 (39.58%) Citrix
6 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
7 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
8 16 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
9 15 (31.25%) HP
9 15 (31.25%) VMware ESX
10 14 (29.17%) Cisco
11 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
12 12 (25.00%) DV Cleared
12 12 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (25.00%) MS Exchange
13 11 (22.92%) Linux
14 9 (18.75%) IBM
14 9 (18.75%) SAN
14 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
15 8 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
15 8 (16.67%) DNS
15 8 (16.67%) MCSA
15 8 (16.67%) ITIL
15 8 (16.67%) MCP
15 8 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
15 8 (16.67%) Finance
15 8 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
15 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
16 7 (14.58%) XenApp

VMware ESXi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 12 (25.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 8 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 8 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 4 (8.333%) IIS
4 3 (6.250%) SharePoint
4 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (4.167%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (4.167%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 6 (12.50%) MS Office
2 5 (10.42%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.083%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 9 (18.75%) SAN
2 8 (16.67%) DNS
3 6 (12.50%) VPN
3 6 (12.50%) DHCP
4 5 (10.42%) TCP/IP
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Nexus
5 4 (8.333%) FCoE
6 3 (6.250%) ADSL
6 3 (6.250%) LAN
6 3 (6.250%) VoIP
6 3 (6.250%) Wireless
7 2 (4.167%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (4.167%) Firewall
7 2 (4.167%) VLAN
7 2 (4.167%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.167%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (2.083%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.083%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 5 (10.42%) Systems Engineer
1 5 (10.42%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (10.42%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 4 (8.333%) Administrator
2 4 (8.333%) Linux Specialist
2 4 (8.333%) Storage Engineer
3 3 (6.250%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (6.250%) Senior Systems Engineer
3 3 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (6.250%) Desktop Support
4 2 (4.167%) SAN Storage Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 2 (4.167%) SharePoint Administrator
4 2 (4.167%) SAN Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 2 (4.167%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (4.167%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Statistics
2 3 (6.250%) Blackberry
3 2 (4.167%) AS400
3 2 (4.167%) Clustering
3 2 (4.167%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.083%) PaaS
4 1 (2.083%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.083%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 29 (60.42%) Windows
2 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 16 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (22.92%) Linux
5 6 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 6 (12.50%) Windows Vista
5 6 (12.50%) Mac OS X
6 4 (8.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (8.333%) HPUX
6 4 (8.333%) UNIX
7 3 (6.250%) Solaris
7 3 (6.250%) Windows XP
8 2 (4.167%) AIX
9 1 (2.083%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (16.67%) ITIL
2 5 (10.42%) Migration
3 4 (8.333%) Information Assurance
3 4 (8.333%) Service Management
3 4 (8.333%) Service Delivery
3 4 (8.333%) Data Management
3 4 (8.333%) Risk Analysis
4 2 (4.167%) Change Management
4 2 (4.167%) Incident Management
4 2 (4.167%) Load Balancing
5 1 (2.083%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.083%) Electronic Design Automation
5 1 (2.083%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.167%) SQL
2 1 (2.083%) Perl
2 1 (2.083%) VBScript
2 1 (2.083%) Shell Script
2 1 (2.083%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.083%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 12 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 9 (18.75%) Microsoft Certification
4 8 (16.67%) MCSA
4 8 (16.67%) MCP
5 7 (14.58%) MCITP
6 6 (12.50%) MCSE
7 5 (10.42%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (8.333%) MCDST
8 4 (8.333%) MCTS
9 3 (6.250%) VCP4
10 2 (4.167%) Degree
10 2 (4.167%) CCNA
11 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
11 1 (2.083%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.167%) SLA
2 1 (2.083%) QA
System Software
1 31 (64.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (35.42%) Active Directory
3 15 (31.25%) VMware ESX
4 8 (16.67%) Hyper-V
5 7 (14.58%) XenApp
5 7 (14.58%) vSphere
6 5 (10.42%) vCloud
7 4 (8.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 3 (6.250%) Terminal Services
9 2 (4.167%) UAG
9 2 (4.167%) Veritas Cluster Server
9 2 (4.167%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (2.083%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 3 (6.250%) SCCM
1 3 (6.250%) SCOM
1 3 (6.250%) WSUS
Vendors
1 47 (97.92%) VMware
2 19 (39.58%) Citrix
3 18 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 15 (31.25%) HP
5 14 (29.17%) Cisco
6 9 (18.75%) IBM
7 8 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 6 (12.50%) Apple
9 5 (10.42%) CommVault
9 5 (10.42%) 3PAR
10 3 (6.250%) Symantec
10 3 (6.250%) EMC
11 2 (4.167%) Brocade
11 2 (4.167%) Dell
11 2 (4.167%) NetApp
11 2 (4.167%) Veritas
11 2 (4.167%) Remedy
12 1 (2.083%) Sun
12 1 (2.083%) CheckPoint
12 1 (2.083%) Juniper