The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 91 79 152
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +73
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 122 168 94
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 1.938% 2.159% 0.955%
As % of the System Software category 23.60% 28.33% 17.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 96 53
Average daily rate £425 £364 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+16.83% -3.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £550 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 12 7
Average hourly rate £50.00 £19.50 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+156.41% -44.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £46.80 £12.50 £17.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £53.20 £30.35 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+30.12% -7.48%
All System Software
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
517 593 533
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 8.213% 7.622% 5.416%
Number of daily rates quoted 320 357 317
Average daily rate £400 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £219
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £497 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 60 75
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.75 £20.60
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.84% +0.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £12.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £36.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
London

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 230 (100.00%) VMware
2 154 (66.96%) Windows
3 90 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
4 88 (38.26%) Active Directory
5 77 (33.48%) Citrix
6 73 (31.74%) Microsoft
7 69 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
8 54 (23.48%) Finance
9 52 (22.61%) Cisco
9 52 (22.61%) HP
9 52 (22.61%) Linux
10 49 (21.30%) SAN
11 46 (20.00%) VMware ESX
12 45 (19.57%) Windows 7
12 45 (19.57%) vSphere
13 43 (18.70%) MS Exchange
14 41 (17.83%) DNS
15 40 (17.39%) ITIL
16 36 (15.65%) Banking
17 35 (15.22%) SCCM
18 34 (14.78%) IIS
18 34 (14.78%) Migration
19 32 (13.91%) VMware ESXi
20 31 (13.48%) SCOM
20 31 (13.48%) DHCP
21 30 (13.04%) SQL
21 30 (13.04%) Security Cleared
22 29 (12.61%) TCP/IP
23 28 (12.17%) Windows XP
23 28 (12.17%) Red Hat

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (11.30%) .NET
2 7 (3.043%) Web Services
3 6 (2.609%) ASP.NET
3 6 (2.609%) Application Packaging
4 3 (1.304%) XML
4 3 (1.304%) ADSI
5 2 (0.870%) COM
5 2 (0.870%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (0.870%) J2EE
5 2 (0.870%) ASP
5 2 (0.870%) WebSphere
5 2 (0.870%) HTML
6 1 (0.435%) .NET Framework
6 1 (0.435%) K2 blackpearl
6 1 (0.435%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.435%) jQuery
6 1 (0.435%) CSS
6 1 (0.435%) JSP
6 1 (0.435%) SOAP
6 1 (0.435%) Struts
Application Platforms
1 43 (18.70%) MS Exchange
2 34 (14.78%) IIS
3 25 (10.87%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 24 (10.43%) Exchange Server 2010
5 19 (8.261%) SharePoint
6 16 (6.957%) Exchange Server 2007
7 15 (6.522%) Exchange Server 2003
8 8 (3.478%) Office Communications Server
9 7 (3.043%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (3.043%) Lotus Notes
9 7 (3.043%) Lotus Domino
9 7 (3.043%) Apache
10 4 (1.739%) Tomcat
11 3 (1.304%) CloudStack
11 3 (1.304%) SharePoint 2010
12 2 (0.870%) Exchange Server 2013
12 2 (0.870%) WebLogic
12 2 (0.870%) Amazon EC2
13 1 (0.435%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 1 (0.435%) OpenStack
Applications
1 21 (9.130%) MS Office
2 17 (7.391%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.870%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.435%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.435%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 2 (0.870%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.435%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 49 (21.30%) SAN
2 41 (17.83%) DNS
3 31 (13.48%) DHCP
4 29 (12.61%) TCP/IP
5 27 (11.74%) Firewall
6 21 (9.130%) LAN
7 17 (7.391%) WAN
8 15 (6.522%) NAS
9 13 (5.652%) Cisco Nexus
10 12 (5.217%) VLAN
11 11 (4.783%) VPN
12 9 (3.913%) SMTP
12 9 (3.913%) LDAP
12 9 (3.913%) Wireless
12 9 (3.913%) Internet
12 9 (3.913%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (3.478%) MPLS
14 7 (3.043%) OSPF
14 7 (3.043%) BGP
14 7 (3.043%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (12.17%) SQL Server
2 12 (5.217%) SQL Server 2008
3 11 (4.783%) SQL Server 2005
4 7 (3.043%) MySQL
5 5 (2.174%) Oracle 8/8i
6 3 (1.304%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.304%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (0.870%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.435%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.435%) OLAP
8 1 (0.435%) Crystal Reports
8 1 (0.435%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.435%) Data Warehouse
8 1 (0.435%) DTS
8 1 (0.435%) Data Mining
8 1 (0.435%) Oracle 10g
8 1 (0.435%) SQL Server 7
8 1 (0.435%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.435%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.435%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (2.609%) MSI
2 3 (1.304%) Maven
2 3 (1.304%) Git (software)
2 3 (1.304%) Team Foundation Server
2 3 (1.304%) Jenkins
3 2 (0.870%) Subversion
3 2 (0.870%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.870%) Ant
3 2 (0.870%) Visual Studio
4 1 (0.435%) Eclipse
4 1 (0.435%) JUnit
4 1 (0.435%) Selenium
4 1 (0.435%) InstallShield
4 1 (0.435%) Wise Package Studio
4 1 (0.435%) Gerrit
General
1 54 (23.48%) Finance
2 36 (15.65%) Banking
3 16 (6.957%) Investment Banking
4 5 (2.174%) Financial Institution
5 4 (1.739%) Law
5 4 (1.739%) Advertising
6 3 (1.304%) Publishing
7 2 (0.870%) Retail
7 2 (0.870%) Legal
7 2 (0.870%) Back Office
7 2 (0.870%) Telecoms
8 1 (0.435%) Local Government
8 1 (0.435%) Marketing
8 1 (0.435%) German Language
8 1 (0.435%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 30 (13.04%) Administrator
2 25 (10.87%) Architect
3 19 (8.261%) Analyst
4 16 (6.957%) 3rd Line Support
5 15 (6.522%) Systems Administrator
5 15 (6.522%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (6.087%) Consultant
7 11 (4.783%) Support Engineer
8 10 (4.348%) Virtualisation Specialist
9 9 (3.913%) 2nd Line Support
10 8 (3.478%) Network Engineer
11 7 (3.043%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.043%) Infrastructure Architect
11 7 (3.043%) Server Engineer
11 7 (3.043%) Wintel Engineer
11 7 (3.043%) Windows Administrator
11 7 (3.043%) Windows Systems Administrator
12 6 (2.609%) Firewall Engineer
12 6 (2.609%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (2.609%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (8.261%) Blackberry
1 19 (8.261%) Clustering
2 7 (3.043%) Open Source
3 6 (2.609%) CLARiiON
4 5 (2.174%) Statistics
5 4 (1.739%) Computer Science
5 4 (1.739%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.739%) Video Conferencing
5 4 (1.739%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.304%) IaaS
6 3 (1.304%) iSeries
6 3 (1.304%) SaaS
6 3 (1.304%) PaaS
6 3 (1.304%) Client/Server
6 3 (1.304%) Replication
7 2 (0.870%) HACMP
7 2 (0.870%) PKI
7 2 (0.870%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.870%) N-Tier
7 2 (0.870%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 154 (66.96%) Windows
2 90 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 69 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 52 (22.61%) Linux
5 45 (19.57%) Windows 7
6 28 (12.17%) Windows XP
6 28 (12.17%) UNIX
7 27 (11.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 12 (5.217%) Windows Vista
9 11 (4.783%) Windows 2000
10 10 (4.348%) Solaris
11 7 (3.043%) AIX
11 7 (3.043%) Mac OS X
12 6 (2.609%) Windows Server 2012
12 6 (2.609%) HPUX
13 3 (1.304%) Windows NT
13 3 (1.304%) VMS
13 3 (1.304%) CentOS
13 3 (1.304%) Windows 8
14 1 (0.435%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (17.39%) ITIL
2 34 (14.78%) Migration
3 11 (4.783%) Service Management
3 11 (4.783%) Service Delivery
3 11 (4.783%) Disaster Recovery
4 10 (4.348%) Project Management
4 10 (4.348%) Load Balancing
5 7 (3.043%) Network Load Balancing
5 7 (3.043%) Capacity Planning
5 7 (3.043%) Configuration Management
6 6 (2.609%) PRINCE2
6 6 (2.609%) Network Architecture
7 5 (2.174%) Technical Architecture
7 5 (2.174%) Problem Management
7 5 (2.174%) Data Management
7 5 (2.174%) Network Management
7 5 (2.174%) Change Control
7 5 (2.174%) Change Management
7 5 (2.174%) ITSM
8 4 (1.739%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 30 (13.04%) SQL
2 28 (12.17%) PowerShell
3 16 (6.957%) Perl
4 9 (3.913%) C#
4 9 (3.913%) Bash shell
5 8 (3.478%) Shell Script
6 7 (3.043%) VB
7 6 (2.609%) PHP
7 6 (2.609%) VBScript
8 5 (2.174%) C
8 5 (2.174%) T-SQL
8 5 (2.174%) Java
8 5 (2.174%) VB.NET
9 3 (1.304%) Ruby
9 3 (1.304%) PL/SQL
9 3 (1.304%) Python
10 2 (0.870%) JavaScript
10 2 (0.870%) sed
10 2 (0.870%) AWK
11 1 (0.435%) VBA
Qualifications
1 30 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 26 (11.30%) Microsoft Certification
3 21 (9.130%) MCSE
4 16 (6.957%) DV Cleared
5 15 (6.522%) Degree
5 15 (6.522%) Cisco Certification
6 13 (5.652%) MCITP
7 12 (5.217%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 10 (4.348%) MCSA
9 9 (3.913%) MCP
9 9 (3.913%) MCTS
10 8 (3.478%) SC Cleared
11 6 (2.609%) CCNA
12 5 (2.174%) CCIE
12 5 (2.174%) RHCE
12 5 (2.174%) MCDST
13 4 (1.739%) JNCIE
14 3 (1.304%) Microsoft Certified Master
14 3 (1.304%) Citrix Certification
15 2 (0.870%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.609%) SLA
2 5 (2.174%) ISO 9001
2 5 (2.174%) PCI DSS
3 4 (1.739%) QA
4 3 (1.304%) Solvency II
5 1 (0.435%) TickIT
System Software
1 88 (38.26%) Active Directory
2 46 (20.00%) VMware ESX
3 45 (19.57%) vSphere
4 32 (13.91%) VMware ESXi
5 27 (11.74%) XenApp
6 24 (10.43%) Hyper-V
7 11 (4.783%) vCloud
8 9 (3.913%) Microsoft App-V
9 8 (3.478%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 7 (3.043%) XenDesktop
11 6 (2.609%) VMware Workstation
12 4 (1.739%) Terminal Services
12 4 (1.739%) DFS Replication
13 3 (1.304%) XenServer
13 3 (1.304%) NFS
14 2 (0.870%) VMware Server
14 2 (0.870%) ISA Server
14 2 (0.870%) Samba
15 1 (0.435%) MetaFrame
15 1 (0.435%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 35 (15.22%) SCCM
2 31 (13.48%) SCOM
3 13 (5.652%) WSUS
3 13 (5.652%) Norton AntiVirus
4 10 (4.348%) Tivoli
5 8 (3.478%) MAILsweeper
5 8 (3.478%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 7 (3.043%) Puppet
7 6 (2.609%) FortiGate
7 6 (2.609%) NetBackup
7 6 (2.609%) HP Data Protector
8 5 (2.174%) Nagios
9 4 (1.739%) BMC Performance Manager
9 4 (1.739%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 4 (1.739%) BMC PATROL
9 4 (1.739%) Backup Exec
9 4 (1.739%) Legato
10 3 (1.304%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 3 (1.304%) Zenoss
10 3 (1.304%) Red Hat Spacewalk
Vendors
1 230 (100.00%) VMware
2 77 (33.48%) Citrix
3 73 (31.74%) Microsoft
4 52 (22.61%) Cisco
4 52 (22.61%) HP
5 28 (12.17%) Red Hat
6 25 (10.87%) NetApp
7 20 (8.696%) IBM
7 20 (8.696%) Oracle
8 19 (8.261%) Symantec
9 18 (7.826%) EMC
10 13 (5.652%) F5
11 12 (5.217%) McAfee
12 11 (4.783%) Sophos
13 10 (4.348%) Veritas
13 10 (4.348%) Dell
14 8 (3.478%) Lotus
14 8 (3.478%) Juniper
15 7 (3.043%) BMC
15 7 (3.043%) Apple
City of London
Infrastructure Engineer - Cisco, Unified Comms, NetApp, VmwareMy client is currently looking for a broadly skilled Infrastructure Engineer to join their busy Infrastructure team for a global project.
Mint
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
City of London
The successful candidate must have experience in a similar role, be able to represent all aspects of technical delivery with responsibilities for designing and delivering real world infrastructure...
Rate: £550 - £700 per day
Posted: 23 April 2013
City, London
Our Customer is looking for a Virtualisation Specialist to administer the virtual infrastructure that supports the application hosting service. The job entails development of new Virtual Infrastructures, implementation...
LA International
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Key Skills: exchange, infrastructure, 2nd line, 3rd line, third line, 3rd line, WSUS, AV, linux, VMWare, ESXi... BSOD oAV Server management oProxy maintenance oLansweeper oAsset register maintenance oNew...
Just IT Recruitment
Rate: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
City of London
In particular, someone who has been in 2nd-line or 3rd line support for at least 3 years, and has undertaken some in-depth (project style) workExperience Required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: Negotiable
Posted: 9 May 2013
City of London
About your personal attributes:Collaborative working and willing to share knowledge and experienceCustomer focused with excellent rapport building skills - able to comfortably communicate with clients face to face,...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £18000 - £24000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 2 May 2013
City, London
App-V packaging. - Windows 7 migrations. Including AppSense and App-v - Desktop build engineering and updates on a regular basis and enforcing desktop standard policies. - Application packaging and...
Mortimer Spinks
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
It is essential that the successful candidate has experience Linux (Oracle 5.x/6.x), with any knowledge or experience of Windows 2008/12 operating systems as an...
Experis IT
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Solutions Designer - Solutions Architect - SAN - Oracle - EMC - vMAX - Fusion Middleware... *In-depth understanding of Blade compute infrastructures - primarily HP *Wide experience in implementing SAN and distributed storage infrastructures...
E-synergy Solutions
Rate: £425 - £450 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City of London
SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and knowledge of basic network troubleshooting. Outlook Client Support Microsoft Windows Server 2008 Lotus Domino Server, Lotus Notes Client E-Mail Migration and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Technical environment MsExchange 2003 - 2010, Symantec Enterprise Vault BlackBerry Enterprise Server Active Directory Skilled in TCPIP and common networking protocols i.e. SMTP, POP3, LDAP, SSL, TLS, and...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £300 - £350 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
Experience in the financial sector VMware HP Hardware & HP Health monitoring tools Scripting experience in one or more of Python/Shell/Perl/Ruby languages Network build/management systems,...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Critical business partner role alongside Systems Engineering, Problem Management, Change Management, Network Operations and Service Operations. 3-5+ Years Linux/Unix support or engineering, capable of providing 2nd/...
Orgtel
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have the following skill set: Qualified to CCNA level. ITIL qualified to Foundation Level... Experience of change management process. Working knowledge of MS Office,...
Experis IT
Rate: £260 - £288 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The successful candidate will have the following skill set: Qualified to CCNA level. ITIL qualified to Foundation Level... Experience of change management process. Working knowledge of MS Office,...
Experis IT
Rate: £260 - £288 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013