City of London VMware Infrastructure Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure (VI3) skills within the City of London region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Durham East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Telford Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	148	181
Rank change on same period last year	+33
Matching contract IT job ads	54	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.077 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	11.25 %	4.720 %
Daily rates quoted	31	6
Average minimum daily rate	£342	£342
Average daily rate	£357	£363
% change on same period last year	-1.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£373	£385
UK excluding London average daily rate	£347	£335
% change on same period last year	+3.75 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.50	-
Average hourly rate	£27.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£32.50	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.96	£31.00
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
System Software City of London
Matching contract IT job ads	480	339
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.682 %	0.342 %
Daily rates quoted	232	102
Average minimum daily rate	£341	£379
Average daily rate	£362	£399
% change on same period last year	-9.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£382	£418
UK excluding London average daily rate	£318	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.41 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	58
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.85	£21.59
Average hourly rate	£20.26	£22.70
% change on same period last year	-10.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.66	£23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.38	£21.38
% change on same period last year	-0.01 %
VMware Infrastructure London

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VMware Infrastructure
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 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.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 7 October 2008.

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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.

1 100 (100.00 %) VMware 2 57 (57.00 %) Windows 3 47 (47.00 %) VMware ESX 4 41 (41.00 %) Windows Server 2003 5 33 (33.00 %) SAN 6 30 (30.00 %) Active Directory 7 27 (27.00 %) Citrix 8 23 (23.00 %) Microsoft 9 22 (22.00 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 10 21 (21.00 %) HP 10 21 (21.00 %) DNS 10 21 (21.00 %) Windows XP 11 20 (20.00 %) Linux 12 18 (18.00 %) Finance 12 18 (18.00 %) Banking

13 17 (17.00 %) MS Exchange 14 16 (16.00 %) Windows 2000 14 16 (16.00 %) MCSE 14 16 (16.00 %) Microsoft Certification 15 15 (15.00 %) Migration 16 14 (14.00 %) Solaris 16 14 (14.00 %) EMC 17 13 (13.00 %) TCP/IP 17 13 (13.00 %) SQL Server 18 12 (12.00 %) Oracle 18 12 (12.00 %) DHCP 18 12 (12.00 %) Windows Vista 19 11 (11.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 19 11 (11.00 %) Investment Banking 19 11 (11.00 %) Disaster Recovery

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 3 (3.000 %) Application Packaging 2 2 (2.000 %) .NET 2 2 (2.000 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.000 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 17 (17.00 %) MS Exchange 2 11 (11.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 7 (7.000 %) IIS 4 4 (4.000 %) Exchange Server 2007 5 3 (3.000 %) Oracle 10gAS 5 3 (3.000 %) Lotus Notes 5 3 (3.000 %) Apache 5 3 (3.000 %) Oracle Application Server 6 2 (2.000 %) SharePoint 7 1 (1.000 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 1 (1.000 %) SAS 7 1 (1.000 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 5 (5.000 %) MS Office 2 4 (4.000 %) MS Project 2 4 (4.000 %) MS Visio 3 3 (3.000 %) MS Excel	Business Applications 1 3 (3.000 %) Oracle EBS 1 3 (3.000 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 33 (33.00 %) SAN 2 21 (21.00 %) DNS 3 13 (13.00 %) TCP/IP 4 12 (12.00 %) DHCP 5 10 (10.00 %) VLAN 6 9 (9.000 %) LAN 7 7 (7.000 %) iSCSI 8 6 (6.000 %) LDAP 9 5 (5.000 %) SMS 10 4 (4.000 %) WAN 11 3 (3.000 %) VoIP 11 3 (3.000 %) VPN 11 3 (3.000 %) Kerberos 11 3 (3.000 %) SSL 11 3 (3.000 %) Firewall 11 3 (3.000 %) Network Security 12 2 (2.000 %) SMTP 13 1 (1.000 %) HTTP 13 1 (1.000 %) IMAP4 13 1 (1.000 %) POP3	Database & Business Intelligence 1 13 (13.00 %) SQL Server 2 8 (8.000 %) Oracle 10g 3 3 (3.000 %) GIS 3 3 (3.000 %) Oracle BI EE 4 2 (2.000 %) SQL Server 2005 4 2 (2.000 %) SQL Server 2000 5 1 (1.000 %) DB2 5 1 (1.000 %) Datawarehouse
Development Applications 1 5 (5.000 %) MSI 2 1 (1.000 %) InstallShield	General 1 18 (18.00 %) Finance 1 18 (18.00 %) Banking 2 11 (11.00 %) Investment Banking 3 4 (4.000 %) Government 4 2 (2.000 %) Telecoms 5 1 (1.000 %) Back Office 5 1 (1.000 %) Law 5 1 (1.000 %) Games 5 1 (1.000 %) International Banking 5 1 (1.000 %) Auditing
Job Titles 1 19 (19.00 %) Consultant 2 14 (14.00 %) Administrator 3 12 (12.00 %) Analyst 4 10 (10.00 %) Technical Consultant 5 8 (8.000 %) Systems Administrator 6 6 (6.000 %) Architect 6 6 (6.000 %) Server Engineer 7 5 (5.000 %) Support Engineer 7 5 (5.000 %) Project Manager 7 5 (5.000 %) Support Analyst 8 4 (4.000 %) Windows Administrator 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Support 9 3 (3.000 %) Applications Packager 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Support Analyst 9 3 (3.000 %) DBA 9 3 (3.000 %) Network Analyst 10 2 (2.000 %) Senior Analyst 10 2 (2.000 %) Infrastructure Specialist 10 2 (2.000 %) Oracle DBA 10 2 (2.000 %) Technical Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 10 (10.00 %) Clustering 2 5 (5.000 %) Fat Client 2 5 (5.000 %) Thin Client 2 5 (5.000 %) CLARiiON 3 2 (2.000 %) Blackberry 3 2 (2.000 %) Replication 3 2 (2.000 %) Celerra 4 1 (1.000 %) Spread Betting 4 1 (1.000 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 57 (57.00 %) Windows 2 41 (41.00 %) Windows Server 2003 3 21 (21.00 %) Windows XP 4 20 (20.00 %) Linux 5 16 (16.00 %) Windows 2000 6 14 (14.00 %) Solaris 7 12 (12.00 %) Windows Vista 8 11 (11.00 %) UNIX 9 9 (9.000 %) Windows 2000 Server 10 4 (4.000 %) Red Hat Linux 10 4 (4.000 %) Windows Server 2008 11 2 (2.000 %) HPUX 12 1 (1.000 %) Windows NT	Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (15.00 %) Migration 2 11 (11.00 %) Disaster Recovery 3 6 (6.000 %) ITIL 4 5 (5.000 %) Configuration Management 5 4 (4.000 %) Validation 5 4 (4.000 %) Data Migration 5 4 (4.000 %) SC Cleared 5 4 (4.000 %) Security Cleared 6 3 (3.000 %) Project Management 6 3 (3.000 %) SOA 6 3 (3.000 %) Business Intelligence 7 2 (2.000 %) PRINCE 7 2 (2.000 %) Workflow 7 2 (2.000 %) E-Commerce 7 2 (2.000 %) Problem Management 7 2 (2.000 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 1 (1.000 %) Performance Management 8 1 (1.000 %) Business Continuity 8 1 (1.000 %) Asset Management 8 1 (1.000 %) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages 1 11 (11.00 %) SQL 2 4 (4.000 %) VBScript 3 3 (3.000 %) VB 3 3 (3.000 %) C 3 3 (3.000 %) C# 4 2 (2.000 %) Shell Script 5 1 (1.000 %) PowerShell 5 1 (1.000 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 22 (22.00 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 16 (16.00 %) Microsoft Certification 2 16 (16.00 %) MCSE 3 7 (7.000 %) CCNA 3 7 (7.000 %) Cisco Certification 4 5 (5.000 %) Citrix Certification 4 5 (5.000 %) CCEA 5 4 (4.000 %) CCA 6 2 (2.000 %) MCSA 6 2 (2.000 %) SCSA 6 2 (2.000 %) RHCE 7 1 (1.000 %) CCSA 7 1 (1.000 %) MCTS 7 1 (1.000 %) MCITP 7 1 (1.000 %) Degree 7 1 (1.000 %) CCDA 7 1 (1.000 %) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.000 %) SLA 2 1 (1.000 %) QA	System Software 1 47 (47.00 %) VMware ESX 2 30 (30.00 %) Active Directory 3 7 (7.000 %) NetBackup 4 6 (6.000 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 6 (6.000 %) Citrix Presentation Server 4 6 (6.000 %) VMware Workstation 4 6 (6.000 %) NFS 5 5 (5.000 %) Oracle RAC 6 4 (4.000 %) VMware Server 6 4 (4.000 %) Xen 7 3 (3.000 %) Terminal Server 7 3 (3.000 %) Terminal Services 8 2 (2.000 %) Samba 9 1 (1.000 %) ISA Server 9 1 (1.000 %) Backup Exec 9 1 (1.000 %) Squid
Systems Management 1 6 (6.000 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (3.000 %) Tivoli 2 3 (3.000 %) SCCM 3 2 (2.000 %) SCOM 3 2 (2.000 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 3 2 (2.000 %) WSUS 4 1 (1.000 %) Legato 4 1 (1.000 %) Nagios 4 1 (1.000 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 1 (1.000 %) MOM 4 1 (1.000 %) Tivoli Monitoring	Vendors 1 100 (100.00 %) VMware 2 27 (27.00 %) Citrix 3 23 (23.00 %) Microsoft 4 21 (21.00 %) HP 5 14 (14.00 %) EMC 6 12 (12.00 %) Oracle 7 11 (11.00 %) IBM 8 9 (9.000 %) Sun 9 7 (7.000 %) PlateSpin 10 6 (6.000 %) Altiris 11 5 (5.000 %) Cisco 11 5 (5.000 %) NetApp 12 4 (4.000 %) Red Hat 12 4 (4.000 %) CheckPoint 12 4 (4.000 %) Symantec 12 4 (4.000 %) Sophos 13 3 (3.000 %) Lotus 13 3 (3.000 %) Reuters 13 3 (3.000 %) Nokia 13 3 (3.000 %) Avaya