The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 20 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 55 45 77
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +32
Contract jobs citing VMware 207 274 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 3.276% 3.509% 2.058%
As % of the Vendors category 7.248% 8.343% 4.922%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 171 123
Average daily rate £403 £400 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.62% +6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £238
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £525 £473
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 16 19
Average hourly rate £34.00 £21.75 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+56.32% -22.32%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.23 £12.50 £16.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.40 £29.75 £40.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £23.75 £22.20
% change year-on-year
-3.15% +7.00%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2856 3284 4043
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.20% 42.05% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 2018 2244 2789
Average daily rate £430 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £288 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 99 125
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £39.60 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
London

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

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

City of London VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

City of London VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 278 (68.30%) Windows
2 232 (57.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 160 (39.31%) Windows Server 2008
4 142 (34.89%) Citrix
5 138 (33.91%) Active Directory
6 118 (28.99%) Microsoft
7 111 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 95 (23.34%) MS Exchange
9 93 (22.85%) Linux
9 93 (22.85%) SAN
10 85 (20.88%) Finance
11 84 (20.64%) Cisco
11 84 (20.64%) HP
12 70 (17.20%) VMware ESX
13 64 (15.72%) Windows 7
14 62 (15.23%) vSphere
15 60 (14.74%) Banking
15 60 (14.74%) ITIL
15 60 (14.74%) SQL Server
16 57 (14.00%) SCCM
17 55 (13.51%) DNS
18 54 (13.27%) SQL
18 54 (13.27%) Exchange Server 2010
19 50 (12.29%) SCOM
20 49 (12.04%) Migration
20 49 (12.04%) VMware ESXi
21 48 (11.79%) XenApp
22 45 (11.06%) Firewall
22 45 (11.06%) Red Hat
22 45 (11.06%) IIS

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 35 (8.600%) .NET
2 11 (2.703%) Web Services
3 8 (1.966%) ASP.NET
4 7 (1.720%) J2EE
4 7 (1.720%) Application Packaging
5 5 (1.229%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.983%) Middleware
6 4 (0.983%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (0.737%) HTML
7 3 (0.737%) Spring
7 3 (0.737%) XML
7 3 (0.737%) ADSI
7 3 (0.737%) COM
8 2 (0.491%) CSS
8 2 (0.491%) ASP
8 2 (0.491%) jQuery
8 2 (0.491%) RESTful
8 2 (0.491%) K2 blackpearl
9 1 (0.246%) CSS3
9 1 (0.246%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 95 (23.34%) MS Exchange
2 54 (13.27%) Exchange Server 2010
3 45 (11.06%) IIS
4 34 (8.354%) Exchange Server 2003
5 32 (7.862%) Exchange Server 2007
6 31 (7.617%) SharePoint
7 30 (7.371%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 13 (3.194%) Apache
9 11 (2.703%) Tomcat
10 9 (2.211%) Office Communications Server
10 9 (2.211%) SharePoint 2010
11 8 (1.966%) Lotus Notes
12 7 (1.720%) Lotus Domino
12 7 (1.720%) SharePoint Server
13 5 (1.229%) Amazon EC2
13 5 (1.229%) WebLogic
14 4 (0.983%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 3 (0.737%) Lync
15 3 (0.737%) CloudStack
15 3 (0.737%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 33 (8.108%) MS Office
2 27 (6.634%) MS Excel
3 5 (1.229%) Office 365
4 2 (0.491%) InfoPath
4 2 (0.491%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.246%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.246%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.491%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.246%) FLEXCUBE
2 1 (0.246%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 93 (22.85%) SAN
2 55 (13.51%) DNS
3 45 (11.06%) Firewall
4 41 (10.07%) DHCP
5 40 (9.828%) TCP/IP
6 29 (7.125%) LAN
7 24 (5.897%) WAN
8 22 (5.405%) NAS
9 16 (3.931%) Cisco Nexus
10 14 (3.440%) VPN
11 12 (2.948%) SMTP
11 12 (2.948%) Cisco ASA
11 12 (2.948%) VLAN
12 11 (2.703%) Wireless
13 10 (2.457%) SNMP
14 9 (2.211%) Internet
14 9 (2.211%) LDAP
15 8 (1.966%) HTTP
15 8 (1.966%) MPLS
15 8 (1.966%) BGP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 60 (14.74%) SQL Server
2 27 (6.634%) SQL Server 2008
3 21 (5.160%) SQL Server 2005
4 13 (3.194%) MySQL
5 11 (2.703%) SQL Server 2012
6 8 (1.966%) Oracle 8/8i
7 4 (0.983%) Data Warehouse
7 4 (0.983%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 3 (0.737%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 3 (0.737%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 2 (0.491%) Oracle 10g
9 2 (0.491%) SQL Server 2000
10 1 (0.246%) PostgreSQL
10 1 (0.246%) BusinessObjects
10 1 (0.246%) SQL Server 7
10 1 (0.246%) Oracle 11g
10 1 (0.246%) DTS
10 1 (0.246%) Data Mining
10 1 (0.246%) OLAP
10 1 (0.246%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 7 (1.720%) MSI
1 7 (1.720%) Subversion
1 7 (1.720%) Git (software)
1 7 (1.720%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (1.474%) Maven
2 6 (1.474%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.229%) TeamCity
3 5 (1.229%) Ant
4 4 (0.983%) Gerrit
5 3 (0.737%) FishEye
5 3 (0.737%) Eclipse
5 3 (0.737%) AnthillPro
5 3 (0.737%) Mercurial
5 3 (0.737%) JUnit
5 3 (0.737%) JIRA
6 2 (0.491%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.246%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.246%) Selenium
7 1 (0.246%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 85 (20.88%) Finance
2 60 (14.74%) Banking
3 29 (7.125%) Investment Banking
4 17 (4.177%) Law
5 9 (2.211%) Telecoms
6 8 (1.966%) Publishing
7 7 (1.720%) Legal
8 5 (1.229%) Advertising
8 5 (1.229%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.737%) Front Office
9 3 (0.737%) Retail
10 2 (0.491%) Back Office
11 1 (0.246%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.246%) Local Government
11 1 (0.246%) Marketing
11 1 (0.246%) German Language
Job Titles
1 55 (13.51%) Administrator
2 42 (10.32%) Analyst
3 36 (8.845%) Architect
3 36 (8.845%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 35 (8.600%) Systems Administrator
5 25 (6.143%) 3rd Line Support
6 23 (5.651%) Consultant
7 20 (4.914%) Support Engineer
8 19 (4.668%) Systems Engineer
9 14 (3.440%) Server Engineer
10 13 (3.194%) Linux Systems Administrator
10 13 (3.194%) Linux Administrator
11 11 (2.703%) Windows Administrator
11 11 (2.703%) Network Engineer
11 11 (2.703%) Systems Analyst
11 11 (2.703%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 11 (2.703%) 2nd Line Support
11 11 (2.703%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 10 (2.457%) Wintel Engineer
12 10 (2.457%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (6.634%) Clustering
2 25 (6.143%) Blackberry
3 9 (2.211%) Open Source
4 8 (1.966%) Cloud Computing
5 6 (1.474%) Replication
5 6 (1.474%) CLARiiON
5 6 (1.474%) Statistics
6 5 (1.229%) Management Information System
7 4 (0.983%) Client/Server
7 4 (0.983%) iPad
7 4 (0.983%) Computer Science
7 4 (0.983%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.737%) Fat Client
8 3 (0.737%) Smartphone
8 3 (0.737%) SaaS
8 3 (0.737%) PaaS
8 3 (0.737%) iSeries
8 3 (0.737%) Symmetrix DMX
8 3 (0.737%) Thin Client
8 3 (0.737%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 278 (68.30%) Windows
2 160 (39.31%) Windows Server 2008
3 111 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
4 93 (22.85%) Linux
5 64 (15.72%) Windows 7
6 42 (10.32%) UNIX
7 40 (9.828%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (9.091%) Windows XP
9 25 (6.143%) Solaris
10 14 (3.440%) Windows 2000
11 12 (2.948%) Windows Vista
12 10 (2.457%) AIX
12 10 (2.457%) Windows Server 2012
13 7 (1.720%) Mac OS X
14 6 (1.474%) CentOS
14 6 (1.474%) HPUX
15 4 (0.983%) Debian
15 4 (0.983%) Windows 8
16 3 (0.737%) SUSE
16 3 (0.737%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (14.74%) ITIL
2 49 (12.04%) Migration
3 23 (5.651%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (3.931%) Service Delivery
5 14 (3.440%) Project Management
5 14 (3.440%) Service Management
6 10 (2.457%) ETL
6 10 (2.457%) Load Balancing
6 10 (2.457%) Capacity Planning
7 9 (2.211%) Network Load Balancing
7 9 (2.211%) Problem Management
7 9 (2.211%) Configuration Management
7 9 (2.211%) Change Management
8 8 (1.966%) Business Continuity
8 8 (1.966%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (1.966%) ITIL V3
9 6 (1.474%) Network Architecture
9 6 (1.474%) Network Management
9 6 (1.474%) Asset Management
9 6 (1.474%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 54 (13.27%) SQL
2 42 (10.32%) PowerShell
3 18 (4.423%) Perl
4 14 (3.440%) VBScript
4 14 (3.440%) VB
4 14 (3.440%) Bash shell
5 12 (2.948%) C#
5 12 (2.948%) Java
6 10 (2.457%) Shell Script
7 7 (1.720%) T-SQL
7 7 (1.720%) C
7 7 (1.720%) PHP
8 6 (1.474%) PL/SQL
9 5 (1.229%) VB.NET
10 4 (0.983%) Python
10 4 (0.983%) Ruby
11 3 (0.737%) Korn
11 3 (0.737%) JavaScript
12 2 (0.491%) VBA
12 2 (0.491%) AWK
Qualifications
1 39 (9.582%) Microsoft Certification
2 35 (8.600%) Security Cleared
3 28 (6.880%) MCSE
4 27 (6.634%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 26 (6.388%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (4.668%) Degree
6 19 (4.668%) DV Cleared
7 15 (3.686%) CCNA
8 13 (3.194%) MCITP
9 11 (2.703%) MCTS
9 11 (2.703%) Citrix Certification
10 10 (2.457%) MCSA
10 10 (2.457%) MCP
11 8 (1.966%) SC Cleared
12 7 (1.720%) RHCE
13 6 (1.474%) CCA
13 6 (1.474%) CCIE
14 5 (1.229%) CCEA
14 5 (1.229%) MCDST
15 4 (0.983%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (1.966%) ISO 9001
1 8 (1.966%) SLA
1 8 (1.966%) QA
2 6 (1.474%) PCI DSS
3 3 (0.737%) Solvency II
4 2 (0.491%) COBIT
5 1 (0.246%) ISO/IEC 17799
5 1 (0.246%) TickIT
5 1 (0.246%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 232 (57.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 138 (33.91%) Active Directory
3 70 (17.20%) VMware ESX
4 62 (15.23%) vSphere
5 49 (12.04%) VMware ESXi
6 48 (11.79%) XenApp
7 40 (9.828%) Hyper-V
8 22 (5.405%) vCloud
9 19 (4.668%) XenDesktop
10 12 (2.948%) Microsoft App-V
10 12 (2.948%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 8 (1.966%) XenServer
11 8 (1.966%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 7 (1.720%) VMware Server
13 6 (1.474%) VMware Workstation
14 5 (1.229%) Terminal Services
15 4 (0.983%) DFS Replication
16 3 (0.737%) UAG
16 3 (0.737%) Oracle RAC
16 3 (0.737%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 57 (14.00%) SCCM
2 50 (12.29%) SCOM
3 18 (4.423%) Tivoli
4 13 (3.194%) Norton AntiVirus
4 13 (3.194%) WSUS
5 11 (2.703%) Puppet
6 10 (2.457%) HP SIM
6 10 (2.457%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 9 (2.211%) NetBackup
7 9 (2.211%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 8 (1.966%) Backup Exec
8 8 (1.966%) MAILsweeper
8 8 (1.966%) Nagios
8 8 (1.966%) Legato
9 7 (1.720%) OpenView
9 7 (1.720%) FortiGate
10 6 (1.474%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (1.229%) McAfee ePO
11 5 (1.229%) BMC PATROL
12 4 (0.983%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 142 (34.89%) Citrix
2 118 (28.99%) Microsoft
3 84 (20.64%) HP
3 84 (20.64%) Cisco
4 45 (11.06%) Red Hat
5 42 (10.32%) NetApp
6 34 (8.354%) Oracle
6 34 (8.354%) EMC
7 33 (8.108%) IBM
8 24 (5.897%) Symantec
9 20 (4.914%) Veritas
10 19 (4.668%) Dell
11 17 (4.177%) McAfee
12 15 (3.686%) AppSense
13 14 (3.440%) F5
14 12 (2.948%) Altiris
14 12 (2.948%) Juniper
14 12 (2.948%) Sun
15 11 (2.703%) Sophos
16 10 (2.457%) Apple
City of London
Server / VMware / NetApp / Cisco / UCS / Exchange / Active Directory Mint is currently looking for an experienced Infrastructure Build Engineer to work on a large scale International project. The contract...
Mint
Rate: £300 - £330 per day
Posted: 30 April 2013
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
Responsible for all business exchange servers Part of an on-call rota to provide out of hours support to apply patches, fixes and upgrades Key Deliverables Assisting users...
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Rate: £300 - £500 per day
Posted: 27 April 2013
City of London
Key skills: Linux support, Linux build-out, Linux administration (ideally redhat) ideally with some Windows 2008 Server, Windows 2003 Server support experience. Other products include: VMWare, EMC San,...
Deerfoot IT Resources Ltd
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 4 May 2013
City, London
The successful Infrastructure Analyst will need to have excellent, demonstrable skills in Active Directory 2008, Windows Server 2003/8, Cisco Networking and Checkpoint Firewalls, VMWare, MS Exchange 2010,...
Lorien Resourcing
Rate: £425 - £470 per day
Posted: 15 May 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 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, 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, 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 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 of London
infrastructure, windows server, network, exchange, cisco, active directory, windows server, sql, citrix, lyncA leading investment firm require two Windows Infrastructure Analysts with different technical focuses for a minimum...
Hudson IT London
Rate: £350 - £465 per day
Posted: 19 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
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 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, London
VMWare, Citrix, Geneos, Wintel Experienced Windows Engineer required for this leading investment bank in London... The successful candidate will have sound knowledge of the Windows operating system, including...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
City of London
To be eligible for this role you must * Have at least 5 years experience in a L3/Engineering role within a corporate messaging environment * Be qualified to MCSE...
Rate: £380 per day
Posted: 11 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
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 of London
Knowledge of MSBuild, WebDeploy,Desirable Knowledge & Experience:*Knowledge of Microsoft technical implementation toolsets (Visual Studio, C# / ASP.NET 1.1 - 4.5)*Knowledge of IIS6 - 8*Knowledge of...
Argyll Scott International
Rate: £400 - £500 per annum
Posted: 20 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
City, London
The purpose of this role is to support the management of Cloud solutions and services for customers, this includes: Product Marketing of Cloud Solution Services Portfolio... The key...
Networking People
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013