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The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the City of London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkVMware
Location
3 months to
10 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank96133
Rank change on same period last yearUp+37
Matching contract IT job ads12161
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled0.170 %0.062 %
As % of the category below3.529 %1.837 %
Daily rates quoted8016
Average minimum daily rate£326£354
Average daily rate£344£375
% change on same period last year-8.26 %
Average maximum daily rate£362£395
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£352
% change on same period last year-1.98 %
Hourly rates quoted45
Average minimum hourly rate£21.63£30.00
Average hourly rate£24.50£30.40
% change on same period last year-19.40 %
Average maximum hourly rate£27.38£30.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.93£25.98
% change on same period last year+3.64 %
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
City of London
Matching contract IT job ads34293321
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled4.828 %3.356 %
Daily rates quoted18071379
Average minimum daily rate£396£440
Average daily rate£429£466
% change on same period last year-7.91 %
Average maximum daily rate£462£493
UK excluding London average daily rate£359£354
% change on same period last year+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted173130
Average minimum hourly rate£21.72£23.30
Average hourly rate£23.69£24.30
% change on same period last year-2.53 %
Average maximum hourly rate£25.65£25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.44£24.37
% change on same period last year+0.26 %
VMware LondonVMware
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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

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Demand Trend

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

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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 across the City of London region.

City of London VMware Daily Rate Trend

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Daily Rate Histogram

The 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 10 October 2008.

City of London VMware Daily Rate Histogram

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Hourly Rate Trend

The 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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The 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 10 October 2008.

City of London VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

1138 (60.00 %)Windows
2108 (46.96 %)Windows Server 2003
3101 (43.91 %)VMware Infrastructure
495 (41.30 %)Active Directory
569 (30.00 %)Citrix
668 (29.57 %)VMware ESX
767 (29.13 %)SAN
861 (26.52 %)Finance
957 (24.78 %)Microsoft
1054 (23.48 %)MS Exchange
1054 (23.48 %)HP
1145 (19.57 %)DNS
1145 (19.57 %)Linux
1240 (17.39 %)Banking
1240 (17.39 %)Exchange Server 2003
1339 (16.96 %)Microsoft Certification
1438 (16.52 %)MCSE
1533 (14.35 %)DHCP
1632 (13.91 %)Windows 2000
1731 (13.48 %)TCP/IP
1830 (13.04 %)Cisco
1830 (13.04 %)Clustering
1927 (11.74 %)IBM
1927 (11.74 %)SQL
2026 (11.30 %)SQL Server
2026 (11.30 %)IIS
2026 (11.30 %)Windows XP
2026 (11.30 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2125 (10.87 %)Firewall
2224 (10.43 %)Migration

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, 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.

City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
16 (2.609 %)Application Packaging
25 (2.174 %)WebSphere
33 (1.304 %).NET
33 (1.304 %)J2EE
33 (1.304 %)COM+
33 (1.304 %)DCOM
42 (0.870 %)Ruby on Rails
51 (0.435 %)Middleware
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
154 (23.48 %)MS Exchange
240 (17.39 %)Exchange Server 2003
326 (11.30 %)IIS
412 (5.217 %)SharePoint
57 (3.043 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
66 (2.609 %)Exchange Server 2000
74 (1.739 %)Apache
83 (1.304 %)Lotus Notes
83 (1.304 %)Exchange Server 2007
83 (1.304 %)Oracle Application Server
83 (1.304 %)Oracle 10gAS
91 (0.435 %)SharePoint Server 2007
91 (0.435 %)Tomcat
91 (0.435 %)ActiveMQ
91 (0.435 %)SAS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
17 (3.043 %)MS Excel
25 (2.174 %)MS Office
34 (1.739 %)MS Visio
42 (0.870 %)MS Project
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
14 (1.739 %)SoftGrid
23 (1.304 %)Oracle EBS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
167 (29.13 %)SAN
245 (19.57 %)DNS
333 (14.35 %)DHCP
431 (13.48 %)TCP/IP
525 (10.87 %)Firewall
622 (9.565 %)LAN
717 (7.391 %)WAN
811 (4.783 %)VoIP
910 (4.348 %)LDAP
910 (4.348 %)VLAN
108 (3.478 %)Cisco IOS
108 (3.478 %)OSPF
108 (3.478 %)BGP
117 (3.043 %)iSCSI
126 (2.609 %)SMTP
135 (2.174 %)SMS
144 (1.739 %)POP3
153 (1.304 %)VPN
153 (1.304 %)SSL
153 (1.304 %)Kerberos
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
126 (11.30 %)SQL Server
210 (4.348 %)Oracle 10g
34 (1.739 %)MySQL
43 (1.304 %)SQL Server 2000
43 (1.304 %)GIS
43 (1.304 %)SQL Server 2005
43 (1.304 %)Oracle BI EE
52 (0.870 %)DB2
61 (0.435 %)Datawarehouse
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
16 (2.609 %)Subversion
25 (2.174 %)MSI
31 (0.435 %)InstallShield
31 (0.435 %)VSS/SourceSafe
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
161 (26.52 %)Finance
240 (17.39 %)Banking
323 (10.00 %)Investment Banking
413 (5.652 %)Insurance
511 (4.783 %)Government
68 (3.478 %)Law
68 (3.478 %)Legal
73 (1.304 %)Financial Institution
82 (0.870 %)Back Office
82 (0.870 %)Telecoms
82 (0.870 %)Auditing
91 (0.435 %)Music
91 (0.435 %)International Banking
91 (0.435 %)Retail
91 (0.435 %)Police
91 (0.435 %)Games
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
150 (21.74 %)Analyst
235 (15.22 %)Administrator
326 (11.30 %)Consultant
423 (10.00 %)Support Analyst
521 (9.130 %)Server Engineer
619 (8.261 %)Systems Administrator
716 (6.957 %)Server Analyst
810 (4.348 %)3rd Line Support
810 (4.348 %)Technical Consultant
99 (3.913 %)Architect
99 (3.913 %)Server Support
99 (3.913 %)Windows Administrator
108 (3.478 %)Windows Server Engineer
108 (3.478 %)Network Administrator
117 (3.043 %)Project Manager
117 (3.043 %)Support Engineer
126 (2.609 %)Network Analyst
126 (2.609 %)Technical Analyst
126 (2.609 %)Windows Systems Administrator
126 (2.609 %)Wintel Engineer
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
130 (13.04 %)Clustering
213 (5.652 %)Fat Client
213 (5.652 %)Thin Client
311 (4.783 %)Blackberry
45 (2.174 %)CLARiiON
53 (1.304 %)Replication
62 (0.870 %)Celerra
71 (0.435 %)SecurID
71 (0.435 %)Spread Betting
71 (0.435 %)Client/Server
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
1138 (60.00 %)Windows
2108 (46.96 %)Windows Server 2003
345 (19.57 %)Linux
432 (13.91 %)Windows 2000
526 (11.30 %)Windows XP
623 (10.00 %)Solaris
722 (9.565 %)Windows 2000 Server
819 (8.261 %)UNIX
917 (7.391 %)Red Hat Linux
1012 (5.217 %)Windows Vista
115 (2.174 %)Windows Server 2008
122 (0.870 %)Windows NT
122 (0.870 %)Mac OS X
131 (0.435 %)Debian
131 (0.435 %)CentOS
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
124 (10.43 %)Migration
217 (7.391 %)ITIL
312 (5.217 %)Disaster Recovery
48 (3.478 %)E-Commerce
48 (3.478 %)Configuration Management
48 (3.478 %)Network Design
57 (3.043 %)PRINCE2
57 (3.043 %)Security Cleared
66 (2.609 %)SC Cleared
75 (2.174 %)Project Management
75 (2.174 %)Validation
84 (1.739 %)Data Migration
84 (1.739 %)Problem Management
84 (1.739 %)Service Management
93 (1.304 %)SOA
93 (1.304 %)Business Intelligence
93 (1.304 %)Business Continuity
93 (1.304 %)User Acceptance Testing
102 (0.870 %)Scrum
102 (0.870 %)Technical Architecture
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
127 (11.74 %)SQL
210 (4.348 %)Perl
38 (3.478 %)VBScript
46 (2.609 %)VB
54 (1.739 %)C
63 (1.304 %)C#
72 (0.870 %)Shell Script
72 (0.870 %)Ruby
81 (0.435 %)PowerShell
81 (0.435 %)PHP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
139 (16.96 %)Microsoft Certification
238 (16.52 %)MCSE
326 (11.30 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
417 (7.391 %)Cisco Certification
417 (7.391 %)CCNA
59 (3.913 %)CCNP
59 (3.913 %)CCSA
68 (3.478 %)CCSE
68 (3.478 %)CCIE
75 (2.174 %)Citrix Certification
75 (2.174 %)CCEA
84 (1.739 %)CCA
93 (1.304 %)MCSA
93 (1.304 %)RHCT
102 (0.870 %)SCSA
102 (0.870 %)RHCE
102 (0.870 %)MCTS
102 (0.870 %)MCITP
102 (0.870 %)Degree
111 (0.435 %)CISSP
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (1.739 %)SLA
21 (0.435 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
21 (0.435 %)QA
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1101 (43.91 %)VMware Infrastructure
295 (41.30 %)Active Directory
368 (29.57 %)VMware ESX
410 (4.348 %)Citrix Presentation Server
410 (4.348 %)NFS
59 (3.913 %)NetBackup
68 (3.478 %)Terminal Services
68 (3.478 %)Xen
77 (3.043 %)Oracle RAC
77 (3.043 %)VMware Workstation
85 (2.174 %)VMware Server
94 (1.739 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
94 (1.739 %)ISA Server
103 (1.304 %)MetaFrame
103 (1.304 %)Terminal Server
112 (0.870 %)Samba
112 (0.870 %)Backup Exec
112 (0.870 %)MailMarshal
121 (0.435 %)Squid
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
112 (5.217 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
29 (3.913 %)MOM
36 (2.609 %)Legato
45 (2.174 %)MAILsweeper
54 (1.739 %)Tivoli
63 (1.304 %)ARCserve
63 (1.304 %)RepliStor
63 (1.304 %)EMC NetWorker
63 (1.304 %)SCCM
72 (0.870 %)SCOM
72 (0.870 %)WSUS
72 (0.870 %)Norton AntiVirus
72 (0.870 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
81 (0.435 %)OpenView
81 (0.435 %)Tivoli Monitoring
81 (0.435 %)Nagios
City of London IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
169 (30.00 %)Citrix
257 (24.78 %)Microsoft
354 (23.48 %)HP
430 (13.04 %)Cisco
527 (11.74 %)IBM
621 (9.130 %)Oracle
621 (9.130 %)EMC
717 (7.391 %)Red Hat
814 (6.087 %)CheckPoint
814 (6.087 %)Nokia
814 (6.087 %)Sun
913 (5.652 %)VERITAS
913 (5.652 %)Altiris
913 (5.652 %)Blue Coat
1012 (5.217 %)Dell
117 (3.043 %)PlateSpin
126 (2.609 %)NetApp
126 (2.609 %)Symantec
135 (2.174 %)Sybase
144 (1.739 %)Juniper