The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Docklands, 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 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 Docklands, 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 Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 26 28 63
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +35
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 3 5 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 1.734% 2.604% 0.910%
As % of the System Software category 17.65% 33.33% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 5
Average daily rate £350 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £290 £315 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £368 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £18.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+16.21% -9.75%
All System Software
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
17 15 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 9.827% 7.813% 7.436%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 17
Average daily rate £350 £363 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -14.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £325 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £525 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
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 Docklands, London region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Bugzilla
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Tivoli
2 2 (66.67%) MOM
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) MSI
2 2 (66.67%) InstallShield
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) XenServer
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
2 2 (66.67%) WinRunner
2 2 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) NetScaler
3 1 (33.33%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Bugzilla
1 2 (66.67%) MSI
1 2 (66.67%) InstallShield
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) WinRunner
1 2 (66.67%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (66.67%) LoadRunner
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Administrator
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CLARiiON
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Vista
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 7
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
1 2 (66.67%) Windows NT
2 1 (33.33%) HPUX
2 1 (33.33%) Solaris
2 1 (33.33%) Linux
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Software Distribution
2 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) CCA
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Certification
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (66.67%) MCSE
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB Practitioner
2 1 (33.33%) OCA
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft App-V
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) XenServer
2 2 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Tivoli
1 2 (66.67%) MOM
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Compaq
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) IBM
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) Sun
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) F5