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

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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 24 27 62
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +35
Contract jobs citing VMware 5 6 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 2.890% 3.125% 1.062%
As % of the Vendors category 6.579% 7.317% 2.280%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 5
Average daily rate £360 £350 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -17.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £315 £355
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £368 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
- +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £26.00 £23.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +13.04%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +2.32%
All Vendors
Docklands, London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
76 82 307
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Docklands, London 43.93% 42.71% 46.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 48 114
Average daily rate £375 £398 £433
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.66% -8.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £560
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
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 £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
VMware
London

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Docklands, 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 Docklands, London region.

Docklands, London VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 5 (83.33%) VMware ESX
2 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 4 (66.67%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
3 3 (50.00%) CCA
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (50.00%) SAN
4 2 (33.33%) ISEB
4 2 (33.33%) Bugzilla
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (33.33%) AppSense
4 2 (33.33%) WinRunner
4 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
4 2 (33.33%) NetApp
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
4 2 (33.33%) SCCM
4 2 (33.33%) SCOM
4 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Docklands, 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 Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (66.67%) NetScaler
2 3 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (33.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Bugzilla
1 2 (33.33%) WinRunner
1 2 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
1 2 (33.33%) MSI
1 2 (33.33%) InstallShield
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Git (software)
2 1 (16.67%) Gerrit
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Investment Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Systems Administrator
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Support
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX Administrator
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
1 4 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Vista
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 2000
2 2 (33.33%) Windows NT
2 2 (33.33%) Windows 7
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) HPUX
3 1 (16.67%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Software Distribution
2 2 (33.33%) ITIL V3
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 2 (33.33%) VBScript
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) CCA
1 3 (50.00%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB Practitioner
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (16.67%) CCAA
3 1 (16.67%) OCA
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (16.67%) RHCE
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware ESX
2 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
2 4 (66.67%) XenApp
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 3 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (33.33%) Active Directory
4 2 (33.33%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) SCCM
1 2 (33.33%) SCOM
1 2 (33.33%) Tivoli
1 2 (33.33%) MOM
1 2 (33.33%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (16.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) HP
1 4 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (33.33%) AppSense
2 2 (33.33%) NetApp
2 2 (33.33%) Compaq
2 2 (33.33%) Dell
2 2 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco
3 1 (16.67%) Sun
3 1 (16.67%) EMC
3 1 (16.67%) Veritas