The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Dunstable region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 17 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 of the System Software category for the Dunstable 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 4 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 50.00% 33.33% 23.08%
As % of the System Software category 100.00% 85.71% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £475 £330 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+43.93% -22.35%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+30.12% -7.48%
All System Software
Dunstable
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 50.00% 38.89% 23.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 2
Average daily rate £450 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £13.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
Bedfordshire

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Dunstable region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 4 (80.00%) IVR
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Server
2 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (60.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle
3 3 (60.00%) Nortel
3 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (60.00%) Finance
3 3 (60.00%) Nortel Meridian
4 2 (40.00%) Mercator
5 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
5 1 (20.00%) HP
5 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) NFS
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Network Security

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 4 (80.00%) IIS
2 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
2 1 (20.00%) Lync
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (80.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Nortel Meridian
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) DHCP
2 1 (20.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (80.00%) Retail
2 3 (60.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Technical Architect
2 2 (40.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
3 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Wintel Systems Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) XenApp
2 4 (80.00%) XenDesktop
2 4 (80.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (20.00%) NFS
3 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (20.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (20.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (100.00%) Citrix
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Nortel
3 2 (40.00%) Mercator
4 1 (20.00%) LANDesk
4 1 (20.00%) HP