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

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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 3 3 4
Rank change year-on-year
0 +1
Contract jobs citing VMware 4 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 50.00% 33.33% 23.08%
As % of the Vendors category 57.14% 60.00% 30.00%
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 £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £24.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +6.99%
All Vendors
Dunstable
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
7 10 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Dunstable 87.50% 55.56% 76.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
Average daily rate £450 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+38.46% +52.94%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
Bedfordshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Dunstable 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 Dunstable region.

Dunstable VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Windows
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
3 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
3 4 (66.67%) Retail
3 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Server
3 4 (66.67%) IIS
3 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
3 4 (66.67%) IVR
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (50.00%) Finance
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle
4 3 (50.00%) Nortel
4 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
4 3 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (50.00%) Nortel Meridian
5 2 (33.33%) Lync
5 2 (33.33%) DNS
5 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
5 2 (33.33%) Mercator
6 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (16.67%) MAILsweeper
6 1 (16.67%) CommVault
6 1 (16.67%) Firewall
6 1 (16.67%) DHCP

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Dunstable 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 4 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (33.33%) Lync
2 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (16.67%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (16.67%) Office Communications Server
3 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (66.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Nortel Meridian
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) DHCP
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) iSCSI
3 1 (16.67%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (66.67%) Retail
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Technical Architect
2 2 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Support
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Support
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Wintel Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (66.67%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) Windows
1 5 (83.33%) Windows 7
2 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) TOGAF
2 1 (16.67%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (83.33%) XenApp
2 4 (66.67%) VMware Server
2 4 (66.67%) XenDesktop
3 1 (16.67%) XenServer
3 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) NFS
3 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (16.67%) MAILsweeper
2 1 (16.67%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
2 5 (83.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Oracle
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco
3 3 (50.00%) Nortel
4 2 (33.33%) Mercator
5 1 (16.67%) LANDesk
5 1 (16.67%) CommVault
5 1 (16.67%) HP