The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the East Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V 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 East Midlands 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
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 75 77 82
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +5
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 5 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.625% 0.374% 0.202%
As % of the System Software category 4.706% 4.808% 3.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £319 £238 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.21% -26.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £320 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.54% -8.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +62.96%
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
170 104 99
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.28% 7.784% 6.680%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 39 23
Average daily rate £290 £319 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-9.01% -1.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £178 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £440 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 34 27
Average hourly rate £12.50 £13.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -28.76%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.03 £8.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £55.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the East Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

East Midlands Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hyper-V across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

East Midlands Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Northamptonshire +8 5 £319 +34.21%
Derbyshire +7 2 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 - - 2
Leicestershire - - - - 1
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 8 (72.73%) Windows
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
3 6 (54.55%) HP
3 6 (54.55%) DNS
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 6 (54.55%) SCCM
4 5 (45.45%) Migration
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (36.36%) DHCP
6 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
6 3 (27.27%) SQL
6 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
6 3 (27.27%) MCSE
6 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (27.27%) vSphere
6 3 (27.27%) Clustering
6 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
7 2 (18.18%) Lync
7 2 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (18.18%) WSUS
7 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
7 2 (18.18%) SCOM
7 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
7 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
7 2 (18.18%) Office Communications Server
7 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000 Server

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) COM
1 1 (9.091%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (27.27%) MS Exchange
2 2 (18.18%) Lync
2 2 (18.18%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
3 1 (9.091%) Apache
3 1 (9.091%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (9.091%) Windows Azure
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (9.091%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Photoshop
1 1 (9.091%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) DNS
2 4 (36.36%) DHCP
3 2 (18.18%) SAN
4 1 (9.091%) LAN
4 1 (9.091%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Architect
2 1 (9.091%) Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Server Support
2 1 (9.091%) Designer
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Design Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Support Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (9.091%) Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Server Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Designer
2 1 (9.091%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Server Support Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) Migration Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Technical Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Server Support
2 1 (9.091%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
2 1 (9.091%) SCCM Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Clustering
2 2 (18.18%) Blackberry
3 1 (9.091%) Open Source
3 1 (9.091%) IaaS
3 1 (9.091%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Windows
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (36.36%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (27.27%) Windows 2000
3 3 (27.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (18.18%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (9.091%) Linux
5 1 (9.091%) Windows NT
5 1 (9.091%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Migration
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
3 1 (9.091%) Project Management
3 1 (9.091%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) MCSE
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
3 1 (9.091%) MCP
3 1 (9.091%) MCITP
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Active Directory
2 3 (27.27%) vSphere
2 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (18.18%) ISA Server
4 1 (9.091%) Terminal Server
4 1 (9.091%) XenServer
4 1 (9.091%) VMware Server
4 1 (9.091%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (9.091%) VMware ESX
4 1 (9.091%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) SCCM
2 2 (18.18%) WSUS
2 2 (18.18%) SCOM
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Microsoft
2 6 (54.55%) HP
2 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 2 (18.18%) EMC
3 2 (18.18%) Citrix
4 1 (9.091%) Adobe
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