The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank - 66 72
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 0 14 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands - 1.021% 0.861%
As % of the System Software category - 11.57% 11.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 4 3
Average daily rate - £338 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +60.71%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
166 121 102
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.24% 8.826% 7.317%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 55 26
Average daily rate £290 £325 £319
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.76% +1.96%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £122 £175 £197
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 33 26
Average hourly rate £13.25 £13.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.85% -28.94%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £55.00 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware ESX
England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) HP
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP
3 1 (33.33%) DHCP
3 1 (33.33%) HTTP
3 1 (33.33%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) VLE
3 1 (33.33%) MCITP
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) ISA Server
3 1 (33.33%) COM
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Forefront TMG
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Server Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) VLE
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (33.33%) ISA Server
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) Forefront TMG
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft