vSphere Contracts in the East Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 80 79 71
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.317% 0.513% 0.292%
As % of the System Software category 2.424% 5.600% 3.846%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
Average daily rate £363 £350 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.57% +66.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £27.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-27.94% +116.85%
All System Software
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 165 125 104
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 13.08% 9.158% 7.602%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 59 25
Average daily rate £308 £325 £307
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.38% +6.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £224 £175 £191
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £412 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 56 33 27
Average hourly rate £13.25 £15.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -21.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £11.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £57.50 £29.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

East Midlands vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East Midlands vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Derbyshire +14 2 - -
Nottinghamshire -1 2 £363 +30.63%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (75.00%) Windows
3 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
4 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
4 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (62.50%) MCSE
4 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (62.50%) SCOM
4 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
5 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
5 7 (43.75%) HP
6 6 (37.50%) Citrix
6 6 (37.50%) VBScript
6 6 (37.50%) MS Excel
6 6 (37.50%) Clustering
6 6 (37.50%) Change Management
6 6 (37.50%) Altiris
6 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
6 6 (37.50%) NetScaler
7 5 (31.25%) MCP
7 5 (31.25%) EMC
7 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
8 4 (25.00%) IIS
8 4 (25.00%) SQL
8 4 (25.00%) SCCM
8 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
9 3 (18.75%) Windows 2000 Server
9 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
9 3 (18.75%) ISA Server

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (25.00%) IIS
2 3 (18.75%) MS Exchange
3 2 (12.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (12.50%) Office Communications Server
3 2 (12.50%) Lync
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 6 (37.50%) MS Excel
2 2 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (6.250%) Photoshop
3 1 (6.250%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) NetScaler
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 3 (18.75%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) SAN
4 2 (12.50%) Network Security
5 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
5 1 (6.250%) LAN
5 1 (6.250%) WAN
5 1 (6.250%) MPLS
5 1 (6.250%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (6.250%) SQL Server Analysis Services
General
1 2 (12.50%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Support Engineer
2 6 (37.50%) Systems Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Systems Support
3 4 (25.00%) Systems Support Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (12.50%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Network Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) SQL DBA
5 1 (6.250%) Server Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Network Support
5 1 (6.250%) Server Support Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) DBA
5 1 (6.250%) Server Support
5 1 (6.250%) Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Consultant
5 1 (6.250%) Network Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Network Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Exchange Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Clustering
2 2 (12.50%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 12 (75.00%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 2000 Server
3 3 (18.75%) Linux
3 3 (18.75%) Windows 2000
4 2 (12.50%) HPUX
4 2 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (12.50%) UNIX
5 1 (6.250%) SUSE
5 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) Change Management
2 3 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (18.75%) Migration
3 2 (12.50%) Incident Management
3 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
3 2 (12.50%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) Service Management
4 1 (6.250%) ITIL
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) Problem Management
4 1 (6.250%) Time Management
4 1 (6.250%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (37.50%) VBScript
1 6 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 10 (62.50%) MCSE
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 5 (31.25%) MCP
4 3 (18.75%) MCITP
5 1 (6.250%) VCP4
5 1 (6.250%) CCNA
5 1 (6.250%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (25.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (18.75%) ISA Server
3 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (12.50%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (6.250%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (62.50%) SCOM
2 4 (25.00%) SCCM
3 3 (18.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (43.75%) HP
4 6 (37.50%) Citrix
4 6 (37.50%) Altiris
5 5 (31.25%) EMC
6 3 (18.75%) Cisco
7 2 (12.50%) PlateSpin
7 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
8 1 (6.250%) Novell
8 1 (6.250%) Dell
8 1 (6.250%) Adobe
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