The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 21 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 of England 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 107 120 100
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -20
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 13 11 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.596% 0.375% 1.006%
As % of the System Software category 4.530% 3.679% 9.386%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 8
Average daily rate £388 £213 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+82.35% -36.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £340 £194 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £300 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 6
Average hourly rate - £38.75 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +19.23%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +10.09%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
287 299 277
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.17% 10.18% 10.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 116 109
Average daily rate £293 £308 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.87% +6.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £127 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £422 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 61 75
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £17.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.11 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £38.50 £34.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
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 of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

East of England VMware ESX Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the East of England region over the 3 months to 21 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
Cambridgeshire +10 6 £345 +28.37%
Hertfordshire +15 5 £415 +100.00%
Bedfordshire +3 1 - -
Suffolk - 1 - -
VMware ESX
England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (54.29%) EMC
2 19 (54.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (42.86%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (40.00%) ITIL
5 13 (37.14%) Windows
6 12 (34.29%) NetApp
7 11 (31.43%) SQL
8 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
8 10 (28.57%) Cisco
8 10 (28.57%) DHCP
8 10 (28.57%) DNS
8 10 (28.57%) vSphere
9 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
9 9 (25.71%) Citrix
10 8 (22.86%) ERP
10 8 (22.86%) MS Exchange
10 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
10 8 (22.86%) Linux
10 8 (22.86%) Red Hat
10 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
10 8 (22.86%) Brocade
10 8 (22.86%) Replication
10 8 (22.86%) Clustering
11 7 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
11 7 (20.00%) Apache
11 7 (20.00%) HPUX
11 7 (20.00%) Perl
11 7 (20.00%) Oracle
11 7 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 Platforms
1 8 (22.86%) MS Exchange
1 8 (22.86%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (20.00%) Apache
3 4 (11.43%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (8.571%) IIS
4 3 (8.571%) SharePoint
5 2 (5.714%) Lync
6 1 (2.857%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (8.571%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (11.43%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) DHCP
1 10 (28.57%) DNS
2 4 (11.43%) Firewall
3 1 (2.857%) NAS
3 1 (2.857%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (2.857%) NetScaler
3 1 (2.857%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.857%) VLAN
3 1 (2.857%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (2.857%) SAN
3 1 (2.857%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (22.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (14.29%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (8.571%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) Subversion
General
1 3 (8.571%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.857%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 20 (57.14%) Administrator
2 11 (31.43%) Systems Administrator
3 7 (20.00%) Storage Administrator
4 6 (17.14%) Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) SQL Server Consultant
5 3 (8.571%) Linux Administrator
5 3 (8.571%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support
6 2 (5.714%) Storage Consultant
6 2 (5.714%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Citrix Architect
7 1 (2.857%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.857%) Windows Administrator
7 1 (2.857%) Server Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Leader
7 1 (2.857%) Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Analyst
7 1 (2.857%) Technical Architect
7 1 (2.857%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Replication
1 8 (22.86%) Clustering
2 4 (11.43%) Blackberry
2 4 (11.43%) PKI
3 1 (2.857%) SaaS
3 1 (2.857%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 13 (37.14%) Windows
2 8 (22.86%) Linux
3 7 (20.00%) HPUX
4 6 (17.14%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (11.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (8.571%) Windows 2000
8 2 (5.714%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (2.857%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) ITIL
2 8 (22.86%) ERP
3 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Management
4 5 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (14.29%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Disaster Recovery
5 4 (11.43%) Data Analysis
6 3 (8.571%) E-business
7 2 (5.714%) Configuration Management
8 1 (2.857%) ITIL V3
8 1 (2.857%) IC Design
8 1 (2.857%) Software Engineering
8 1 (2.857%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (2.857%) PRINCE
8 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 11 (31.43%) SQL
2 7 (20.00%) Perl
3 4 (11.43%) T-SQL
4 1 (2.857%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.857%) Shell Script
4 1 (2.857%) VBScript
4 1 (2.857%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) OCP
2 4 (11.43%) Oracle Certification
2 4 (11.43%) RHCE
2 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (5.714%) NCIE
4 1 (2.857%) Degree
4 1 (2.857%) MCITP
4 1 (2.857%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.857%) MCSE
System Software
1 19 (54.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 10 (28.57%) vSphere
3 7 (20.00%) Oracle RMAN
4 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
5 2 (5.714%) XenApp
6 1 (2.857%) XenDesktop
6 1 (2.857%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (2.857%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (2.857%) Samba
6 1 (2.857%) Terminal Services
6 1 (2.857%) NFS
Systems Management
1 15 (42.86%) EMC NetWorker
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 3 (8.571%) Norton AntiVirus
4 1 (2.857%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.857%) Backup Exec
4 1 (2.857%) AppManager
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (54.29%) EMC
3 12 (34.29%) NetApp
4 10 (28.57%) Cisco
5 9 (25.71%) Microsoft
5 9 (25.71%) Citrix
6 8 (22.86%) Red Hat
6 8 (22.86%) Brocade
7 7 (20.00%) Oracle
7 7 (20.00%) SAP
8 4 (11.43%) Symantec
8 4 (11.43%) IBM
9 3 (8.571%) Acronis
9 3 (8.571%) Sophos
10 1 (2.857%) AppSense
10 1 (2.857%) Cadence
10 1 (2.857%) Veritas
10 1 (2.857%) CommVault
10 1 (2.857%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.857%) Sun
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