The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 60 73 79
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +6
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 56 59 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 2.600% 2.002% 2.017%
As % of the System Software category 19.38% 19.87% 18.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 20 29
Average daily rate £350 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £177 £260 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £400 £386
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 3
Average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-53.33% +38.88%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+30.12% -7.48%
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
289 297 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.42% 10.08% 10.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 117 109
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 £116 £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 57 61 78
Average hourly rate £16.38 £17.43 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.05% +2.52%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £11.11 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £38.50 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the East of England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

East of England VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the East of England 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
Cambridgeshire +13 16 £340 +4.61%
Hertfordshire +13 14 £325 -
Bedfordshire +4 10 £358 +8.33%
Essex -2 9 £413 +55.66%
Suffolk +1 5 £250 -30.55%
East Anglia +13 1 - -
Norfolk 0 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
England

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 134 (100.00%) VMware
2 71 (52.99%) Windows
3 52 (38.81%) Microsoft
4 51 (38.06%) Citrix
5 45 (33.58%) Cisco
6 37 (27.61%) Active Directory
7 31 (23.13%) Linux
7 31 (23.13%) Windows Server 2008
8 30 (22.39%) MS Exchange
9 27 (20.15%) Hyper-V
10 24 (17.91%) SAN
11 23 (17.16%) Windows Server 2003
11 23 (17.16%) DNS
11 23 (17.16%) Exchange Server 2010
12 21 (15.67%) Firewall
12 21 (15.67%) ITIL
12 21 (15.67%) SQL
13 20 (14.93%) IIS
13 20 (14.93%) vSphere
14 19 (14.18%) VMware ESX
15 18 (13.43%) DHCP
16 17 (12.69%) EMC
16 17 (12.69%) SLA
16 17 (12.69%) Exchange Server 2007
17 16 (11.94%) HP
17 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
18 15 (11.19%) Microsoft App-V
19 14 (10.45%) NetApp
19 14 (10.45%) SQL Server
19 14 (10.45%) VB

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (5.970%) Web Services
2 5 (3.731%) Middleware
3 4 (2.985%) Hibernate
3 4 (2.985%) Spring
3 4 (2.985%) Ruby on Rails
3 4 (2.985%) Swing
3 4 (2.985%) J2EE
3 4 (2.985%) JSON
3 4 (2.985%) RESTful
4 2 (1.493%) .NET
4 2 (1.493%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.746%) COM
Application Platforms
1 30 (22.39%) MS Exchange
2 23 (17.16%) Exchange Server 2010
3 20 (14.93%) IIS
4 17 (12.69%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (8.955%) Exchange Server 2003
6 11 (8.209%) Apache
7 8 (5.970%) Tomcat
8 4 (2.985%) SharePoint
8 4 (2.985%) RabbitMQ
9 3 (2.239%) Lync
9 3 (2.239%) Amazon AWS
9 3 (2.239%) Lotus Notes
10 2 (1.493%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (1.493%) WebSphere MQ
10 2 (1.493%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
11 1 (0.746%) WebLogic
11 1 (0.746%) SharePoint 2010
11 1 (0.746%) Office Communications Server
11 1 (0.746%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 8 (5.970%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.731%) MS Office
2 5 (3.731%) MS Excel
3 3 (2.239%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 4 (2.985%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.746%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (17.91%) SAN
2 23 (17.16%) DNS
3 21 (15.67%) Firewall
4 18 (13.43%) DHCP
5 12 (8.955%) VoIP
6 11 (8.209%) TCP/IP
7 10 (7.463%) WAN
7 10 (7.463%) BIG-IP
7 10 (7.463%) NAS
8 8 (5.970%) Network Security
8 8 (5.970%) LAN
9 7 (5.224%) Cisco ASA
10 6 (4.478%) VPN
10 6 (4.478%) Ethernet
11 5 (3.731%) HTTP
11 5 (3.731%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (3.731%) Wireless
12 4 (2.985%) Nortel Meridian
12 4 (2.985%) NetScreen
12 4 (2.985%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (10.45%) SQL Server
2 5 (3.731%) MySQL
2 5 (3.731%) SQL Server 2012
3 4 (2.985%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (2.239%) SQL Server 2008
5 2 (1.493%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.493%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 13 (9.701%) MSI
2 12 (8.955%) InstallShield
3 8 (5.970%) Subversion
4 5 (3.731%) AdminStudio
4 5 (3.731%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (2.985%) Maven
5 4 (2.985%) Git (software)
6 2 (1.493%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (1.493%) TeamCity
6 2 (1.493%) WiX
6 2 (1.493%) MSBuild
6 2 (1.493%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.746%) Hudson
7 1 (0.746%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.746%) ClearQuest
General
1 9 (6.716%) Finance
2 8 (5.970%) Retail
3 5 (3.731%) Telecoms
4 4 (2.985%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (2.239%) Back Office
6 2 (1.493%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.493%) Local Government
7 1 (0.746%) Marketing
7 1 (0.746%) Billing
Job Titles
1 22 (16.42%) Administrator
2 17 (12.69%) Systems Administrator
3 16 (11.94%) Analyst
4 13 (9.701%) Applications Packager
4 13 (9.701%) 3rd Line Support
5 11 (8.209%) Support Engineer
6 10 (7.463%) Architect
7 9 (6.716%) Network Engineer
8 8 (5.970%) Linux Administrator
8 8 (5.970%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 7 (5.224%) Linux Systems Administrator
9 7 (5.224%) Consultant
9 7 (5.224%) Support Analyst
10 5 (3.731%) 2nd Line Support
10 5 (3.731%) Network Specialist
11 4 (2.985%) Network Security Specialist
11 4 (2.985%) E-Commerce Specialist
11 4 (2.985%) Software Packager
11 4 (2.985%) Security Specialist
11 4 (2.985%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.716%) Thin Client
1 9 (6.716%) Fat Client
2 8 (5.970%) Replication
3 7 (5.224%) Clustering
4 6 (4.478%) VHDL
4 6 (4.478%) Verilog
4 6 (4.478%) Cloud Computing
4 6 (4.478%) Device Driver
5 5 (3.731%) IVR
5 5 (3.731%) Blackberry
5 5 (3.731%) Computer Science
6 4 (2.985%) IaaS
6 4 (2.985%) Informatics
7 3 (2.239%) SaaS
8 2 (1.493%) PaaS
8 2 (1.493%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.493%) Biology
8 2 (1.493%) NHS
8 2 (1.493%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.493%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 71 (52.99%) Windows
2 31 (23.13%) Linux
2 31 (23.13%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (17.16%) Windows Server 2003
4 13 (9.701%) Windows 7
5 11 (8.209%) UNIX
6 8 (5.970%) Windows XP
7 6 (4.478%) Embedded Linux
7 6 (4.478%) Windows Vista
8 5 (3.731%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (3.731%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (2.985%) Solaris
9 4 (2.985%) Windows 8
10 3 (2.239%) HPUX
11 2 (1.493%) AIX
11 2 (1.493%) Debian
12 1 (0.746%) Windows 2000 Server
12 1 (0.746%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (15.67%) ITIL
2 11 (8.209%) Validation
2 11 (8.209%) Infrastructure Management
3 10 (7.463%) Service Delivery
4 9 (6.716%) Project Management
5 8 (5.970%) Migration
5 8 (5.970%) Capacity Planning
6 7 (5.224%) TOGAF
7 6 (4.478%) Electronic Design Automation
7 6 (4.478%) Configuration Management
8 5 (3.731%) E-Commerce
9 4 (2.985%) ERP
9 4 (2.985%) PRINCE2
9 4 (2.985%) PRINCE
9 4 (2.985%) Change Management
9 4 (2.985%) MVC
9 4 (2.985%) Information Management
9 4 (2.985%) Agile Software Development
9 4 (2.985%) TDD
9 4 (2.985%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (15.67%) SQL
2 14 (10.45%) VB
3 13 (9.701%) VBScript
4 11 (8.209%) C
4 11 (8.209%) Perl
5 10 (7.463%) Java
6 5 (3.731%) Shell Script
7 4 (2.985%) Ruby
7 4 (2.985%) PowerShell
7 4 (2.985%) C#
7 4 (2.985%) Python
7 4 (2.985%) Lisp
8 1 (0.746%) PHP
Qualifications
1 16 (11.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 14 (10.45%) MCSE
3 11 (8.209%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (5.970%) CCNP
4 8 (5.970%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 8 (5.970%) Degree
5 6 (4.478%) CCIE
6 4 (2.985%) CCNA
6 4 (2.985%) MCP
6 4 (2.985%) PhD
6 4 (2.985%) CCSE
6 4 (2.985%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.493%) NCIE
7 2 (1.493%) MCITP
7 2 (1.493%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.746%) MCTS
8 1 (0.746%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.746%) MCSA
8 1 (0.746%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (0.746%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (12.69%) SLA
2 6 (4.478%) JTAG
3 3 (2.239%) ISO 9001
3 3 (2.239%) TickIT
3 3 (2.239%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 37 (27.61%) Active Directory
2 27 (20.15%) Hyper-V
3 20 (14.93%) vSphere
4 19 (14.18%) VMware ESX
5 15 (11.19%) Microsoft App-V
6 10 (7.463%) XenApp
6 10 (7.463%) Terminal Services
7 8 (5.970%) Xen
8 6 (4.478%) XenDesktop
8 6 (4.478%) Forefront TMG
8 6 (4.478%) UAG
8 6 (4.478%) VMware Server
9 5 (3.731%) NFS
10 4 (2.985%) ProxySG
10 4 (2.985%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (2.239%) XenServer
11 3 (2.239%) Oracle RMAN
12 2 (1.493%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.746%) Samba
13 1 (0.746%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 11 (8.209%) EMC NetWorker
2 10 (7.463%) SCCM
3 7 (5.224%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
3 7 (5.224%) NetBackup
4 5 (3.731%) Norton AntiVirus
5 4 (2.985%) Puppet
5 4 (2.985%) Cisco UCCX
5 4 (2.985%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (2.985%) ARCserve
6 3 (2.239%) Backup Exec
6 3 (2.239%) SCOM
6 3 (2.239%) HP Data Protector
6 3 (2.239%) WhatsUp Gold
7 2 (1.493%) WSUS
8 1 (0.746%) AppManager
8 1 (0.746%) SCVMM
8 1 (0.746%) McAfee ePO
8 1 (0.746%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
Vendors
1 134 (100.00%) VMware
2 52 (38.81%) Microsoft
3 51 (38.06%) Citrix
4 45 (33.58%) Cisco
5 17 (12.69%) EMC
6 16 (11.94%) HP
7 14 (10.45%) NetApp
8 12 (8.955%) Oracle
9 11 (8.209%) Red Hat
10 9 (6.716%) CheckPoint
10 9 (6.716%) Symantec
10 9 (6.716%) Brocade
11 8 (5.970%) Juniper
12 7 (5.224%) Remedy
13 6 (4.478%) JBoss
13 6 (4.478%) F5
14 5 (3.731%) IBM
15 4 (2.985%) Nortel
15 4 (2.985%) McAfee
15 4 (2.985%) Infoblox
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