The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Workstation 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 Workstation over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Workstation
Rank 115 130 126
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 1 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.046% 0.034% 0.153%
As % of the System Software category 0.345% 0.330% 1.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £173 - £225
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £340 £260
% change year-on-year
-18.38% +30.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £47.50 - £20.00
All System Software
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
290 303 284
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 13.32% 10.16% 10.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 115 112
Average daily rate £293 £305 £288
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.09% +6.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £120 £160 £90
10% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £425 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 65 78
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.22 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.24% +1.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £37.75 £33.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Workstation
England

VMware Workstation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England VMware Workstation Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England VMware Workstation Daily Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England VMware Workstation Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Workstation within the East of England region over the 3 months to 22 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
Essex - 1 £173 -
VMware Workstation
England

VMware Workstation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation.

1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Lync
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Cadence
2 1 (50.00%) IC Design
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) LANDesk

VMware Workstation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Lync
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Channel
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) 2nd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) IC Design
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) NFS
2 1 (50.00%) Terminal Services
2 1 (50.00%) Samba
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (50.00%) AppManager
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Cadence
2 1 (50.00%) LANDesk
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper
2 1 (50.00%) CommVault
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee