vSphere Contracts in the East of England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere 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 vSphere
Rank 115 113 116
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +3
Contract jobs citing vSphere 5 18 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.229% 0.613% 0.387%
As % of the System Software category 1.742% 6.020% 3.610%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 4
Average daily rate £265 £300 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.66% -15.49%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £124 £215 £303
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £450 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -24.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +125.29%
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%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England 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 of England region.

East of England vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East of England vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

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 of England region.

East of England 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 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
Hertfordshire +14 2 £180 -23.40%
Cambridgeshire +7 1 £350 +16.66%
Essex -8 1 £400 -11.11%
Bedfordshire - 1 £100 -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 43 (95.56%) VMware
2 30 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 29 (64.44%) Microsoft
4 27 (60.00%) Windows
5 20 (44.44%) MS Exchange
5 20 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 18 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 18 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
7 17 (37.78%) Exchange Server 2010
7 17 (37.78%) Citrix
7 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (35.56%) Hyper-V
9 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
10 11 (24.44%) Migration
11 10 (22.22%) VMware ESX
11 10 (22.22%) DHCP
11 10 (22.22%) DNS
12 9 (20.00%) XenApp
13 8 (17.78%) XenDesktop
13 8 (17.78%) AppSense
13 8 (17.78%) HP
14 7 (15.56%) EMC
14 7 (15.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (15.56%) Oracle
14 7 (15.56%) Cisco
14 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
14 7 (15.56%) ERP
14 7 (15.56%) Perl
14 7 (15.56%) SQL
14 7 (15.56%) HPUX

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England 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 20 (44.44%) MS Exchange
2 18 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 17 (37.78%) Exchange Server 2010
4 7 (15.56%) Apache
5 6 (13.33%) Exchange Server 2007
6 4 (8.889%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (6.667%) MS Office
2 2 (4.444%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (8.889%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (22.22%) DHCP
1 10 (22.22%) DNS
2 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
3 5 (11.11%) SAN
4 4 (8.889%) Firewall
5 2 (4.444%) Wi-Fi
5 2 (4.444%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.222%) VPN
6 1 (2.222%) ISDN
6 1 (2.222%) LAN
6 1 (2.222%) WAN
6 1 (2.222%) SMTP
6 1 (2.222%) EIGRP
6 1 (2.222%) MGCP
6 1 (2.222%) BGP
6 1 (2.222%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (6.667%) SQL Server 2000
4 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 3 (6.667%) Telecoms
2 1 (2.222%) Finance
2 1 (2.222%) Law
2 1 (2.222%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 14 (31.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 9 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Administrator
4 6 (13.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.889%) Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Consultant
6 3 (6.667%) Linux Administrator
6 3 (6.667%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Infrastructure Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) 3rd Line Support Specialist
7 2 (4.444%) Support Specialist
7 2 (4.444%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (2.222%) Architect
8 1 (2.222%) Systems Analyst
8 1 (2.222%) Service Analyst
8 1 (2.222%) Support Analyst
8 1 (2.222%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.11%) PKI
2 4 (8.889%) Clustering
2 4 (8.889%) Fat Client
2 4 (8.889%) Thin Client
3 3 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 1 (2.222%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 27 (60.00%) Windows
2 18 (40.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (37.78%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (15.56%) HPUX
4 7 (15.56%) Linux
5 4 (8.889%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (6.667%) Windows 2000
7 2 (4.444%) Windows Vista
7 2 (4.444%) Windows XP
7 2 (4.444%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (24.44%) Migration
2 7 (15.56%) ERP
2 7 (15.56%) ITIL
3 6 (13.33%) Change Control
3 6 (13.33%) Build Automation
4 4 (8.889%) Data Analysis
4 4 (8.889%) Load Balancing
4 4 (8.889%) Release Management
4 4 (8.889%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.667%) E-business
6 1 (2.222%) E-Commerce
6 1 (2.222%) Project Management
6 1 (2.222%) Service Delivery
6 1 (2.222%) Programme Office Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.56%) Perl
1 7 (15.56%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 4 (8.889%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (8.889%) OCP
1 4 (8.889%) Oracle Certification
1 4 (8.889%) RHCE
2 3 (6.667%) MCSE
2 3 (6.667%) Citrix Certification
2 3 (6.667%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (6.667%) CCEE
2 3 (6.667%) SC Cleared
2 3 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.222%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.667%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 20 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (35.56%) Hyper-V
4 10 (22.22%) VMware ESX
5 9 (20.00%) XenApp
6 8 (17.78%) XenDesktop
7 7 (15.56%) Oracle RMAN
7 7 (15.56%) XenServer
8 4 (8.889%) IAG
9 2 (4.444%) vCloud
9 2 (4.444%) DFS Replication
9 2 (4.444%) Terminal Services
10 1 (2.222%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 7 (15.56%) EMC NetWorker
1 7 (15.56%) SCOM
2 5 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (6.667%) HP Data Protector
4 2 (4.444%) WSUS
4 2 (4.444%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.222%) SCVMM
5 1 (2.222%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.222%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 43 (95.56%) VMware
2 29 (64.44%) Microsoft
3 17 (37.78%) Citrix
4 8 (17.78%) AppSense
4 8 (17.78%) HP
5 7 (15.56%) EMC
5 7 (15.56%) Oracle
5 7 (15.56%) Cisco
5 7 (15.56%) SAP
5 7 (15.56%) Symantec
5 7 (15.56%) Red Hat
5 7 (15.56%) Wyse
6 6 (13.33%) Sophos
7 4 (8.889%) Veritas
8 3 (6.667%) Dell
8 3 (6.667%) McAfee
8 3 (6.667%) Acronis
9 2 (4.444%) Veeam
9 2 (4.444%) NetApp
9 2 (4.444%) Apple
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