The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Virtual Server skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Virtual Server over the 3 months to 19 June 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Virtual Server
Rank 509 510 562
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +52
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 23 35 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.053% 0.066% 0.031%
As % of the System Software category 0.545% 0.799% 0.430%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 19 4
Average daily rate £225 £360 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £194 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £383 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £275 £210
% change year-on-year
+1.00% +30.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 2
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +44.44%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- +62.79%
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4219 4378 4186
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.750% 8.267% 7.311%
Number of daily rates quoted 2063 2110 1890
Average daily rate £350 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.44% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 586 639 632
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Microsoft Virtual Server
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Microsoft Virtual Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Microsoft Virtual Server Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server across the England region.

England Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server across the England region.

England Microsoft Virtual Server Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
South East +35 14 £233 -38.00% 1
London +11 8 £375 +4.16% 1
South West +31 1 £175 - 1
West Midlands - - - - 1
East of England - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -
North West - - - - 2
Microsoft Virtual Server
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Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server.

1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
3 13 (43.33%) Citrix
3 13 (43.33%) VMware
3 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 12 (40.00%) Finance
5 11 (36.67%) MS Office
6 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
6 10 (33.33%) WAN
6 10 (33.33%) LAN
7 9 (30.00%) HP
7 9 (30.00%) VMware ESX
7 9 (30.00%) Migration
7 9 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
8 8 (26.67%) QA
8 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
8 8 (26.67%) Performance Management
8 8 (26.67%) MS Visio
8 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
8 8 (26.67%) Project Management
8 8 (26.67%) Service Management
8 8 (26.67%) Service Delivery
8 8 (26.67%) Change Management
9 7 (23.33%) ITIL Certification
9 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
9 7 (23.33%) MS Excel
9 7 (23.33%) Cisco
9 7 (23.33%) ITIL
9 7 (23.33%) Incident Management
9 7 (23.33%) Change Control

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.333%) CSS
1 1 (3.333%) XML
1 1 (3.333%) .NET
1 1 (3.333%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) IIS
3 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (3.333%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (36.67%) MS Office
2 8 (26.67%) MS Visio
3 7 (23.33%) MS Excel
4 1 (3.333%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (33.33%) WAN
1 10 (33.33%) LAN
2 4 (13.33%) SAN
3 2 (6.667%) Firewall
3 2 (6.667%) Wireless
3 2 (6.667%) VoIP
3 2 (6.667%) WLAN
3 2 (6.667%) Network Security
4 1 (3.333%) NAS
4 1 (3.333%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle 8/8i
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (3.333%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (3.333%) MS Access
4 1 (3.333%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (3.333%) DTS
General
1 12 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Law
2 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.333%) Publishing
3 1 (3.333%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (26.67%) Technical Delivery Manager
1 8 (26.67%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (26.67%) Technical Manager
1 8 (26.67%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Analyst
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
3 3 (10.00%) Consultant
3 3 (10.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Support
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Server Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Lead Technical Architect
5 1 (3.333%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (3.333%) MI Analyst
5 1 (3.333%) Security Specialist
5 1 (3.333%) Lead Architect
5 1 (3.333%) Information Security Specialist
5 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (3.333%) Clustering
2 1 (3.333%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 21 (70.00%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (26.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (10.00%) Solaris
4 3 (10.00%) Linux
5 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000 Server
6 1 (3.333%) Windows 7
6 1 (3.333%) Windows NT
6 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Migration
2 8 (26.67%) Performance Management
2 8 (26.67%) Project Management
2 8 (26.67%) Service Management
2 8 (26.67%) Service Delivery
2 8 (26.67%) Change Management
3 7 (23.33%) ITIL
3 7 (23.33%) Incident Management
3 7 (23.33%) Change Control
4 4 (13.33%) Information Security
5 2 (6.667%) Data Security
5 2 (6.667%) Capacity Planning
5 2 (6.667%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (6.667%) Network Management
5 2 (6.667%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (6.667%) Document Management
6 1 (3.333%) Business Analysis
6 1 (3.333%) Software Deployment
6 1 (3.333%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) SQL
2 3 (10.00%) VBA
3 1 (3.333%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (23.33%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (3.333%) Degree
2 1 (3.333%) MCSE
2 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (26.67%) QA
2 1 (3.333%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 9 (30.00%) VMware ESX
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle RAC
4 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
5 2 (6.667%) XenApp
5 2 (6.667%) XenDesktop
5 2 (6.667%) vSphere
6 1 (3.333%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.333%) Terminal Services
6 1 (3.333%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.667%) SCOM
2 1 (3.333%) BladeLogic
2 1 (3.333%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.333%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
2 1 (3.333%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (56.67%) Microsoft
2 13 (43.33%) Citrix
2 13 (43.33%) VMware
3 9 (30.00%) HP
4 7 (23.33%) Cisco
5 3 (10.00%) Oracle
5 3 (10.00%) Red Hat
6 1 (3.333%) IBM
6 1 (3.333%) EMC
6 1 (3.333%) Intel
6 1 (3.333%) Sybase
6 1 (3.333%) Business Objects
6 1 (3.333%) NetApp
6 1 (3.333%) Mercator
6 1 (3.333%) Symantec
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