The first table below looks at the demand for VCP4 in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VCP4 over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 4 (VCP4)
Rank 504 539 563
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +24
Contract jobs citing VCP4 9 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.037% 0.014%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.121% 0.216% 0.090%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 2
Average daily rate £280 £400 £243
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% +64.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £210 £229
10% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £585 £257
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £190 £225
% change year-on-year
+59.21% -15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.50 £47.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-63.15% +137.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 - £20.00
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
7438 9270 8898
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.38% 15.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 3939 4900 4350
Average daily rate £375 £390 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% +4.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £224 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 422 511 609
Average hourly rate £23.00 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.54% -2.22%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -10.00%
VCP4
UK

VCP4
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP4 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England VCP4 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP4
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP4 across the England region.

England VCP4 Daily Rate Trend

VCP4
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VCP4 across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England VCP4 Daily Rate Histogram

VCP4
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VCP4 across the England region.

England VCP4 Hourly Rate Trend

VCP4
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP4 within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
South East +15 2 £385 -
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
East of England - 2 £188 -
London +22 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -
VCP4
UK

VCP4
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VCP4 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 VCP4.

1 19 (100.00%) VMware
1 19 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 15 (78.95%) Windows
3 14 (73.68%) SAN
3 14 (73.68%) VCP5
4 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
4 12 (63.16%) HP
5 11 (57.89%) Citrix
6 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
6 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
7 9 (47.37%) XenDesktop
8 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
8 8 (42.11%) HP SIM
8 8 (42.11%) Operations Management
8 8 (42.11%) NetApp
8 8 (42.11%) VPN
9 7 (36.84%) SCCM
10 4 (21.05%) Linux
10 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
10 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (15.79%) vCloud
11 3 (15.79%) vSphere
11 3 (15.79%) MCSE
11 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
12 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
12 2 (10.53%) Symantec
12 2 (10.53%) MPLS
12 2 (10.53%) SharePoint

VCP4
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VCP4 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 VCP4. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
1 2 (10.53%) MS Exchange
1 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (10.53%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (5.263%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) SAN
2 8 (42.11%) VPN
3 2 (10.53%) MPLS
3 2 (10.53%) LAN
3 2 (10.53%) WAN
3 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
4 1 (5.263%) FCoE
4 1 (5.263%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (5.263%) VLAN
4 1 (5.263%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (5.263%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.263%) Firewall
General
1 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (26.32%) Consultant
3 4 (21.05%) Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (15.79%) Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Support
5 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 2 (10.53%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 1 (5.263%) IT Support
6 1 (5.263%) VMware Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 1 (5.263%) Linux Engineer
6 1 (5.263%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) EqualLogic
1 1 (5.263%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 10 (52.63%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (21.05%) Linux
4 3 (15.79%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (10.53%) UNIX
6 1 (5.263%) VMS
6 1 (5.263%) Solaris
6 1 (5.263%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (42.11%) Operations Management
2 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.263%) Time Management
2 1 (5.263%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
1 1 (5.263%) Perl
1 1 (5.263%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 14 (73.68%) VCP5
3 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (15.79%) MCSE
4 1 (5.263%) CCEE
4 1 (5.263%) CCAA
4 1 (5.263%) CCIA
4 1 (5.263%) MCTS
4 1 (5.263%) MCITP
4 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.263%) CCNP
4 1 (5.263%) CCNA
4 1 (5.263%) CCA
4 1 (5.263%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (5.263%) CCEA
4 1 (5.263%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.263%) QA
1 1 (5.263%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 10 (52.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (47.37%) XenDesktop
4 8 (42.11%) Hyper-V
5 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (15.79%) vCloud
6 3 (15.79%) vSphere
7 2 (10.53%) VMware ESX
8 1 (5.263%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (5.263%) XenApp
8 1 (5.263%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (42.11%) HP SIM
2 7 (36.84%) SCCM
3 2 (10.53%) NetBackup
3 2 (10.53%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
3 2 (10.53%) WSUS
4 1 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (63.16%) HP
3 11 (57.89%) Citrix
4 8 (42.11%) NetApp
5 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
6 2 (10.53%) Symantec
6 2 (10.53%) Cisco
6 2 (10.53%) Dell
6 2 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 1 (5.263%) Veeam
7 1 (5.263%) WatchGuard
7 1 (5.263%) SonicWALL
7 1 (5.263%) Twitter
7 1 (5.263%) EMC
7 1 (5.263%) Novell
7 1 (5.263%) Red Hat
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