The first table below looks at the demand for VCP5 in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VCP5 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 5 (VCP5)
Rank 496 545 -
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -
Contract jobs citing VCP5 17 14 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.041% 0.026% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.229% 0.151% -
Number of daily rates quoted 15 11 0
Average daily rate £280 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £265 £276 -
% change year-on-year
-4.07% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
VCP5
UK

VCP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP5 across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England VCP5 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP5 across the England region.

England VCP5 Daily Rate Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VCP5 across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England VCP5 Daily Rate Histogram

VCP5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP5 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
East of England +23 6 £225 -
London +31 3 £353 -17.05%
South East +15 2 £385 +6.20%
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
Midlands - 2 £325 -
South West - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 £340 -
VCP5
UK

VCP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VCP5 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 VCP5.

1 30 (88.24%) VMware
1 30 (88.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 29 (85.29%) Windows
3 25 (73.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 24 (70.59%) Active Directory
5 18 (52.94%) HP
6 17 (50.00%) Hyper-V
7 15 (44.12%) Citrix
8 14 (41.18%) SAN
8 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
8 14 (41.18%) VCP4
9 13 (38.24%) MS Exchange
9 13 (38.24%) ITIL
10 12 (35.29%) DNS
10 12 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
10 12 (35.29%) MCITP
11 11 (32.35%) XenDesktop
11 11 (32.35%) SQL
12 10 (29.41%) PRINCE2
12 10 (29.41%) PRINCE
12 10 (29.41%) SCCM
13 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
13 9 (26.47%) Forefront TMG
13 9 (26.47%) NetApp
13 9 (26.47%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (26.47%) IIS
13 9 (26.47%) Windows XP
13 9 (26.47%) VPN
14 8 (23.53%) UAG
14 8 (23.53%) HP SIM

VCP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VCP5 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 VCP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.941%) SOAP
1 1 (2.941%) XML
Application Platforms
1 13 (38.24%) MS Exchange
2 12 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (26.47%) IIS
4 8 (23.53%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (11.76%) SharePoint
6 3 (8.824%) SharePoint 2010
6 3 (8.824%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (8.824%) Office Communications Server
7 1 (2.941%) OpenStack
7 1 (2.941%) Lync
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) Office 365
1 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 14 (41.18%) SAN
2 12 (35.29%) DNS
3 9 (26.47%) VPN
4 3 (8.824%) DHCP
5 2 (5.882%) Firewall
5 2 (5.882%) NetScaler
6 1 (2.941%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (2.941%) VLAN
6 1 (2.941%) NAS
6 1 (2.941%) TCP/IP
6 1 (2.941%) LAN
6 1 (2.941%) WAN
6 1 (2.941%) OSPF
6 1 (2.941%) BGP
6 1 (2.941%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server
1 3 (8.824%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (2.941%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (2.941%) Banking
1 1 (2.941%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) 3rd Line Support
3 6 (17.65%) Consultant
4 3 (8.824%) Server Engineer
4 3 (8.824%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.824%) Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Architect
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Support
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Consultant
5 2 (5.882%) VMware Engineer
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Support Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (5.882%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (5.882%) 3rd Line Technical Support
5 2 (5.882%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 1 (2.941%) Network Support
6 1 (2.941%) Citrix Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Network Support Engineer
6 1 (2.941%) Senior Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.824%) Clustering
2 1 (2.941%) HP StorageWorks
2 1 (2.941%) PaaS
2 1 (2.941%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 29 (85.29%) Windows
2 25 (73.53%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (26.47%) Windows XP
4 8 (23.53%) Windows 8
5 5 (14.71%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (11.76%) Linux
7 3 (8.824%) Windows 2000 Server
8 1 (2.941%) Solaris
8 1 (2.941%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (38.24%) ITIL
2 10 (29.41%) PRINCE2
2 10 (29.41%) PRINCE
3 8 (23.53%) Operations Management
4 7 (20.59%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (8.824%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.824%) Business Continuity
5 3 (8.824%) Project Management
6 2 (5.882%) ITIL V3
6 2 (5.882%) Change Control
7 1 (2.941%) Load Balancing
7 1 (2.941%) Time Management
7 1 (2.941%) ERP
7 1 (2.941%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 5 (14.71%) PowerShell
3 2 (5.882%) VBScript
4 1 (2.941%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.941%) Perl
Qualifications
1 30 (88.24%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 14 (41.18%) VCP4
3 12 (35.29%) MCITP
4 9 (26.47%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (8.824%) CCAA
5 3 (8.824%) Degree
5 3 (8.824%) CCA
5 3 (8.824%) Citrix Certification
6 1 (2.941%) CCIA
6 1 (2.941%) MCTS
6 1 (2.941%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.941%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.941%) CCEE
6 1 (2.941%) VCAP
6 1 (2.941%) NCIE
6 1 (2.941%) MCSE
6 1 (2.941%) CCIE
6 1 (2.941%) CCEA
6 1 (2.941%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (2.941%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.882%) SLA
2 1 (2.941%) QA
System Software
1 24 (70.59%) Active Directory
2 17 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 11 (32.35%) XenDesktop
4 9 (26.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (26.47%) Forefront TMG
5 8 (23.53%) UAG
6 6 (17.65%) XenApp
7 4 (11.76%) vSphere
7 4 (11.76%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (11.76%) vCloud
8 3 (8.824%) ISA Server
9 2 (5.882%) VMware ESX
10 1 (2.941%) Xen
10 1 (2.941%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (29.41%) SCCM
2 8 (23.53%) HP SIM
3 4 (11.76%) SCOM
4 3 (8.824%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.941%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 30 (88.24%) VMware
2 18 (52.94%) HP
3 15 (44.12%) Citrix
4 14 (41.18%) Microsoft
5 9 (26.47%) NetApp
6 3 (8.824%) Altiris
6 3 (8.824%) EMC
6 3 (8.824%) Veritas
7 2 (5.882%) Cisco
7 2 (5.882%) AppSense
8 1 (2.941%) Oracle
8 1 (2.941%) SAP
8 1 (2.941%) Dell
8 1 (2.941%) 3Com
8 1 (2.941%) Juniper
8 1 (2.941%) Sophos
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