The first table below looks at the demand for VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle VirtualBox
Rank - 560 -
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 0 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England - 0.011% -
As % of the System Software category - 0.140% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £175 -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3958 4299 4025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.490% 8.053% 7.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 1927 2078 1791
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 586 602
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -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 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
VirtualBox
UK

VirtualBox
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VirtualBox Jobs Demand Trend

VirtualBox
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VirtualBox Daily Rate Trend

VirtualBox
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox.

1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Egenera
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Postfix
2 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 1 (50.00%) SCSA
2 1 (50.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) OpenView
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) RHCE
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas

VirtualBox
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) FreeBSD
2 1 (50.00%) OpenBSD
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) UNIX
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) AIX
2 1 (50.00%) HPUX
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SCSA
1 1 (50.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Postfix
2 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Squid
2 1 (50.00%) Xen
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Egenera
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) JBoss
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) Sun
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) Intel
2 1 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (50.00%) Remedy
London
The candidate should have previous experience of desktop hardware installations and have set up VirtualBox / Virtual Box in previous roles. Key Skills: Hardware Installation and Configuration ( SSD / RAM )...
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Rate: £80 - £100 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
The candidate should have previous experience of desktop hardware installations and have set up VirtualBox / Virtual Box in previous roles. Key Skills: Hardware Installation and Configuration ( SSD / RAM )...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £80 - £100 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013