The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Architect role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Virtualisation Architect in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Architect
Rank 509 544 544
Rank change year-on-year
+35 0
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Architect 3 13 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.007% 0.024% 0.020%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.008% 0.026% 0.021%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 5
Average daily rate £433 £365 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.49% -27.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £419 £355 £394
10% offered a daily rate of more than £447 £510 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £373 £407 £405
% change year-on-year
-8.53% +0.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Virtualisation Architect
UK

Virtualisation Architect
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Virtualisation Architect Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Architect
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Virtualisation Architect Daily Rate Trend

Virtualisation Architect
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Virtualisation Architect Hourly Rate Trend

Virtualisation Architect
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Architect within the 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
South East +23 1 - -
London +7 1 £450 +23.28%
East Midlands - 1 £415 -
Virtualisation Architect
UK

Virtualisation Architect
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Virtualisation Architect in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Architect in their job title.

1 5 (71.43%) Windows
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenServer
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (14.29%) vCloud
3 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Intel
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (14.29%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) OLTP
3 1 (14.29%) Service Management
3 1 (14.29%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) MCSE
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse

Virtualisation Architect
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Virtualisation Architect in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Architect in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) TCP/IP
2 1 (14.29%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) OLTP
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Build Automation
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
2 1 (14.29%) Requirements Management
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Architecture
2 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenServer
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (14.29%) vCloud
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
1 1 (14.29%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Intel
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) NetApp
3 1 (14.29%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) AppSense