The first table below looks at the demand for VMS 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 VMS 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 Operating Systems 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
VMS
Rank 481 465 509
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +44
Contract jobs citing VMS 51 80 71
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.118% 0.151% 0.124%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.531% 0.728% 0.582%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 34 46
Average daily rate £350 £444 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.12% +77.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £208 £350 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £518 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £463 £225
% change year-on-year
-24.32% +105.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 2
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £28.22
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +32.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £37.50 £23.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £37.50 £32.79
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £22.19
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +68.97%
All Operating Systems
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
9603 10993 12192
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 22.19% 20.76% 21.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 5284 5551 6183
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £195 £190 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 1139 1194
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.87 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.04% +5.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £36.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £16.00
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +9.37%
VMS
UK

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England VMS Daily Rate Histogram

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

England VMS Hourly Rate Histogram

VMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS 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
London +28 28 £425 - 7
South East +20 9 £350 +17.15% 2
Yorkshire - 4 £275 -
East of England +17 2 - - 1
North West +16 2 £350 +100.00%
West Midlands -10 2 £255 -49.00%
VMS
UK

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 46 (49.46%) Linux
2 33 (35.48%) Solaris
3 31 (33.33%) Windows
4 27 (29.03%) Finance
5 24 (25.81%) UNIX
5 24 (25.81%) SAN
5 24 (25.81%) Red Hat
5 24 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 19 (20.43%) SRDF
6 19 (20.43%) Cisco
6 19 (20.43%) EMC
7 18 (19.35%) HP
8 17 (18.28%) AIX
8 17 (18.28%) RHCE
9 16 (17.20%) ITIL
9 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
9 16 (17.20%) VMware
10 15 (16.13%) Veritas
11 14 (15.05%) Active Directory
11 14 (15.05%) DHCP
11 14 (15.05%) HPUX
11 14 (15.05%) Apache
11 14 (15.05%) Python
11 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2008
12 13 (13.98%) Bash shell
12 13 (13.98%) Puppet
12 13 (13.98%) Perl
12 13 (13.98%) SLA
13 12 (12.90%) TCP/IP
13 12 (12.90%) VPN

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (10.75%) WebSphere
2 3 (3.226%) LAMP
3 2 (2.151%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (2.151%) Gearman
3 2 (2.151%) Middleware
3 2 (2.151%) Software Packaging
4 1 (1.075%) POSIX
4 1 (1.075%) .NET
4 1 (1.075%) COM
4 1 (1.075%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 14 (15.05%) Apache
2 11 (11.83%) MS Exchange
3 9 (9.677%) Tomcat
4 5 (5.376%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (4.301%) SharePoint
6 3 (3.226%) IBM Notes
7 2 (2.151%) nginx
7 2 (2.151%) lighttpd
7 2 (2.151%) Apache Solr
8 1 (1.075%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (1.075%) IIS
8 1 (1.075%) Site Server
Applications
1 6 (6.452%) MS Office
2 1 (1.075%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.075%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.075%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.075%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 24 (25.81%) SAN
2 14 (15.05%) DHCP
3 12 (12.90%) TCP/IP
3 12 (12.90%) VPN
4 11 (11.83%) NAS
5 10 (10.75%) DNS
5 10 (10.75%) Connectrix
5 10 (10.75%) Firewall
6 9 (9.677%) Gigabit Ethernet
6 9 (9.677%) Ethernet
7 8 (8.602%) VLAN
8 5 (5.376%) DECnet
8 5 (5.376%) Internet
9 4 (4.301%) NetScreen
9 4 (4.301%) VoIP
9 4 (4.301%) WAN
10 3 (3.226%) Megaco
10 3 (3.226%) Q.931
10 3 (3.226%) H.323
10 3 (3.226%) DPNSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.452%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.301%) MySQL
3 2 (2.151%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.151%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.151%) DTS
4 1 (1.075%) QlikView
4 1 (1.075%) DB2
4 1 (1.075%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (3.226%) LoadRunner
1 3 (3.226%) Jenkins
1 3 (3.226%) Git (software)
2 2 (2.151%) Capistrano
2 2 (2.151%) PHPUnit
2 2 (2.151%) Phing
2 2 (2.151%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (2.151%) Subversion
3 1 (1.075%) NUnit
3 1 (1.075%) WebLOAD
3 1 (1.075%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (1.075%) Hudson
General
1 27 (29.03%) Finance
2 9 (9.677%) Financial Institution
3 5 (5.376%) Military
3 5 (5.376%) Banking
4 3 (3.226%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.151%) Billing
5 2 (2.151%) Advertising
5 2 (2.151%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.075%) Back Office
6 1 (1.075%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 19 (20.43%) Administrator
2 13 (13.98%) Linux Engineer
3 10 (10.75%) Analyst
3 10 (10.75%) Storage Administrator
4 9 (9.677%) Senior Linux Engineer
5 8 (8.602%) Developer
6 7 (7.527%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.452%) Network Engineer
8 5 (5.376%) Server Specialist
8 5 (5.376%) Consultant
8 5 (5.376%) Server Support
9 4 (4.301%) Voice Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Voice Support Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Systems Administrator
9 4 (4.301%) UNIX Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Analyst Developer
9 4 (4.301%) Server Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Installations Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (4.301%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (10.75%) Symmetrix DMX
1 10 (10.75%) CLARiiON
1 10 (10.75%) Symmetrix
1 10 (10.75%) EMC Centera
2 9 (9.677%) Clustering
3 5 (5.376%) Replication
4 3 (3.226%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.226%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.226%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.151%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.151%) NHS
5 2 (2.151%) Blackberry
5 2 (2.151%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (2.151%) VAX
5 2 (2.151%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.151%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.075%) SecurID
6 1 (1.075%) FMCG
6 1 (1.075%) iSeries
Operating Systems
1 46 (49.46%) Linux
2 33 (35.48%) Solaris
3 31 (33.33%) Windows
4 24 (25.81%) UNIX
4 24 (25.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 17 (18.28%) AIX
6 14 (15.05%) HPUX
6 14 (15.05%) Windows Server 2008
7 12 (12.90%) OpenVMS
8 5 (5.376%) Windows XP
8 5 (5.376%) Windows 2000
8 5 (5.376%) Windows 7
9 4 (4.301%) Windows Server 2003
10 2 (2.151%) Debian
11 1 (1.075%) SUSE
11 1 (1.075%) Fedora
11 1 (1.075%) Ubuntu
11 1 (1.075%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.075%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (17.20%) ITIL
2 10 (10.75%) Validation
3 9 (9.677%) User Acceptance Testing
3 9 (9.677%) Capacity Planning
4 8 (8.602%) Migration
5 5 (5.376%) Incident Management
5 5 (5.376%) Change Management
6 4 (4.301%) Network Management
6 4 (4.301%) Disaster Recovery
6 4 (4.301%) Service Delivery
6 4 (4.301%) Project Management
6 4 (4.301%) Release Management
6 4 (4.301%) Workflow
7 3 (3.226%) GAP Analysis
7 3 (3.226%) ITSM
7 3 (3.226%) Identity Management
7 3 (3.226%) Test Management
7 3 (3.226%) Test Scripting
7 3 (3.226%) Use Case
7 3 (3.226%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 14 (15.05%) Python
2 13 (13.98%) Bash shell
2 13 (13.98%) Perl
3 12 (12.90%) Shell Script
4 9 (9.677%) SQL
5 7 (7.527%) DCL
6 6 (6.452%) C
7 4 (4.301%) PHP
8 3 (3.226%) C++
9 2 (2.151%) PowerShell
9 2 (2.151%) Pascal
9 2 (2.151%) PowerHouse
9 2 (2.151%) Java
9 2 (2.151%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 17 (18.28%) RHCE
2 8 (8.602%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (8.602%) Degree
3 5 (5.376%) MCITP
3 5 (5.376%) MCSE
3 5 (5.376%) OCP
3 5 (5.376%) Oracle Certification
3 5 (5.376%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.376%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.151%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (2.151%) HND
4 2 (2.151%) CCNA
4 2 (2.151%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (2.151%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.075%) CCVP
5 1 (1.075%) RHCT
5 1 (1.075%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (1.075%) CCNP
5 1 (1.075%) VCP5
5 1 (1.075%) VCP4
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (13.98%) SLA
2 1 (1.075%) QA
System Software
1 19 (20.43%) SRDF
2 14 (15.05%) Active Directory
3 9 (9.677%) Samba
3 9 (9.677%) Oracle RAC
3 9 (9.677%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 9 (9.677%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (8.602%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.376%) VMware ESX
6 4 (4.301%) XenServer
6 4 (4.301%) Hyper-V
7 3 (3.226%) VMware Server
7 3 (3.226%) Snort
8 2 (2.151%) Postfix
8 2 (2.151%) Sendmail
8 2 (2.151%) XenApp
8 2 (2.151%) Varnish
8 2 (2.151%) vSphere
8 2 (2.151%) Terminal Services
8 2 (2.151%) MetaFrame
Systems Management
1 13 (13.98%) Puppet
2 10 (10.75%) EMC TimeFinder
3 9 (9.677%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (9.677%) Cobbler
4 7 (7.527%) Red Hat Satellite
5 6 (6.452%) Backup Exec
6 4 (4.301%) SCCM
6 4 (4.301%) Norton AntiVirus
6 4 (4.301%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (3.226%) Nessus
7 3 (3.226%) Netcool
8 2 (2.151%) Cisco UCCX
8 2 (2.151%) Tivoli
8 2 (2.151%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 2 (2.151%) Nagios
9 1 (1.075%) NetBackup
9 1 (1.075%) BMC PATROL
9 1 (1.075%) Control-M
9 1 (1.075%) MOM
9 1 (1.075%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (25.81%) Red Hat
2 19 (20.43%) Cisco
2 19 (20.43%) EMC
3 18 (19.35%) HP
4 16 (17.20%) Microsoft
4 16 (17.20%) VMware
5 15 (16.13%) Veritas
6 12 (12.90%) Oracle
7 8 (8.602%) Sun
7 8 (8.602%) Citrix
8 5 (5.376%) Symantec
8 5 (5.376%) Juniper
9 4 (4.301%) IBM
9 4 (4.301%) SAP
10 3 (3.226%) Sourcefire
10 3 (3.226%) Lotus
10 3 (3.226%) Nortel
10 3 (3.226%) BMC
10 3 (3.226%) Kaspersky
11 2 (2.151%) Nokia
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