VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 396 426 476
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +50
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 122 137 97
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.294% 0.257% 0.170%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.642% 1.475% 1.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 79 57
Average daily rate £325 £335 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% +11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £191 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-3.22% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 4 3
Average hourly rate £23.50 £22.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.81% +7.31%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.75 £15.35 £20.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £101.00 £39.85 £32.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+116.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category		 7428 9291 9029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 17.89% 17.40% 15.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 3948 4922 4412
Average daily rate £378 £388 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.58% +3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £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 418 516 619
Average hourly rate £23.35 £22.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.13% -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%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

England VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the England region.

England VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the England region.

England VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +54 49 £333 +10.83%
London 0 34 £380 -
East of England +13 14 £225 -25.00%
Yorkshire -6 9 £280 -17.03%
North East +12 5 - -
South West +28 4 £388 +198.07%
West Midlands +5 4 £175 -33.64%
East Midlands 0 3 £260 -25.71%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
UK

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP).

1 221 (100.00%) VMware
2 146 (66.06%) Windows
3 104 (47.06%) Microsoft
4 98 (44.34%) VMware Infrastructure
5 97 (43.89%) Windows Server 2008
6 95 (42.99%) vSphere
7 93 (42.08%) SAN
8 92 (41.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 92 (41.63%) MS Exchange
9 83 (37.56%) MCSE
10 80 (36.20%) Active Directory
11 76 (34.39%) Exchange Server 2010
12 74 (33.48%) HP
13 72 (32.58%) Windows Server 2003
14 70 (31.67%) Cisco
15 60 (27.15%) Citrix
16 50 (22.62%) Exchange Server 2003
17 46 (20.81%) MCITP
18 44 (19.91%) Migration
19 43 (19.46%) VMware ESX
19 43 (19.46%) Cisco Certification
20 41 (18.55%) ITIL
21 39 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
22 38 (17.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
22 38 (17.19%) SCOM
23 36 (16.29%) DNS
23 36 (16.29%) CCNA
24 35 (15.84%) Firewall
24 35 (15.84%) Hyper-V
25 33 (14.93%) EMC

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 VMware Certified Professional (VCP). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (2.262%) COM+
2 3 (1.357%) Application Packaging
3 2 (0.905%) ADSI
4 1 (0.452%) SOAP
4 1 (0.452%) Web Services
4 1 (0.452%) XML
4 1 (0.452%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 92 (41.63%) MS Exchange
2 76 (34.39%) Exchange Server 2010
3 50 (22.62%) Exchange Server 2003
4 38 (17.19%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 31 (14.03%) Exchange Server 2007
6 28 (12.67%) SharePoint
7 26 (11.76%) IIS
8 17 (7.692%) Lync
9 16 (7.240%) Office Communications Server
10 10 (4.525%) SharePoint 2010
11 9 (4.072%) Apache
12 5 (2.262%) Lotus Domino
13 4 (1.810%) Exchange Server 2000
14 3 (1.357%) Lotus Notes
15 1 (0.452%) OpenStack
15 1 (0.452%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (6.335%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.715%) Office 365
3 3 (1.357%) MS Office
4 2 (0.905%) S-PLUS
4 2 (0.905%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.452%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 1 (0.452%) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking
1 93 (42.08%) SAN
2 36 (16.29%) DNS
3 35 (15.84%) Firewall
4 23 (10.41%) LAN
5 22 (9.955%) WAN
6 15 (6.787%) iSCSI
6 15 (6.787%) TCP/IP
6 15 (6.787%) VPN
7 14 (6.335%) NAS
8 12 (5.430%) MPLS
8 12 (5.430%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (4.525%) VoIP
9 10 (4.525%) DHCP
9 10 (4.525%) Cisco Nexus
10 9 (4.072%) NetScreen
11 8 (3.620%) Wireless
11 8 (3.620%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (3.167%) SSL
12 7 (3.167%) BGP
12 7 (3.167%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (10.86%) SQL Server
2 17 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
3 9 (4.072%) SQL Server 2005
4 8 (3.620%) MySQL
5 5 (2.262%) SQL Server 2000
6 1 (0.452%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.452%) GIS
Development Applications
1 1 (0.452%) MSI
General
1 21 (9.502%) Finance
2 13 (5.882%) Telecoms
3 9 (4.072%) Publishing
4 4 (1.810%) Law
5 2 (0.905%) French Language
5 2 (0.905%) Banking
5 2 (0.905%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.452%) Legal
6 1 (0.452%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.452%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 38 (17.19%) Consultant
2 28 (12.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 23 (10.41%) 3rd Line Support
4 20 (9.050%) Architect
5 19 (8.597%) Messaging Consultant
6 17 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
6 17 (7.692%) Support Engineer
7 16 (7.240%) Analyst
8 14 (6.335%) Infrastructure Architect
9 13 (5.882%) Administrator
10 12 (5.430%) Virtualisation Specialist
11 11 (4.977%) Systems Engineer
11 11 (4.977%) Storage Administrator
12 10 (4.525%) Server Engineer
13 9 (4.072%) Technical Specialist
14 7 (3.167%) Systems Administrator
14 7 (3.167%) Server Support
14 7 (3.167%) Support Analyst
14 7 (3.167%) Exchange Consultant
14 7 (3.167%) Messaging Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.525%) Clustering
2 8 (3.620%) EqualLogic
3 7 (3.167%) Replication
4 6 (2.715%) Blackberry
5 5 (2.262%) CLARiiON
5 5 (2.262%) Statistics
6 3 (1.357%) Computer Science
7 2 (0.905%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.905%) NHS
7 2 (0.905%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.905%) IaaS
8 1 (0.452%) SaaS
8 1 (0.452%) PaaS
8 1 (0.452%) HP StorageWorks
8 1 (0.452%) PKI
8 1 (0.452%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 146 (66.06%) Windows
2 97 (43.89%) Windows Server 2008
3 72 (32.58%) Windows Server 2003
4 31 (14.03%) Linux
5 14 (6.335%) Windows XP
5 14 (6.335%) Windows 2000
5 14 (6.335%) Windows 7
6 11 (4.977%) UNIX
7 10 (4.525%) Windows 2000 Server
8 8 (3.620%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (3.620%) Windows 8
9 7 (3.167%) CentOS
9 7 (3.167%) FreeBSD
9 7 (3.167%) Debian
10 6 (2.715%) Ubuntu
10 6 (2.715%) Gentoo
11 5 (2.262%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (2.262%) HPUX
12 4 (1.810%) Mac OS X
13 2 (0.905%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (19.91%) Migration
2 41 (18.55%) ITIL
3 32 (14.48%) Data Protection
4 29 (13.12%) Disaster Recovery
5 23 (10.41%) PRINCE2
6 16 (7.240%) Service Delivery
7 13 (5.882%) PRINCE
8 10 (4.525%) Project Management
9 9 (4.072%) Operations Management
10 8 (3.620%) E-Commerce
11 7 (3.167%) Software Deployment
11 7 (3.167%) Capacity Planning
11 7 (3.167%) Configuration Management
11 7 (3.167%) Service Management
12 5 (2.262%) Load Balancing
13 4 (1.810%) Risk Analysis
13 4 (1.810%) Data Management
13 4 (1.810%) Information Assurance
14 3 (1.357%) ITIL V3
14 3 (1.357%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 26 (11.76%) SQL
2 7 (3.167%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.810%) VBScript
4 3 (1.357%) Perl
5 2 (0.905%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.452%) Bash shell
6 1 (0.452%) PHP
6 1 (0.452%) C++
Qualifications
1 92 (41.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 83 (37.56%) MCSE
3 46 (20.81%) MCITP
4 43 (19.46%) Cisco Certification
5 36 (16.29%) CCNA
6 30 (13.57%) VCP5
7 22 (9.955%) Citrix Certification
8 21 (9.502%) CCA
9 19 (8.597%) MCTS
10 18 (8.145%) VCP4
11 14 (6.335%) CCNP
12 13 (5.882%) Degree
12 13 (5.882%) MCSA
12 13 (5.882%) MCP
13 12 (5.430%) ITIL Certification
14 9 (4.072%) Security Cleared
15 7 (3.167%) DV Cleared
15 7 (3.167%) RHCE
15 7 (3.167%) CCEA
16 4 (1.810%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (3.167%) SLA
2 1 (0.452%) QA
System Software
1 98 (44.34%) VMware Infrastructure
2 95 (42.99%) vSphere
3 80 (36.20%) Active Directory
4 43 (19.46%) VMware ESX
5 39 (17.65%) VMware ESXi
6 35 (15.84%) Hyper-V
7 20 (9.050%) XenApp
8 15 (6.787%) vCloud
9 13 (5.882%) XenDesktop
10 11 (4.977%) Forefront TMG
11 8 (3.620%) UAG
12 7 (3.167%) Postfix
13 6 (2.715%) VMware Server
13 6 (2.715%) Microsoft App-V
13 6 (2.715%) NFS
14 5 (2.262%) XenServer
14 5 (2.262%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 2 (0.905%) Xen
15 2 (0.905%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.905%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 38 (17.19%) SCOM
2 19 (8.597%) SCCM
3 11 (4.977%) EMC NetWorker
4 8 (3.620%) HP SIM
5 6 (2.715%) WSUS
5 6 (2.715%) NetBackup
5 6 (2.715%) Backup Exec
5 6 (2.715%) Nagios
5 6 (2.715%) Cacti
5 6 (2.715%) Cisco CUCM
5 6 (2.715%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
6 1 (0.452%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.452%) Plesk
6 1 (0.452%) McAfee ePO
6 1 (0.452%) OpenView
6 1 (0.452%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 221 (100.00%) VMware
2 104 (47.06%) Microsoft
3 74 (33.48%) HP
4 70 (31.67%) Cisco
5 60 (27.15%) Citrix
6 33 (14.93%) EMC
7 31 (14.03%) MobileIron
8 26 (11.76%) NetApp
9 25 (11.31%) Postini
10 21 (9.502%) IBM
11 16 (7.240%) Dell
11 16 (7.240%) Red Hat
12 15 (6.787%) Symantec
13 9 (4.072%) Mercator
14 6 (2.715%) Altiris
14 6 (2.715%) F5
14 6 (2.715%) Zeacom
15 5 (2.262%) Lotus
16 4 (1.810%) Brocade
16 4 (1.810%) Apple
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