The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Engineer 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 VMware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Engineer
Rank 485 512 554
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +42
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 45 49 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.102% 0.094% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.111% 0.102% 0.059%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 27 19
Average daily rate £306 £375 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £248 £248 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £460 £384
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £375 £323
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +16.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.86
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40666 48260 52962
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.45% 92.52% 92.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 24069 27435 29642
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £243 £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 1999 2368 2784
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 £11.36 £11.13 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £42.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
VMware Engineer
UK

VMware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VMware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VMware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

England VMware Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VMware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 20 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
South East +28 12 £325 -13.33% 1
London +11 7 £356 +4.39% 2
West Midlands +15 6 £144 -73.20% 3
North East +9 3 - -
East Midlands -11 3 £230 -
East of England - 2 - - 1
Yorkshire 0 1 £150 -56.20%
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VMware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VMware Engineer 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 VMware Engineer in their job title.

1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 46 (64.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (50.70%) Windows
4 30 (42.25%) vSphere
5 24 (33.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 23 (32.39%) VMware ESX
7 22 (30.99%) HP
8 18 (25.35%) Windows Server 2008
9 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
9 17 (23.94%) SAN
10 16 (22.54%) Cisco
11 14 (19.72%) Citrix
11 14 (19.72%) Windows Server 2003
11 14 (19.72%) VMware ESXi
12 12 (16.90%) Active Directory
13 11 (15.49%) Linux
14 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 9 (12.68%) Red Hat
15 8 (11.27%) IBM
15 8 (11.27%) LAN
15 8 (11.27%) WAN
15 8 (11.27%) VLAN
16 7 (9.859%) Migration
16 7 (9.859%) ITIL
16 7 (9.859%) CCNP
16 7 (9.859%) CCNA
16 7 (9.859%) Cisco Certification
16 7 (9.859%) Dell
16 7 (9.859%) MPLS
16 7 (9.859%) FalconStor

VMware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited VMware Engineer 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 VMware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.408%) Application Packaging
1 1 (1.408%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.042%) MS Exchange
2 3 (4.225%) Jetty
2 3 (4.225%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (4.225%) Apache
2 3 (4.225%) Tomcat
3 2 (2.817%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (1.408%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (7.042%) S-PLUS
2 3 (4.225%) MS Excel
3 2 (2.817%) MS Office
4 1 (1.408%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 17 (23.94%) SAN
2 8 (11.27%) LAN
2 8 (11.27%) WAN
2 8 (11.27%) VLAN
3 7 (9.859%) MPLS
4 6 (8.451%) Firewall
4 6 (8.451%) iSCSI
5 5 (7.042%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (5.634%) Fibre Channel
6 4 (5.634%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.225%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (4.225%) HTTP
8 1 (1.408%) NAS
8 1 (1.408%) VoIP
8 1 (1.408%) VPN
8 1 (1.408%) DNS
8 1 (1.408%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.225%) PostgreSQL
1 3 (4.225%) MySQL
2 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.408%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (1.408%) DTS
2 1 (1.408%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.817%) Subversion
General
1 2 (2.817%) Investment Banking
1 2 (2.817%) Banking
1 2 (2.817%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 5 (7.042%) EqualLogic
2 1 (1.408%) CLARiiON
2 1 (1.408%) Clustering
2 1 (1.408%) IaaS
2 1 (1.408%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 36 (50.70%) Windows
2 18 (25.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (19.72%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (15.49%) Linux
5 9 (12.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (8.451%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (5.634%) Windows 7
8 3 (4.225%) CentOS
9 2 (2.817%) UNIX
9 2 (2.817%) VMS
10 1 (1.408%) Windows XP
10 1 (1.408%) AIX
10 1 (1.408%) Solaris
10 1 (1.408%) Tru64
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (9.859%) Migration
1 7 (9.859%) ITIL
2 5 (7.042%) E-Commerce
3 4 (5.634%) Project Management
4 2 (2.817%) Change Management
5 1 (1.408%) Time Management
5 1 (1.408%) Load Balancing
5 1 (1.408%) Problem Management
5 1 (1.408%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.408%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.408%) PRINCE
5 1 (1.408%) Configuration Management
5 1 (1.408%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.451%) SQL
2 4 (5.634%) PowerShell
3 2 (2.817%) VBScript
4 1 (1.408%) VB
4 1 (1.408%) Java
4 1 (1.408%) Perl
4 1 (1.408%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.408%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 24 (33.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 7 (9.859%) CCNP
2 7 (9.859%) CCNA
2 7 (9.859%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (5.634%) VCP4
3 4 (5.634%) VCP5
3 4 (5.634%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (4.225%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.225%) Citrix Certification
5 2 (2.817%) MCP
5 2 (2.817%) MCSE
5 2 (2.817%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.408%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.408%) MCITP
6 1 (1.408%) MCSA
6 1 (1.408%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.408%) QA
System Software
1 46 (64.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (42.25%) vSphere
3 23 (32.39%) VMware ESX
4 14 (19.72%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (16.90%) Active Directory
6 6 (8.451%) XenApp
7 5 (7.042%) VMware Server
8 2 (2.817%) XenServer
8 2 (2.817%) XenDesktop
8 2 (2.817%) vCloud
9 1 (1.408%) Hyper-V
9 1 (1.408%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (1.408%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 3 (4.225%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.817%) HP SIM
2 2 (2.817%) Puppet
3 1 (1.408%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (1.408%) SCCM
3 1 (1.408%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.408%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.408%) ARCserve
3 1 (1.408%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) VMware
2 22 (30.99%) HP
3 17 (23.94%) Microsoft
4 16 (22.54%) Cisco
5 14 (19.72%) Citrix
6 9 (12.68%) Red Hat
7 8 (11.27%) IBM
8 7 (9.859%) Dell
8 7 (9.859%) FalconStor
9 6 (8.451%) Veeam
10 5 (7.042%) SonicWALL
10 5 (7.042%) NetApp
11 3 (4.225%) EMC
11 3 (4.225%) Intel
12 2 (2.817%) Websense
12 2 (2.817%) Brocade
12 2 (2.817%) WatchGuard
13 1 (1.408%) PlateSpin
13 1 (1.408%) Oracle
13 1 (1.408%) Adobe
Walsall, West Midlands
You will be provided with the training where and when required including VMware for VMware enterprise partner status, Cisco and Microsoft.Experience*The candidate will be capable of...
Hudson
Rate: £140 - £148 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
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