The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 285 289 270
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 246 320 364
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.592% 0.600% 0.648%
As % of the System Software category 6.179% 7.505% 9.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 199 223
Average daily rate £385 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 23
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £29.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% +1.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.70 £15.00 £18.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.78 £42.50 £39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3981 4264 4033
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.575% 7.994% 7.178%
Number of daily rates quoted 1941 2071 1786
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 570 595 619
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 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware ESX
UK

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England VMware ESX Daily Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England VMware ESX Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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
London +8 134 £383 +2.00%
South East +16 64 £400 +16.36%
East of England +21 14 £381 +79.41%
South West +20 11 £425 +1.19%
West Midlands +6 7 £356 +14.82%
North West +1 6 £275 -6.38%
North East +10 5 - -
Yorkshire -11 5 £244 -21.29%
VMware ESX
UK

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 466 (99.36%) VMware
2 350 (74.63%) Windows
3 280 (59.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 211 (44.99%) Active Directory
5 193 (41.15%) Microsoft
6 190 (40.51%) Windows Server 2008
7 171 (36.46%) Windows Server 2003
8 167 (35.61%) Citrix
9 162 (34.54%) SAN
10 153 (32.62%) vSphere
11 142 (30.28%) HP
12 131 (27.93%) Linux
13 109 (23.24%) SQL Server
14 102 (21.75%) EMC
15 96 (20.47%) ITIL
16 93 (19.83%) MS Exchange
17 92 (19.62%) XenApp
18 91 (19.40%) IIS
18 91 (19.40%) DNS
19 90 (19.19%) Clustering
20 87 (18.55%) SQL
21 82 (17.48%) Cisco
22 75 (15.99%) Red Hat
22 75 (15.99%) PowerShell
23 71 (15.14%) MS Excel
24 68 (14.50%) NAS
25 67 (14.29%) DHCP
26 64 (13.65%) Finance
27 62 (13.22%) Migration
28 61 (13.01%) Windows XP

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (8.316%) .NET
2 25 (5.330%) ADSI
2 25 (5.330%) Middleware
3 22 (4.691%) Web Services
4 20 (4.264%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.919%) XML
6 4 (0.853%) HTML
6 4 (0.853%) COM
6 4 (0.853%) CSS
6 4 (0.853%) Ajax
6 4 (0.853%) jQuery
6 4 (0.853%) Application Packaging
7 3 (0.640%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.426%) ASP
9 1 (0.213%) Windows SharePoint Services
9 1 (0.213%) Silverlight
9 1 (0.213%) Oracle Fusion
9 1 (0.213%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 93 (19.83%) MS Exchange
2 91 (19.40%) IIS
3 55 (11.73%) Exchange Server 2010
4 54 (11.51%) Apache
5 52 (11.09%) SharePoint
6 48 (10.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 34 (7.249%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 28 (5.970%) Exchange Server 2003
9 21 (4.478%) SharePoint 2010
10 19 (4.051%) Tomcat
11 11 (2.345%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (2.132%) OpenEdge
13 8 (1.706%) SharePoint Server
14 7 (1.493%) Oracle SOA Suite
15 6 (1.279%) Lync
16 5 (1.066%) BizTalk Server
17 3 (0.640%) Amazon AWS
17 3 (0.640%) Live Communications Server
18 2 (0.426%) WebLogic
18 2 (0.426%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 71 (15.14%) MS Excel
2 33 (7.036%) MS Office
3 3 (0.640%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.426%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.213%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.213%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 10 (2.132%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.279%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (1.066%) Oracle Applications
4 4 (0.853%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.213%) assyst
5 1 (0.213%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 162 (34.54%) SAN
2 91 (19.40%) DNS
3 68 (14.50%) NAS
4 67 (14.29%) DHCP
5 50 (10.66%) Firewall
6 41 (8.742%) TCP/IP
7 34 (7.249%) iSCSI
8 30 (6.397%) WAN
9 27 (5.757%) LAN
10 22 (4.691%) NetScaler
11 21 (4.478%) VPN
11 21 (4.478%) Internet
12 18 (3.838%) Cisco Nexus
13 17 (3.625%) Network Security
13 17 (3.625%) Fibre Channel
14 15 (3.198%) FTP
15 14 (2.985%) SNMP
16 12 (2.559%) SMTP
17 10 (2.132%) VLAN
18 9 (1.919%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 109 (23.24%) SQL Server
2 54 (11.51%) SQL Server 2008
3 38 (8.102%) SQL Server 2005
4 37 (7.889%) MySQL
5 15 (3.198%) Oracle 11g
6 14 (2.985%) Oracle 8/8i
7 11 (2.345%) Oracle BI EE
8 7 (1.493%) SQL Server 2000
8 7 (1.493%) Oracle 10g
9 5 (1.066%) Oracle Exadata
9 5 (1.066%) SQL Server 2012
10 4 (0.853%) Data Warehouse
10 4 (0.853%) Oracle OWB
11 3 (0.640%) Oracle Discoverer
11 3 (0.640%) Oracle Reports
12 2 (0.426%) DTS
13 1 (0.213%) PostgreSQL
13 1 (0.213%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 1 (0.213%) GIS
13 1 (0.213%) SQLPlus
Development Applications
1 13 (2.772%) LoadRunner
2 7 (1.493%) MSI
3 4 (0.853%) Subversion
3 4 (0.853%) Oracle APEX
4 2 (0.426%) Wise Package Studio
4 2 (0.426%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (0.426%) WinRunner
4 2 (0.426%) InstallShield
4 2 (0.426%) Bugzilla
4 2 (0.426%) Git (software)
4 2 (0.426%) Selenium
5 1 (0.213%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.213%) Hudson
5 1 (0.213%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.213%) Bitbucket
General
1 64 (13.65%) Finance
2 44 (9.382%) Banking
3 19 (4.051%) Investment Banking
4 12 (2.559%) Front Office
5 10 (2.132%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.132%) Retail
6 7 (1.493%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.279%) Law
8 5 (1.066%) Publishing
8 5 (1.066%) Back Office
9 3 (0.640%) Online Betting
9 3 (0.640%) Automotive
10 2 (0.426%) Advertising
10 2 (0.426%) Spanish Language
10 2 (0.426%) Marketing
11 1 (0.213%) French Language
11 1 (0.213%) Military
11 1 (0.213%) Local Government
11 1 (0.213%) Legal
11 1 (0.213%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (16.42%) Administrator
2 50 (10.66%) Systems Engineer
3 47 (10.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 45 (9.595%) Systems Administrator
5 39 (8.316%) Analyst
6 38 (8.102%) Support Engineer
7 32 (6.823%) Architect
8 31 (6.610%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 30 (6.397%) Consultant
10 24 (5.117%) 3rd Line Support
11 23 (4.904%) Wintel Engineer
12 18 (3.838%) VMware Engineer
13 17 (3.625%) Storage Administrator
13 17 (3.625%) UNIX Engineer
14 16 (3.412%) Infrastructure Architect
14 16 (3.412%) Windows Administrator
15 14 (2.985%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 14 (2.985%) Citrix Engineer
16 12 (2.559%) Support Analyst
16 12 (2.559%) Windows Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 90 (19.19%) Clustering
2 37 (7.889%) Blackberry
3 19 (4.051%) Hedge funds
4 16 (3.412%) CLARiiON
5 14 (2.985%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.559%) Client/Server
6 12 (2.559%) Replication
7 11 (2.345%) Computer Science
8 10 (2.132%) Thin Client
8 10 (2.132%) Fat Client
9 8 (1.706%) iSeries
10 6 (1.279%) PKI
11 5 (1.066%) Fixed Income
12 3 (0.640%) Cloud Computing
12 3 (0.640%) LPAR
12 3 (0.640%) HACMP
12 3 (0.640%) EqualLogic
13 2 (0.426%) Enterprise Storage
14 1 (0.213%) iPhone
14 1 (0.213%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 350 (74.63%) Windows
2 190 (40.51%) Windows Server 2008
3 171 (36.46%) Windows Server 2003
4 131 (27.93%) Linux
5 61 (13.01%) Windows XP
6 58 (12.37%) Windows 7
7 57 (12.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 44 (9.382%) UNIX
9 30 (6.397%) Windows 2000
10 24 (5.117%) Solaris
11 22 (4.691%) HPUX
11 22 (4.691%) Windows NT
12 13 (2.772%) Windows Server 2012
13 10 (2.132%) AIX
13 10 (2.132%) CentOS
14 9 (1.919%) Windows 2000 Server
14 9 (1.919%) Ubuntu
15 6 (1.279%) FreeBSD
15 6 (1.279%) Debian
15 6 (1.279%) Gentoo
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (20.47%) ITIL
2 62 (13.22%) Migration
3 37 (7.889%) Disaster Recovery
4 23 (4.904%) Service Management
5 22 (4.691%) Change Management
6 20 (4.264%) Service Delivery
7 19 (4.051%) Project Management
8 18 (3.838%) Load Balancing
8 18 (3.838%) Configuration Management
9 14 (2.985%) Capacity Planning
9 14 (2.985%) ITIL V3
10 10 (2.132%) B2B
10 10 (2.132%) Regression Testing
10 10 (2.132%) Network Load Balancing
10 10 (2.132%) Problem Management
11 9 (1.919%) Release Management
11 9 (1.919%) Test Scripting
11 9 (1.919%) Incident Management
11 9 (1.919%) Validation
11 9 (1.919%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 87 (18.55%) SQL
2 75 (15.99%) PowerShell
3 59 (12.58%) VBScript
4 41 (8.742%) Perl
5 32 (6.823%) VB
6 24 (5.117%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.345%) T-SQL
8 10 (2.132%) PHP
9 9 (1.919%) C#
10 8 (1.706%) C
11 6 (1.279%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.279%) PL/SQL
12 4 (0.853%) Bash shell
13 3 (0.640%) AWK
13 3 (0.640%) C++
13 3 (0.640%) sed
14 2 (0.426%) VB.NET
15 1 (0.213%) Ruby
15 1 (0.213%) VBA
15 1 (0.213%) Java
Qualifications
1 60 (12.79%) Microsoft Certification
2 55 (11.73%) Security Cleared
3 44 (9.382%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 38 (8.102%) Degree
5 32 (6.823%) MCSE
6 30 (6.397%) SC Cleared
7 21 (4.478%) DV Cleared
8 18 (3.838%) Citrix Certification
9 15 (3.198%) Cisco Certification
10 13 (2.772%) Oracle Certification
10 13 (2.772%) RHCE
10 13 (2.772%) CCNA
11 12 (2.559%) MCITP
12 8 (1.706%) HNC
12 8 (1.706%) CCA
13 7 (1.493%) CCEA
13 7 (1.493%) OCP
13 7 (1.493%) MCP
14 6 (1.279%) CCIA
14 6 (1.279%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.066%) ISO 9001
1 5 (1.066%) SLA
2 4 (0.853%) QA
3 3 (0.640%) TickIT
4 2 (0.426%) COBIT
4 2 (0.426%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.213%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 280 (59.70%) VMware Infrastructure
2 211 (44.99%) Active Directory
3 153 (32.62%) vSphere
4 92 (19.62%) XenApp
5 56 (11.94%) VMware ESXi
6 43 (9.168%) XenDesktop
7 38 (8.102%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 23 (4.904%) Hyper-V
9 18 (3.838%) NFS
10 15 (3.198%) ISA Server
11 12 (2.559%) vCloud
11 12 (2.559%) XenServer
12 10 (2.132%) Microsoft App-V
13 9 (1.919%) Postfix
13 9 (1.919%) Terminal Services
14 8 (1.706%) VMware Workstation
15 7 (1.493%) Oracle RMAN
15 7 (1.493%) ProxySG
16 6 (1.279%) UAG
17 5 (1.066%) Samba
Systems Management
1 40 (8.529%) SCOM
2 36 (7.676%) SCCM
3 30 (6.397%) NetBackup
4 28 (5.970%) Backup Exec
5 20 (4.264%) EMC NetWorker
6 16 (3.412%) BladeLogic
7 15 (3.198%) Legato
8 14 (2.985%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 12 (2.559%) HP Quality Center
10 11 (2.345%) Nagios
10 11 (2.345%) HP SIM
11 10 (2.132%) MOM
12 9 (1.919%) Cacti
12 9 (1.919%) WSUS
12 9 (1.919%) Norton AntiVirus
13 8 (1.706%) Control-M
13 8 (1.706%) WMI
14 7 (1.493%) Tivoli
14 7 (1.493%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (1.493%) Puppet
Vendors
1 466 (99.36%) VMware
2 193 (41.15%) Microsoft
3 167 (35.61%) Citrix
4 142 (30.28%) HP
5 102 (21.75%) EMC
6 82 (17.48%) Cisco
7 75 (15.99%) Red Hat
8 57 (12.15%) Oracle
9 55 (11.73%) NetApp
10 44 (9.382%) IBM
11 43 (9.168%) Brocade
12 39 (8.316%) Dell
12 39 (8.316%) Veritas
13 31 (6.610%) Sophos
14 25 (5.330%) F5
15 24 (5.117%) Symantec
16 23 (4.904%) Sun
17 22 (4.691%) McAfee
18 19 (4.051%) AppSense
19 18 (3.838%) Altiris
West Midlands
Infrastructure Engineer (Vmware/Cisco/SAN) I have a contract requirement for an infrastructure engineer (3rd line/Vmware/Cisco/SAN) to be based out of the West Midlands... You...
Real Staffing
Rate: £200 - £300 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
Citrix... The Microsoft / Citrix engineer will have strong skills in: AD Design / Active Directory / Active Directory Tidy upWindows 2008 R2 Setup and management Microsoft Printing Services (Ideally UniPrint...
Argyll Scott International
Posted: 21 May 2013
Halifax, West Yorkshire
VMWare. Citrix. Active directory and Windows based domains... DNS, DHCP servers... Antivirus solutions (Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro) Backup solutions (Symantec backup exec, ArcServe etc.) TCP/ IP and Networking...
Spinnaker Red
Rate: From £280 to £300 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
West Yorkshire
You will be providing support for over 700 users, as such you must have previous 2nd line and 3rd line experience, with evidence of project work, migrations, rollouts...
Computer Futures
Rate: £300 - £450 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) - Our client, a leading financial services company is looking for a Cisco UCS Engineer (VMware, Red Hat, EMC) to work onsite...
Salt
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
Essex
AD schema architecture, DNS, DHCP, GPO, LDAP etc) Extensive experience supporting & configuring Citrix XenApp 4.5, XenApp 5, 6 and 6.5. Support experience of Citrix XenServer and...
Logic Engagements Ltd
Posted: 24 May 2013
Andover, South East
BCDR Project ManagerAndover, HampshireContract Length: 3 months +Key Skills: Project Manager, Business Continuity, Disaster Recovery, 3Par, 3 Par, Vmware, Business Case, Infrastructure, Military, Army, MOD, Defence-Writing and...
LA International Computer Consultants Ltd.
Posted: 2 May 2013
London
Wide experience in implementing SAN and distributed storage infrastructures with in-depth knowledge of EMC products such as vMAX (Essential) Experience with common application infrastructure deployment models for...
McGregor Boyall
Rate: £450 - £500
Posted: 21 May 2013
West London
Computer Futures are seeking a Linux Systems Administrator for a client based in West London. This is a 6 month contract with a view to go permanent thereafter.
Computer Futures
Posted: 15 May 2013