The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Workstation 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 Workstation over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Workstation
Rank 481 533 540
Rank change year-on-year
+52 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 29 25 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.070% 0.047% 0.057%
As % of the System Software category 0.737% 0.582% 0.781%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 21
Average daily rate £330 £333 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.75% -2.20%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £172 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £357 £484 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £340 £280
% change year-on-year
-18.38% +21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 2
Average hourly rate £30.92 £25.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.24% +27.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £44.13 - £20.00
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3935 4299 4095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.466% 8.058% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 1913 2094 1830
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 582 611
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 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Workstation
UK

VMware Workstation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England VMware Workstation Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VMware Workstation Daily Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Workstation across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England VMware Workstation Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VMware Workstation Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Workstation across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England VMware Workstation Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware Workstation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Workstation within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +31 13 - -
London +14 10 £340 +13.33%
South West - 5 £278 -
East of England +14 1 £173 -
VMware Workstation
UK

VMware Workstation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation.

1 55 (100.00%) VMware
2 54 (98.18%) Windows
3 46 (83.64%) VMware Infrastructure
4 27 (49.09%) Security Cleared
5 25 (45.45%) Active Directory
6 24 (43.64%) SC Cleared
7 23 (41.82%) Windows Server 2008
7 23 (41.82%) Windows 7
8 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
9 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
9 21 (38.18%) SCCM
10 18 (32.73%) Linux
11 17 (30.91%) ITIL
11 17 (30.91%) SharePoint
12 15 (27.27%) SQL
12 15 (27.27%) Windows XP
13 13 (23.64%) Citrix
14 12 (21.82%) SAN
15 11 (20.00%) Cisco
15 11 (20.00%) DHCP
15 11 (20.00%) DNS
15 11 (20.00%) MS Exchange
15 11 (20.00%) Migration
15 11 (20.00%) Symantec
16 10 (18.18%) Sophos
16 10 (18.18%) VB
16 10 (18.18%) EMC
16 10 (18.18%) Red Hat
17 9 (16.36%) LAN
17 9 (16.36%) InstallShield

VMware Workstation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (10.91%) .NET
1 6 (10.91%) WinForms
2 3 (5.455%) Application Packaging
3 2 (3.636%) ODBC
4 1 (1.818%) ASP
4 1 (1.818%) XML
Application Platforms
1 17 (30.91%) SharePoint
2 11 (20.00%) MS Exchange
3 9 (16.36%) Exchange Server 2003
3 9 (16.36%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (14.55%) SharePoint Server
5 4 (7.273%) Tomcat
5 4 (7.273%) IIS
6 2 (3.636%) SharePoint 2010
7 1 (1.818%) Lync
7 1 (1.818%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 6 (10.91%) MS Excel
2 5 (9.091%) MS Office
3 2 (3.636%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (21.82%) SAN
2 11 (20.00%) DHCP
2 11 (20.00%) DNS
3 9 (16.36%) LAN
3 9 (16.36%) NAS
4 8 (14.55%) VPN
5 7 (12.73%) Cisco Nexus
6 6 (10.91%) WAN
7 2 (3.636%) LDAP
8 1 (1.818%) VoIP
8 1 (1.818%) TCP/IP
8 1 (1.818%) Fibre Channel
8 1 (1.818%) PABX
8 1 (1.818%) MPLS
8 1 (1.818%) Firewall
8 1 (1.818%) Wi-Fi
8 1 (1.818%) Wireless
8 1 (1.818%) VLAN
8 1 (1.818%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.273%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 9 (16.36%) InstallShield
2 6 (10.91%) Visual Studio
2 6 (10.91%) NUnit
3 4 (7.273%) LoadRunner
4 3 (5.455%) MSI
4 3 (5.455%) AdminStudio
5 1 (1.818%) Subversion
General
1 5 (9.091%) Finance
1 5 (9.091%) Banking
1 5 (9.091%) Local Government
2 2 (3.636%) Telecoms
3 1 (1.818%) Electronics
3 1 (1.818%) Law
3 1 (1.818%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 7 (12.73%) Desktop Support
1 7 (12.73%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (9.091%) Support Engineer
2 5 (9.091%) Integration Engineer
3 4 (7.273%) Applications Packager
3 4 (7.273%) Software Engineer
4 3 (5.455%) Analyst
4 3 (5.455%) Support Technician
4 3 (5.455%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (5.455%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 3 (5.455%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (3.636%) .NET Software Engineer
5 2 (3.636%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (3.636%) Technical Support
5 2 (3.636%) Test Manager
5 2 (3.636%) Test Analyst
5 2 (3.636%) Developer
5 2 (3.636%) Software Developer
5 2 (3.636%) C# Software Engineer
5 2 (3.636%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.55%) Clustering
2 3 (5.455%) Computer Science
3 2 (3.636%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.818%) Thin Client
4 1 (1.818%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.818%) Replication
4 1 (1.818%) Fat Client
4 1 (1.818%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 54 (98.18%) Windows
2 23 (41.82%) Windows Server 2008
2 23 (41.82%) Windows 7
3 22 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 18 (32.73%) Linux
5 15 (27.27%) Windows XP
6 9 (16.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.636%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.818%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (30.91%) ITIL
2 11 (20.00%) Migration
3 8 (14.55%) Release Management
4 6 (10.91%) Requirements Analysis
4 6 (10.91%) Validation
4 6 (10.91%) Configuration Management
4 6 (10.91%) UML
4 6 (10.91%) OOA/OOD
4 6 (10.91%) OO
5 5 (9.091%) Regression Testing
5 5 (9.091%) Non-Functional Testing
5 5 (9.091%) Integration Testing
5 5 (9.091%) Test Scripting
6 3 (5.455%) Software Distribution
7 2 (3.636%) SIEM
7 2 (3.636%) Change Control
7 2 (3.636%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (3.636%) Data Migration
7 2 (3.636%) Test Automation
7 2 (3.636%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 15 (27.27%) SQL
2 10 (18.18%) VB
3 7 (12.73%) VBScript
4 6 (10.91%) C#
5 3 (5.455%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.818%) VBA
6 1 (1.818%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.818%) C
6 1 (1.818%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (49.09%) Security Cleared
2 24 (43.64%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.455%) Degree
4 2 (3.636%) HND
5 1 (1.818%) MCSE
5 1 (1.818%) MCSA
5 1 (1.818%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.818%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.455%) Solvency II
System Software
1 46 (83.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (45.45%) Active Directory
3 8 (14.55%) VMware ESX
3 8 (14.55%) vSphere
4 4 (7.273%) Terminal Services
5 2 (3.636%) Terminal Server
5 2 (3.636%) VMware Server
6 1 (1.818%) NFS
6 1 (1.818%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (1.818%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (1.818%) Samba
6 1 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.818%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 21 (38.18%) SCCM
2 9 (16.36%) SCOM
2 9 (16.36%) NetBackup
3 4 (7.273%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (5.455%) AppDNA
5 1 (1.818%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (1.818%) HP SIM
5 1 (1.818%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (1.818%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.818%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (1.818%) AppManager
5 1 (1.818%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (38.18%) Microsoft
3 13 (23.64%) Citrix
4 11 (20.00%) Cisco
4 11 (20.00%) Symantec
5 10 (18.18%) EMC
5 10 (18.18%) Sophos
5 10 (18.18%) Red Hat
6 8 (14.55%) NetApp
6 8 (14.55%) HP
7 7 (12.73%) Oracle
8 6 (10.91%) Serena
9 2 (3.636%) LANDesk
9 2 (3.636%) Kaseya
9 2 (3.636%) Peregrine
9 2 (3.636%) CA
10 1 (1.818%) CommVault
10 1 (1.818%) Lotus
10 1 (1.818%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.818%) Reuters