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The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the England region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkVMware
Location
3 months to
6 Oct 2008
Same period last year
Rank111166
Rank change on same period last yearUp+55
Matching contract IT job ads986919
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled1.377 %0.923 %
As % of the category below3.468 %2.260 %
Daily rates quoted368324
Average minimum daily rate£331£370
Average daily rate£349£387
% change on same period last year-9.78 %
Average maximum daily rate£367£405
UK excluding London average daily rate£343£356
% change on same period last year-3.52 %
Hourly rates quoted10476
Average minimum hourly rate£26.07£24.79
Average hourly rate£27.41£26.08
% change on same period last year+5.10 %
Average maximum hourly rate£28.75£27.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate£26.55£25.72
% change on same period last year+3.22 %
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
England
Matching contract IT job ads2843140655
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled39.72 %40.85 %
Daily rates quoted862912025
Average minimum daily rate£375£389
Average daily rate£400£413
% change on same period last year-3.17 %
Average maximum daily rate£425£437
UK excluding London average daily rate£360£354
% change on same period last year+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted26433810
Average minimum hourly rate£23.04£23.35
Average hourly rate£24.54£24.81
% change on same period last year-1.07 %
Average maximum hourly rate£26.05£26.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.36£24.43
% change on same period last year-0.31 %
VMware UKVMware
UK

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

VMware
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

England VMware Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

England VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

England VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

England VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the England region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Last
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
LondonUp+26417£351-13.31 %
South EastUp+37204£367-0.98 %
South WestUp+88111£355+17.23 %
East of EnglandUp+4168£270-2.12 %
YorkshireUp+2450£345-26.38 %
West MidlandsUp+1741£392+21.64 %
East MidlandsUp+2236£308-24.81 %
North WestUp+2331£280-18.42 %
North EastUp+2018£312-9.49 %
MidlandsUp+178£238-32.14 %
VMware UKVMware
UK

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware 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.

11202 (59.15 %)Windows
2813 (40.01 %)Windows Server 2003
3806 (39.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
4784 (38.58 %)Active Directory
5631 (31.05 %)Citrix
6627 (30.86 %)SAN
7585 (28.79 %)Microsoft
8530 (26.08 %)MS Exchange
9513 (25.25 %)VMware ESX
10396 (19.49 %)HP
11374 (18.41 %)Microsoft Certification
12353 (17.37 %)Linux
13343 (16.88 %)SQL
13343 (16.88 %)Exchange Server 2003
14342 (16.83 %)MCSE
15246 (12.11 %)SQL Server
16233 (11.47 %)Cisco
17227 (11.17 %)Clustering
18211 (10.38 %)Finance
19210 (10.33 %)DNS
20201 (9.892 %)LAN
20201 (9.892 %)Migration
20201 (9.892 %)Windows 2000 Server
21195 (9.596 %)Solaris
22193 (9.498 %)UNIX
23190 (9.350 %)IIS
24186 (9.154 %)TCP/IP
25177 (8.711 %)WAN
26174 (8.563 %)Firewall
27172 (8.465 %)Oracle

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing VMware 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

England IT Contractor Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
188 (4.331 %).NET
253 (2.608 %)J2EE
337 (1.821 %)WebSphere
432 (1.575 %)COM+
521 (1.033 %)DCOM
521 (1.033 %)XML
616 (0.787 %)WebServices
616 (0.787 %)Application Packaging
714 (0.689 %)ASP.NET
813 (0.640 %)Ruby on Rails
911 (0.541 %).NET Framework
108 (0.394 %)Middleware
117 (0.344 %)WSH
117 (0.344 %)ASP
125 (0.246 %)XSD
125 (0.246 %)LAMP
125 (0.246 %)Symfony
134 (0.197 %)Windows SharePoint Services
134 (0.197 %)XSLT
134 (0.197 %)XHTML
England IT Contractor Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
1530 (26.08 %)MS Exchange
2343 (16.88 %)Exchange Server 2003
3190 (9.350 %)IIS
4123 (6.053 %)Exchange Server 2007
5108 (5.315 %)SharePoint
638 (1.870 %)Exchange Server 2000
735 (1.722 %)Apache
834 (1.673 %)Lotus Notes
928 (1.378 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1027 (1.329 %)SharePoint Server 2007
1125 (1.230 %)BizTalk Server
1224 (1.181 %)GroupWise
1314 (0.689 %)Lotus Domino
1413 (0.640 %)Oracle 10gAS
1511 (0.541 %)WebSphere MQ
1511 (0.541 %)Tomcat
1511 (0.541 %)Documentum
169 (0.443 %)WebSphere Application Server
175 (0.246 %)WebLogic
175 (0.246 %)CMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, ApplicationsApplications
1123 (6.053 %)MS Excel
252 (2.559 %)MS Office
330 (1.476 %)MS Project
413 (0.640 %)MS Visio
51 (0.049 %)InfoPath
England IT Contractor Job Market, Business ApplicationsBusiness Applications
119 (0.935 %)SoftGrid
216 (0.787 %)Oracle EBS
33 (0.148 %)assyst
42 (0.098 %)GoldMine
42 (0.098 %)SAP ERP
42 (0.098 %)Siebel Analytics
42 (0.098 %)Microsoft CRM
42 (0.098 %)BASE24
42 (0.098 %)Summit
51 (0.049 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.049 %)Cerner Millennium
England IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
1627 (30.86 %)SAN
2210 (10.33 %)DNS
3201 (9.892 %)LAN
4186 (9.154 %)TCP/IP
5177 (8.711 %)WAN
6174 (8.563 %)Firewall
7127 (6.250 %)DHCP
865 (3.199 %)VPN
956 (2.756 %)VoIP
1052 (2.559 %)LDAP
1144 (2.165 %)iSCSI
1237 (1.821 %)VLAN
1333 (1.624 %)SMS
1432 (1.575 %)SMTP
1526 (1.280 %)Internet
1621 (1.033 %)POP3
1720 (0.984 %)Network Security
1720 (0.984 %)MPLS
1818 (0.886 %)SSL
1917 (0.837 %)Extranet
England IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
1246 (12.11 %)SQL Server
256 (2.756 %)Oracle 10g
256 (2.756 %)SQL Server 2005
353 (2.608 %)SQL Server 2000
425 (1.230 %)MySQL
518 (0.886 %)Oracle Reports
616 (0.787 %)Oracle BI EE
715 (0.738 %)Oracle 8/8i
715 (0.738 %)Datawarehouse
715 (0.738 %)Oracle Discoverer
88 (0.394 %)GIS
96 (0.295 %)DTS
96 (0.295 %)SQL Server Integration Services
105 (0.246 %)DB2
114 (0.197 %)Data Mining
123 (0.148 %)ETL
123 (0.148 %)RDBMS
123 (0.148 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
123 (0.148 %)Data Cleansing
132 (0.098 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
England IT Contractor Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
132 (1.575 %)MSI
229 (1.427 %)Subversion
311 (0.541 %)LoadRunner
410 (0.492 %)Bugzilla
59 (0.443 %)VSS/SourceSafe
59 (0.443 %)WinRunner
67 (0.344 %)Visual Studio
67 (0.344 %)NUnit
75 (0.246 %)TestDirector
75 (0.246 %)QuickTest Pro
84 (0.197 %)PVCS
93 (0.148 %)Selenium
93 (0.148 %)FitNesse
102 (0.098 %)ClearCase
102 (0.098 %)InstallShield
111 (0.049 %)XMLSpy
111 (0.049 %)CruiseControl
111 (0.049 %)Oracle APEX
111 (0.049 %)Ant
111 (0.049 %)JUnit
England IT Contractor Job Market, GeneralGeneral
1211 (10.38 %)Finance
296 (4.724 %)Banking
395 (4.675 %)Government
444 (2.165 %)Investment Banking
536 (1.772 %)Insurance
536 (1.772 %)Telecoms
628 (1.378 %)Back Office
721 (1.033 %)Construction
820 (0.984 %)Law
820 (0.984 %)Legal
917 (0.837 %)Retail
917 (0.837 %)Auditing
1016 (0.787 %)Financial Institution
1114 (0.689 %)Publishing
1213 (0.640 %)Health
1312 (0.591 %)Military
1410 (0.492 %)Manufacturing
157 (0.344 %)Local Government
166 (0.295 %)Education
175 (0.246 %)Games
England IT Contractor Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
1307 (15.11 %)Analyst
2245 (12.06 %)Consultant
3198 (9.744 %)Administrator
4147 (7.234 %)3rd Line Support
5142 (6.988 %)Support Analyst
6136 (6.693 %)Support Engineer
7121 (5.955 %)Systems Administrator
8118 (5.807 %)Server Engineer
9100 (4.921 %)Architect
1096 (4.724 %)Server Support
1192 (4.528 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1285 (4.183 %)Project Manager
1364 (3.150 %)Systems Engineer
1364 (3.150 %)Server Analyst
1457 (2.805 %)Technical Consultant
1542 (2.067 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1641 (2.018 %)Technical Architect
1740 (1.969 %)Developer
1740 (1.969 %)Technical Analyst
1839 (1.919 %)Infrastructure Specialist
England IT Contractor Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
1227 (11.17 %)Clustering
240 (1.969 %)CLARiiON
339 (1.919 %)Blackberry
438 (1.870 %)Thin Client
438 (1.870 %)Fat Client
527 (1.329 %)Replication
619 (0.935 %)NHS
715 (0.738 %)Client/Server
715 (0.738 %)Celerra
810 (0.492 %)EMC Centera
99 (0.443 %)Web 2.0
107 (0.344 %)Mainframe
116 (0.295 %)Computer Science
116 (0.295 %)PKI
125 (0.246 %)Management Information System
125 (0.246 %)SecurID
134 (0.197 %)Spread Betting
134 (0.197 %)HACMP
143 (0.148 %)CESG
143 (0.148 %)Data Extraction
England IT Contractor Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
11202 (59.15 %)Windows
2813 (40.01 %)Windows Server 2003
3353 (17.37 %)Linux
4201 (9.892 %)Windows 2000 Server
5195 (9.596 %)Solaris
6193 (9.498 %)UNIX
7167 (8.219 %)Windows 2000
8144 (7.087 %)Red Hat Linux
9141 (6.939 %)Windows XP
1073 (3.593 %)Windows Vista
1151 (2.510 %)Windows Server 2008
1233 (1.624 %)Windows NT
1325 (1.230 %)AIX
1424 (1.181 %)HPUX
1523 (1.132 %)NetWare
1621 (1.033 %)Mac OS X
1719 (0.935 %)SUSE
1815 (0.738 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1912 (0.591 %)Debian
202 (0.098 %)VMS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
1201 (9.892 %)Migration
2167 (8.219 %)Security Cleared
3147 (7.234 %)ITIL
4115 (5.659 %)SC Cleared
592 (4.528 %)PRINCE2
690 (4.429 %)Disaster Recovery
777 (3.789 %)Project Management
840 (1.969 %)Network Design
933 (1.624 %)E-Commerce
933 (1.624 %)Configuration Management
1030 (1.476 %)Agile Software Development
1125 (1.230 %)Scrum
1224 (1.181 %)User Acceptance Testing
1323 (1.132 %)Data Migration
1422 (1.083 %)Service Management
1521 (1.033 %)Load Balancing
1620 (0.984 %)TDD
1620 (0.984 %)Change Management
1620 (0.984 %)DV Cleared
1719 (0.935 %)Service Delivery
England IT Contractor Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
1343 (16.88 %)SQL
287 (4.281 %)Perl
366 (3.248 %)VBScript
459 (2.904 %)Shell Script
546 (2.264 %)VB
641 (2.018 %)C
734 (1.673 %)Java
827 (1.329 %)C#
913 (0.640 %)Ruby
1011 (0.541 %)PHP
117 (0.344 %)Transact-SQL
117 (0.344 %)C++
125 (0.246 %)Python
125 (0.246 %)PowerShell
134 (0.197 %)PowerHouse
143 (0.148 %)VB.NET
152 (0.098 %)VBA
152 (0.098 %)Korn
161 (0.049 %)JavaScript
England IT Contractor Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
1374 (18.41 %)Microsoft Certification
2342 (16.83 %)MCSE
3160 (7.874 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4107 (5.266 %)Cisco Certification
594 (4.626 %)CCNA
673 (3.593 %)Citrix Certification
743 (2.116 %)Degree
841 (2.018 %)CCA
939 (1.919 %)CCEA
1037 (1.821 %)MCSA
1136 (1.772 %)CCNP
1234 (1.673 %)MCP
1332 (1.575 %)RHCE
1417 (0.837 %)PRINCE2 Certification
1512 (0.591 %)MCTS
1512 (0.591 %)CCIE
1610 (0.492 %)CCSA
179 (0.443 %)CCSE
188 (0.394 %)MCITP
188 (0.394 %)Novell Certification
England IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & ComplianceQuality Assurance & Compliance
120 (0.984 %)SLA
217 (0.837 %)QA
36 (0.295 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
45 (0.246 %)JSP 440
52 (0.098 %)GxP
61 (0.049 %)ISO17799
61 (0.049 %)ISO27001
61 (0.049 %)PCI DSS
61 (0.049 %)HL7
England IT Contractor Job Market, System SoftwareSystem Software
1806 (39.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
2784 (38.58 %)Active Directory
3513 (25.25 %)VMware ESX
4137 (6.742 %)Citrix Presentation Server
5108 (5.315 %)NetBackup
673 (3.593 %)Backup Exec
756 (2.756 %)VMware Server
844 (2.165 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
943 (2.116 %)Xen
1037 (1.821 %)Terminal Server
1136 (1.772 %)NFS
1235 (1.722 %)ISA Server
1334 (1.673 %)VMware Workstation
1430 (1.476 %)Terminal Services
1527 (1.329 %)Oracle RAC
1624 (1.181 %)VMware GSX
1722 (1.083 %)MetaFrame
1812 (0.591 %)MailMarshal
197 (0.344 %)Samba
206 (0.295 %)NDS
England IT Contractor Job Market, Systems ManagementSystems Management
165 (3.199 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
243 (2.116 %)MOM
335 (1.722 %)Tivoli
433 (1.624 %)Norton AntiVirus
526 (1.280 %)Legato
624 (1.181 %)WSUS
721 (1.033 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
820 (0.984 %)SCCM
913 (0.640 %)OVPI
1010 (0.492 %)ZENworks
1010 (0.492 %)MAILsweeper
119 (0.443 %)SCOM
119 (0.443 %)HP Data Protector
127 (0.344 %)EMC NetWorker
127 (0.344 %)ARCserve
136 (0.295 %)CA SiteMinder
136 (0.295 %)OpenView Configuration Management
136 (0.295 %)OpenView
145 (0.246 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
154 (0.197 %)Tivoli Remote Control
England IT Contractor Job Market, VendorsVendors
1631 (31.05 %)Citrix
2585 (28.79 %)Microsoft
3396 (19.49 %)HP
4233 (11.47 %)Cisco
5172 (8.465 %)Oracle
6165 (8.120 %)EMC
7161 (7.923 %)IBM
8144 (7.087 %)Red Hat
9106 (5.217 %)VERITAS
1098 (4.823 %)Dell
1181 (3.986 %)Sun
1273 (3.593 %)Altiris
1370 (3.445 %)Symantec
1469 (3.396 %)NetApp
1567 (3.297 %)Intel
1655 (2.707 %)Novell
1744 (2.165 %)PlateSpin
1843 (2.116 %)CheckPoint
1940 (1.969 %)Lotus
2032 (1.575 %)Compaq