The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 18 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 of the System Software category for the Essex 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 43 49 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 8 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 1.891% 0.224% -
As % of the System Software category 9.756% 0.885% -
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £240 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £324 £350
% change year-on-year
+13.42% -7.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £13.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +62.96%
All System Software
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
82 113 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 19.39% 25.28% 17.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 57 28
Average daily rate £350 £278 £105
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.12% +164.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £160 £105 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £450 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £324 £310
% change year-on-year
+0.30% +4.51%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 25 20
Average hourly rate £25.00 £20.00 £17.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +12.67%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
Hyper-V
East of England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hyper-V across the Essex region.

Essex Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Essex Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Essex region over the 3 months to 18 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
Colchester - 1 £400 -
Saffron Walden - - - -
Basildon - - - -
Hyper-V
East of England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (38.46%) iSCSI
3 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 5 (38.46%) Backup Exec
3 5 (38.46%) MCITP
3 5 (38.46%) MCSE
3 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
3 5 (38.46%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (38.46%) NHS
4 4 (30.77%) ITIL
4 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2003
4 4 (30.77%) Migration
4 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (23.08%) XenApp
5 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (23.08%) Windows
5 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (7.692%) Clustering
6 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
6 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
6 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Essex region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
1 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) WAN
1 5 (38.46%) iSCSI
2 1 (7.692%) VoIP
2 1 (7.692%) VPN
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Migration Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) IT Operations Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) Support Team Leader
4 1 (7.692%) Server Support
4 1 (7.692%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (7.692%) Operations Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (7.692%) Virtualisation Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) NHS
2 1 (7.692%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (23.08%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) MCSE
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
1 5 (38.46%) MCITP
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (23.08%) XenApp
3 1 (7.692%) XenDesktop
3 1 (7.692%) vSphere
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 10 (76.92%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Citrix
2 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 1 (7.692%) Microsoft