The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere 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
VMware vSphere
Rank 50 34 47
Rank change year-on-year
-16 +13
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 16 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.236% 3.579% 0.258%
As % of the System Software category 1.220% 14.16% 1.515%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 16 1
Average daily rate £400 £425 £250
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +70.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £358 £340
% change year-on-year
-9.09% +5.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £27.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year
+10.90% +41.02%
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%
vSphere
East of England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere 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 -3 1 £400 -5.88%
Epping - - - -
Basildon - - - -
Brentwood - - - -
vSphere
East of England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) ISDN
3 1 (33.33%) SMTP
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) BGP
3 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
3 1 (33.33%) MGCP
3 1 (33.33%) Clearswift
3 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) EIGRP
2 1 (33.33%) MGCP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) ISDN
2 1 (33.33%) SMTP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (33.33%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Virtualisation Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (66.67%) DFS Replication
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) McAfee
3 1 (33.33%) Clearswift
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco