The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Exeter region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Exeter 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 16 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Contract jobs citing VMware 7 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 6.731% 1.754% -
As % of the Vendors category 19.44% 3.333% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 0 0
Average daily rate £243 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £22.69 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+1.37% +1.14%
All Vendors
Exeter
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
36 30 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Exeter 34.62% 52.63% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 14 18
Average daily rate £325 £450 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-27.77% +20.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £155 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £550 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £15.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +33.33%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
VMware
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VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Exeter VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Exeter VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Exeter region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Exeter VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Exeter VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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.

1 31 (79.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (53.85%) Linux
3 19 (48.72%) SC Cleared
3 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
4 17 (43.59%) Red Hat
5 15 (38.46%) Windows
6 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
7 13 (33.33%) SAN
8 12 (30.77%) Remedy
9 7 (17.95%) OpenStack
10 5 (12.82%) Citrix
10 5 (12.82%) SQL
11 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (10.26%) Puppet
11 4 (10.26%) Oracle
11 4 (10.26%) Cisco
12 3 (7.692%) Terminal Server
12 3 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (5.128%) vSphere
13 2 (5.128%) FalconStor
13 2 (5.128%) CheckPoint
13 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2003
13 2 (5.128%) Thin Client
13 2 (5.128%) Microsoft
13 2 (5.128%) Java
13 2 (5.128%) SLA
13 2 (5.128%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (5.128%) .NET
13 2 (5.128%) Solaris
13 2 (5.128%) IIS

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Exeter 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.

Application Development
1 2 (5.128%) .NET
1 2 (5.128%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 7 (17.95%) OpenStack
2 2 (5.128%) IIS
2 2 (5.128%) Apache
2 2 (5.128%) Tomcat
2 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.128%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (33.33%) SAN
2 2 (5.128%) Cisco PIX
2 2 (5.128%) Firewall
3 1 (2.564%) SSL
3 1 (2.564%) LDAP
3 1 (2.564%) Internet
3 1 (2.564%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 19 (48.72%) Linux Engineer
2 6 (15.38%) Support Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Administrator
3 5 (12.82%) IT Support
4 4 (10.26%) Windows Server Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Consultant
4 4 (10.26%) IT Support Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Server Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Windows Support Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Storage Consultant
5 2 (5.128%) Server Support Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 2 (5.128%) Web Administrator
5 2 (5.128%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (5.128%) Server Support
5 2 (5.128%) Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.128%) Support Analyst
5 2 (5.128%) Network Administrator
6 1 (2.564%) IT Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.128%) Thin Client
1 2 (5.128%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 21 (53.85%) Linux
2 15 (38.46%) Windows
3 4 (10.26%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (5.128%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (5.128%) ITIL
1 2 (5.128%) PRINCE2
1 2 (5.128%) Migration
2 1 (2.564%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 5 (12.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.128%) Java
Qualifications
1 19 (48.72%) SC Cleared
1 19 (48.72%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.128%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.128%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (79.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (35.90%) Active Directory
3 3 (7.692%) Terminal Server
4 2 (5.128%) vSphere
5 1 (2.564%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 4 (10.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 17 (43.59%) Red Hat
2 12 (30.77%) Remedy
3 5 (12.82%) Citrix
4 4 (10.26%) Oracle
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.128%) FalconStor
5 2 (5.128%) CheckPoint
5 2 (5.128%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.564%) EMC
6 1 (2.564%) NetApp