The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 16 51 37
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware 22 18 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 8.000% 2.691% 2.817%
As % of the Vendors category 18.18% 5.625% 5.911%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 7
Average daily rate £500 £410 £195
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +110.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £387 £378 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
Average hourly rate - £31.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +50.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.88 £22.43
% change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.98%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
121 320 203
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 44.00% 47.83% 47.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 207 86
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 19 14
Average hourly rate £11.00 £27.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-60.00% +34.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £24.70 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £32.64
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
South West

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire VMware Hourly Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cheltenham +30 3 £387 -8.94%
Gloucester +27 2 - -
Cirencester - 1 £130 -
VMware
South West

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 61 (72.62%) Windows
2 59 (70.24%) Security Cleared
2 59 (70.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 51 (60.71%) DV Cleared
4 36 (42.86%) Active Directory
5 35 (41.67%) Cisco
6 31 (36.90%) C
6 31 (36.90%) Linux
7 28 (33.33%) UNIX
7 28 (33.33%) Solaris
8 27 (32.14%) Red Hat
9 25 (29.76%) Service Management
9 25 (29.76%) SAN
9 25 (29.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 22 (26.19%) Citrix
11 20 (23.81%) Firewall
12 18 (21.43%) HP
12 18 (21.43%) IBM
13 17 (20.24%) Ethernet
13 17 (20.24%) NetApp
13 17 (20.24%) LAN
13 17 (20.24%) WAN
13 17 (20.24%) Enterprise Architecture
13 17 (20.24%) Hyper-V
14 16 (19.05%) VMware ESX
15 15 (17.86%) Mercator
16 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
17 13 (15.48%) XenApp
18 12 (14.29%) Client/Server
19 11 (13.10%) ITIL

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 7 (8.333%) Middleware
2 5 (5.952%) Application Packaging
3 3 (3.571%) LAMP
4 1 (1.190%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 7 (8.333%) WebLogic
1 7 (8.333%) Oracle Application Server
1 7 (8.333%) GlassFish
1 7 (8.333%) Windows Azure
2 6 (7.143%) Amazon AWS
2 6 (7.143%) Amazon EC2
3 4 (4.762%) MS Exchange
4 3 (3.571%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (3.571%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (1.190%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.190%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.190%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (3.571%) MS Office
1 3 (3.571%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 25 (29.76%) SAN
2 20 (23.81%) Firewall
3 17 (20.24%) Ethernet
3 17 (20.24%) LAN
3 17 (20.24%) WAN
4 10 (11.90%) TCP/IP
5 8 (9.524%) VPN
6 7 (8.333%) DHCP
6 7 (8.333%) MPLS
6 7 (8.333%) DNS
7 2 (2.381%) Network Security
8 1 (1.190%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.333%) SQL Server
1 7 (8.333%) Oracle 10g
1 7 (8.333%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (4.762%) MySQL
3 1 (1.190%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (4.762%) Git (software)
2 3 (3.571%) InstallShield
2 3 (3.571%) AdminStudio
2 3 (3.571%) Hudson
3 2 (2.381%) Wise Package Studio
3 2 (2.381%) MSI
4 1 (1.190%) ClearCase
4 1 (1.190%) ClearQuest
General
1 5 (5.952%) Telecoms
2 4 (4.762%) Finance
3 3 (3.571%) Local Government
4 2 (2.381%) Games
4 2 (2.381%) Legal
Job Titles
1 26 (30.95%) Architect
2 17 (20.24%) Technical Architect
3 16 (19.05%) Consultant
4 13 (15.48%) Wintel Consultant
5 8 (9.524%) Build Engineer
5 8 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
6 7 (8.333%) Infrastructure Architect
7 6 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
8 5 (5.952%) Administrator
8 5 (5.952%) Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.952%) Linux Systems Administrator
8 5 (5.952%) Linux Administrator
9 4 (4.762%) Support Engineer
10 3 (3.571%) Technical Support
10 3 (3.571%) Applications Packager
10 3 (3.571%) Analyst
10 3 (3.571%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 3 (3.571%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 3 (3.571%) Windows Support Engineer
11 2 (2.381%) Wintel Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 12 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 11 (13.10%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.524%) Fat Client
3 8 (9.524%) Thin Client
4 7 (8.333%) IaaS
4 7 (8.333%) PaaS
5 3 (3.571%) Blackberry
6 2 (2.381%) iPhone
7 1 (1.190%) Replication
7 1 (1.190%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 61 (72.62%) Windows
2 31 (36.90%) Linux
3 28 (33.33%) UNIX
3 28 (33.33%) Solaris
4 25 (29.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (10.71%) Windows 7
6 5 (5.952%) Windows Server 2008
7 4 (4.762%) Ubuntu
8 3 (3.571%) Windows Server 2003
8 3 (3.571%) CentOS
9 2 (2.381%) Windows XP
9 2 (2.381%) Windows Vista
10 1 (1.190%) SUSE
10 1 (1.190%) Mac OS X
10 1 (1.190%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (29.76%) Service Management
2 17 (20.24%) Enterprise Architecture
3 11 (13.10%) ITIL
4 7 (8.333%) Load Balancing
5 4 (4.762%) SOA
5 4 (4.762%) Scrum
6 3 (3.571%) Migration
6 3 (3.571%) Content Management
6 3 (3.571%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (2.381%) Time Management
7 2 (2.381%) Use Case
7 2 (2.381%) V-Model
7 2 (2.381%) UML
7 2 (2.381%) DoDAF
7 2 (2.381%) MODAF
7 2 (2.381%) TOGAF
7 2 (2.381%) Disaster Recovery
8 1 (1.190%) Service Delivery
8 1 (1.190%) Problem Management
8 1 (1.190%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 31 (36.90%) C
2 4 (4.762%) Shell Script
2 4 (4.762%) VB
3 3 (3.571%) PHP
3 3 (3.571%) SQL
3 3 (3.571%) VBScript
4 2 (2.381%) Python
4 2 (2.381%) Perl
4 2 (2.381%) Ruby
5 1 (1.190%) Java
Qualifications
1 59 (70.24%) Security Cleared
2 51 (60.71%) DV Cleared
3 11 (13.10%) SC Cleared
4 9 (10.71%) Degree
5 8 (9.524%) HNC
6 5 (5.952%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (4.762%) MCSE
7 4 (4.762%) MCITP
8 3 (3.571%) MCSA
9 1 (1.190%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 1 (1.190%) MCTS
9 1 (1.190%) VCP4
9 1 (1.190%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.190%) SLA
System Software
1 59 (70.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 36 (42.86%) Active Directory
3 17 (20.24%) Hyper-V
4 16 (19.05%) VMware ESX
5 13 (15.48%) XenApp
6 10 (11.90%) vSphere
7 7 (8.333%) Oracle RAC
8 3 (3.571%) VMware Workstation
9 2 (2.381%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (1.190%) XenDesktop
10 1 (1.190%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (4.762%) Backup Exec
2 3 (3.571%) NetBackup
2 3 (3.571%) WSUS
2 3 (3.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (3.571%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (3.571%) SCCM
2 3 (3.571%) Puppet
2 3 (3.571%) AppDNA
2 3 (3.571%) Red Hat Satellite
3 2 (2.381%) WhatsUp Gold
3 2 (2.381%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 35 (41.67%) Cisco
2 27 (32.14%) Red Hat
3 22 (26.19%) Citrix
4 18 (21.43%) HP
4 18 (21.43%) IBM
5 17 (20.24%) NetApp
6 15 (17.86%) Mercator
7 14 (16.67%) Microsoft
8 11 (13.10%) Sophos
9 8 (9.524%) Lumension
9 8 (9.524%) Juniper
9 8 (9.524%) Oracle
10 7 (8.333%) Sun
11 4 (4.762%) Symantec
12 3 (3.571%) AppSense
12 3 (3.571%) Lotus
13 2 (2.381%) Altiris
14 1 (1.190%) Perforce
14 1 (1.190%) JBoss
14 1 (1.190%) Dell
Gloucestershire, South West
3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Gloucester, South West
Infrastructure Engineer, 3rd Line Engineer,- Contract - GloucesterOur client, has an urgent requirement for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer to join their team-The postholder will be responsible for the...
OPUS
Rate: GBP250 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013