The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 20 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 of the System Software category 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.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 37 58 47
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -11
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 11 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.369% 1.611% 0.704%
As % of the System Software category 3.125% 34.38% 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 2
Average daily rate £450 £405 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.98% +4.51%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £311
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +125.29%
All System Software
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
32 32 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 11.81% 4.685% 11.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 14 16
Average daily rate £500 £400 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% +77.77%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £321 £195 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £450 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 9
Average hourly rate £10.25 £31.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-67.46% +65.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.65 £22.70 £17.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.85 £31.50 £21.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Gloucestershire vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
3 7 (70.00%) Windows
3 7 (70.00%) Solaris
3 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
3 7 (70.00%) Firewall
3 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (60.00%) PaaS
4 6 (60.00%) MPLS
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
4 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
4 6 (60.00%) GlassFish
4 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
4 6 (60.00%) UNIX
4 6 (60.00%) SAN
4 6 (60.00%) Middleware
4 6 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
4 6 (60.00%) Sun
4 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
4 6 (60.00%) DHCP
4 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
4 6 (60.00%) DNS
4 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 Development
1 6 (60.00%) Middleware
2 1 (10.00%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) WebLogic
1 6 (60.00%) Oracle Application Server
1 6 (60.00%) GlassFish
1 6 (60.00%) Windows Azure
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (30.00%) Lotus Notes
3 3 (30.00%) Lotus Domino
4 1 (10.00%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) Firewall
2 6 (60.00%) DHCP
2 6 (60.00%) TCP/IP
2 6 (60.00%) DNS
2 6 (60.00%) SAN
2 6 (60.00%) MPLS
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (70.00%) SQL Server
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) ClearCase
1 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest
1 1 (10.00%) Git (software)
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Architect
1 6 (60.00%) Infrastructure Architect
2 2 (20.00%) Wintel Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Consultant
3 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Wintel Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) PaaS
1 6 (60.00%) IaaS
2 1 (10.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 7 (70.00%) Windows
2 7 (70.00%) Solaris
2 7 (70.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (60.00%) UNIX
4 2 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (10.00%) CentOS
5 1 (10.00%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Load Balancing
2 4 (40.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) MCSE
1 3 (30.00%) MCSA
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (30.00%) MCITP
2 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 7 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (60.00%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (30.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (20.00%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (10.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) VMware
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco
3 7 (70.00%) Oracle
3 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (70.00%) Red Hat
4 6 (60.00%) Sun
5 4 (40.00%) Symantec
6 3 (30.00%) Sophos
6 3 (30.00%) Lotus
7 1 (10.00%) SolarWinds
7 1 (10.00%) Perforce
7 1 (10.00%) HP
7 1 (10.00%) Dell
7 1 (10.00%) Citrix
7 1 (10.00%) JBoss
7 1 (10.00%) IBM