The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Halifax region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 24 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 Halifax 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 18 30 -
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 1.667% 0.441% -
As % of the Vendors category 6.061% 2.500% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £138 - -
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 £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Halifax
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
33 40 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Halifax 27.50% 17.62% 17.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 32 12
Average daily rate £405 £380 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.57% -15.55%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £12.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
West Yorkshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Halifax 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 Halifax region.

Halifax VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) Time Management
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) Analytics
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) EMC
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) Back Office
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
2 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
3 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
3 1 (33.33%) IIS

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Halifax 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 Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) NAS
2 2 (66.67%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (66.67%) iSCSI
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
General
1 2 (66.67%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Analyst
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Time Management
1 2 (66.67%) Analytics
1 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
2 1 (33.33%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (66.67%) NFS
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) ARCserve
1 2 (66.67%) NetBackup
1 2 (66.67%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) EMC
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
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