The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 17 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 Hertfordshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 48 62 62
Rank change year-on-year
+14 0
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 15 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 2.333% 0.620% 0.461%
As % of the System Software category 23.08% 10.34% 5.128%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
Average daily rate £413 £305 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+35.24% +31.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £305 £305 £119
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £305 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.60% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year
+13.63% +83.33%
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
65 58 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 10.11% 5.992% 8.986%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 24 30
Average daily rate £325 £325 £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £174 £199 £161
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 18 14
Average hourly rate £16.24 £12.50 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+29.88% -60.93%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £11.35 £11.86
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £34.25 £35.27
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Hyper-V
East of England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Watford - 7 £425 -
Stevenage - 2 £180 -
Hyper-V
East of England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 6 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
4 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2012
4 5 (27.78%) SQL
4 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) VMware ESX
4 5 (27.78%) Clustering
5 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (16.67%) vSphere
6 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
6 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
6 3 (16.67%) Citrix
7 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
7 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
7 2 (11.11%) HTTP
7 2 (11.11%) .NET
7 2 (11.11%) IIS
7 2 (11.11%) MS Office
7 2 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
7 2 (11.11%) Java
7 2 (11.11%) Cisco
7 2 (11.11%) SAN
7 2 (11.11%) Apple
7 2 (11.11%) Terminal Services
7 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.11%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (11.11%) IIS
1 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) SAN
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
1 2 (11.11%) Firewall
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco PIX
1 2 (11.11%) NAS
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (27.78%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 2 (11.11%) Subversion
1 2 (11.11%) TeamCity
1 2 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
1 2 (11.11%) WiX
1 2 (11.11%) MSBuild
1 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.556%) Hudson
General
1 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Retail
3 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (61.11%) Consultant
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Storage Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Build Manager
3 2 (11.11%) Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (11.11%) Release Manager
4 1 (5.556%) Deployment Manager
4 1 (5.556%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.556%) Environment Manager
4 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (5.556%) IT Support
4 1 (5.556%) Service Desk Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Clustering
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.556%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.556%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.556%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 12 (66.67%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (11.11%) Windows 8
4 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.11%) Integration Testing
2 2 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.556%) Change Control
3 1 (5.556%) Build Automation
3 1 (5.556%) ERP
3 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) Programme Office Management
3 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.556%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) MCSE
1 1 (5.556%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (5.556%) Security Cleared
1 1 (5.556%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) VMware ESX
3 3 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) vSphere
4 2 (11.11%) Terminal Services
4 2 (11.11%) Xen
4 2 (11.11%) XenServer
5 1 (5.556%) XenDesktop
5 1 (5.556%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (5.556%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) VMware
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Citrix
4 2 (11.11%) Apple
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 2 (11.11%) Symantec
4 2 (11.11%) McAfee
4 2 (11.11%) Sophos
4 2 (11.11%) Veeam
4 2 (11.11%) 3PAR
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 1 (5.556%) AppSense
5 1 (5.556%) Wyse
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