The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 59 72 53
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -19
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 5 3 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.768% 0.307% 1.288%
As % of the System Software category 7.813% 5.455% 14.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 1
Average daily rate £415 £208 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+100.00% -39.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
64 55 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 9.831% 5.629% 9.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 24 29
Average daily rate £325 £325 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +1.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £171 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £380 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 17 14
Average hourly rate £16.24 £16.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.46% -50.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £11.19 £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%
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the Hertfordshire 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
Watford - 3 £445 -
VMware ESX
East of England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
2 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2012
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) IIS
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (37.50%) Symantec
4 3 (37.50%) Norton AntiVirus
4 3 (37.50%) Sophos
4 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
4 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
4 3 (37.50%) DHCP
4 3 (37.50%) DNS
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
4 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (37.50%) Citrix
4 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
4 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (37.50%) IIS
1 3 (37.50%) MS Exchange
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2007
1 3 (37.50%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (37.50%) DHCP
1 3 (37.50%) DNS
1 3 (37.50%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (100.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2012
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (37.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) SQL Server Consultant
2 3 (37.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (100.00%) Clustering
2 3 (37.50%) Blackberry
3 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 3 (37.50%) Windows 2000
3 3 (37.50%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Capacity Planning
2 3 (37.50%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (12.50%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (62.50%) Hyper-V
2 3 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (37.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
2 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (37.50%) Symantec
2 3 (37.50%) Sophos
2 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
2 3 (37.50%) Citrix
2 3 (37.50%) Acronis
3 1 (12.50%) Veritas