The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Kent 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 Kent 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 - 36 36
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 0 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 0.373% 2.318%
As % of the System Software category - 4.000% 12.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 7
Average daily rate - £250 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
64 25 55
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 21.48% 9.328% 18.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 17 37
Average daily rate £425 £265 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.37% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £137 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £330
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 2
Average hourly rate £15.50 £47.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-67.36% +150.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £31.50 £14.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.80 £63.50 £23.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware ESX
South East

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Acronis
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Sophos
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Acronis