The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 32 30 37
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 4 6 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 1.394% 2.273% 0.993%
As % of the System Software category 6.667% 24.00% 5.172%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 5 1
Average daily rate - £385 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £16.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
60 25 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 20.91% 9.470% 19.21%
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 8 2 3
Average hourly rate £16.00 £47.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-66.31% +179.41%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £31.50 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.00 £63.50 £23.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Kent region over the 3 months to 24 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
Dartford - 1 - -
Maidstone - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
3 10 (55.56%) Windows
3 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
5 8 (44.44%) DNS
6 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
6 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (38.89%) Firewall
7 6 (33.33%) Terminal Services
7 6 (33.33%) Citrix
7 6 (33.33%) Solaris
7 6 (33.33%) Oracle
7 6 (33.33%) HP
7 6 (33.33%) DHCP
7 6 (33.33%) SCOM
8 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
8 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
8 5 (27.78%) IPsec
9 4 (22.22%) IPv6
9 4 (22.22%) Juniper
9 4 (22.22%) VPN
9 4 (22.22%) LAN
9 4 (22.22%) WLAN
9 4 (22.22%) WAN
9 4 (22.22%) Dell
9 4 (22.22%) EMC
9 4 (22.22%) VBScript
9 4 (22.22%) PKI
9 4 (22.22%) Windows 2000 Server

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.556%) Memcached
1 1 (5.556%) Windows SharePoint Services
1 1 (5.556%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) SharePoint
2 3 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (11.11%) MS Exchange
3 2 (11.11%) IIS
3 2 (11.11%) Apache
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (11.11%) nginx
3 2 (11.11%) Lync
3 2 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (5.556%) InfoPath
1 1 (5.556%) MS Visio
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
1 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) DNS
2 7 (38.89%) Firewall
3 6 (33.33%) DHCP
4 5 (27.78%) TCP/IP
4 5 (27.78%) IPsec
5 4 (22.22%) IPv6
5 4 (22.22%) VPN
5 4 (22.22%) LAN
5 4 (22.22%) WLAN
5 4 (22.22%) WAN
6 3 (16.67%) iSCSI
6 3 (16.67%) HTTP
6 3 (16.67%) SAN
7 2 (11.11%) Internet
7 2 (11.11%) SMTP
7 2 (11.11%) VLAN
7 2 (11.11%) IP Telephony
8 1 (5.556%) SSL
8 1 (5.556%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (5.556%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (5.556%) MySQL
General
1 2 (11.11%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 7 (38.89%) Consultant
2 6 (33.33%) VMware Consultant
3 4 (22.22%) Desktop Support
3 4 (22.22%) Desktop Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Server Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Oracle Consultant
4 3 (16.67%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 2 (11.11%) Server Support
5 2 (11.11%) Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Server Support Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Desktop Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Project Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) IT Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.556%) 3rd Line Technical Support
6 1 (5.556%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (5.556%) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) PKI
2 2 (11.11%) NHS
3 1 (5.556%) Open Source
3 1 (5.556%) SaaS
3 1 (5.556%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 10 (55.56%) Windows
1 10 (55.56%) Windows Server 2008
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (33.33%) Solaris
4 4 (22.22%) Windows 2000 Server
5 2 (11.11%) OpenBSD
5 2 (11.11%) Linux
5 2 (11.11%) FreeBSD
5 2 (11.11%) Windows XP
5 2 (11.11%) UNIX
5 2 (11.11%) Windows Vista
6 1 (5.556%) CentOS
6 1 (5.556%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (5.556%) Ubuntu
6 1 (5.556%) Debian
6 1 (5.556%) Fedora
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (11.11%) Data Protection
1 2 (11.11%) Release Management
2 1 (5.556%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (5.556%) Load Balancing
2 1 (5.556%) Performance Management
2 1 (5.556%) ITIL
2 1 (5.556%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.556%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
2 4 (22.22%) VBScript
3 2 (11.11%) PHP
3 2 (11.11%) SQL
4 1 (5.556%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.556%) MCP
1 1 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 2 (11.11%) Forefront TMG
3 2 (11.11%) Hyper-V
4 1 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (5.556%) Squid
4 1 (5.556%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCOM
2 1 (5.556%) SCCM
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (61.11%) Microsoft
3 6 (33.33%) Citrix
3 6 (33.33%) Oracle
3 6 (33.33%) HP
4 4 (22.22%) Juniper
4 4 (22.22%) Dell
4 4 (22.22%) EMC
5 2 (11.11%) NetApp
5 2 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 2 (11.11%) Cisco
5 2 (11.11%) WatchGuard