Kent VMware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the Kent region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	49
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	19	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	9.896 %	1.946 %
Daily rates quoted	12	0
Average minimum daily rate	£334	-
Average daily rate	£347	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£360	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£341
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.78	£28.86
% change on same period last year	-10.67 %
Vendors Kent
Matching contract IT job ads	192	257
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.253 %	0.256 %
Daily rates quoted	60	45
Average minimum daily rate	£285	£277
Average daily rate	£299	£292
% change on same period last year	+2.14 %
Average maximum daily rate	£312	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	36	60
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.29	£20.40
Average hourly rate	£24.52	£22.20
% change on same period last year	+10.43 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.75	£24.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the Kent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Kent region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Maidstone	-	7	£344	-
Canterbury	-	2	£325	-
Sevenoaks	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 18 (62.07 %) LAN 2 14 (48.28 %) Microsoft 2 14 (48.28 %) MS Exchange 2 14 (48.28 %) Windows 2 14 (48.28 %) SAN 3 13 (44.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (44.83 %) VoIP 3 13 (44.83 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 11 (37.93 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 11 (37.93 %) ITIL 5 10 (34.48 %) WAN 5 10 (34.48 %) Active Directory 6 8 (27.59 %) Project Management 6 8 (27.59 %) Thin Client 6 8 (27.59 %) Fat Client

7 6 (20.69 %) Cisco 7 6 (20.69 %) Citrix 7 6 (20.69 %) VPN 8 5 (17.24 %) SQL 8 5 (17.24 %) SharePoint Server 2007 8 5 (17.24 %) Government 9 4 (13.79 %) Resource Management 9 4 (13.79 %) Local Government 9 4 (13.79 %) HP 9 4 (13.79 %) Finance 9 4 (13.79 %) VMware ESX 9 4 (13.79 %) PRINCE 10 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 10 3 (10.34 %) IIS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 Development 1 1 (3.448 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 14 (48.28 %) MS Exchange 2 13 (44.83 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 5 (17.24 %) SharePoint Server 2007 4 3 (10.34 %) IIS 5 2 (6.897 %) SharePoint 5 2 (6.897 %) BizTalk Server 5 2 (6.897 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 1 (3.448 %) Exchange Server 2007
Business Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) Summit 1 1 (3.448 %) GoldMine	Communications & Networking 1 18 (62.07 %) LAN 2 14 (48.28 %) SAN 3 13 (44.83 %) VoIP 4 10 (34.48 %) WAN 5 6 (20.69 %) VPN 6 1 (3.448 %) Internet 6 1 (3.448 %) Firewall 6 1 (3.448 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (10.34 %) SQL Server 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2005 2 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) VSS/SourceSafe
General 1 5 (17.24 %) Government 2 4 (13.79 %) Local Government 2 4 (13.79 %) Finance 3 1 (3.448 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (3.448 %) Banking	Job Titles 1 8 (27.59 %) Project Manager 2 6 (20.69 %) Server Support 2 6 (20.69 %) Support Engineer 3 5 (17.24 %) Server Engineer 3 5 (17.24 %) Technical Manager 3 5 (17.24 %) Server Support Engineer 4 4 (13.79 %) Infrastructure Manager 4 4 (13.79 %) Infrastructure Project Manager 5 3 (10.34 %) Analyst 5 3 (10.34 %) Technical Project Manager 5 3 (10.34 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (6.897 %) Solutions Designer 6 2 (6.897 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 2 (6.897 %) Programme Manager 6 2 (6.897 %) Technical Lead 7 1 (3.448 %) Network Support 7 1 (3.448 %) Senior Infrastructure Engineer 7 1 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Specialist 7 1 (3.448 %) Infrastructure Support Analyst 7 1 (3.448 %) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 8 (27.59 %) Thin Client 1 8 (27.59 %) Fat Client 2 2 (6.897 %) Management Information System 3 1 (3.448 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 14 (48.28 %) Windows 2 13 (44.83 %) Windows Server 2003 3 2 (6.897 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (3.448 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 1 (3.448 %) UNIX 4 1 (3.448 %) Linux 4 1 (3.448 %) Windows XP 4 1 (3.448 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (37.93 %) ITIL 2 8 (27.59 %) Project Management 3 4 (13.79 %) Resource Management 3 4 (13.79 %) PRINCE 4 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 4 2 (6.897 %) Migration 5 1 (3.448 %) Network Design 5 1 (3.448 %) Asset Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Load Balancing 5 1 (3.448 %) Fund Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Investment Management 5 1 (3.448 %) Data Migration 5 1 (3.448 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) BC Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (3.448 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 5 (17.24 %) SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) Transact-SQL 2 1 (3.448 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.448 %) C#
Qualifications 1 3 (10.34 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (10.34 %) MCSE 2 2 (6.897 %) PRINCE2 Certification 3 1 (3.448 %) Degree 3 1 (3.448 %) Cisco Certification 3 1 (3.448 %) CCNP 3 1 (3.448 %) CCNA 3 1 (3.448 %) CCDP	System Software 1 11 (37.93 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 10 (34.48 %) Active Directory 3 4 (13.79 %) VMware ESX 4 1 (3.448 %) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management 1 1 (3.448 %) WSUS 1 1 (3.448 %) MOM	Vendors 1 14 (48.28 %) Microsoft 2 6 (20.69 %) Cisco 2 6 (20.69 %) Citrix 3 4 (13.79 %) HP 4 2 (6.897 %) Altiris 5 1 (3.448 %) Symantec 5 1 (3.448 %) Intel