The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure 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 Leeds 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
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 53 45 50
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 23 23 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.087% 2.584% 1.118%
As % of the System Software category 41.07% 32.39% 15.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 3
Average daily rate £275 £350 £185
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% +89.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £178 £305 £173
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £347
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+30.12% -7.48%
All System Software
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
56 71 46
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 7.517% 7.978% 7.348%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 23 17
Average daily rate £280 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £129 £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £400 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 17 8
Average hourly rate £14.50 £12.00 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.83% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.48 £10.00 £10.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.75 £22.20 £57.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
West Yorkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Leeds VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

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 Leeds region.

Leeds VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 36 (100.00%) VMware
2 26 (72.22%) Windows
3 17 (47.22%) Linux
4 16 (44.44%) Oracle
5 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
6 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
7 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
8 10 (27.78%) PHP
8 10 (27.78%) Firewall
9 9 (25.00%) MySQL
9 9 (25.00%) UNIX
9 9 (25.00%) HP
9 9 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 9 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (22.22%) Apache
10 8 (22.22%) Tomcat
10 8 (22.22%) MS Office
10 8 (22.22%) Web Services
10 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
11 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
12 6 (16.67%) DNS
12 6 (16.67%) SQL
12 6 (16.67%) E-Commerce
12 6 (16.67%) HPUX
12 6 (16.67%) X-Windows
12 6 (16.67%) Project Management
13 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
13 5 (13.89%) .NET
13 5 (13.89%) XML
13 5 (13.89%) ITIL

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 8 (22.22%) Web Services
2 6 (16.67%) X-Windows
3 5 (13.89%) XML
3 5 (13.89%) .NET
4 3 (8.333%) ASP
4 3 (8.333%) LAMP
4 3 (8.333%) HTML
4 3 (8.333%) Gherkin
5 2 (5.556%) Java EE
5 2 (5.556%) RESTful
5 2 (5.556%) REST
5 2 (5.556%) SOAP
5 2 (5.556%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 8 (22.22%) Apache
1 8 (22.22%) Tomcat
2 5 (13.89%) MS Exchange
3 4 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (5.556%) ESB
4 2 (5.556%) ActiveMQ
5 1 (2.778%) IIS
5 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.778%) SharePoint 2010
5 1 (2.778%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (2.778%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.778%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (22.22%) MS Office
2 2 (5.556%) MS Excel
2 2 (5.556%) MS Visio
3 1 (2.778%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.78%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) DNS
3 5 (13.89%) SAN
4 3 (8.333%) TCP/IP
4 3 (8.333%) NAS
5 2 (5.556%) DHCP
5 2 (5.556%) HTTP
6 1 (2.778%) VPN
6 1 (2.778%) Intranet
6 1 (2.778%) Internet
6 1 (2.778%) SSL
6 1 (2.778%) Unified Communications
6 1 (2.778%) FCoE
6 1 (2.778%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (2.778%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (38.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (25.00%) MySQL
3 5 (13.89%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (8.333%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.778%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 3 (8.333%) Visual Studio
1 3 (8.333%) MSI
1 3 (8.333%) Selenium
1 3 (8.333%) TeamCity
1 3 (8.333%) WebDriver
1 3 (8.333%) Cucumber
1 3 (8.333%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (8.333%) Manufacturing
2 2 (5.556%) Retail
3 1 (2.778%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Architect
2 6 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Analyst
4 3 (8.333%) Consultant
4 3 (8.333%) Support Analyst
4 3 (8.333%) 3rd Line Support
4 3 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (8.333%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
4 3 (8.333%) Tester
4 3 (8.333%) Agile Tester
4 3 (8.333%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 2 (5.556%) VMware Specialist
5 2 (5.556%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.556%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.556%) Project Manager
5 2 (5.556%) Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.778%) Server Support
6 1 (2.778%) Support Technician
6 1 (2.778%) Citrix Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.556%) Clustering
1 2 (5.556%) Computer Science
1 2 (5.556%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (2.778%) CMDB
2 1 (2.778%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.778%) iPhone
2 1 (2.778%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.778%) iPad
2 1 (2.778%) Beowulf
2 1 (2.778%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.778%) Blackberry
2 1 (2.778%) Grid Computing
Operating Systems
1 26 (72.22%) Windows
2 17 (47.22%) Linux
3 9 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (25.00%) UNIX
4 8 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
5 6 (16.67%) HPUX
6 4 (11.11%) Windows XP
6 4 (11.11%) Windows 7
7 3 (8.333%) Windows Vista
8 1 (2.778%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.778%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.778%) Mac OS X
8 1 (2.778%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (16.67%) E-Commerce
1 6 (16.67%) Project Management
2 5 (13.89%) ITIL
2 5 (13.89%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (8.333%) Scrum
4 3 (8.333%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (8.333%) Automated Testing
4 3 (8.333%) Software Testing
4 3 (8.333%) ERP
4 3 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (8.333%) Manual Testing
4 3 (8.333%) Time Management
4 3 (8.333%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (8.333%) Agile Testing
5 2 (5.556%) Performance Testing
5 2 (5.556%) Matrix Management
5 2 (5.556%) Data Protection
5 2 (5.556%) Load Balancing
5 2 (5.556%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 10 (27.78%) PHP
2 6 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (8.333%) C#
3 3 (8.333%) VB
4 2 (5.556%) PowerShell
4 2 (5.556%) Java
5 1 (2.778%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (8.333%) MCP
2 3 (8.333%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (8.333%) Degree
3 2 (5.556%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (5.556%) VCP4
3 2 (5.556%) VCP5
4 1 (2.778%) PMP
4 1 (2.778%) MCSE
4 1 (2.778%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.778%) BC Cleared
4 1 (2.778%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.556%) QA
2 1 (2.778%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (19.44%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.333%) vSphere
3 2 (5.556%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.556%) vCloud
3 2 (5.556%) VMware Server
3 2 (5.556%) Hyper-V
3 2 (5.556%) XenApp
4 1 (2.778%) XenServer
4 1 (2.778%) XenDesktop
4 1 (2.778%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.778%) Xen
4 1 (2.778%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 2 (5.556%) OpenView
1 2 (5.556%) CA Wily
2 1 (2.778%) NetBackup
2 1 (2.778%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (44.44%) Oracle
3 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
4 11 (30.56%) Red Hat
5 9 (25.00%) HP
6 4 (11.11%) Cisco
7 3 (8.333%) IBM
7 3 (8.333%) Citrix
7 3 (8.333%) Sage
8 2 (5.556%) Symantec
8 2 (5.556%) Apple
8 2 (5.556%) EMC
9 1 (2.778%) Intel
9 1 (2.778%) Dell
9 1 (2.778%) Sun
9 1 (2.778%) NetApp
9 1 (2.778%) Remedy
9 1 (2.778%) Wyse
9 1 (2.778%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.778%) SolarWinds
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