The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 33 33 30
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Contract jobs citing VMware 44 36 25
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 5.954% 4.143% 3.931%
As % of the Vendors category 13.29% 8.411% 11.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 8
Average daily rate £275 £328 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.03% +9.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £203 £289 £181
10% offered a daily rate of more than £470 £393 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £17.75 £30.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-40.83% +42.85%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
331 428 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 44.79% 49.25% 35.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 174 248 105
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £175 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £445 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 24 25
Average hourly rate £33.00 £14.75 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+123.72% -15.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.40 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.50 £30.00 £24.70
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
West Yorkshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 46 (70.77%) Windows
2 38 (58.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (40.00%) Firewall
4 23 (35.38%) Linux
5 20 (30.77%) Oracle
6 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
7 17 (26.15%) UNIX
8 16 (24.62%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (24.62%) Windows Server 2008
9 15 (23.08%) Red Hat
10 14 (21.54%) SQL Server
10 14 (21.54%) Web Services
10 14 (21.54%) Citrix
10 14 (21.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 13 (20.00%) Cisco
12 12 (18.46%) HP
12 12 (18.46%) PHP
13 11 (16.92%) SAN
13 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
14 10 (15.38%) MySQL
14 10 (15.38%) Apache
15 9 (13.85%) Tomcat
15 9 (13.85%) SQL
16 8 (12.31%) MS Office
16 8 (12.31%) ITIL
16 8 (12.31%) HPUX
16 8 (12.31%) DNS
17 7 (10.77%) X-Windows
18 6 (9.231%) Integration Testing
18 6 (9.231%) HP Quality Center

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 14 (21.54%) Web Services
2 7 (10.77%) X-Windows
3 6 (9.231%) .NET
4 5 (7.692%) XML
5 3 (4.615%) ASP
5 3 (4.615%) HTML
5 3 (4.615%) LAMP
5 3 (4.615%) Gherkin
6 2 (3.077%) Java EE
6 2 (3.077%) REST
6 2 (3.077%) RESTful
6 2 (3.077%) JMS
6 2 (3.077%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 10 (15.38%) Apache
2 9 (13.85%) Tomcat
3 6 (9.231%) MS Exchange
4 5 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (3.077%) ESB
5 2 (3.077%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.077%) IIS
6 1 (1.538%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.538%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.538%) SharePoint 2010
6 1 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 8 (12.31%) MS Office
2 2 (3.077%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.538%) MS Excel
3 1 (1.538%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.615%) Line 500
Communications & Networking
1 26 (40.00%) Firewall
2 11 (16.92%) SAN
3 8 (12.31%) DNS
4 5 (7.692%) LAN
4 5 (7.692%) WAN
4 5 (7.692%) DHCP
4 5 (7.692%) VPN
5 4 (6.154%) NAS
5 4 (6.154%) Cisco ASA
6 3 (4.615%) HTTP
6 3 (4.615%) TCP/IP
6 3 (4.615%) VLAN
7 2 (3.077%) iSCSI
7 2 (3.077%) MPLS
8 1 (1.538%) VoIP
8 1 (1.538%) SSL
8 1 (1.538%) FTP
8 1 (1.538%) SMTP
8 1 (1.538%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.538%) WAAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) SQL Server
2 10 (15.38%) MySQL
3 4 (6.154%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (4.615%) Crystal Reports
5 1 (1.538%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (1.538%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (4.615%) Visual Studio
1 3 (4.615%) MSI
1 3 (4.615%) TeamCity
1 3 (4.615%) WebDriver
1 3 (4.615%) SpecFlow
1 3 (4.615%) Cucumber
1 3 (4.615%) Selenium
General
1 6 (9.231%) Finance
2 3 (4.615%) Manufacturing
3 2 (3.077%) Retail
4 1 (1.538%) Financial Institution
4 1 (1.538%) Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (24.62%) Architect
2 12 (18.46%) Analyst
3 7 (10.77%) Consultant
3 7 (10.77%) Infrastructure Architect
4 4 (6.154%) Tester
4 4 (6.154%) Solutions Architect
4 4 (6.154%) Support Analyst
4 4 (6.154%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (4.615%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (4.615%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 3 (4.615%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (4.615%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
5 3 (4.615%) Agile Tester
5 3 (4.615%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 3 (4.615%) Infrastructure Consultant
5 3 (4.615%) Test Consultant
6 2 (3.077%) Network Specialist
6 2 (3.077%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.077%) Linux Support
6 2 (3.077%) VMware Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.615%) Replication
2 2 (3.077%) Computer Science
2 2 (3.077%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (3.077%) Clustering
3 1 (1.538%) Grid Computing
3 1 (1.538%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.538%) Firmware
3 1 (1.538%) Thin Client
3 1 (1.538%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (1.538%) iPhone
3 1 (1.538%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.538%) iPad
3 1 (1.538%) Beowulf
3 1 (1.538%) CMDB
3 1 (1.538%) Fat Client
3 1 (1.538%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 46 (70.77%) Windows
2 23 (35.38%) Linux
3 17 (26.15%) UNIX
4 16 (24.62%) Windows Server 2003
4 16 (24.62%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (21.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (12.31%) HPUX
7 5 (7.692%) Windows 7
8 4 (6.154%) Windows XP
9 3 (4.615%) NetWare
9 3 (4.615%) Windows 2000 Server
9 3 (4.615%) Windows Vista
10 2 (3.077%) Solaris
10 2 (3.077%) AIX
11 1 (1.538%) Debian
11 1 (1.538%) Mac OS X
11 1 (1.538%) CentOS
11 1 (1.538%) Windows 8
11 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (1.538%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (12.31%) ITIL
2 6 (9.231%) Integration Testing
2 6 (9.231%) E-Commerce
3 5 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (7.692%) Project Management
3 5 (7.692%) Disaster Recovery
4 4 (6.154%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (4.615%) PRINCE2
5 3 (4.615%) ERP
5 3 (4.615%) Scrum
5 3 (4.615%) Agile Testing
5 3 (4.615%) Automated Testing
5 3 (4.615%) Software Testing
5 3 (4.615%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (4.615%) Manual Testing
5 3 (4.615%) Time Management
5 3 (4.615%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (3.077%) Performance Testing
6 2 (3.077%) Matrix Management
6 2 (3.077%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 12 (18.46%) PHP
2 9 (13.85%) SQL
3 3 (4.615%) VB
3 3 (4.615%) C#
4 2 (3.077%) PowerShell
4 2 (3.077%) Java
5 1 (1.538%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.231%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.692%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.154%) MCP
4 3 (4.615%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (4.615%) CCNP
4 3 (4.615%) CCNA
4 3 (4.615%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.615%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 3 (4.615%) Degree
5 2 (3.077%) VCP5
5 2 (3.077%) VCP4
5 2 (3.077%) BC Cleared
5 2 (3.077%) MCSE
6 1 (1.538%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (1.538%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.077%) QA
2 1 (1.538%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 38 (58.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (16.92%) Active Directory
3 6 (9.231%) vSphere
4 3 (4.615%) VMware ESX
4 3 (4.615%) XenApp
5 2 (3.077%) VMware Server
5 2 (3.077%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (3.077%) vCloud
5 2 (3.077%) XenServer
5 2 (3.077%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.538%) Oracle RMAN
6 1 (1.538%) XenDesktop
6 1 (1.538%) Xen
6 1 (1.538%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 6 (9.231%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (4.615%) ARCserve
2 3 (4.615%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (3.077%) PureDisk
3 2 (3.077%) CA Wily
3 2 (3.077%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.077%) OpenView
4 1 (1.538%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.538%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (30.77%) Oracle
2 19 (29.23%) Microsoft
3 15 (23.08%) Red Hat
4 14 (21.54%) Citrix
5 13 (20.00%) Cisco
6 12 (18.46%) HP
7 6 (9.231%) NetApp
8 3 (4.615%) EMC
8 3 (4.615%) IBM
8 3 (4.615%) CheckPoint
8 3 (4.615%) Novell
8 3 (4.615%) Apple
8 3 (4.615%) Sage
8 3 (4.615%) McAfee
8 3 (4.615%) Symantec
8 3 (4.615%) Riverbed
8 3 (4.615%) Blue Coat
9 2 (3.077%) Brocade
9 2 (3.077%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.077%) Veeam
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