The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 65 64 61
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -3
Contract jobs citing vSphere 13 9 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.641% 0.890% 0.147%
As % of the System Software category 19.40% 11.25% 2.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
Average daily rate £275 £330 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £343
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +50.00%
All System Software
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
67 80 48
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 8.460% 7.913% 7.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 20
Average daily rate £275 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £125 £120 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £368 £388
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 15 7
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.00 £11.88
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+4.16% +1.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.02 £10.40 £10.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.70 £24.80 £25.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
vSphere
West Yorkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Leeds vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) VMware
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (57.14%) HP
3 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 8 (57.14%) SQL
3 8 (57.14%) MS Exchange
4 7 (50.00%) Cisco
4 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
4 7 (50.00%) SAN
4 7 (50.00%) NetApp
5 6 (42.86%) CheckPoint
5 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
7 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
7 4 (28.57%) Citrix
7 4 (28.57%) Oracle
7 4 (28.57%) Linux
8 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
8 3 (21.43%) CRM
8 3 (21.43%) Firewall
8 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
8 3 (21.43%) EMC
8 3 (21.43%) Symantec
8 3 (21.43%) XenApp
8 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2003

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.143%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (57.14%) MS Exchange
2 6 (42.86%) Exchange Server 2010
3 4 (28.57%) SharePoint
4 3 (21.43%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (21.43%) SharePoint 2010
5 2 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (14.29%) SAS
6 1 (7.143%) IIS
6 1 (7.143%) Apache
6 1 (7.143%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 2 (14.29%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 7 (50.00%) SAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
2 3 (21.43%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (14.29%) Reverse Proxy
3 2 (14.29%) VPN
3 2 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (7.143%) SMTP
4 1 (7.143%) DHCP
4 1 (7.143%) FTP
4 1 (7.143%) HTTP
4 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
4 1 (7.143%) DMZ
4 1 (7.143%) Internet
4 1 (7.143%) NAS
4 1 (7.143%) SSH
4 1 (7.143%) BIG-IP
4 1 (7.143%) iSCSI
4 1 (7.143%) FCoE
4 1 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (7.143%) Data Mining
3 1 (7.143%) SQL Server 2012
Job Titles
1 4 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (14.29%) Network Specialist
2 2 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Infrastructure Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Storage Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Citrix Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Server Engineer
3 1 (7.143%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) VMware Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Server Specialist
3 1 (7.143%) Exchange Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) NHS
2 1 (7.143%) Clustering
2 1 (7.143%) Firmware
2 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.143%) CMDB
2 1 (7.143%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 14 (100.00%) Windows
2 10 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (35.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (28.57%) Windows 7
5 4 (28.57%) Linux
6 1 (7.143%) UNIX
6 1 (7.143%) Debian
6 1 (7.143%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) CRM
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL
3 1 (7.143%) Asset Management
3 1 (7.143%) Change Management
3 1 (7.143%) Project Management
3 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.143%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) SQL
2 1 (7.143%) PHP
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) BC Cleared
1 2 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (7.143%) PMP
2 1 (7.143%) MCP
2 1 (7.143%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (21.43%) XenApp
4 2 (14.29%) XenServer
4 2 (14.29%) VMware ESX
5 1 (7.143%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 3 (21.43%) SCCM
2 1 (7.143%) NetBackup
2 1 (7.143%) PureDisk
2 1 (7.143%) SCOM
Vendors
1 10 (71.43%) VMware
2 8 (57.14%) HP
3 7 (50.00%) Cisco
3 7 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (50.00%) NetApp
4 6 (42.86%) CheckPoint
5 4 (28.57%) Citrix
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
6 3 (21.43%) Red Hat
6 3 (21.43%) EMC
6 3 (21.43%) Symantec
7 2 (14.29%) Brocade
7 2 (14.29%) Blue Coat
7 2 (14.29%) Barracuda Networks
7 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
7 2 (14.29%) Websense
7 2 (14.29%) Nokia
8 1 (7.143%) Juniper
8 1 (7.143%) IBM
8 1 (7.143%) Intel