The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere 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 Liverpool 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 vSphere
Rank 18 27 19
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 3 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.920% 1.648% 3.704%
As % of the System Software category 36.36% 12.50% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
Average daily rate £275 £268 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.80% -23.02%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £41.74 £20.94
% change year-on-year
-28.12% +99.35%
All System Software
Liverpool
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
11 24 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Liverpool 8.029% 13.19% 10.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 9
Average daily rate £275 £268 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.80% -22.46%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 8 1
Average hourly rate £11.50 £17.00 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-32.35% -17.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
vSphere
Merseyside

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Liverpool vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) vCloud
3 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (20.00%) DHCP
4 1 (20.00%) DNS
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (20.00%) C
4 1 (20.00%) SQL
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL
4 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2013
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Liverpool 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 Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (20.00%) SharePoint 2013
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) UNIX
2 2 (40.00%) Windows
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Network Management
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL
2 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) vCloud
1 2 (40.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli
1 1 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) ION Trading