The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V 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 London 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
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 274 293 364
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +71
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 105 122 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.485% 0.453% 0.251%
As % of the System Software category 6.371% 5.823% 4.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 77 50
Average daily rate £425 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £240 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £575 £603
UK excluding London average daily rate £366 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.98% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 5
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% -45.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £12.75
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +84.31%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Hyper-V Hourly Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +8 28 £450 +20.00%
Wembley - 4 £375 -
Brentford - 2 - -
Canary Wharf - 2 - -
Hackney - 1 - -
Southwark - 1 - -
Hammersmith - 1 - -
Romford - 1 £288 -
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 156 (83.87%) Windows
2 124 (66.67%) VMware
3 111 (59.68%) Windows Server 2008
4 83 (44.62%) VMware Infrastructure
5 80 (43.01%) Active Directory
6 79 (42.47%) Microsoft
7 73 (39.25%) HP
8 70 (37.63%) Citrix
9 63 (33.87%) Windows Server 2003
10 57 (30.65%) SCCM
11 55 (29.57%) SAN
12 53 (28.49%) SCOM
13 42 (22.58%) ITIL
14 41 (22.04%) PowerShell
15 39 (20.97%) MS Exchange
16 33 (17.74%) SQL Server
16 33 (17.74%) Windows Server 2012
17 32 (17.20%) SQL
17 32 (17.20%) IIS
17 32 (17.20%) Dell
18 31 (16.67%) Windows XP
19 29 (15.59%) DNS
20 28 (15.05%) Exchange Server 2010
21 27 (14.52%) Windows 7
22 25 (13.44%) XenServer
22 25 (13.44%) DHCP
23 24 (12.90%) Symantec
23 24 (12.90%) Clustering
24 23 (12.37%) SCVMM
25 22 (11.83%) Microsoft Certification

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (8.602%) WSH
2 12 (6.452%) Application Packaging
2 12 (6.452%) .NET
3 8 (4.301%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.226%) Middleware
5 4 (2.151%) HTML
6 3 (1.613%) CSS
7 2 (1.075%) Regular Expression
7 2 (1.075%) K2 blackpearl
7 2 (1.075%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (1.075%) HTML5
7 2 (1.075%) jQuery
7 2 (1.075%) .NET Framework
7 2 (1.075%) Web Services
7 2 (1.075%) CGI
8 1 (0.538%) XML
8 1 (0.538%) SOAP
8 1 (0.538%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.538%) WF
8 1 (0.538%) CSS3
Application Platforms
1 39 (20.97%) MS Exchange
2 32 (17.20%) IIS
3 28 (15.05%) Exchange Server 2010
4 14 (7.527%) SharePoint
5 12 (6.452%) Exchange Server 2013
6 8 (4.301%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (3.763%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 6 (3.226%) Confluence
9 5 (2.688%) SharePoint 2010
10 3 (1.613%) OpenStack
11 2 (1.075%) SharePoint 2013
11 2 (1.075%) Lync
11 2 (1.075%) BizTalk Server
12 1 (0.538%) Apache
12 1 (0.538%) WebSphere Application Server
12 1 (0.538%) Exchange Server 2003
12 1 (0.538%) Office Communications Server
12 1 (0.538%) Windows Azure
12 1 (0.538%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 14 (7.527%) MS Office
2 13 (6.989%) MS Excel
3 2 (1.075%) Office 365
3 2 (1.075%) InfoPath
Business Applications
1 3 (1.613%) Dynamics NAV
2 2 (1.075%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.538%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 55 (29.57%) SAN
2 29 (15.59%) DNS
3 25 (13.44%) DHCP
4 19 (10.22%) TCP/IP
5 17 (9.140%) VLAN
6 14 (7.527%) Firewall
6 14 (7.527%) LAN
7 13 (6.989%) WAN
7 13 (6.989%) VPN
8 11 (5.914%) SMTP
9 9 (4.839%) Kerberos
10 8 (4.301%) NAS
11 5 (2.688%) Wireless
12 4 (2.151%) Fibre Channel
12 4 (2.151%) Internet
12 4 (2.151%) VoIP
13 3 (1.613%) MPLS
14 2 (1.075%) iSCSI
14 2 (1.075%) OSPF
14 2 (1.075%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.74%) SQL Server
2 19 (10.22%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (5.376%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (3.226%) SQL Server 2012
5 4 (2.151%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (1.613%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 3 (1.613%) SQL Server Analysis Services
7 2 (1.075%) MySQL
8 1 (0.538%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.538%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.538%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.538%) InterSystems Cache
Development Applications
1 12 (6.452%) MSI
2 9 (4.839%) Wise Package Studio
3 8 (4.301%) Team Foundation Server
4 7 (3.763%) Visual Studio
4 7 (3.763%) Subversion
5 6 (3.226%) JIRA
6 2 (1.075%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.075%) ClearCase
7 1 (0.538%) InstallShield
7 1 (0.538%) CruiseControl
7 1 (0.538%) NUnit
7 1 (0.538%) Git (software)
7 1 (0.538%) WiX
7 1 (0.538%) MSBuild
General
1 13 (6.989%) Banking
2 9 (4.839%) Finance
3 7 (3.763%) Law
4 6 (3.226%) Marketing
5 4 (2.151%) Retail
6 2 (1.075%) Back Office
6 2 (1.075%) Telecoms
6 2 (1.075%) Military
6 2 (1.075%) Publishing
6 2 (1.075%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.075%) German Language
7 1 (0.538%) Legal
7 1 (0.538%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.538%) Advertising
7 1 (0.538%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 36 (19.35%) Analyst
2 20 (10.75%) 3rd Line Support
3 18 (9.677%) Support Engineer
4 17 (9.140%) Administrator
5 16 (8.602%) Wintel Analyst
5 16 (8.602%) Consultant
5 16 (8.602%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 14 (7.527%) Architect
7 12 (6.452%) Systems Administrator
8 11 (5.914%) Applications Packager
9 10 (5.376%) Support Analyst
10 9 (4.839%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (3.763%) Windows Systems Administrator
11 7 (3.763%) Windows Administrator
11 7 (3.763%) Server Engineer
11 7 (3.763%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
11 7 (3.763%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 6 (3.226%) Virtualisation Specialist
12 6 (3.226%) Solutions Architect
13 5 (2.688%) Linux Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 24 (12.90%) Clustering
2 12 (6.452%) EqualLogic
3 8 (4.301%) Celerra
4 7 (3.763%) Blackberry
5 4 (2.151%) Enterprise Storage
5 4 (2.151%) Replication
5 4 (2.151%) Computer Science
5 4 (2.151%) Statistics
6 3 (1.613%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.075%) PaaS
7 2 (1.075%) HP StorageWorks
8 1 (0.538%) DTV
8 1 (0.538%) NHS
8 1 (0.538%) Thin Client
8 1 (0.538%) PKI
8 1 (0.538%) Smartphone
8 1 (0.538%) Grid Computing
8 1 (0.538%) LPAR
8 1 (0.538%) Fat Client
8 1 (0.538%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 156 (83.87%) Windows
2 111 (59.68%) Windows Server 2008
3 63 (33.87%) Windows Server 2003
4 33 (17.74%) Windows Server 2012
5 31 (16.67%) Windows XP
6 27 (14.52%) Windows 7
7 20 (10.75%) Linux
8 13 (6.989%) Windows 8
9 11 (5.914%) UNIX
10 9 (4.839%) Solaris
10 9 (4.839%) Mac OS X
11 7 (3.763%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (2.688%) HPUX
12 5 (2.688%) Windows Vista
13 3 (1.613%) Windows 2000 Server
14 2 (1.075%) CentOS
14 2 (1.075%) VMS
15 1 (0.538%) AIX
15 1 (0.538%) Fedora
15 1 (0.538%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (22.58%) ITIL
2 17 (9.140%) Disaster Recovery
2 17 (9.140%) Project Management
3 14 (7.527%) Migration
4 13 (6.989%) Change Management
5 11 (5.914%) Service Delivery
5 11 (5.914%) Load Balancing
5 11 (5.914%) Agile Software Development
6 10 (5.376%) Network Load Balancing
6 10 (5.376%) Incident Management
6 10 (5.376%) Workflow
7 9 (4.839%) Service Management
7 9 (4.839%) Scrum
7 9 (4.839%) Change Control
8 8 (4.301%) Operations Management
9 7 (3.763%) Configuration Management
9 7 (3.763%) Data Management
10 6 (3.226%) Risk Analysis
10 6 (3.226%) Software Testing
10 6 (3.226%) OO
Programming Languages
1 41 (22.04%) PowerShell
2 32 (17.20%) SQL
3 14 (7.527%) VB
4 10 (5.376%) Python
4 10 (5.376%) VBScript
4 10 (5.376%) C#
5 7 (3.763%) Java
5 7 (3.763%) Perl
6 5 (2.688%) T-SQL
6 5 (2.688%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.688%) R
7 4 (2.151%) C++
8 3 (1.613%) C
9 2 (1.075%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.538%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (11.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 18 (9.677%) Security Cleared
3 16 (8.602%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 15 (8.065%) DV Cleared
5 14 (7.527%) MCSE
6 13 (6.989%) Degree
7 10 (5.376%) MCITP
8 9 (4.839%) VCP5
9 8 (4.301%) VCP4
9 8 (4.301%) MCSA
10 6 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
10 6 (3.226%) MCP
11 2 (1.075%) SC Cleared
11 2 (1.075%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (1.075%) MCTS
11 2 (1.075%) ISTQB
11 2 (1.075%) Citrix Certification
11 2 (1.075%) CCNA
11 2 (1.075%) MCT
12 1 (0.538%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (8.065%) QA
2 2 (1.075%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 83 (44.62%) VMware Infrastructure
2 80 (43.01%) Active Directory
3 25 (13.44%) XenServer
4 18 (9.677%) vSphere
5 14 (7.527%) Microsoft App-V
6 13 (6.989%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (6.452%) XenApp
7 12 (6.452%) VMware ESX
8 11 (5.914%) XenDesktop
9 10 (5.376%) SRDF
10 6 (3.226%) Xen
11 4 (2.151%) vCloud
11 4 (2.151%) DFS Replication
11 4 (2.151%) Citrix Presentation Server
12 3 (1.613%) Terminal Server
13 2 (1.075%) Terminal Services
14 1 (0.538%) NFS
14 1 (0.538%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 57 (30.65%) SCCM
2 53 (28.49%) SCOM
3 23 (12.37%) SCVMM
4 17 (9.140%) HP SIM
5 15 (8.065%) WSUS
6 13 (6.989%) Backup Exec
7 9 (4.839%) BladeLogic
8 8 (4.301%) HP Operations Orchestration
8 8 (4.301%) OpenView
9 7 (3.763%) Puppet
10 6 (3.226%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (2.688%) HP Data Protector
12 4 (2.151%) Norton AntiVirus
13 3 (1.613%) McAfee ePO
13 3 (1.613%) Splunk
13 3 (1.613%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
14 2 (1.075%) Ionix
14 2 (1.075%) Tivoli
14 2 (1.075%) Nagios
15 1 (0.538%) MOM
Vendors
1 124 (66.67%) VMware
2 79 (42.47%) Microsoft
3 73 (39.25%) HP
4 70 (37.63%) Citrix
5 32 (17.20%) Dell
6 24 (12.90%) Symantec
7 22 (11.83%) NetApp
8 21 (11.29%) IBM
9 19 (10.22%) EMC
10 16 (8.602%) Cisco
11 13 (6.989%) Altiris
12 12 (6.452%) Broadcom
13 11 (5.914%) Veritas
14 10 (5.376%) 3PAR
15 8 (4.301%) ArcSight
15 8 (4.301%) BMC
16 6 (3.226%) Veeam
16 6 (3.226%) Atlassian
16 6 (3.226%) NetIQ
17 5 (2.688%) Apple
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