Microsoft Virtual Server Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Virtual Server
Rank 369 398 428
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 8 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.037% 0.045% 0.022%
As % of the System Software category 0.486% 0.572% 0.368%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 1
Average daily rate £525 £360 £365
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.83% -1.36%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £370 £222
% change year-on-year
+1.35% +66.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £12.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year
- -43.82%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 1647 2097 1900
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.612% 7.787% 6.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 974 1200 987
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 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 179 205
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 £39.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Microsoft Virtual Server
England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Microsoft Virtual Server Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Microsoft Virtual Server Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the London region over the 3 months to 23 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 +23 7 £525 +59.09%
Microsoft Virtual Server
England

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server.

1 11 (78.57%) MS Office
2 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 10 (71.43%) Migration
3 8 (57.14%) Service Management
3 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
3 8 (57.14%) Change Management
3 8 (57.14%) QA
3 8 (57.14%) Performance Management
3 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Storage
3 8 (57.14%) MS Visio
3 8 (57.14%) LAN
3 8 (57.14%) WAN
3 8 (57.14%) Project Management
4 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
4 5 (35.71%) Windows
5 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
5 3 (21.43%) SQL
5 3 (21.43%) VBA
5 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
5 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
6 2 (14.29%) DNS
6 2 (14.29%) C
6 2 (14.29%) IIS
6 2 (14.29%) IBM
6 2 (14.29%) HP
6 2 (14.29%) EMC
6 2 (14.29%) SAN
6 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
6 2 (14.29%) Tivoli
6 2 (14.29%) Symantec

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (21.43%) MS Exchange
2 2 (14.29%) IIS
Applications
1 11 (78.57%) MS Office
2 8 (57.14%) MS Visio
3 3 (21.43%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) LAN
1 8 (57.14%) WAN
2 2 (14.29%) DNS
2 2 (14.29%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
1 1 (7.143%) SQL Server
1 1 (7.143%) MS Access
General
1 10 (71.43%) Finance
2 2 (14.29%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Law
3 1 (7.143%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Manager
1 8 (57.14%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (57.14%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
3 3 (21.43%) Support Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Support
4 2 (14.29%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Server Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Server Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) MI Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Server Support
5 1 (7.143%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 5 (35.71%) Windows
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Migration
2 8 (57.14%) Service Management
2 8 (57.14%) Service Delivery
2 8 (57.14%) Change Management
2 8 (57.14%) Performance Management
2 8 (57.14%) Project Management
3 2 (14.29%) Software Deployment
3 2 (14.29%) Document Management
3 2 (14.29%) Data Security
4 1 (7.143%) Business Analysis
4 1 (7.143%) RAD
4 1 (7.143%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
1 3 (21.43%) VBA
2 2 (14.29%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (57.14%) QA
System Software
1 5 (35.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 2 (14.29%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
1 2 (14.29%) SCOM
1 2 (14.29%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 2 (14.29%) IBM
2 2 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) EMC
2 2 (14.29%) Symantec
3 1 (7.143%) Citrix
3 1 (7.143%) Business Objects
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