The first table below looks at the demand for vCloud 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 vCloud 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
VMware vCloud
Rank 349 392 433
Rank change year-on-year
+43 +41
Contract jobs citing vCloud 28 18 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.129% 0.067% 0.006%
As % of the System Software category 1.700% 0.858% 0.105%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 0
Average daily rate £400 £481 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.88% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
-22.75% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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%
vCloud
England

vCloud
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London vCloud Jobs Demand Trend

vCloud
Daily Rate Trend

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

London vCloud Daily Rate Trend

vCloud
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vCloud across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London vCloud Daily Rate Histogram

vCloud
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vCloud 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 +29 13 £400 -27.27%
vCloud
England

vCloud
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 49 (87.50%) VMware
2 28 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (37.50%) vSphere
4 20 (35.71%) Linux
5 17 (30.36%) EMC
6 15 (26.79%) Windows
7 13 (23.21%) Finance
8 12 (21.43%) Cisco
9 11 (19.64%) HP
9 11 (19.64%) Apache
9 11 (19.64%) UNIX
9 11 (19.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (17.86%) Subversion
10 10 (17.86%) Maven
10 10 (17.86%) Service Management
10 10 (17.86%) Java
10 10 (17.86%) J2EE
10 10 (17.86%) MySQL
10 10 (17.86%) Tomcat
10 10 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
11 9 (16.07%) Bash shell
11 9 (16.07%) NetApp
11 9 (16.07%) VMware ESX
12 8 (14.29%) Firewall
12 8 (14.29%) Load Balancing
12 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
12 8 (14.29%) Open Source
13 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
13 7 (12.50%) Git (software)
13 7 (12.50%) TeamCity

vCloud
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 10 (17.86%) J2EE
2 7 (12.50%) .NET
2 7 (12.50%) WebSphere
3 6 (10.71%) Web Services
4 3 (5.357%) RESTful
4 3 (5.357%) Spring
5 2 (3.571%) WSH
6 1 (1.786%) Middleware
6 1 (1.786%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 11 (19.64%) Apache
2 10 (17.86%) Tomcat
3 7 (12.50%) Amazon EC2
3 7 (12.50%) WebLogic
4 5 (8.929%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (8.929%) CloudStack
5 3 (5.357%) Liferay
5 3 (5.357%) CMS
5 3 (5.357%) Drupal
6 1 (1.786%) Office Communications Server
6 1 (1.786%) Lync
6 1 (1.786%) SharePoint
6 1 (1.786%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (1.786%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.786%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.143%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.29%) Firewall
2 7 (12.50%) SAN
3 4 (7.143%) BIG-IP
3 4 (7.143%) FWSM
3 4 (7.143%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (3.571%) MPLS
4 2 (3.571%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (3.571%) NAS
5 1 (1.786%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.786%) DNS
5 1 (1.786%) SSL
5 1 (1.786%) LAN
5 1 (1.786%) PBX
5 1 (1.786%) WAN
5 1 (1.786%) LDAP
5 1 (1.786%) VLAN
5 1 (1.786%) VPLS
5 1 (1.786%) Reverse Proxy
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (17.86%) MySQL
2 7 (12.50%) SQL Server
3 3 (5.357%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.786%) GIS
Development Applications
1 10 (17.86%) Subversion
1 10 (17.86%) Maven
2 7 (12.50%) Git (software)
2 7 (12.50%) TeamCity
2 7 (12.50%) Jenkins
2 7 (12.50%) Ant
3 5 (8.929%) Mercurial
3 5 (8.929%) Team Foundation Server
3 5 (8.929%) AnthillPro
3 5 (8.929%) FishEye
3 5 (8.929%) Gerrit
3 5 (8.929%) JIRA
4 3 (5.357%) JUnit
4 3 (5.357%) Eclipse
4 3 (5.357%) Log4j
General
1 13 (23.21%) Finance
2 4 (7.143%) Games
3 3 (5.357%) Telecoms
3 3 (5.357%) Advertising
4 2 (3.571%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.786%) Legal
5 1 (1.786%) Retail
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Consultant
2 12 (21.43%) VMware Consultant
3 7 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
4 6 (10.71%) Architect
5 5 (8.929%) Virtualisation Specialist
6 4 (7.143%) Developer
7 3 (5.357%) Java Developer
8 2 (3.571%) Pre Sales Consultant
8 2 (3.571%) UNIX Specialist
8 2 (3.571%) Administrator
8 2 (3.571%) VMware Architect
8 2 (3.571%) VMware Engineer
9 1 (1.786%) Virtualisation Architect
9 1 (1.786%) VMware Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.786%) Technical Architect
9 1 (1.786%) Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.786%) Technical Consultant
9 1 (1.786%) Implementation Consultant
9 1 (1.786%) Infrastructure Architect
9 1 (1.786%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (14.29%) Open Source
2 7 (12.50%) IaaS
3 6 (10.71%) Clustering
3 6 (10.71%) Cloud Computing
3 6 (10.71%) PaaS
4 5 (8.929%) CMDB
5 4 (7.143%) CLARiiON
6 3 (5.357%) SaaS
7 2 (3.571%) Computer Science
8 1 (1.786%) FMCG
8 1 (1.786%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.786%) Replication
8 1 (1.786%) Mathematics
8 1 (1.786%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 20 (35.71%) Linux
2 15 (26.79%) Windows
3 11 (19.64%) UNIX
4 5 (8.929%) Debian
5 4 (7.143%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (7.143%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (5.357%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (3.571%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (3.571%) Windows 7
8 1 (1.786%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.86%) Service Management
2 8 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 6 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (10.71%) ITIL
4 5 (8.929%) Configuration Management
4 5 (8.929%) SOA
4 5 (8.929%) ETL
4 5 (8.929%) Migration
4 5 (8.929%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (7.143%) Workflow
5 4 (7.143%) Change Management
5 4 (7.143%) OO
6 3 (5.357%) Performance Improvement
6 3 (5.357%) Scrum
6 3 (5.357%) Unit Testing
7 2 (3.571%) Performance Testing
7 2 (3.571%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (3.571%) Service Delivery
7 2 (3.571%) ERP
7 2 (3.571%) ITIL V2
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.86%) Java
2 9 (16.07%) Bash shell
3 7 (12.50%) SQL
4 6 (10.71%) Shell Script
5 5 (8.929%) PL/SQL
6 4 (7.143%) PHP
6 4 (7.143%) VBScript
6 4 (7.143%) PowerShell
7 1 (1.786%) Perl
7 1 (1.786%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (19.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.357%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (3.571%) Degree
4 2 (3.571%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.571%) VTSP
5 1 (1.786%) VCP5
5 1 (1.786%) VCAP
5 1 (1.786%) CCEA
5 1 (1.786%) MCSE
5 1 (1.786%) MCSA
5 1 (1.786%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.929%) QA
2 2 (3.571%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.786%) SLA
System Software
1 28 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (37.50%) vSphere
3 10 (17.86%) VMware ESXi
4 9 (16.07%) VMware ESX
5 4 (7.143%) Microsoft App-V
5 4 (7.143%) Active Directory
5 4 (7.143%) Hyper-V
6 3 (5.357%) XenApp
7 2 (3.571%) XenServer
7 2 (3.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (12.50%) Puppet
2 5 (8.929%) Ionix
2 5 (8.929%) Tivoli
3 4 (7.143%) Nagios
3 4 (7.143%) Zenoss
4 2 (3.571%) SCOM
5 1 (1.786%) HP Operations Orchestration
5 1 (1.786%) Plesk
5 1 (1.786%) NetBackup
5 1 (1.786%) BladeLogic
5 1 (1.786%) SCCM
Vendors
1 49 (87.50%) VMware
2 17 (30.36%) EMC
3 12 (21.43%) Cisco
4 11 (19.64%) HP
5 9 (16.07%) NetApp
6 8 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 7 (12.50%) Oracle
8 6 (10.71%) BMC
8 6 (10.71%) Citrix
9 5 (8.929%) Red Hat
9 5 (8.929%) IBM
10 4 (7.143%) CheckPoint
10 4 (7.143%) Remedy
10 4 (7.143%) F5
11 3 (5.357%) Infoblox
12 2 (3.571%) Symantec
13 1 (1.786%) Polycom
13 1 (1.786%) SolarWinds
13 1 (1.786%) 3PAR
13 1 (1.786%) Veritas