The first table below looks at the demand for VCP5 in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VCP5 over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
Rank 378 392 -
Rank change year-on-year
+14 -
Contract jobs citing VCP5 3 10 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.014% 0.037% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.094% 0.265% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 0
Average daily rate £353 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.05% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £276 -
% change year-on-year
-9.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
3200 3771 4060
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 14.75% 14.04% 13.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 1905 2251 2340
Average daily rate £420 £425 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.17% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £595
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 116 141
Average hourly rate £25.00 £20.50 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% -0.96%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £12.50 £13.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £40.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
VCP5
England

VCP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP5 across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

London VCP5 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP5 across the London region.

London VCP5 Daily Rate Trend

VCP5
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VCP5 within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +19 1 £350 -26.31%
VCP5
England

VCP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VCP5 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 VCP5.

1 13 (100.00%) VMware
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
2 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 10 (76.92%) Citrix
2 10 (76.92%) XenDesktop
3 9 (69.23%) VCP4
3 9 (69.23%) SAN
3 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
3 9 (69.23%) Hyper-V
4 8 (61.54%) Operations Management
4 8 (61.54%) HP
4 8 (61.54%) NetApp
4 8 (61.54%) VPN
4 8 (61.54%) HP SIM
5 7 (53.85%) SCCM
6 2 (15.38%) Project Management
6 2 (15.38%) CCA
6 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
6 2 (15.38%) Linux
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL
6 2 (15.38%) VBScript
6 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
6 2 (15.38%) AppSense
6 2 (15.38%) vSphere
6 2 (15.38%) ITIL V3
6 2 (15.38%) CCAA
6 2 (15.38%) NetScaler
6 2 (15.38%) XenApp

VCP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VCP5 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 VCP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) SOAP
1 1 (7.692%) XML
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.692%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 9 (69.23%) SAN
2 8 (61.54%) VPN
3 2 (15.38%) NetScaler
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (7.692%) OSPF
4 1 (7.692%) BGP
4 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
4 1 (7.692%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (7.692%) Banking
1 1 (7.692%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (23.08%) Support Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Analyst
2 3 (23.08%) Consultant
2 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Support Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix Support
4 1 (7.692%) Technical Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.692%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.692%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.692%) Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (7.692%) PaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
1 10 (76.92%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 1 (7.692%) VMS
3 1 (7.692%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Operations Management
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL V3
3 1 (7.692%) Migration
3 1 (7.692%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) VBScript
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.692%) Bash shell
2 1 (7.692%) Perl
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (69.23%) VCP4
3 2 (15.38%) CCAA
3 2 (15.38%) CCA
3 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.692%) Degree
4 1 (7.692%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.692%) QA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) XenDesktop
2 9 (69.23%) Active Directory
2 9 (69.23%) Hyper-V
3 2 (15.38%) XenApp
3 2 (15.38%) vSphere
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (7.692%) vCloud
4 1 (7.692%) VMware ESX
4 1 (7.692%) Xen
Systems Management
1 8 (61.54%) HP SIM
2 7 (53.85%) SCCM
3 1 (7.692%) SCOM
3 1 (7.692%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (76.92%) Citrix
3 8 (61.54%) NetApp
3 8 (61.54%) HP
4 2 (15.38%) AppSense
5 1 (7.692%) Oracle
5 1 (7.692%) SAP
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco
5 1 (7.692%) Microsoft
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