The first table below looks at the demand for VMS 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 VMS 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 Operating Systems 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
VMS
Rank 356 388 412
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +24
Contract jobs citing VMS 21 22 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.097% 0.082% 0.073%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.478% 0.401% 0.358%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 21
Average daily rate £375 £408 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.97% -9.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £191 £243 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £528 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £335 £375 £225
% change year-on-year
-10.66% +66.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.43
All Operating Systems
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
4392 5492 6424
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 20.30% 20.39% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 2865 3274 3859
Average daily rate £400 £375 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £218 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 234 316 346
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £18.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £37.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.20 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-4.70% +3.03%
VMS
England

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

London VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Histogram

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

London VMS Daily Rate Histogram

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMS 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 +18 6 £270 -28.00%
VMS
England

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 24 (52.17%) Linux
2 21 (45.65%) Solaris
3 15 (32.61%) Windows
3 15 (32.61%) Red Hat
3 15 (32.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 12 (26.09%) SRDF
4 12 (26.09%) EMC
4 12 (26.09%) SAN
4 12 (26.09%) Finance
5 11 (23.91%) RHCE
6 10 (21.74%) UNIX
7 9 (19.57%) Apache
7 9 (19.57%) Tomcat
7 9 (19.57%) SLA
7 9 (19.57%) Shell Script
8 8 (17.39%) HP
8 8 (17.39%) OpenVMS
8 8 (17.39%) ITIL
9 7 (15.22%) Oracle
9 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
9 7 (15.22%) Perl
9 7 (15.22%) HPUX
9 7 (15.22%) Cisco
9 7 (15.22%) DHCP
9 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
9 7 (15.22%) CLARiiON
9 7 (15.22%) Connectrix
9 7 (15.22%) Symmetrix
9 7 (15.22%) EMC Centera
9 7 (15.22%) EMC TimeFinder

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (10.87%) WebSphere
2 3 (6.522%) Gearman
3 2 (4.348%) Middleware
3 2 (4.348%) LAMP
4 1 (2.174%) CSS
4 1 (2.174%) .NET
4 1 (2.174%) Symfony
4 1 (2.174%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 9 (19.57%) Apache
1 9 (19.57%) Tomcat
2 4 (8.696%) ESB
2 4 (8.696%) WebLogic
3 3 (6.522%) Apache Solr
4 2 (4.348%) nginx
5 1 (2.174%) IIS
5 1 (2.174%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.174%) MS Exchange
5 1 (2.174%) lighttpd
5 1 (2.174%) RabbitMQ
Applications
1 1 (2.174%) MS Office
1 1 (2.174%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.174%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (2.174%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 12 (26.09%) SAN
2 7 (15.22%) DHCP
2 7 (15.22%) TCP/IP
2 7 (15.22%) Connectrix
2 7 (15.22%) NAS
3 5 (10.87%) Gigabit Ethernet
3 5 (10.87%) Ethernet
3 5 (10.87%) DECnet
4 4 (8.696%) DNS
5 3 (6.522%) Megaco
5 3 (6.522%) Q.931
5 3 (6.522%) H.323
5 3 (6.522%) DPNSS
5 3 (6.522%) MGCP
5 3 (6.522%) SS7
5 3 (6.522%) VoIP
5 3 (6.522%) Softswitch
6 2 (4.348%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.174%) Firewall
7 1 (2.174%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (15.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (8.696%) MySQL
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.174%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (2.174%) QlikView
3 1 (2.174%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.174%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (6.522%) Jenkins
2 2 (4.348%) Phing
2 2 (4.348%) Capistrano
2 2 (4.348%) PHPUnit
2 2 (4.348%) Git (software)
2 2 (4.348%) LoadRunner
3 1 (2.174%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.174%) Hudson
General
1 12 (26.09%) Finance
2 6 (13.04%) Financial Institution
3 4 (8.696%) Banking
4 3 (6.522%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.174%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 11 (23.91%) Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Storage Administrator
2 7 (15.22%) Linux Engineer
3 5 (10.87%) Developer
3 5 (10.87%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 4 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.696%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 4 (8.696%) Applications Specialist
5 3 (6.522%) Support Engineer
5 3 (6.522%) Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.522%) Voice Engineer
5 3 (6.522%) Voice Support Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (4.348%) UNIX Engineer
6 2 (4.348%) Test Manager
7 1 (2.174%) Consultant
7 1 (2.174%) Support Specialist
7 1 (2.174%) Security Consultant
7 1 (2.174%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (15.22%) CLARiiON
1 7 (15.22%) Symmetrix
1 7 (15.22%) EMC Centera
1 7 (15.22%) Symmetrix DMX
2 5 (10.87%) Clustering
3 3 (6.522%) Replication
3 3 (6.522%) VAX
4 2 (4.348%) Digital Media
4 2 (4.348%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (4.348%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (4.348%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.348%) Freedom of Information Act
4 2 (4.348%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.348%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (2.174%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.174%) Smartcard
5 1 (2.174%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.174%) CCTV
5 1 (2.174%) Open Source
5 1 (2.174%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 24 (52.17%) Linux
2 21 (45.65%) Solaris
3 15 (32.61%) Windows
3 15 (32.61%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 10 (21.74%) UNIX
5 8 (17.39%) OpenVMS
6 7 (15.22%) HPUX
7 5 (10.87%) AIX
8 1 (2.174%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.174%) Windows Server 2003
8 1 (2.174%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.39%) ITIL
2 6 (13.04%) Validation
3 5 (10.87%) Capacity Planning
4 4 (8.696%) Configuration Management
5 3 (6.522%) Load Balancing
5 3 (6.522%) Incident Management
5 3 (6.522%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (6.522%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (6.522%) High Availability
5 3 (6.522%) Network Management
6 2 (4.348%) Infrastructure Management
6 2 (4.348%) Data Protection
6 2 (4.348%) Risk Analysis
6 2 (4.348%) Use Case
6 2 (4.348%) PRINCE2
6 2 (4.348%) Project Management
6 2 (4.348%) Software Testing
6 2 (4.348%) Automated Testing
6 2 (4.348%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (4.348%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Shell Script
2 7 (15.22%) Perl
3 6 (13.04%) Bash shell
4 5 (10.87%) DCL
4 5 (10.87%) Python
5 4 (8.696%) PowerShell
5 4 (8.696%) PHP
6 3 (6.522%) COBOL
6 3 (6.522%) SQL
7 2 (4.348%) Java
7 2 (4.348%) C
7 2 (4.348%) Ruby
8 1 (2.174%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (23.91%) RHCE
2 6 (13.04%) Degree
3 5 (10.87%) OCP
3 5 (10.87%) Oracle Certification
4 2 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
4 2 (4.348%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.348%) HND
5 1 (2.174%) RHCT
5 1 (2.174%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (2.174%) VCP4
5 1 (2.174%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) SLA
2 1 (2.174%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (2.174%) QA
System Software
1 12 (26.09%) SRDF
2 5 (10.87%) Samba
2 5 (10.87%) Oracle RAC
2 5 (10.87%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 4 (8.696%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (4.348%) Varnish
4 2 (4.348%) Hyper-V
5 1 (2.174%) VMware ESX
5 1 (2.174%) vSphere
5 1 (2.174%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) EMC TimeFinder
2 6 (13.04%) Puppet
3 5 (10.87%) Red Hat Satellite
3 5 (10.87%) Cobbler
3 5 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
4 3 (6.522%) Netcool
5 1 (2.174%) NetBackup
5 1 (2.174%) BMC PATROL
5 1 (2.174%) Control-M
Vendors
1 15 (32.61%) Red Hat
2 12 (26.09%) EMC
3 8 (17.39%) HP
4 7 (15.22%) Oracle
4 7 (15.22%) Cisco
5 5 (10.87%) Veritas
6 4 (8.696%) VMware
7 3 (6.522%) Microsoft
7 3 (6.522%) Sun
7 3 (6.522%) Nortel
8 2 (4.348%) Zend
8 2 (4.348%) SAP
8 2 (4.348%) Citrix
8 2 (4.348%) Huawei
8 2 (4.348%) BT
9 1 (2.174%) BMC
9 1 (2.174%) Calypso
9 1 (2.174%) Remedy
9 1 (2.174%) Infoblox
London
Global financial institution requires a storage administrator for a contract position. You should have extensive hands on experience within a support function, preferably from within financial services.
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Experience with running Linux on a virtual (VMware etc) platform... - Version control using GIT... - Software Development and Testing experience, Cucumber, RSpec, Mocha, Ruby. - Experience with VMware virtualization platform. -...
vCloud Innovation Limited
Rate: From £350 to £450 per day Depending on experience
Posted: 19 May 2013