The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Job Titles advertised 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Engineer
Rank 376 398 420
Rank change year-on-year
+22 +22
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 11 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.050% 0.073% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.054% 0.079% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 10
Average daily rate £388 £343 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.13% +7.03%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £250 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £453 £493 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-14.63% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.19
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20276 25280 28359
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 92.19% 92.47% 92.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 13665 16302 18233
Average daily rate £450 £440 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.27% -7.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 454 629 676
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £41.00 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
VMware Engineer
England

VMware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London VMware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

London VMware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London VMware Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VMware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +9 2 £450 +83.67%
VMware Engineer
England

VMware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title.

1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (33.33%) vSphere
3 7 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 7 (33.33%) Windows
4 5 (23.81%) Citrix
5 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
5 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (14.29%) XenApp
6 3 (14.29%) Windows 7
6 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (14.29%) Migration
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
7 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
7 2 (9.524%) HP
7 2 (9.524%) EMC
7 2 (9.524%) Linux
7 2 (9.524%) VBScript
7 2 (9.524%) Finance
7 2 (9.524%) NetApp
7 2 (9.524%) vCloud
7 2 (9.524%) DV Cleared
7 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
7 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
7 2 (9.524%) Banking
8 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
8 1 (4.762%) NAS
8 1 (4.762%) Brocade
8 1 (4.762%) Application Packaging
8 1 (4.762%) PlateSpin

VMware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (4.762%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.762%) NAS
1 1 (4.762%) iSCSI
1 1 (4.762%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (4.762%) SAN
1 1 (4.762%) HTTP
1 1 (4.762%) HTTPS
General
1 2 (9.524%) Finance
1 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
1 2 (9.524%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) PaaS
1 1 (4.762%) IaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (14.29%) Windows 7
3 2 (9.524%) Linux
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (4.762%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Solaris
4 1 (4.762%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (14.29%) Migration
2 1 (4.762%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (4.762%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) PowerShell
2 2 (9.524%) VBScript
3 1 (4.762%) Bash shell
3 1 (4.762%) VB
3 1 (4.762%) Java
3 1 (4.762%) Perl
3 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (9.524%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.524%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.762%) VCP5
3 1 (4.762%) VCP4
3 1 (4.762%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (4.762%) CCEA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.762%) QA
System Software
1 15 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (33.33%) vSphere
2 7 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 3 (14.29%) XenApp
3 3 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (9.524%) Active Directory
4 2 (9.524%) vCloud
5 1 (4.762%) XenServer
5 1 (4.762%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) SCCM
1 1 (4.762%) HP Data Protector
1 1 (4.762%) Sysprep
1 1 (4.762%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (23.81%) Citrix
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 2 (9.524%) HP
4 2 (9.524%) EMC
4 2 (9.524%) NetApp
5 1 (4.762%) Brocade
5 1 (4.762%) PlateSpin
5 1 (4.762%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.762%) Twitter
5 1 (4.762%) Cisco