VMware ESX Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 248 254 274
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +20
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 137 156 168
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.634% 0.583% 0.538%
As % of the System Software category 8.283% 7.533% 8.927%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 114 122
Average daily rate £385 £388 £389
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.64% -0.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £225 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £525 £459
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+12.30% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 7
Average hourly rate - £30.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +10.09%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 1654 2071 1882
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.660% 7.733% 6.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 1193 992
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 £221 £218 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 144 178 199
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 £46.00 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware ESX
England

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

London VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware ESX across the London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

London VMware ESX Daily Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESX within the London region over the 3 months to 17 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 +10 38 £425 +6.25%
Docklands, London - 4 £369 -
Greenwich - 1 £380 -
Romford - 1 £288 -
VMware ESX
England

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 251 (99.21%) VMware
2 192 (75.89%) Windows
3 156 (61.66%) VMware Infrastructure
4 107 (42.29%) Windows Server 2008
5 106 (41.90%) Active Directory
5 106 (41.90%) Citrix
6 105 (41.50%) SAN
6 105 (41.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 104 (41.11%) HP
8 102 (40.32%) Microsoft
9 94 (37.15%) Linux
10 83 (32.81%) vSphere
11 62 (24.51%) NAS
12 59 (23.32%) EMC
13 56 (22.13%) Red Hat
14 54 (21.34%) XenApp
15 52 (20.55%) ITIL
16 51 (20.16%) IIS
16 51 (20.16%) DNS
16 51 (20.16%) PowerShell
17 50 (19.76%) MS Exchange
17 50 (19.76%) Clustering
18 48 (18.97%) SQL Server
19 45 (17.79%) Finance
19 45 (17.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
20 41 (16.21%) Banking
20 41 (16.21%) VBScript
21 37 (14.62%) SQL
22 36 (14.23%) Windows XP
22 36 (14.23%) IBM

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (12.25%) .NET
2 21 (8.300%) ASP.NET
2 21 (8.300%) Middleware
3 18 (7.115%) Web Services
4 15 (5.929%) ADSI
5 5 (1.976%) XML
6 4 (1.581%) COM
7 2 (0.791%) ASP
8 1 (0.395%) Java SE
8 1 (0.395%) Application Packaging
8 1 (0.395%) Regular Expression
Application Platforms
1 51 (20.16%) IIS
2 50 (19.76%) MS Exchange
3 34 (13.44%) SharePoint
4 32 (12.65%) Apache
5 28 (11.07%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 28 (11.07%) Exchange Server 2007
6 26 (10.28%) Exchange Server 2010
7 12 (4.743%) Exchange Server 2003
8 8 (3.162%) SharePoint Server
9 7 (2.767%) Oracle Application Server
10 6 (2.372%) SharePoint 2010
11 4 (1.581%) Tomcat
11 4 (1.581%) Oracle SOA Suite
12 3 (1.186%) Live Communications Server
12 3 (1.186%) Lync
12 3 (1.186%) Amazon AWS
13 2 (0.791%) OpenEdge
14 1 (0.395%) Drupal
14 1 (0.395%) WordPress
14 1 (0.395%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 35 (13.83%) MS Excel
2 18 (7.115%) MS Office
3 2 (0.791%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (2.372%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.186%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (0.791%) Dynamics NAV
Communications & Networking
1 105 (41.50%) SAN
2 62 (24.51%) NAS
3 51 (20.16%) DNS
4 31 (12.25%) DHCP
5 29 (11.46%) Firewall
6 28 (11.07%) iSCSI
6 28 (11.07%) TCP/IP
7 21 (8.300%) NetScaler
8 18 (7.115%) Internet
9 15 (5.929%) VPN
9 15 (5.929%) FTP
10 12 (4.743%) SMTP
10 12 (4.743%) SNMP
11 10 (3.953%) WAN
12 9 (3.557%) Network Security
13 7 (2.767%) LAN
13 7 (2.767%) BIG-IP
14 6 (2.372%) VLAN
14 6 (2.372%) LDAP
14 6 (2.372%) Fibre Channel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (18.97%) SQL Server
2 25 (9.881%) SQL Server 2005
3 24 (9.486%) SQL Server 2008
4 15 (5.929%) MySQL
5 6 (2.372%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (1.581%) Oracle BI EE
7 3 (1.186%) Oracle 8/8i
7 3 (1.186%) Oracle Exadata
8 1 (0.395%) MongoDB
8 1 (0.395%) RDBMS
8 1 (0.395%) SQL Server 2000
8 1 (0.395%) GIS
8 1 (0.395%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (1.581%) MSI
2 2 (0.791%) InstallShield
2 2 (0.791%) Bugzilla
2 2 (0.791%) WinRunner
2 2 (0.791%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (0.791%) LoadRunner
2 2 (0.791%) Selenium
2 2 (0.791%) Git (software)
3 1 (0.395%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.395%) Subversion
General
1 45 (17.79%) Finance
2 41 (16.21%) Banking
3 19 (7.510%) Investment Banking
4 11 (4.348%) Front Office
5 7 (2.767%) Financial Institution
6 6 (2.372%) Law
7 4 (1.581%) Publishing
8 3 (1.186%) Telecoms
9 2 (0.791%) Legal
9 2 (0.791%) Advertising
9 2 (0.791%) Games
9 2 (0.791%) Marketing
10 1 (0.395%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 40 (15.81%) Administrator
2 31 (12.25%) Systems Engineer
3 22 (8.696%) Architect
3 22 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 21 (8.300%) Wintel Engineer
5 19 (7.510%) Systems Administrator
6 18 (7.115%) Support Engineer
7 17 (6.719%) Analyst
8 16 (6.324%) Consultant
8 16 (6.324%) Senior Systems Engineer
8 16 (6.324%) UNIX Engineer
9 11 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
10 9 (3.557%) Citrix Engineer
10 9 (3.557%) Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.162%) Senior Storage Engineer
11 8 (3.162%) Infrastructure Architect
11 8 (3.162%) Windows Administrator
12 7 (2.767%) Applications Support
12 7 (2.767%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.767%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 50 (19.76%) Clustering
2 30 (11.86%) Blackberry
3 19 (7.510%) Hedge funds
4 14 (5.534%) CLARiiON
5 10 (3.953%) Computer Science
6 8 (3.162%) Fat Client
6 8 (3.162%) Thin Client
7 6 (2.372%) HACMP
7 6 (2.372%) iSeries
7 6 (2.372%) LPAR
8 5 (1.976%) Fixed Income
9 4 (1.581%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.186%) EqualLogic
11 2 (0.791%) Cloud Computing
12 1 (0.395%) iPhone
12 1 (0.395%) PaaS
12 1 (0.395%) IaaS
12 1 (0.395%) CESG
12 1 (0.395%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 192 (75.89%) Windows
2 107 (42.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 105 (41.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 94 (37.15%) Linux
5 45 (17.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 36 (14.23%) Windows XP
7 34 (13.44%) UNIX
8 29 (11.46%) Windows 7
9 23 (9.091%) Windows 2000
10 21 (8.300%) Solaris
11 17 (6.719%) Windows NT
12 15 (5.929%) HPUX
13 10 (3.953%) CentOS
14 9 (3.557%) AIX
14 9 (3.557%) Ubuntu
15 7 (2.767%) Windows Server 2012
16 6 (2.372%) Debian
16 6 (2.372%) Gentoo
16 6 (2.372%) FreeBSD
17 3 (1.186%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (20.55%) ITIL
2 29 (11.46%) Migration
3 24 (9.486%) Disaster Recovery
4 16 (6.324%) Load Balancing
5 13 (5.138%) ITIL V3
5 13 (5.138%) Service Delivery
6 12 (4.743%) Change Management
7 9 (3.557%) Service Management
7 9 (3.557%) High Availability
7 9 (3.557%) Network Load Balancing
8 8 (3.162%) Release Management
8 8 (3.162%) Asset Management
9 7 (2.767%) Incident Management
9 7 (2.767%) Problem Management
9 7 (2.767%) Capacity Management
10 6 (2.372%) Change Control
10 6 (2.372%) Fund Accounting
10 6 (2.372%) Capacity Planning
10 6 (2.372%) CRM
10 6 (2.372%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.16%) PowerShell
2 41 (16.21%) VBScript
3 37 (14.62%) SQL
4 24 (9.486%) VB
5 21 (8.300%) Perl
6 14 (5.534%) Shell Script
7 6 (2.372%) AWK
7 6 (2.372%) sed
7 6 (2.372%) C#
8 4 (1.581%) Bash shell
9 2 (0.791%) JavaScript
9 2 (0.791%) PHP
9 2 (0.791%) VB.NET
10 1 (0.395%) Python
10 1 (0.395%) Ruby
10 1 (0.395%) C
Qualifications
1 33 (13.04%) Microsoft Certification
2 25 (9.881%) Degree
3 19 (7.510%) MCSE
4 16 (6.324%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 12 (4.743%) Citrix Certification
5 12 (4.743%) RHCE
6 9 (3.557%) Security Cleared
7 7 (2.767%) DV Cleared
8 6 (2.372%) RHCT
8 6 (2.372%) OCA
8 6 (2.372%) Oracle Certification
8 6 (2.372%) CCEA
8 6 (2.372%) Cisco Certification
8 6 (2.372%) CCA
9 5 (1.976%) MCSA
9 5 (1.976%) CCNA
9 5 (1.976%) CCIA
10 4 (1.581%) MCITP
11 3 (1.186%) CCEE
12 2 (0.791%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.186%) SLA
2 2 (0.791%) COBIT
2 2 (0.791%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.395%) QA
3 1 (0.395%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 156 (61.66%) VMware Infrastructure
2 106 (41.90%) Active Directory
3 83 (32.81%) vSphere
4 54 (21.34%) XenApp
5 34 (13.44%) XenDesktop
6 29 (11.46%) VMware ESXi
7 28 (11.07%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 18 (7.115%) NFS
9 12 (4.743%) Hyper-V
10 10 (3.953%) XenServer
11 9 (3.557%) ISA Server
11 9 (3.557%) vCloud
12 7 (2.767%) Samba
12 7 (2.767%) ProxySG
13 6 (2.372%) Postfix
13 6 (2.372%) UAG
14 5 (1.976%) Microsoft App-V
15 4 (1.581%) Oracle RAC
15 4 (1.581%) Terminal Services
16 3 (1.186%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 28 (11.07%) SCOM
2 24 (9.486%) NetBackup
3 21 (8.300%) Backup Exec
4 20 (7.905%) SCCM
5 15 (5.929%) Legato
6 13 (5.138%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
7 12 (4.743%) Nagios
8 11 (4.348%) BladeLogic
9 9 (3.557%) Cacti
10 7 (2.767%) HP Data Protector
10 7 (2.767%) Puppet
10 7 (2.767%) Control-M
10 7 (2.767%) WMI
10 7 (2.767%) Tivoli
11 6 (2.372%) OpenView
11 6 (2.372%) MOM
11 6 (2.372%) Norton AntiVirus
11 6 (2.372%) HP SIM
12 4 (1.581%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 3 (1.186%) MAILsweeper
Vendors
1 251 (99.21%) VMware
2 106 (41.90%) Citrix
3 104 (41.11%) HP
4 102 (40.32%) Microsoft
5 59 (23.32%) EMC
6 56 (22.13%) Red Hat
7 36 (14.23%) Veritas
7 36 (14.23%) IBM
8 35 (13.83%) Cisco
9 33 (13.04%) Dell
10 29 (11.46%) Brocade
11 28 (11.07%) Oracle
11 28 (11.07%) NetApp
12 26 (10.28%) F5
13 23 (9.091%) Sophos
14 21 (8.300%) Sun
15 17 (6.719%) Symantec
15 17 (6.719%) McAfee
15 17 (6.719%) AppSense
16 15 (5.929%) PlateSpin
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