The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Server 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 Server over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Server
Rank 377 395 434
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +39
Contract jobs citing VMware Server 7 15 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.031% 0.056% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.414% 0.697% 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 8 4
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 £335 £188 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £405 £445 £443
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £330 £400
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -17.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -51.42%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £17.25 £23.50
% change year-on-year
- -26.59%
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1690 2151 1970
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.411% 8.090% 6.261%
Number of daily rates quoted 975 1216 1028
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 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 194 214
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.70
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -5.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.95 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.65 £34.40 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware Server
England

VMware Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London VMware Server Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

London VMware Server Daily Rate Trend

VMware Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London VMware Server Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Server within the London region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Croydon - 3 - -
City of London -1 2 £413 +3.12% 1
Westminster - - - -
Chiswick - - - -
West Drayton - - - -
VMware Server
England

VMware Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VMware Server 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 Server.

1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (94.74%) Windows
3 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
3 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (42.11%) MS Exchange
6 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
6 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
7 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2003
7 6 (31.58%) DNS
7 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
8 5 (26.32%) MS Office
8 5 (26.32%) DHCP
8 5 (26.32%) SAN
8 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
8 5 (26.32%) vSphere
9 4 (21.05%) SQL
10 3 (15.79%) Photoshop
10 3 (15.79%) LAN
10 3 (15.79%) WAN
10 3 (15.79%) Linux
10 3 (15.79%) Adobe
10 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
10 3 (15.79%) Citrix
10 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (15.79%) Finance
10 3 (15.79%) Migration
10 3 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007

VMware Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing VMware Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 8 (42.11%) MS Exchange
2 6 (31.58%) Exchange Server 2003
3 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (15.79%) Exchange Server 2007
5 2 (10.53%) Commerce Server
5 2 (10.53%) IIS
6 1 (5.263%) Apache
6 1 (5.263%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Office
2 3 (15.79%) Photoshop
3 2 (10.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (31.58%) DNS
2 5 (26.32%) DHCP
2 5 (26.32%) SAN
3 3 (15.79%) LAN
3 3 (15.79%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) TCP/IP
4 1 (5.263%) SMTP
4 1 (5.263%) Ethernet
4 1 (5.263%) Firewall
4 1 (5.263%) Wireless
4 1 (5.263%) Internet
4 1 (5.263%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (31.58%) SQL Server
2 3 (15.79%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (10.53%) MySQL
General
1 3 (15.79%) Finance
2 2 (10.53%) Banking
2 2 (10.53%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
4 1 (5.263%) Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Server Support
4 1 (5.263%) Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (5.263%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Linux Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Specialist
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Support Analyst
4 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Consultant
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Blackberry
1 1 (5.263%) Replication
1 1 (5.263%) Clustering
1 1 (5.263%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 18 (94.74%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (36.84%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (36.84%) Windows 7
4 3 (15.79%) Linux
5 1 (5.263%) UNIX
5 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
5 1 (5.263%) Debian
5 1 (5.263%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Migration
2 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) ITIL
3 1 (5.263%) Data Migration
3 1 (5.263%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) Perl
3 1 (5.263%) C
3 1 (5.263%) Python
3 1 (5.263%) Bash shell
3 1 (5.263%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.263%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (63.16%) Active Directory
2 9 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (26.32%) vSphere
4 2 (10.53%) XenApp
4 2 (10.53%) NFS
5 1 (5.263%) Squid
5 1 (5.263%) Samba
5 1 (5.263%) XenDesktop
5 1 (5.263%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (5.263%) VirtualBox
5 1 (5.263%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.263%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 1 (5.263%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (5.263%) Backup Exec
1 1 (5.263%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (5.263%) Puppet
1 1 (5.263%) SCCM
1 1 (5.263%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
3 3 (15.79%) Adobe
3 3 (15.79%) Citrix
4 2 (10.53%) Red Hat
4 2 (10.53%) HP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco
5 1 (5.263%) IBM
5 1 (5.263%) Dell
5 1 (5.263%) Symantec
5 1 (5.263%) McAfee
5 1 (5.263%) 3PAR
5 1 (5.263%) Altiris
City of London
Skills required for the Role: Strong knowledge of VMWARE server and Virtulisation Technologies. Strong knowledge of Windows server 2003/2008. Strong knowledge of Active Directory. Strong Expeirence of...
ITHR
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
Within a 120+ server and SAN environment, covering application, file and print, VMware and Citrix servers... Mimimum skills required:- Windows Server 200. Active Directory. Citrix Server XenApp. VMware.
Sanderson
Rate: Market Rate
Posted: 18 June 2013
Brentford, Middlesex
The successful candidate will have Relevant industry experience in large enterprise sized environments for windows servers and virtualisation and have Solid understanding of Incident, Change, and Problem Management...
Experis IT
Rate: £350 - £400 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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