M4 Corridor VMware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the M4 Corridor region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Bexleyheath Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Cleethorpes Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Durham East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hackney Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leek Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wembley West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	24
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.297 %	5.797 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£450	£475
Average daily rate	£450	£475
% change on same period last year	-5.26 %
Average maximum daily rate	£450	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£341
% change on same period last year	+5.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.78	£28.86
% change on same period last year	-10.67 %
Vendors M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	91	69
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.120 %	0.069 %
Daily rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum daily rate	£410	£439
Average daily rate	£419	£439
% change on same period last year	-4.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£429	£439
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	2
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£33.33
Average hourly rate	-	£34.58
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£35.83
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware across the M4 Corridor region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the M4 Corridor region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing VMware 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.

1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Sun 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) Middleware 2 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat 2 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Thin Client 3 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 3 1 (33.33 %) Migration 3 1 (33.33 %) Fat Client 3 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure 3 1 (33.33 %) LAN 3 1 (33.33 %) WAN 3 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft

3 1 (33.33 %) Citrix 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor region citing VMware 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (66.67 %) Middleware	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) LAN 1 1 (33.33 %) WAN
Job Titles 1 1 (33.33 %) Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Citrix Consultant 1 1 (33.33 %) Virtualisation Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 1 (33.33 %) Thin Client 1 1 (33.33 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 3 (100.00 %) UNIX 2 2 (66.67 %) Solaris 2 2 (66.67 %) Linux 2 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat Linux 3 1 (33.33 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (33.33 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (33.33 %) Migration
System Software 1 1 (33.33 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Sun 1 2 (66.67 %) Red Hat 2 1 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 1 (33.33 %) Citrix