The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 24 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 Vendors for the Macclesfield 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 11 8 20
Rank change year-on-year
-3 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 1 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 2.439% 8.889% 1.587%
As % of the Vendors category 5.000% 16.00% 3.704%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £300 £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Macclesfield
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
20 25 27
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Macclesfield 48.78% 55.56% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 14 10
Average daily rate £275 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-21.42% -6.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £80 £288 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £365 £525 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Average hourly rate £40.00 - £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
Cheshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Macclesfield VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) Office 365
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
3 2 (50.00%) Remedy
3 2 (50.00%) LAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Change Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Migration
4 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
4 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (25.00%) MCTS
4 1 (25.00%) MCITP
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) NetApp
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
4 1 (25.00%) Degree

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Macclesfield 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 Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Implementation Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Designer
1 1 (25.00%) Senior Server Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Designer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
2 1 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (25.00%) MCTS
1 1 (25.00%) MCITP
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Remedy
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) NetApp