The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 23 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 Manchester 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 66 81 62
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -19
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.749% 0.309% 0.660%
As % of the System Software category 8.750% 3.571% 11.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 1
Average daily rate £263 £325 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.23% +44.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.36% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
Average hourly rate £22.00 £22.00 £10.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +120.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £23.50 £12.75
% change year-on-year
- +84.31%
All System Software
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
80 112 61
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 8.556% 8.655% 5.755%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 36 16
Average daily rate £263 £313 £223
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +40.44%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £202 £168 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £393 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 22 21
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £9.00 £9.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.80 £20.80 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Hyper-V
North West

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the Manchester region.

Manchester Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 13 (81.25%) VMware
3 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
3 10 (62.50%) SQL
3 10 (62.50%) Cisco
4 8 (50.00%) SAN
4 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 7 (43.75%) Citrix
6 6 (37.50%) HP
6 6 (37.50%) IBM
6 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
6 6 (37.50%) ITIL
6 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
7 5 (31.25%) Firewall
8 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
8 4 (25.00%) Middleware
8 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
8 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
8 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
8 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
8 4 (25.00%) CICS
8 4 (25.00%) CA
8 4 (25.00%) AIX
8 4 (25.00%) Oracle
8 4 (25.00%) WebLogic
8 4 (25.00%) ETL
8 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (25.00%) Middleware
1 4 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (6.250%) COM
Application Platforms
1 6 (37.50%) MS Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) CICS
2 4 (25.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (18.75%) IIS
4 2 (12.50%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (31.25%) Firewall
3 4 (25.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (18.75%) Internet
4 3 (18.75%) SNA
5 2 (12.50%) iSCSI
5 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
6 1 (6.250%) NAS
6 1 (6.250%) ADSL
6 1 (6.250%) LAN
6 1 (6.250%) WAN
6 1 (6.250%) DHCP
6 1 (6.250%) HTTP
6 1 (6.250%) SNMP
6 1 (6.250%) DNS
6 1 (6.250%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (18.75%) DB2
4 1 (6.250%) MySQL
General
1 4 (25.00%) Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Technical Services Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Service Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Analyst
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support
3 2 (12.50%) Designer
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Support
3 2 (12.50%) Senior Technical Support Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Data Centre Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 4 (25.00%) PKI
1 4 (25.00%) VSAM
2 3 (18.75%) Mobile Banking
2 3 (18.75%) Online Banking
2 3 (18.75%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 16 (100.00%) Windows
1 16 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (6.250%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.250%) Windows NT
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
4 1 (6.250%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (37.50%) ITIL
2 4 (25.00%) ETL
3 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Network Management
4 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2
4 1 (6.250%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) JCL
3 1 (6.250%) COBOL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (12.50%) MCSE
1 2 (12.50%) MCITP
2 1 (6.250%) MCTS
2 1 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (6.250%) CCNP
2 1 (6.250%) CCNA
2 1 (6.250%) CCDP
2 1 (6.250%) MCP
2 1 (6.250%) ITIL Certification
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (37.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (25.00%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
3 4 (25.00%) vSphere
4 3 (18.75%) XenDesktop
5 2 (12.50%) NFS
6 1 (6.250%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (6.250%) XenApp
6 1 (6.250%) Samba
Systems Management
1 4 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (12.50%) Backup Exec
2 2 (12.50%) SCOM
3 1 (6.250%) SCCM
3 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) Cisco
3 7 (43.75%) Citrix
4 6 (37.50%) HP
4 6 (37.50%) IBM
5 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (25.00%) CA
5 4 (25.00%) Oracle
5 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 4 (25.00%) Brocade
6 2 (12.50%) EMC
7 1 (6.250%) Twitter
7 1 (6.250%) SAP
7 1 (6.250%) Juniper
7 1 (6.250%) NetApp