The first table below looks at the demand for VMS 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 VMS over the 3 months to 22 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 Operating Systems 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMS
Rank - - 68
Contract jobs citing VMS 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - 0.098%
As % of the Operating Systems category - - 0.671%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £343 £375 £225
% change year-on-year
-8.66% +66.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £22.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate £40.00 - £22.43
All Operating Systems
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Operating Systems category
171 286 149
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 18.15% 21.78% 14.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 104 59
Average daily rate £275 £300 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% +15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £150 £175 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £375 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 39 34
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +36.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.00 £25.00 £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-5.88% +3.03%
VMS
North West

VMS
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMS across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Operating Systems category.

Manchester VMS Jobs Demand Trend

VMS
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester VMS Daily Rate Trend

VMS
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester VMS Hourly Rate Trend

VMS
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VMS 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 VMS.

1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) NetScreen
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Mitel
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) Kaspersky
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) XenServer
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
2 1 (25.00%) NHS
2 1 (25.00%) FMCG
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging

VMS
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VMS 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 VMS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) Software Packaging
1 1 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
1 2 (50.00%) NetScreen
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Voice Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Server Technician
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Voice Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Voice Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Support
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) NHS
1 1 (25.00%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Change Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCVP
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (50.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (50.00%) SCCM
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec
1 2 (50.00%) Mitel
1 2 (50.00%) Kaspersky
1 2 (50.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) VMware