The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
VMware Engineer
Rank 74 - 68
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% - 0.098%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.114% - 0.104%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-14.63% +0.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.19
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
880 1211 966
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.42% 92.23% 94.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 592 428
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £130
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 78 77
Average hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.10% +15.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £82.50 £35.00 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
VMware Engineer
North West

VMware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VMware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester VMware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 22 May 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
Wigan - 1 - -
VMware Engineer
North West

VMware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VCP5
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MCSA
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP

VMware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) VLAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Time Management
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE
2 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) VCP5
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCSE
1 1 (50.00%) MCSA
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Server
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Brocade
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle