The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 VMware Infrastructure 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 69 68 71
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +3
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 6 15 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.643% 1.161% 0.096%
As % of the System Software category 8.000% 12.93% 1.695%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 0
Average daily rate £324 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.91% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Average hourly rate £15.00 £12.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -35.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+15.00% -10.83%
All System Software
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
75 116 59
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 8.039% 8.978% 5.662%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 39 14
Average daily rate £263 £313 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.00% +42.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £228 £175 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £409 £387 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 21
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.82% +54.54%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £9.00 £9.99
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.70 £20.80 £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Altrincham - 1 £298 -
Wigan - 1 - -
VMware Infrastructure
North West

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 19 (86.36%) Windows
3 13 (59.09%) Cisco
3 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
4 12 (54.55%) SAN
5 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
5 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
6 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (36.36%) Firewall
7 8 (36.36%) DNS
7 8 (36.36%) Citrix
8 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
8 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2003
8 7 (31.82%) SQL
8 7 (31.82%) DHCP
8 7 (31.82%) VMware ESX
8 7 (31.82%) SCCM
8 7 (31.82%) vSphere
9 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
9 6 (27.27%) IBM
9 6 (27.27%) HP
10 5 (22.73%) Oracle
10 5 (22.73%) LAN
10 5 (22.73%) MS Excel
10 5 (22.73%) Network Security
11 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
11 4 (18.18%) Information Security
11 4 (18.18%) VSAM
11 4 (18.18%) Banking
11 4 (18.18%) PKI

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (18.18%) WebSphere
1 4 (18.18%) Middleware
2 1 (4.545%) HTML
2 1 (4.545%) CSS
2 1 (4.545%) JSP
2 1 (4.545%) Servlets
2 1 (4.545%) Struts
2 1 (4.545%) Web Services
2 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
2 1 (4.545%) Spring
2 1 (4.545%) Ajax
2 1 (4.545%) JSTL
2 1 (4.545%) Spring MVC
2 1 (4.545%) Spring Security
2 1 (4.545%) DWR
2 1 (4.545%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 4 (18.18%) WebLogic
1 4 (18.18%) CICS
2 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 5 (22.73%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) SAN
2 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) DNS
3 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
3 7 (31.82%) DHCP
4 5 (22.73%) LAN
4 5 (22.73%) Network Security
5 4 (18.18%) WAN
6 3 (13.64%) Internet
6 3 (13.64%) SNA
6 3 (13.64%) Wireless
7 1 (4.545%) MPLS
7 1 (4.545%) SNMP
7 1 (4.545%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (45.45%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (13.64%) DB2
4 1 (4.545%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (4.545%) MySQL
4 1 (4.545%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Eclipse
1 1 (4.545%) Subversion
1 1 (4.545%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.545%) Hudson
1 1 (4.545%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (18.18%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Retail
3 1 (4.545%) Finance
3 1 (4.545%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Systems Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Senior Systems Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (13.64%) Desktop Support
5 2 (9.091%) Designer
5 2 (9.091%) Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.545%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) 3rd Line Support
6 1 (4.545%) Support Technician
6 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.545%) Windows Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
6 1 (4.545%) Technical Analyst
6 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) VSAM
1 4 (18.18%) PKI
1 4 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 3 (13.64%) Online Banking
2 3 (13.64%) IBM Mainframe
2 3 (13.64%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (4.545%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.545%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.545%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 19 (86.36%) Windows
2 9 (40.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (31.82%) Windows Server 2003
4 4 (18.18%) AIX
5 3 (13.64%) Windows XP
6 2 (9.091%) Windows 2000 Server
7 1 (4.545%) zOS
7 1 (4.545%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (18.18%) Information Security
1 4 (18.18%) ITIL
1 4 (18.18%) ETL
2 3 (13.64%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (4.545%) OOA/OOD
3 1 (4.545%) OO
3 1 (4.545%) MVC
3 1 (4.545%) Scrum
3 1 (4.545%) Service Management
3 1 (4.545%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (4.545%) ITSM
3 1 (4.545%) TDD
3 1 (4.545%) Business Continuity
3 1 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (4.545%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.545%) Network Management
3 1 (4.545%) High Availability
3 1 (4.545%) Capacity Management
3 1 (4.545%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) SQL
2 3 (13.64%) JCL
3 1 (4.545%) COBOL
3 1 (4.545%) Java
3 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (13.64%) Dell Certification
2 3 (13.64%) MCP
2 3 (13.64%) MCSA
3 2 (9.091%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.091%) CCNA
4 1 (4.545%) CCIE
4 1 (4.545%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
2 1 (4.545%) QA
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (31.82%) VMware ESX
2 7 (31.82%) vSphere
3 6 (27.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (18.18%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) SCCM
2 4 (18.18%) Tivoli
3 1 (4.545%) NetBackup
3 1 (4.545%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 13 (59.09%) Cisco
3 10 (45.45%) Microsoft
4 8 (36.36%) Citrix
5 6 (27.27%) IBM
5 6 (27.27%) HP
6 5 (22.73%) Oracle
7 4 (18.18%) Brocade
7 4 (18.18%) CheckPoint
7 4 (18.18%) CA
8 3 (13.64%) Dell
9 2 (9.091%) EMC
10 1 (4.545%) NetApp
10 1 (4.545%) Symantec
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