The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Merseyside 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 23 32 27
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -5
Contract jobs citing vSphere 4 4 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 2.116% 1.626% 3.237%
As % of the System Software category 23.53% 16.00% 34.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 6
Average daily rate £310 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.09% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £343
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +50.00%
All System Software
Merseyside
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
17 25 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Merseyside 8.995% 10.16% 9.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 14
Average daily rate £393 £263 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+49.52% -25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £286 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £263 £428
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 9 4
Average hourly rate £13.25 £16.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.69% -19.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.75 £15.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.50 £26.40 £22.21
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Merseyside vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Merseyside vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool +7 3 £310 +18.09% 1
vSphere
North West

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Linux
3 3 (42.86%) UNIX
3 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (28.57%) CentOS
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Network Management
4 2 (28.57%) vCloud
4 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
4 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
4 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco
5 1 (14.29%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
5 1 (14.29%) HP
5 1 (14.29%) SAN
5 1 (14.29%) NetApp
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (14.29%) JBoss
5 1 (14.29%) Apache
5 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
5 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
5 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
5 1 (14.29%) ISDN

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) LAMP
1 1 (14.29%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) Tomcat
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Jetty
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint 2013
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 1 (14.29%) SAN
2 1 (14.29%) ISDN
2 1 (14.29%) LAN
2 1 (14.29%) VoIP
2 1 (14.29%) WAN
2 1 (14.29%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
2 1 (14.29%) HTTP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) MPLS
2 1 (14.29%) Firewall
2 1 (14.29%) iSCSI
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (14.29%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Administrator
2 1 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
1 1 (14.29%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Linux
2 3 (42.86%) UNIX
2 3 (42.86%) Windows
3 2 (28.57%) CentOS
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Ubuntu
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 2000 Server
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Network Management
1 2 (28.57%) Performance Management
2 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) Kanban
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (28.57%) vCloud
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
2 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli
1 1 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 1 (14.29%) Backup Exec
1 1 (14.29%) Cobbler
1 1 (14.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) IBM
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) NetApp
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
2 1 (14.29%) JBoss
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec
2 1 (14.29%) Sophos
2 1 (14.29%) Brocade
2 1 (14.29%) ION Trading
2 1 (14.29%) RightScale
Liverpool, North West
The successful candidates will have experience working with the following technologies: - VMware, V-Sphere - Storage experience, EMC, SAN - Cisco UCS Blade solutions - Active Directory - Citrix (Xen App desirable) -...
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Posted: 13 June 2013