The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Newcastle upon Tyne region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 21 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 Newcastle upon Tyne 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 3 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.000% - -
As % of the System Software category 25.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.50 £21.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+23.25% -4.14%
All System Software
Newcastle upon Tyne
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
12 30 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Newcastle upon Tyne 8.000% 11.49% 6.154%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 18 4
Average daily rate £300 £420 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.51% +97.64%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £258 £250 £109
10% offered a daily rate of more than £301 £535 £326
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £18.25 £14.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+30.35% +3.70%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
Tyne and Wear

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne 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 Newcastle upon Tyne region.

Newcastle upon Tyne VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
3 3 (42.86%) HP
3 3 (42.86%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (28.57%) vSphere
4 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
4 2 (28.57%) Clustering
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) DNS
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (14.29%) Novell
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) McAfee
5 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
5 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) Juniper

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle upon Tyne 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 1 (14.29%) Middleware
1 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (14.29%) Apache
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
1 1 (14.29%) WebLogic
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Fibre Channel
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
3 1 (14.29%) LDAP
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) SMTP
3 1 (14.29%) DHCP
3 1 (14.29%) FTP
3 1 (14.29%) SNMP
3 1 (14.29%) VPN
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Oracle 10g
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (28.57%) Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Applications Support
2 1 (14.29%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Server Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (28.57%) UNIX
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (14.29%) AIX
4 1 (14.29%) Solaris
4 1 (14.29%) Windows XP
4 1 (14.29%) Ubuntu
4 1 (14.29%) Debian
4 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
4 1 (14.29%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Project Management
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
3 1 (14.29%) RDF
3 1 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
3 1 (14.29%) Problem Management
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) BC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (42.86%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
2 2 (28.57%) VMware ESX
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) SRDF
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (42.86%) HP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Red Hat
4 1 (14.29%) Novell
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Citrix
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) JBoss
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Oracle
4 1 (14.29%) TippingPoint
4 1 (14.29%) ProCurve
4 1 (14.29%) RightFax