North East VMware Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the North East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bexleyheath Birmingham Bolton Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hartlepool Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Lincolnshire London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Maidstone Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sevenoaks Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stevenage Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swindon Taunton Teddington Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	56
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching contract IT job ads	18	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.678 %	1.361 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£304	£310
Average daily rate	£312	£310
% change on same period last year	+0.76 %
Average maximum daily rate	£320	£310
UK excluding London average daily rate	£345	£351
% change on same period last year	-1.70 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.83	-
Average hourly rate	£20.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.17	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.67	£25.63
% change on same period last year	+4.05 %
Vendors North East
Matching contract IT job ads	317	441
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.448 %	0.446 %
Daily rates quoted	61	122
Average minimum daily rate	£319	£338
Average daily rate	£336	£348
% change on same period last year	-3.51 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£358
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	44	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.08	£20.68
Average hourly rate	£21.08	£22.49
% change on same period last year	-6.27 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.07	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the North East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware across the North East region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the North East region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the North East region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Tyne and Wear	+20	10	£381	+66.17 %
Durham	-	4	£175	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing VMware 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.

1 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2 9 (34.62 %) Cisco 2 9 (34.62 %) Microsoft 2 9 (34.62 %) Windows Server 2003 3 8 (30.77 %) SQL Server 4 7 (26.92 %) Active Directory 4 7 (26.92 %) NetApp 4 7 (26.92 %) VMware ESX 4 7 (26.92 %) Clustering 4 7 (26.92 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 6 (23.08 %) Firewall 6 5 (19.23 %) Citrix 6 5 (19.23 %) SQL 6 5 (19.23 %) Solaris 7 4 (15.38 %) SAN

7 4 (15.38 %) VLAN 8 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 3 (11.54 %) CommVault 8 3 (11.54 %) Hitachi 8 3 (11.54 %) TCP/IP 8 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 8 3 (11.54 %) MS Office 9 2 (7.692 %) MS Project 9 2 (7.692 %) C 9 2 (7.692 %) Perl 9 2 (7.692 %) Linux 9 2 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 9 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 9 2 (7.692 %) Windows XP 9 2 (7.692 %) SMS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing VMware 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 2 (7.692 %) Lotus Notes 2 1 (3.846 %) Lotus Domino 2 1 (3.846 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (3.846 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 1 (3.846 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) MS Office 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Excel 2 2 (7.692 %) MS Project
Communications & Networking 1 6 (23.08 %) Firewall 2 4 (15.38 %) VLAN 2 4 (15.38 %) SAN 3 3 (11.54 %) TCP/IP 4 2 (7.692 %) SMS 4 2 (7.692 %) Internet 4 2 (7.692 %) iSCSI 5 1 (3.846 %) DHCP 5 1 (3.846 %) VPN 5 1 (3.846 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (30.77 %) SQL Server 2 2 (7.692 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 2 (7.692 %) Finance 1 2 (7.692 %) Legal 2 1 (3.846 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.846 %) Government	Job Titles 1 6 (23.08 %) Consultant 2 4 (15.38 %) Network Technician 2 4 (15.38 %) Server Engineer 3 3 (11.54 %) Storage Specialist 4 2 (7.692 %) Technical Analyst 4 2 (7.692 %) Management Consultant 4 2 (7.692 %) Analyst 4 2 (7.692 %) Support Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 4 2 (7.692 %) Storage Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) Implementation Engineer 4 2 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 1 (3.846 %) 2nd Line Support Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Technical Consultant 5 1 (3.846 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (3.846 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Support Analyst 5 1 (3.846 %) Technical Support 5 1 (3.846 %) Architect 5 1 (3.846 %) Technical Support Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 7 (26.92 %) Clustering 2 2 (7.692 %) Blackberry 3 1 (3.846 %) PKI	Operating Systems 1 13 (50.00 %) Windows 2 9 (34.62 %) Windows Server 2003 3 5 (19.23 %) Solaris 4 3 (11.54 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 2 (7.692 %) Windows XP 5 2 (7.692 %) Linux 6 1 (3.846 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (3.846 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (3.846 %) ITIL 1 1 (3.846 %) OO 1 1 (3.846 %) Change Management 1 1 (3.846 %) TOGAF 1 1 (3.846 %) Network Design	Programming Languages 1 5 (19.23 %) SQL 2 2 (7.692 %) C 2 2 (7.692 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 1 (3.846 %) MCSE 1 1 (3.846 %) CCNA 1 1 (3.846 %) CISSP 1 1 (3.846 %) Cisco Certification 1 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.846 %) SLA
System Software 1 7 (26.92 %) Active Directory 1 7 (26.92 %) VMware ESX 1 7 (26.92 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (3.846 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 2 1 (3.846 %) Citrix Presentation Server 2 1 (3.846 %) VMware Server	Vendors 1 9 (34.62 %) Cisco 1 9 (34.62 %) Microsoft 2 7 (26.92 %) NetApp 3 5 (19.23 %) Citrix 4 3 (11.54 %) CommVault 4 3 (11.54 %) Hitachi 4 3 (11.54 %) Oracle 5 2 (7.692 %) Lotus 5 2 (7.692 %) HP 6 1 (3.846 %) Juniper 6 1 (3.846 %) Novell 6 1 (3.846 %) CheckPoint 6 1 (3.846 %) Sophos 6 1 (3.846 %) WatchGuard 6 1 (3.846 %) Finjan