The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the North East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware 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 Vendors for the North East 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 22 21 38
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +17
Contract jobs citing VMware 13 27 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 4.319% 4.900% 1.751%
As % of the Vendors category 10.16% 10.38% 3.150%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 2
Average daily rate £325 £350 £238
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% +47.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £250 £168
10% offered a daily rate of more than £395 £450 £308
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
- +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 1
Average hourly rate £18.25 £19.00 £25.76
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.94% -26.24%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +2.32%
All Vendors
North East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
128 260 254
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North East 42.52% 47.19% 55.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 123 108
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 23 18
Average hourly rate £10.50 £21.50 £14.13
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.16% +52.21%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.84 £9.51
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.65 £27.50 £25.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
VMware
England

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North East VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

North East VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the North East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

North East VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North East VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
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 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
Tyne and Wear +2 12 £369 +1.72% 4
Durham 0 1 £275 - 1
VMware
England

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (43.48%) HP
2 10 (43.48%) SAN
3 9 (39.13%) VMware ESX
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco
4 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
5 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (21.74%) vSphere
5 5 (21.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 5 (21.74%) Windows
5 5 (21.74%) Linux
5 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
6 4 (17.39%) SQL
7 3 (13.04%) SAP
7 3 (13.04%) ITIL
7 3 (13.04%) Apache
7 3 (13.04%) DHCP
7 3 (13.04%) DNS
7 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
7 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
8 2 (8.696%) SCCM
8 2 (8.696%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (8.696%) CentOS
8 2 (8.696%) Firewall
8 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
8 2 (8.696%) Debian
8 2 (8.696%) Replication

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, 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 Development
1 1 (4.348%) Middleware
1 1 (4.348%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.348%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) Tomcat
2 1 (4.348%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) SAN
2 5 (21.74%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (13.04%) DHCP
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
4 2 (8.696%) Firewall
4 2 (8.696%) VPN
4 2 (8.696%) LAN
4 2 (8.696%) WAN
5 1 (4.348%) LDAP
5 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.348%) Internet
5 1 (4.348%) OSPF
5 1 (4.348%) BGP
5 1 (4.348%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) MySQL
1 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (4.348%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Back Office
2 1 (4.348%) French Language
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Storage Administrator
2 5 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) VMware Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Linux Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (8.696%) Storage Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.348%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.348%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Replication
2 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
2 1 (4.348%) Thin Client
2 1 (4.348%) Clustering
2 1 (4.348%) IVR
2 1 (4.348%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 3 (13.04%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (8.696%) CentOS
3 2 (8.696%) Debian
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (8.696%) Solaris
4 1 (4.348%) UNIX
4 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.348%) AIX
4 1 (4.348%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.348%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (13.04%) ITIL
1 3 (13.04%) Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (8.696%) Project Management
3 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
3 1 (4.348%) ETL
3 1 (4.348%) RDF
3 1 (4.348%) Migration
3 1 (4.348%) Identity Management
3 1 (4.348%) Software Deployment
3 1 (4.348%) High Availability
3 1 (4.348%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (4.348%) Load Balancing
3 1 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.348%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (17.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (4.348%) MCSE
2 1 (4.348%) CCNA
2 1 (4.348%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.348%) RHCE
2 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) BC Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) RHCT
System Software
1 16 (69.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (39.13%) VMware ESX
3 6 (26.09%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (21.74%) vSphere
5 2 (8.696%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (8.696%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) SCCM
2 1 (4.348%) WSUS
Vendors
1 10 (43.48%) HP
2 6 (26.09%) Cisco
3 5 (21.74%) Red Hat
4 3 (13.04%) SAP
5 2 (8.696%) Citrix
6 1 (4.348%) Business Objects
6 1 (4.348%) Oracle
6 1 (4.348%) JBoss
6 1 (4.348%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.348%) Avaya
6 1 (4.348%) Juniper
6 1 (4.348%) Informatica
6 1 (4.348%) EMC
6 1 (4.348%) TippingPoint
6 1 (4.348%) ProCurve
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Rate: £250.00 - £300.00 per day + Negotiable Depending On Experience
Posted: 7 June 2013
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