The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West 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 Engineer
Rank 116 133 123
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -10
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 1 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.042% 0.033% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.045% 0.036% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £155 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+93.54% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £294 £375 £323
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +16.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.86
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2232 2786 2784
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.51% 91.71% 92.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 1055 1409 1431
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 169 169 209
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.42 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.88% +4.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £9.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
VMware Engineer
England

VMware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West VMware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

North West VMware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West VMware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title.

1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Windows
3 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (50.00%) Citrix
4 2 (33.33%) vSphere
4 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (33.33%) Dell
4 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
4 2 (33.33%) ITIL
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 1 (16.67%) Brocade
5 1 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
5 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
5 1 (16.67%) Time Management
5 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (16.67%) MCP
5 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
5 1 (16.67%) UNIX
5 1 (16.67%) AIX
5 1 (16.67%) Linux
5 1 (16.67%) MCSE
5 1 (16.67%) MCSA
5 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
5 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
5 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 1 (16.67%) DNS

VMware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited VMware Engineer in their job title 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 with VMware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Excel
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) VLAN
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) SAN
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) CLARiiON
1 1 (16.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 4 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (16.67%) UNIX
3 1 (16.67%) AIX
3 1 (16.67%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (16.67%) Tru64
3 1 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (16.67%) Time Management
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
2 1 (16.67%) PRINCE
2 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
2 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
2 1 (16.67%) MCSE
2 1 (16.67%) MCSA
2 1 (16.67%) VCP5
2 1 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) vSphere
1 2 (33.33%) VMware ESX
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Server
2 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) XenApp
2 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (16.67%) PowerHA
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (33.33%) Dell
4 1 (16.67%) Brocade
4 1 (16.67%) Oracle
4 1 (16.67%) EMC
4 1 (16.67%) HP
4 1 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 1 (16.67%) Websense
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