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vSphere Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 19 vSphere job vacancies in the North West

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills 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 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 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 vSphere
Rank 100 108 105
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -3
Contract jobs citing vSphere 17 26 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.712% 0.856% 0.662%
As % of the System Software category 6.513% 10.44% 7.634%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 16
Average daily rate £245 £300 £276
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.33% +8.59%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £159 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £318 £363 £363
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £343
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £31.25 £11.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+184.09% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +50.00%
All System Software
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 261 249 262
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 10.93% 8.196% 8.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 82 106 124
Average daily rate £275 £288 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% +12.74%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £209 £137 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 44 48
Average hourly rate £20.25 £16.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.72% +37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.63 £11.00 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £30.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

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

North West vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

North West 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 North West 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
Manchester +7 6 £240 -6.79% 11
Cheshire -13 5 £194 -35.41% 2
Merseyside +9 4 £310 +18.09% 1
Lancashire - 2 £324 - 1
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 34 (87.18%) Windows
2 33 (84.62%) VMware
2 33 (84.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 29 (74.36%) MS Exchange
4 26 (66.67%) Active Directory
5 21 (53.85%) Cisco
6 18 (46.15%) Exchange Server 2007
7 17 (43.59%) Windows Server 2003
8 16 (41.03%) SQL
9 15 (38.46%) SCOM
10 14 (35.90%) Hyper-V
10 14 (35.90%) NetApp
11 13 (33.33%) XenDesktop
12 12 (30.77%) Citrix
12 12 (30.77%) Backup Exec
13 11 (28.21%) XenApp
14 10 (25.64%) Firewall
14 10 (25.64%) Exchange Server 2010
15 9 (23.08%) iSCSI
15 9 (23.08%) ITIL
16 8 (20.51%) IIS
16 8 (20.51%) PRINCE2
16 8 (20.51%) NFS
16 8 (20.51%) SAS
16 8 (20.51%) Windows XP
16 8 (20.51%) Fibre Channel
17 7 (17.95%) Linux
17 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
17 7 (17.95%) SCCM
18 6 (15.38%) HP

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (2.564%) J2EE
1 1 (2.564%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 29 (74.36%) MS Exchange
2 18 (46.15%) Exchange Server 2007
3 10 (25.64%) Exchange Server 2010
4 8 (20.51%) IIS
4 8 (20.51%) SAS
5 5 (12.82%) SharePoint
5 5 (12.82%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (5.128%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (5.128%) Apache
6 2 (5.128%) Tomcat
7 1 (2.564%) Jetty
7 1 (2.564%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (2.564%) SharePoint 2013
7 1 (2.564%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (25.64%) Firewall
2 9 (23.08%) iSCSI
3 8 (20.51%) Fibre Channel
4 4 (10.26%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (10.26%) DNS
5 2 (5.128%) TCP/IP
5 2 (5.128%) LAN
5 2 (5.128%) WAN
5 2 (5.128%) DHCP
5 2 (5.128%) SAN
6 1 (2.564%) MPLS
6 1 (2.564%) Ethernet
6 1 (2.564%) HTTP
6 1 (2.564%) ISDN
6 1 (2.564%) VoIP
6 1 (2.564%) VPN
6 1 (2.564%) VLAN
6 1 (2.564%) Cisco PIX
6 1 (2.564%) Network Security
6 1 (2.564%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.564%) MySQL
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (2.564%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (2.564%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (2.564%) Subversion
Job Titles
1 9 (23.08%) Technical Manager
2 6 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (12.82%) Service Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Technical Services Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure Manager
3 5 (12.82%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
4 4 (10.26%) Project Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Technical Engineer
4 4 (10.26%) Analyst
5 3 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (7.692%) Administrator
5 3 (7.692%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Designer
6 2 (5.128%) VMware Engineer
6 2 (5.128%) Server Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Technical Leader
6 2 (5.128%) Technical Designer
6 2 (5.128%) Support Analyst
6 2 (5.128%) Architect
6 2 (5.128%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.564%) Thin Client
1 1 (2.564%) CLARiiON
1 1 (2.564%) Management Information System
1 1 (2.564%) Fat Client
1 1 (2.564%) Mathematics
1 1 (2.564%) Computer Science
1 1 (2.564%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.564%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 34 (87.18%) Windows
2 33 (84.62%) Windows Server 2008
3 17 (43.59%) Windows Server 2003
4 8 (20.51%) Windows XP
5 7 (17.95%) Linux
6 3 (7.692%) UNIX
7 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (5.128%) CentOS
7 2 (5.128%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.564%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.564%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.08%) ITIL
2 8 (20.51%) PRINCE2
3 2 (5.128%) Network Management
3 2 (5.128%) Performance Management
4 1 (2.564%) PRINCE
4 1 (2.564%) Configuration Management
4 1 (2.564%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (2.564%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.564%) Migration
4 1 (2.564%) Time Management
4 1 (2.564%) Kanban
4 1 (2.564%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (41.03%) SQL
2 1 (2.564%) C
2 1 (2.564%) VBScript
2 1 (2.564%) VB
Qualifications
1 4 (10.26%) Security Cleared
1 4 (10.26%) CCNP
1 4 (10.26%) CCNA
1 4 (10.26%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (7.692%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 3 (7.692%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.128%) MCITP
3 2 (5.128%) MCTS
3 2 (5.128%) MCSE
3 2 (5.128%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.564%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (2.564%) CCEA
4 1 (2.564%) MCSA
4 1 (2.564%) MCP
4 1 (2.564%) Degree
4 1 (2.564%) VCP5
4 1 (2.564%) CCEE
System Software
1 26 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (35.90%) Hyper-V
3 13 (33.33%) XenDesktop
4 11 (28.21%) XenApp
5 8 (20.51%) NFS
6 7 (17.95%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (12.82%) VMware ESX
8 3 (7.692%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (5.128%) vCloud
9 2 (5.128%) Citrix Presentation Server
10 1 (2.564%) MetaFrame
10 1 (2.564%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 15 (38.46%) SCOM
2 12 (30.77%) Backup Exec
3 7 (17.95%) SCCM
4 1 (2.564%) Tivoli
4 1 (2.564%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (2.564%) WSUS
4 1 (2.564%) Cobbler
4 1 (2.564%) HP SIM
4 1 (2.564%) Puppet
Vendors
1 33 (84.62%) VMware
2 21 (53.85%) Cisco
3 14 (35.90%) NetApp
4 12 (30.77%) Citrix
5 6 (15.38%) HP
6 5 (12.82%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.128%) Brocade
7 2 (5.128%) Sophos
8 1 (2.564%) EMC
8 1 (2.564%) Red Hat
8 1 (2.564%) Symantec
8 1 (2.564%) IBM
8 1 (2.564%) JBoss
8 1 (2.564%) Oracle
8 1 (2.564%) ION Trading
8 1 (2.564%) AppSense
8 1 (2.564%) RightScale
Infrastructure Engineer (Citrix, Windows, VMware)
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) -...
Computer Futures
Posted: 13 June 2013
3rd Line Support/Server Analyst
Cheshire, North West
The successful candidate must have experience of deployment, management and support of; Windows Server 2003/2008 R2, VMWare vSphere 5, Exchange 2007/10 and SharePoint 2007/10. Additionally,...
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Rate: £20.00 - £35.00 per hour
Posted: 29 May 2013
Storage & Virtualisation - Contractor - UK North & Midlands
North West
NetApp NCIE NCDA - VMWare VCP - Citrix CCA - Xenapp - Cisco UCS - Flexpod - HP - Vsphere - Design - Installation - Pre & Post Sales... - NetApp - Citrix Xenapp - VMWare vSphere - Cisco UCS - Flexpod - HP Storage...
Woodrow Mercer Recruitment
Rate: Unspecified
Posted: 17 June 2013
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