Northamptonshire VMware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Amersham Ascot Avon Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bletchley Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bracknell Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Canterbury Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester Chippenham City of London Cleethorpes Clydebank Colwyn Bay Conwy County Antrim Coventry Crawley Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dudley Dundee Ealing East Anglia East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Egham England Epsom Essex Exeter Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hackney Hammersmith Hampshire Harpenden Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Kent King's Lynn Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redcar Rochdale Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Snodland Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Taunton Teesside Telford Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Watford Wembley West Dunbartonshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	28
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching contract IT job ads	3	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.158 %	2.857 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£125	-
Average daily rate	£138	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£150	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£354	£306
% change on same period last year	+15.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£26.10	£30.11
% change on same period last year	-13.32 %
Vendors Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	139	105
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.183 %	0.111 %
Daily rates quoted	49	17
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£317
Average daily rate	£339	£348
% change on same period last year	-2.34 %
Average maximum daily rate	£352	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	12	12
Average minimum hourly rate	£14.00	£19.43
Average hourly rate	£14.42	£20.64
% change on same period last year	-30.13 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.85	£21.86
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region.

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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 Northamptonshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT job ads citing VMware within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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
Northampton	-11	1	£138	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (66.67 %) Windows 2 5 (55.56 %) Citrix 3 4 (44.44 %) BizTalk Server 3 4 (44.44 %) SoftGrid 3 4 (44.44 %) Microsoft 3 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory 3 4 (44.44 %) Dell 3 4 (44.44 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 4 (44.44 %) Windows 2000 3 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint 3 4 (44.44 %) MS Exchange 3 4 (44.44 %) MOM 4 3 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 4 3 (33.33 %) GroupWise 4 3 (33.33 %) DirXML

4 3 (33.33 %) SQL 4 3 (33.33 %) Altiris 4 3 (33.33 %) EMC 4 3 (33.33 %) NetWare 4 3 (33.33 %) NDS 4 3 (33.33 %) AppSense 4 3 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (33.33 %) SAN 4 3 (33.33 %) Novell 5 2 (22.22 %) JavaScript 5 2 (22.22 %) VMware Infrastructure 5 2 (22.22 %) VBScript 5 2 (22.22 %) VB 5 2 (22.22 %) .NET 5 2 (22.22 %) C#

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 2 (22.22 %) .NET 2 1 (11.11 %) WebServices 2 1 (11.11 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 4 (44.44 %) SharePoint 1 4 (44.44 %) MS Exchange 1 4 (44.44 %) BizTalk Server 1 4 (44.44 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (33.33 %) GroupWise 3 1 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2000 3 1 (11.11 %) Exchange Server 2007
Applications 1 1 (11.11 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 4 (44.44 %) SoftGrid
Communications & Networking 1 3 (33.33 %) SAN 2 1 (11.11 %) Firewall 2 1 (11.11 %) SMS 2 1 (11.11 %) DHCP 2 1 (11.11 %) DNS	Job Titles 1 2 (22.22 %) Technical Specialist 2 1 (11.11 %) Server Support Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) Applications Support Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Server Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) .NET Software Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Software Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) Consultant 2 1 (11.11 %) Systems Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Applications Specialist 2 1 (11.11 %) Server Support 2 1 (11.11 %) Systems Support 2 1 (11.11 %) Support Analyst 2 1 (11.11 %) Support Engineer 2 1 (11.11 %) Applications Support 2 1 (11.11 %) 3rd Line Support 2 1 (11.11 %) 2nd Line Support 2 1 (11.11 %) C# Software Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) Clustering	Operating Systems 1 6 (66.67 %) Windows 2 4 (44.44 %) Windows 2000 3 3 (33.33 %) NetWare 3 3 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (11.11 %) Migration	Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL 2 2 (22.22 %) VBScript 2 2 (22.22 %) VB 2 2 (22.22 %) C# 2 2 (22.22 %) JavaScript 3 1 (11.11 %) Java
Qualifications 1 1 (11.11 %) MCP 1 1 (11.11 %) MCSE 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft Certification 1 1 (11.11 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)	System Software 1 4 (44.44 %) Active Directory 2 3 (33.33 %) NDS 3 2 (22.22 %) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management 1 4 (44.44 %) MOM 2 3 (33.33 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 2 3 (33.33 %) DirXML 3 1 (11.11 %) Tivoli Storage Manager	Vendors 1 5 (55.56 %) Citrix 2 4 (44.44 %) Microsoft 2 4 (44.44 %) Dell 3 3 (33.33 %) EMC 3 3 (33.33 %) Novell 3 3 (33.33 %) AppSense 3 3 (33.33 %) Altiris 4 1 (11.11 %) PlateSpin 4 1 (11.11 %) HP 4 1 (11.11 %) IBM