The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 17 May 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 Nottinghamshire 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 25 28 30
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +2
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 16 12 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 4.848% 4.225% 1.678%
As % of the System Software category 29.09% 66.67% 13.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
Average daily rate £298 £325 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% +51.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £247 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £435 £293
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £325
% change year-on-year
+7.61% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 0
Average hourly rate £27.50 £30.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £20.75 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+30.12% -7.48%
All System Software
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
55 18 38
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 16.67% 6.338% 12.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 10 4
Average daily rate £300 £325 £213
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +52.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £241 £205 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £400 £350
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 4 10
Average hourly rate £15.25 £20.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.60% -18.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.87 £10.30 £14.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £27.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware Infrastructure
East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottinghamshire VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Nottinghamshire VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Nottinghamshire VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Nottinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Nottingham -5 14 £295 -9.23%
VMware Infrastructure
East Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (86.96%) Windows
3 13 (56.52%) Linux
4 12 (52.17%) UNIX
5 10 (43.48%) Cisco
5 10 (43.48%) Citrix
5 10 (43.48%) Validation
5 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
6 7 (30.43%) IBM
6 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
6 7 (30.43%) IIS
7 6 (26.09%) Web Services
7 6 (26.09%) Apache
7 6 (26.09%) MetaFrame
7 6 (26.09%) Service Delivery
7 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
7 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
7 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
7 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
8 5 (21.74%) SCCM
8 5 (21.74%) SAN
9 4 (17.39%) MS Exchange
9 4 (17.39%) Oracle
9 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
9 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (13.04%) F5
10 3 (13.04%) Firewall
10 3 (13.04%) Migration
10 3 (13.04%) AIX

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (26.09%) Web Services
2 1 (4.348%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (30.43%) IIS
2 6 (26.09%) Apache
3 4 (17.39%) MS Exchange
4 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (8.696%) SharePoint
6 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Portal
6 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Office 365
2 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) Cisco Nexus
2 5 (21.74%) SAN
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
3 3 (13.04%) DNS
3 3 (13.04%) LAN
3 3 (13.04%) VoIP
3 3 (13.04%) Firewall
4 2 (8.696%) Wireless
4 2 (8.696%) NAS
4 2 (8.696%) WAN
4 2 (8.696%) DHCP
5 1 (4.348%) Internet
5 1 (4.348%) BIG-IP
5 1 (4.348%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (17.39%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) DB2
2 1 (4.348%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Ant
General
1 10 (43.48%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.348%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Systems Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Architect
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Server Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
4 2 (8.696%) Storage Architect
4 2 (8.696%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.348%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Storage Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Wintel Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Virtualisation Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.348%) WebSphere Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) Replication
2 1 (4.348%) Clustering
2 1 (4.348%) VLE
2 1 (4.348%) Fat Client
2 1 (4.348%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
2 13 (56.52%) Linux
3 12 (52.17%) UNIX
4 6 (26.09%) Windows 7
5 4 (17.39%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (13.04%) AIX
7 2 (8.696%) Windows XP
7 2 (8.696%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.348%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) Validation
2 6 (26.09%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
4 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) Perl
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.348%) MCSE
2 1 (4.348%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (4.348%) MCITP
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) MetaFrame
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 2 (8.696%) UAG
3 2 (8.696%) XenDesktop
3 2 (8.696%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (8.696%) XenApp
4 1 (4.348%) XenServer
4 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.348%) Terminal Server
4 1 (4.348%) ISA Server
4 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.348%) Forefront TMG
4 1 (4.348%) IAG
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Tivoli
1 6 (26.09%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 5 (21.74%) SCCM
3 1 (4.348%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 1 (4.348%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (43.48%) Citrix
2 10 (43.48%) Cisco
3 7 (30.43%) IBM
3 7 (30.43%) Microsoft
4 4 (17.39%) Oracle
5 3 (13.04%) F5
5 3 (13.04%) HP
6 2 (8.696%) NetApp
6 2 (8.696%) Red Hat
6 2 (8.696%) Brocade
7 1 (4.348%) Veeam
7 1 (4.348%) Hitachi
7 1 (4.348%) Symantec
7 1 (4.348%) McAfee