The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 20 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 Oxford 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank - 37 21
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 0 1 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - 0.294% 1.282%
As % of the System Software category - 3.448% 10.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £250 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £18.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +10.09%
All System Software
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
50 29 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 21.93% 8.529% 12.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 4 8
Average daily rate £300 £300 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 7
Average hourly rate £13.00 £20.25 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-35.80% -5.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.52 £18.45 £18.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.60 £22.05 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
VMware ESX
Oxfordshire

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Foglight
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (33.33%) Cadence
3 1 (33.33%) IC Design
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Server Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Server Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Linux Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
3 1 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
1 1 (33.33%) IC Design
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) XenApp
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Foglight
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Cadence
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) Red Hat