The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 21 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 2 23 19
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware 42 17 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 18.26% 4.971% 5.000%
As % of the Vendors category 37.50% 8.293% 10.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 5 4
Average daily rate £320 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
Average hourly rate £15.00 - £19.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.75 £23.50 £22.20
% change year-on-year
-3.19% +5.87%
All Vendors
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
112 205 77
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 48.70% 59.94% 48.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 101 33
Average daily rate £340 £425 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% +54.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £300 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £550 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 31 15
Average hourly rate £14.81 £16.00 £21.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.42% -25.58%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.40 £10.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £20.06 £28.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
VMware
Oxfordshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Oxford VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Oxford region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Oxford VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Oxford VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 34 (57.63%) MS Exchange
1 34 (57.63%) Exchange Server 2010
2 33 (55.93%) vSphere
3 31 (52.54%) MCSE
3 31 (52.54%) Microsoft Certification
3 31 (52.54%) Exchange Server 2003
4 30 (50.85%) SCOM
4 30 (50.85%) Migration
5 27 (45.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
7 23 (38.98%) Windows
7 23 (38.98%) MobileIron
8 22 (37.29%) Disaster Recovery
9 21 (35.59%) Data Protection
9 21 (35.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 18 (30.51%) Postini
11 16 (27.12%) VMware Infrastructure
11 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2008
12 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
12 14 (23.73%) Windows Server 2003
13 10 (16.95%) DNS
13 10 (16.95%) NetWare
13 10 (16.95%) UNIX
14 9 (15.25%) DHCP
15 8 (13.56%) Office Communications Server
15 8 (13.56%) Firewall
15 8 (13.56%) TCP/IP
15 8 (13.56%) SQL
15 8 (13.56%) Lync
16 7 (11.86%) Mercator

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 3 (5.085%) WSH
1 3 (5.085%) Web Services
2 1 (1.695%) Spring Batch
2 1 (1.695%) Spring Integration
2 1 (1.695%) Spring
2 1 (1.695%) Spring MVC
2 1 (1.695%) Spring Security
2 1 (1.695%) Spring Web Flow
2 1 (1.695%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 34 (57.63%) MS Exchange
1 34 (57.63%) Exchange Server 2010
2 31 (52.54%) Exchange Server 2003
3 27 (45.76%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 8 (13.56%) Office Communications Server
4 8 (13.56%) Lync
5 3 (5.085%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (5.085%) SharePoint
5 3 (5.085%) IIS
6 1 (1.695%) Jetty
6 1 (1.695%) Apache
6 1 (1.695%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.695%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (5.085%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.695%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.390%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.95%) DNS
2 9 (15.25%) DHCP
3 8 (13.56%) Firewall
3 8 (13.56%) TCP/IP
4 5 (8.475%) SAN
5 4 (6.780%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (5.085%) VPN
7 2 (3.390%) Network Security
8 1 (1.695%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.695%) SMTP
8 1 (1.695%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.390%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.695%) MarkLogic
2 1 (1.695%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.695%) Spring Roo
General
1 7 (11.86%) Publishing
2 2 (3.390%) Electronics
2 2 (3.390%) Telecoms
2 2 (3.390%) Finance
2 2 (3.390%) Manufacturing
2 2 (3.390%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 22 (37.29%) Consultant
2 19 (32.20%) Messaging Consultant
3 16 (27.12%) Administrator
4 9 (15.25%) Systems Administrator
4 9 (15.25%) Messaging Engineer
5 6 (10.17%) Windows Administrator
5 6 (10.17%) Exchange Consultant
6 5 (8.475%) Analyst
6 5 (8.475%) Support Analyst
7 4 (6.780%) Systems Engineer
8 3 (5.085%) Technical Analyst
8 3 (5.085%) Network Administrator
8 3 (5.085%) Technical Support Analyst
8 3 (5.085%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 3 (5.085%) Technical Support
9 2 (3.390%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.390%) Architect
9 2 (3.390%) Exchange Administrator
9 2 (3.390%) Messaging Administrator
9 2 (3.390%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (3.390%) DTV
2 1 (1.695%) Computer Science
2 1 (1.695%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 23 (38.98%) Windows
2 16 (27.12%) Windows Server 2008
3 14 (23.73%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (16.95%) NetWare
4 10 (16.95%) UNIX
5 4 (6.780%) Linux
6 3 (5.085%) Windows 7
6 3 (5.085%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.390%) Debian
7 2 (3.390%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (3.390%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.695%) CentOS
8 1 (1.695%) Ubuntu
8 1 (1.695%) AIX
8 1 (1.695%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (50.85%) Migration
2 22 (37.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 21 (35.59%) Data Protection
4 6 (10.17%) ITIL
5 2 (3.390%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (3.390%) Digital Marketing
5 2 (3.390%) Programme Management
6 1 (1.695%) BDD
6 1 (1.695%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.695%) Technical Architecture
6 1 (1.695%) Enterprise Architecture
6 1 (1.695%) Software Engineering
6 1 (1.695%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (1.695%) MVC
6 1 (1.695%) Scrum
6 1 (1.695%) IC Design
6 1 (1.695%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (1.695%) TDD
6 1 (1.695%) Six Sigma
6 1 (1.695%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.56%) SQL
2 3 (5.085%) VB
3 2 (3.390%) Bash shell
4 1 (1.695%) C
4 1 (1.695%) Java
4 1 (1.695%) Perl
4 1 (1.695%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (52.54%) MCSE
1 31 (52.54%) Microsoft Certification
2 21 (35.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 6 (10.17%) Degree
4 4 (6.780%) CCNA
4 4 (6.780%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.695%) CCIE
5 1 (1.695%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.390%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 33 (55.93%) vSphere
2 16 (27.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (23.73%) Active Directory
4 4 (6.780%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (5.085%) VMware ESX
6 2 (3.390%) NFS
6 2 (3.390%) vCloud
7 1 (1.695%) XenApp
7 1 (1.695%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 30 (50.85%) SCOM
2 6 (10.17%) Tivoli
2 6 (10.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 6 (10.17%) Nagios
3 3 (5.085%) SCCM
4 1 (1.695%) Foglight
4 1 (1.695%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 24 (40.68%) Microsoft
2 23 (38.98%) MobileIron
3 18 (30.51%) Postini
4 7 (11.86%) Mercator
4 7 (11.86%) Cisco
4 7 (11.86%) Altiris
5 6 (10.17%) Citrix
6 4 (6.780%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.390%) SAP
8 1 (1.695%) Cadence
8 1 (1.695%) Dell
8 1 (1.695%) NetApp
8 1 (1.695%) Veritas
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