The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 9 32 24
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 31 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 13.30% 2.360% 1.863%
As % of the System Software category 60.78% 28.57% 15.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 3 0
Average daily rate £298 £300 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +116.85%
All System Software
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
51 28 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 21.89% 8.260% 12.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 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 £245 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
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 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
Oxfordshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford 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 Oxford region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Oxford 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 Oxford region.

Oxford vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 (100.00%) VMware
2 30 (88.24%) MS Exchange
2 30 (88.24%) Exchange Server 2010
3 28 (82.35%) Migration
4 27 (79.41%) Exchange Server 2003
4 27 (79.41%) Microsoft Certification
4 27 (79.41%) MCSE
5 26 (76.47%) SCOM
6 23 (67.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 23 (67.65%) Microsoft
6 23 (67.65%) MobileIron
7 22 (64.71%) Data Protection
7 22 (64.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 19 (55.88%) Postini
9 15 (44.12%) Disaster Recovery
10 9 (26.47%) Office Communications Server
10 9 (26.47%) Lync
11 7 (20.59%) Publishing
11 7 (20.59%) Mercator
12 5 (14.71%) Windows
13 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
13 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
13 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
14 3 (8.824%) SCCM
14 3 (8.824%) SharePoint 2010
14 3 (8.824%) VMware ESXi
14 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
14 3 (8.824%) SAN
14 3 (8.824%) DHCP
14 3 (8.824%) DNS

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 Platforms
1 30 (88.24%) MS Exchange
1 30 (88.24%) Exchange Server 2010
2 27 (79.41%) Exchange Server 2003
3 23 (67.65%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 9 (26.47%) Office Communications Server
4 9 (26.47%) Lync
5 3 (8.824%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (8.824%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.941%) IIS
6 1 (2.941%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.941%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.824%) SAN
1 3 (8.824%) DHCP
1 3 (8.824%) DNS
2 1 (2.941%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (2.941%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 1 (2.941%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (20.59%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (55.88%) Consultant
2 16 (47.06%) Messaging Consultant
3 8 (23.53%) Messaging Engineer
4 6 (17.65%) Exchange Consultant
5 5 (14.71%) Administrator
5 5 (14.71%) Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Support Analyst
5 5 (14.71%) Systems Administrator
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Support Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Analyst
6 3 (8.824%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (8.824%) Technical Support
7 2 (5.882%) Exchange Engineer
7 2 (5.882%) Senior Systems Administrator
7 2 (5.882%) Exchange Administrator
7 2 (5.882%) Messaging Administrator
8 1 (2.941%) Messaging Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Server Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Messaging Support Analyst
8 1 (2.941%) Server Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 5 (14.71%) Windows
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (11.76%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (2.941%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (2.941%) Debian
3 1 (2.941%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (82.35%) Migration
2 22 (64.71%) Data Protection
3 15 (44.12%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.941%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (2.941%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 27 (79.41%) Microsoft Certification
1 27 (79.41%) MCSE
2 22 (64.71%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (11.76%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.824%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.882%) vCloud
4 1 (2.941%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (2.941%) XenApp
4 1 (2.941%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 26 (76.47%) SCOM
2 3 (8.824%) SCCM
3 1 (2.941%) Foglight
Vendors
1 34 (100.00%) VMware
2 23 (67.65%) Microsoft
2 23 (67.65%) MobileIron
3 19 (55.88%) Postini
4 7 (20.59%) Mercator
5 1 (2.941%) Cisco
5 1 (2.941%) Red Hat
5 1 (2.941%) Dell
5 1 (2.941%) Citrix
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