The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Oxfordshire 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 44 45 40
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 7 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 1.496% 1.391% 2.249%
As % of the System Software category 9.211% 18.60% 17.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 8
Average daily rate £435 £300 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.00% -25.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £18.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+16.21% -9.75%
All System Software
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
76 43 64
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 16.24% 7.478% 13.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 7 16
Average daily rate £340 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £189 £218 £120
10% offered a daily rate of more than £411 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 27
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09% +13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.44 £12.41 £11.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £17.10 £25.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Oxford +1 4 £475 +58.33% 4
Thame - - - -
Wantage - - - -
Witney - - - -
Abingdon - - - - 2
VMware Infrastructure
South East

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 18 (72.00%) Windows
3 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (36.00%) UNIX
6 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 7 (28.00%) SQL
7 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (24.00%) NetWare
8 6 (24.00%) Linux
8 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
8 6 (24.00%) Tivoli
8 6 (24.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 6 (24.00%) Nagios
8 6 (24.00%) Citrix
8 6 (24.00%) Altiris
9 5 (20.00%) MS Exchange
9 5 (20.00%) DNS
9 5 (20.00%) Cisco
9 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 4 (16.00%) DHCP
10 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
10 4 (16.00%) MCSE
10 4 (16.00%) Solaris
10 4 (16.00%) ITIL
10 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (16.00%) Cisco IOS
10 4 (16.00%) Degree
10 4 (16.00%) Windows 7

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (12.00%) WSH
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 4 (16.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (12.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (8.000%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 2 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (4.000%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MS Office
1 1 (4.000%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (8.000%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (28.00%) TCP/IP
2 5 (20.00%) DNS
3 4 (16.00%) DHCP
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (8.000%) SAN
5 1 (4.000%) Intranet
5 1 (4.000%) Internet
5 1 (4.000%) Firewall
5 1 (4.000%) Wireless
5 1 (4.000%) LAN
5 1 (4.000%) SMTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) MarkLogic
2 2 (8.000%) Oracle 11g
3 1 (4.000%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.000%) Oracle 10g
General
1 2 (8.000%) Electronics
1 2 (8.000%) Telecoms
1 2 (8.000%) Finance
1 2 (8.000%) Manufacturing
1 2 (8.000%) Marketing
2 1 (4.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Administrator
2 6 (24.00%) Windows Administrator
3 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 3 (12.00%) Consultant
3 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.000%) Architect
4 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (8.000%) Senior Systems Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) Exchange Consultant
4 2 (8.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.000%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) Virtualisation Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (4.000%) Server Engineer
5 1 (4.000%) IT Administrator
5 1 (4.000%) Network Support
5 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Architect
5 1 (4.000%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.000%) DTV
1 2 (8.000%) Clustering
2 1 (4.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 18 (72.00%) Windows
2 12 (48.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 10 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (36.00%) UNIX
5 6 (24.00%) NetWare
5 6 (24.00%) Linux
6 4 (16.00%) Windows XP
6 4 (16.00%) Solaris
6 4 (16.00%) Windows 7
7 2 (8.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (8.000%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (4.000%) Debian
8 1 (4.000%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (32.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (16.00%) ITIL
3 2 (8.000%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (8.000%) Six Sigma
3 2 (8.000%) Migration
3 2 (8.000%) Programme Management
3 2 (8.000%) Digital Marketing
3 2 (8.000%) Data Protection
4 1 (4.000%) Lean Six Sigma
4 1 (4.000%) Problem Management
4 1 (4.000%) Technical Architecture
4 1 (4.000%) IC Design
4 1 (4.000%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (28.00%) SQL
2 3 (12.00%) Bash shell
2 3 (12.00%) Perl
2 3 (12.00%) VB
3 1 (4.000%) C-shell
3 1 (4.000%) Korn
Qualifications
1 4 (16.00%) MCSE
1 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 4 (16.00%) Degree
2 3 (12.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (4.000%) VCP4
3 1 (4.000%) CCEE
3 1 (4.000%) CCAA
3 1 (4.000%) CCIA
3 1 (4.000%) VCP5
3 1 (4.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.000%) MCITP
3 1 (4.000%) Sun Certification
3 1 (4.000%) CCA
3 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (4.000%) CCEA
3 1 (4.000%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.000%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 10 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) vSphere
3 2 (8.000%) NFS
3 2 (8.000%) VMware ESX
3 2 (8.000%) XenApp
4 1 (4.000%) XenDesktop
4 1 (4.000%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.000%) vCloud
4 1 (4.000%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Tivoli
1 6 (24.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 6 (24.00%) Nagios
2 2 (8.000%) SCOM
3 1 (4.000%) SCCM
3 1 (4.000%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 25 (100.00%) VMware
2 6 (24.00%) Red Hat
2 6 (24.00%) Citrix
2 6 (24.00%) Altiris
3 5 (20.00%) Cisco
3 5 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (12.00%) Veritas
4 3 (12.00%) HP
5 2 (8.000%) Oracle
5 2 (8.000%) SAP
5 2 (8.000%) Postini
5 2 (8.000%) MobileIron
6 1 (4.000%) Cadence
6 1 (4.000%) Symantec
6 1 (4.000%) Apple
6 1 (4.000%) Juniper
6 1 (4.000%) Dell
6 1 (4.000%) EMC
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