vSphere Contracts in Oxfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 14 48 49
Rank change year-on-year
+34 +1
Contract jobs citing vSphere 37 10 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 8.565% 1.563% 0.676%
As % of the System Software category 44.58% 20.83% 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 5 0
Average daily rate £298 £325 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.46% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £313
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £20.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.25 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-27.94% +116.85%
All System Software
Oxfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 83 48 47
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxfordshire 19.21% 7.500% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 9 8
Average daily rate £325 £325 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.70%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £392 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 27
Average hourly rate £14.50 £17.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.70% +6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £16.50 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.10 £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
South East

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

Oxfordshire vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Oxfordshire 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
Oxford +21 30 £295 -1.66%
vSphere
South East

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 40 (100.00%) VMware
2 35 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 35 (87.50%) Exchange Server 2010
3 32 (80.00%) MCSE
3 32 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 31 (77.50%) Migration
4 31 (77.50%) Exchange Server 2003
5 30 (75.00%) SCOM
6 28 (70.00%) Microsoft
7 27 (67.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 27 (67.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
7 27 (67.50%) MobileIron
8 26 (65.00%) Data Protection
9 22 (55.00%) Postini
10 16 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
11 9 (22.50%) Lync
11 9 (22.50%) Office Communications Server
12 7 (17.50%) Publishing
12 7 (17.50%) Mercator
13 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
13 6 (15.00%) Windows
14 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
15 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
15 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
15 4 (10.00%) SAN
16 3 (7.500%) SharePoint
16 3 (7.500%) DHCP
16 3 (7.500%) DNS
16 3 (7.500%) SCCM
16 3 (7.500%) SharePoint 2010

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 35 (87.50%) MS Exchange
1 35 (87.50%) Exchange Server 2010
2 31 (77.50%) Exchange Server 2003
3 27 (67.50%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 9 (22.50%) Lync
4 9 (22.50%) Office Communications Server
5 3 (7.500%) SharePoint 2010
5 3 (7.500%) SharePoint
6 1 (2.500%) IIS
6 1 (2.500%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (10.00%) SAN
2 3 (7.500%) DHCP
2 3 (7.500%) DNS
3 1 (2.500%) Firewall
3 1 (2.500%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.500%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.500%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 7 (17.50%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 23 (57.50%) Consultant
2 19 (47.50%) Messaging Consultant
3 8 (20.00%) Messaging Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Exchange Consultant
5 6 (15.00%) Systems Administrator
5 6 (15.00%) Administrator
6 5 (12.50%) Analyst
6 5 (12.50%) Support Analyst
7 3 (7.500%) Technical Support
7 3 (7.500%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (7.500%) Technical Support Analyst
7 3 (7.500%) Technical Analyst
7 3 (7.500%) Senior Systems Administrator
8 2 (5.000%) Exchange Administrator
8 2 (5.000%) Exchange Engineer
8 2 (5.000%) Messaging Administrator
9 1 (2.500%) Messaging Analyst
9 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
9 1 (2.500%) Server Analyst
9 1 (2.500%) Messaging Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.00%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (10.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (5.000%) Debian
4 2 (5.000%) Linux
5 1 (2.500%) Windows XP
5 1 (2.500%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (2.500%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (77.50%) Migration
2 26 (65.00%) Data Protection
3 16 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (2.500%) ITIL
4 1 (2.500%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (2.500%) Infrastructure Management
Qualifications
1 32 (80.00%) MCSE
1 32 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 27 (67.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.500%) MCP
System Software
1 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (7.500%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (7.500%) vCloud
4 1 (2.500%) XenApp
4 1 (2.500%) VMware ESX
4 1 (2.500%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 30 (75.00%) SCOM
2 3 (7.500%) SCCM
3 1 (2.500%) Foglight
Vendors
1 40 (100.00%) VMware
2 28 (70.00%) Microsoft
3 27 (67.50%) MobileIron
4 22 (55.00%) Postini
5 7 (17.50%) Mercator
6 2 (5.000%) Dell
6 2 (5.000%) Cisco
6 2 (5.000%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.500%) Citrix
Senior Messaging Engineer - Contract | Oxford | Exchange 2003 | Exchan
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