The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 24 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 Peterborough 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 14 15 23
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +8
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 2.062% 5.814% 0.926%
As % of the Vendors category 3.571% 12.20% 2.500%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 0
Average daily rate - £315 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £27.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.25 £22.50 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+3.33% +0.31%
All Vendors
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
56 41 40
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 57.73% 47.67% 37.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 12
Average daily rate £363 £294 £290
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.40% +1.29%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £241 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £350 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 12
Average hourly rate £13.00 £12.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+8.33% -35.13%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
Cambridgeshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Peterborough VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (75.00%) ARCserve
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (50.00%) HTTP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (25.00%) COM
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 1 (25.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) HTTP
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) ARCserve
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (25.00%) Intel
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft