Portsmouth VMware Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts within the Portsmouth region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Rank	23	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	9	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	8.824 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	2	0
Average minimum daily rate	£250	-
Average daily rate	£273	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£295	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£349	£317
% change on same period last year	+10.02 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£25.60	£29.89
% change on same period last year	-14.37 %
Vendors Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	102	73
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.136 %	0.074 %
Daily rates quoted	13	7
Average minimum daily rate	£290	£272
Average daily rate	£320	£305
% change on same period last year	+4.91 %
Average maximum daily rate	£350	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£359
% change on same period last year	-0.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	42
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.62	£20.11
Average hourly rate	£24.61	£21.49
% change on same period last year	+14.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£25.61	£22.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.25	£24.99
% change on same period last year	-6.94 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within VMware, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 14 (66.67 %) Citrix 1 14 (66.67 %) SAN 2 13 (61.90 %) Windows 3 9 (42.86 %) Active Directory 3 9 (42.86 %) Dell 3 9 (42.86 %) EMC 4 7 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 5 6 (28.57 %) Red Hat 5 6 (28.57 %) UNIX 5 6 (28.57 %) HPUX 5 6 (28.57 %) Linux 5 6 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server 5 6 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 6 5 (23.81 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 4 (19.05 %) NetBackup

7 4 (19.05 %) DNS 8 3 (14.29 %) HP 8 3 (14.29 %) SQL 9 2 (9.524 %) Client/Server 9 2 (9.524 %) Fat Client 9 2 (9.524 %) SC Cleared 9 2 (9.524 %) MySQL 9 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 9 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 9 2 (9.524 %) Perl 9 2 (9.524 %) Thin Client 9 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Server 9 2 (9.524 %) VERITAS 9 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification 9 2 (9.524 %) CCEA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 1 (4.762 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 14 (66.67 %) SAN 2 4 (19.05 %) DNS	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.524 %) MySQL 2 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2 1 (4.762 %) SQL Server 2005
General 1 2 (9.524 %) Telecoms 1 2 (9.524 %) Government	Job Titles 1 12 (57.14 %) Administrator 2 7 (33.33 %) Systems Administrator 3 6 (28.57 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 3 6 (28.57 %) UNIX Administrator 3 6 (28.57 %) Linux Systems Administrator 3 6 (28.57 %) Linux Administrator 4 4 (19.05 %) Server Engineer 4 4 (19.05 %) Citrix Administrator 5 3 (14.29 %) Citrix Engineer 5 3 (14.29 %) Citrix Support 5 3 (14.29 %) Technical Engineer 6 2 (9.524 %) Server Support 6 2 (9.524 %) Support Engineer 6 2 (9.524 %) 3rd Line Support 6 2 (9.524 %) Windows Server Engineer 7 1 (4.762 %) Server Support Engineer 7 1 (4.762 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (4.762 %) Technical Support 7 1 (4.762 %) Technical Support Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.524 %) Client/Server 1 2 (9.524 %) Thin Client 1 2 (9.524 %) Fat Client	Operating Systems 1 13 (61.90 %) Windows 2 7 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (28.57 %) UNIX 3 6 (28.57 %) HPUX 3 6 (28.57 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (28.57 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (9.524 %) SC Cleared	Programming Languages 1 3 (14.29 %) SQL 2 2 (9.524 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 2 (9.524 %) MCSE 1 2 (9.524 %) Citrix Certification 1 2 (9.524 %) CCEA 1 2 (9.524 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) Degree	System Software 1 9 (42.86 %) Active Directory 2 6 (28.57 %) Citrix Presentation Server 3 5 (23.81 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 4 (19.05 %) NetBackup 5 2 (9.524 %) MetaFrame 5 2 (9.524 %) Terminal Server 5 2 (9.524 %) Samba 5 2 (9.524 %) VMware ESX 6 1 (4.762 %) Backup Exec
Vendors 1 14 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 9 (42.86 %) Dell 2 9 (42.86 %) EMC 3 6 (28.57 %) Red Hat 4 3 (14.29 %) HP 5 2 (9.524 %) VERITAS 5 2 (9.524 %) Oracle 6 1 (4.762 %) Cisco 6 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft