The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere 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 of the System Software category for the Portsmouth 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 16 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 0 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 1.190% - 1.923%
As % of the System Software category 8.333% - 6.818%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £30.00 - £16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £41.74 £20.94
% change year-on-year
-28.12% +99.35%
All System Software
Portsmouth
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
12 5 44
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Portsmouth 14.29% 5.000% 28.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 11
Average daily rate £200 - £300
90% offered a daily rate of more than £112 - £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £288 - £406
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 4 19
Average hourly rate £27.50 £27.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.85% +35.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £26.98 £27.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £27.00 £31.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
vSphere
Hampshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth region.

Portsmouth vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Portsmouth vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
1 1 (100.00%) LogLogic

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) HPUX
1 1 (100.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) SCCM
1 1 (100.00%) SCOM
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) McAfee
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) LogLogic