The first table below looks at the demand for VCP5 in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VCP5 over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Reading 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 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
Rank 68 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VCP5 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.114% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.441% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £375 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £190 -
% change year-on-year
+47.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
227 344 345
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 25.88% 29.84% 34.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 122 129
Average daily rate £425 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.42% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £303 £235 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £510 £450 £458
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 13
Average hourly rate £18.50 £15.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+23.33% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.72 £12.60 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.90 £27.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%
VCP5
Berkshire

VCP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP5 across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading VCP5 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP5 across the Reading region.

Reading VCP5 Daily Rate Trend

VCP5
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VCP5 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 VCP5.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) VCP4

VCP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VCP5 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 VCP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Consultant
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (100.00%) VCP4
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
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