The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 68 - 76
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 3 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.355% - 0.387%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.422% - 1.064%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £375 - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+116.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
211 333 376
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 24.97% 31.24% 36.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 100 127 129
Average daily rate £410 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £220 £224
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 10
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.00 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.77% -5.26%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Berkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the Reading region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Reading VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the Reading region.

Reading VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP).

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) Internet
4 1 (25.00%) Remedy
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) LAMP
4 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
4 1 (25.00%) Intel
4 1 (25.00%) Citrix
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) RHCE
4 1 (25.00%) HPUX Certification
4 1 (25.00%) SAN
4 1 (25.00%) Veritas
4 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) AIX
4 1 (25.00%) HPUX
4 1 (25.00%) Solaris
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) SAN
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) MySQL
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Consultant
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (25.00%) AIX
2 1 (25.00%) HPUX
2 1 (25.00%) Solaris
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) FreeBSD
2 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (25.00%) ITIL
1 1 (25.00%) Project Management
1 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (25.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCP
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
1 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (25.00%) VCP4
1 1 (25.00%) VCP5
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) VirtualBox
3 1 (25.00%) Xen
3 1 (25.00%) Postfix
3 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) OpenView
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) Intel
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
3 1 (25.00%) Remedy
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) JBoss
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) Sun
3 1 (25.00%) Egenera