The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills 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 ESX over the 3 months to 19 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 of the System Software category 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 70 73 61
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -12
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 3 8 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.341% 0.695% 1.680%
As % of the System Software category 2.381% 6.612% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 9
Average daily rate - £375 £390
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -3.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -4.00%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
126 121 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 14.32% 10.51% 14.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 56 53
Average daily rate £330 £333 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.75% -5.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £495 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 17 13
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% +81.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.00 £15.13 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.50 £35.00 £21.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware ESX
Berkshire

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) ITIL
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (50.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Firewall
4 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
4 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (25.00%) IBM HTTP Server
2 1 (25.00%) IIS
2 1 (25.00%) Apache
2 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle HTTP Server
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Office
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
2 1 (25.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle 10g
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) DBA
1 1 (25.00%) Applications Packager
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) Windows XP
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (25.00%) MCP
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) OCP
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle Certification
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) vSphere
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Workstation
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (25.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM