The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure 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 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
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 43 69 32
Rank change year-on-year
+26 -37
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 26 15 52
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.965% 1.301% 5.210%
As % of the System Software category 21.85% 12.00% 33.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 7 28
Average daily rate £260 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.71% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £136 £277 £319
10% offered a daily rate of more than £385 £402 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 0
Average hourly rate £25.50 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-27.14% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £18.50 £20.75
% change year-on-year
+24.32% -10.84%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
119 125 155
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 13.57% 10.84% 15.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 59 55
Average daily rate £330 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £474 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 19 13
Average hourly rate £27.50 £19.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+41.02% +77.27%
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 Infrastructure
Berkshire

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Reading VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 44 (91.67%) Windows
3 33 (68.75%) Active Directory
4 30 (62.50%) Microsoft
5 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 22 (45.83%) Citrix
7 22 (45.83%) HP
8 19 (39.58%) MS Office
9 18 (37.50%) LAN
9 18 (37.50%) TCP/IP
10 17 (35.42%) Windows XP
11 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
12 15 (31.25%) Windows 7
13 14 (29.17%) Internet
14 13 (27.08%) SQL
14 13 (27.08%) MS Excel
14 13 (27.08%) SCCM
15 12 (25.00%) WAN
15 12 (25.00%) VPN
15 12 (25.00%) Ethernet
15 12 (25.00%) Finance
15 12 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
16 11 (22.92%) Clustering
16 11 (22.92%) Retail
16 11 (22.92%) ITIL
16 11 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
17 10 (20.83%) MS Exchange
17 10 (20.83%) SAN
18 9 (18.75%) Remedy

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (12.50%) .NET
1 6 (12.50%) Web Services
2 5 (10.42%) J2EE
3 4 (8.333%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.083%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 10 (20.83%) MS Exchange
2 9 (18.75%) IIS
2 9 (18.75%) Exchange Server 2007
2 9 (18.75%) SharePoint
3 7 (14.58%) SharePoint 2010
4 6 (12.50%) IBM HTTP Server
4 6 (12.50%) Apache
4 6 (12.50%) Tomcat
5 5 (10.42%) Oracle HTTP Server
6 4 (8.333%) WebSphere Application Server
6 4 (8.333%) WebLogic
7 3 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2003
8 2 (4.167%) SharePoint Server
8 2 (4.167%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (2.083%) FileNet
9 1 (2.083%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (2.083%) IBM Notes
9 1 (2.083%) Lotus Domino
9 1 (2.083%) Documentum
Applications
1 19 (39.58%) MS Office
2 13 (27.08%) MS Excel
3 8 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 18 (37.50%) LAN
1 18 (37.50%) TCP/IP
2 14 (29.17%) Internet
3 12 (25.00%) VPN
3 12 (25.00%) WAN
3 12 (25.00%) Ethernet
4 10 (20.83%) SAN
5 6 (12.50%) HTTP
6 3 (6.250%) DHCP
6 3 (6.250%) DNS
6 3 (6.250%) ADSL
7 1 (2.083%) Firewall
7 1 (2.083%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (2.083%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (2.083%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 11 (22.92%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (4.167%) IDOL
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 11g
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (2.083%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Visual Studio
1 2 (4.167%) WinRunner
1 2 (4.167%) MSI
1 2 (4.167%) JIRA
1 2 (4.167%) Selenium
1 2 (4.167%) Wise Package Studio
General
1 12 (25.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.92%) Retail
3 5 (10.42%) Publishing
4 2 (4.167%) Banking
4 2 (4.167%) Marketing
5 1 (2.083%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 10 (20.83%) Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Service Analyst
2 8 (16.67%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (12.50%) Administrator
3 6 (12.50%) Systems Administrator
3 6 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
4 5 (10.42%) Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) Senior Systems Administrator
5 4 (8.333%) Support Engineer
5 4 (8.333%) Citrix Specialist
6 3 (6.250%) Senior Citrix Specialist
6 3 (6.250%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 3 (6.250%) Applications Packager
6 3 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
6 3 (6.250%) WebSphere Consultant
7 2 (4.167%) Test Coordinator
7 2 (4.167%) Integration Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) UNIX Engineer
7 2 (4.167%) Coordinator
7 2 (4.167%) Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (22.92%) Clustering
2 8 (16.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (2.083%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 44 (91.67%) Windows
2 25 (52.08%) Windows Server 2008
3 24 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 17 (35.42%) Windows XP
5 15 (31.25%) Windows 7
6 8 (16.67%) Mac OS X
7 3 (6.250%) Linux
7 3 (6.250%) UNIX
8 2 (4.167%) Windows 2000 Server
8 2 (4.167%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (4.167%) Windows 2000
8 2 (4.167%) HPUX
8 2 (4.167%) Solaris
8 2 (4.167%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (22.92%) ITIL
2 9 (18.75%) Software Distribution
3 5 (10.42%) Workflow
3 5 (10.42%) Content Management
4 4 (8.333%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (6.250%) Migration
5 3 (6.250%) Enterprise Architecture
6 2 (4.167%) Problem Management
6 2 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (4.167%) Test Scripting
6 2 (4.167%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (4.167%) Validation
6 2 (4.167%) Automated Testing
6 2 (4.167%) Software Testing
6 2 (4.167%) Incident Management
6 2 (4.167%) ITSM
6 2 (4.167%) Service Management
6 2 (4.167%) Service Delivery
6 2 (4.167%) Change Management
7 1 (2.083%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 13 (27.08%) SQL
2 8 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.167%) VBScript
3 2 (4.167%) VB
4 1 (2.083%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (6.250%) MCSE
1 3 (6.250%) CCA
1 3 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
1 3 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (6.250%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.167%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (4.167%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (2.083%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.083%) VCP4
3 1 (2.083%) VCP5
3 1 (2.083%) OCP
3 1 (2.083%) Oracle Certification
3 1 (2.083%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.250%) SLA
2 2 (4.167%) QA
System Software
1 33 (68.75%) Active Directory
2 12 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 6 (12.50%) vSphere
3 6 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (10.42%) XenApp
5 3 (6.250%) XenServer
5 3 (6.250%) VMware ESX
6 2 (4.167%) ISA Server
6 2 (4.167%) XenDesktop
6 2 (4.167%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 2 (4.167%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (4.167%) Hyper-V
7 1 (2.083%) Forefront TMG
7 1 (2.083%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) SCCM
2 9 (18.75%) Unicenter
3 5 (10.42%) SCOM
3 5 (10.42%) HP SIM
4 4 (8.333%) Foglight
5 3 (6.250%) OpenView Configuration Management
6 2 (4.167%) NetBackup
7 1 (2.083%) MOM
Vendors
1 48 (100.00%) VMware
2 30 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 22 (45.83%) Citrix
3 22 (45.83%) HP
4 9 (18.75%) Remedy
4 9 (18.75%) CA
4 9 (18.75%) Royalblue
4 9 (18.75%) FrontRange
5 6 (12.50%) IBM
6 5 (10.42%) Oracle
7 4 (8.333%) JBoss
7 4 (8.333%) Clearswift
8 3 (6.250%) Dell
8 3 (6.250%) Lotus
9 2 (4.167%) Red Hat
9 2 (4.167%) EMC
9 2 (4.167%) Altiris
9 2 (4.167%) Brocade
9 2 (4.167%) LANDesk
10 1 (2.083%) SolarWinds
Reading, Thames Valley
You will be responsible for providing both on-site and remote administration of Microsoft Windows Servers, Citrix Provisioning, Citrix XenApp, XenServer, and a multitude of proprietary applications... Required...
Claremont Consulting
Rate: £350 - £420 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013