The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Server 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 Server 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Server
Rank 69 - 84
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware Server 1 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.120% - 0.096%
As % of the System Software category 0.980% - 0.592%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £330 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £300
% change year-on-year
+14.28% +16.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 £23.50
% change year-on-year
- -23.40%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
102 120 169
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.22% 10.76% 16.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 51 72
Average daily rate £328 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.67% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £231 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 19 9
Average hourly rate £20.75 £16.13 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.68% +53.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware Server
Berkshire

VMware Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading VMware Server Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading VMware Server Daily Rate Trend

VMware Server
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware Server 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 Server.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
3 1 (33.33%) SLA
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) EMC
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering

VMware Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing VMware Server 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 Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) LAN
1 2 (66.67%) WAN
1 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Lotus
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) NetApp
3 1 (33.33%) EMC