vSphere Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 23 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 54 74 68
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -6
Contract jobs citing vSphere 11 5 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.311% 0.448% 1.313%
As % of the System Software category 10.58% 4.274% 8.235%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 7
Average daily rate £550 £320 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+71.87% -41.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £256 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £590 £384 £570
UK excluding London average daily rate £311 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-11.07% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +116.85%
All System Software
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 104 117 170
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 12.40% 10.49% 15.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 50 72
Average daily rate £330 £340 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.94% -9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £235 £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 20 17 9
Average hourly rate £19.00 £15.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+22.58% +47.61%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
Berkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the Reading region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Reading vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (88.24%) Windows
3 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
5 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2003
6 7 (41.18%) SQL
6 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
6 7 (41.18%) MS Office
7 6 (35.29%) MS Exchange
7 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
7 6 (35.29%) Retail
7 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2005
7 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
7 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
7 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (29.41%) Bash shell
8 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (29.41%) VLAN
8 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
8 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
8 5 (29.41%) Network Security
8 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
8 5 (29.41%) Perl
8 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
8 5 (29.41%) Python
8 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
8 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
8 5 (29.41%) Linux
9 4 (23.53%) Windows XP

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) MS Exchange
2 5 (29.41%) Exchange Server 2007
2 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
3 3 (17.65%) SharePoint 2010
3 3 (17.65%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (11.76%) IIS
4 2 (11.76%) SharePoint Server
5 1 (5.882%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MS Office
2 5 (29.41%) MS Excel
3 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (35.29%) TCP/IP
2 5 (29.41%) VLAN
2 5 (29.41%) Network Security
2 5 (29.41%) Kerberos
3 1 (5.882%) DHCP
3 1 (5.882%) SAN
3 1 (5.882%) DNS
3 1 (5.882%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (5.882%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (5.882%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
General
1 6 (35.29%) Retail
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Architect
1 5 (29.41%) Technical Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
3 2 (11.76%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support
3 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 1 (5.882%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.882%) Wintel Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Linux Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) VMware Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.882%) VMware Support Engineer
4 1 (5.882%) IT Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 10 (58.82%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (47.06%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (29.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 5 (29.41%) Linux
5 4 (23.53%) Windows XP
6 2 (11.76%) Windows 2000
7 1 (5.882%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Test Scripting
2 1 (5.882%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (5.882%) Project Management
2 1 (5.882%) System Testing
2 1 (5.882%) ITIL
2 1 (5.882%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
3 5 (29.41%) Bash shell
3 5 (29.41%) Perl
3 5 (29.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.76%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (5.882%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.882%) MCP
3 1 (5.882%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 9 (52.94%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (35.29%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (17.65%) Microsoft App-V
4 2 (11.76%) VMware ESX
5 1 (5.882%) ISA Server
5 1 (5.882%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (5.882%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.882%) XenApp
5 1 (5.882%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) SCOM
2 2 (11.76%) SCCM
2 2 (11.76%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 17 (100.00%) VMware
2 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) Red Hat
4 3 (17.65%) Clearswift
4 3 (17.65%) HP
5 2 (11.76%) Citrix
5 2 (11.76%) Cisco
6 1 (5.882%) Websense
6 1 (5.882%) Brocade
6 1 (5.882%) EMC
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