The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 17 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 Scotland 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 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 116 92 106
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +14
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 4 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.164% 0.491% 0.285%
As % of the System Software category 2.286% 6.842% 3.493%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 5
Average daily rate £300 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -8.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.60% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.00 £22.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year
+13.63% +83.33%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
175 190 229
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.175% 7.173% 8.164%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 93 63
Average daily rate £350 £309 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.36% +12.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £152 £181 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £419 £393
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 20
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £16.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +51.51%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £17.25 £11.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.40 £35.00 £25.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Hyper-V
UK

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Hyper-V Daily Rate Histogram

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -26 1 £450 +28.57%
Fife - 1 - -
Hyper-V
UK

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 9 (69.23%) Windows
1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
3 6 (46.15%) VMware ESX
4 5 (38.46%) Citrix
4 5 (38.46%) SAN
5 4 (30.77%) Lotus
5 4 (30.77%) ITIL
5 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
5 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
5 4 (30.77%) Project Management
5 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
5 4 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
6 3 (23.08%) NAS
6 3 (23.08%) XenApp
6 3 (23.08%) SCCM
6 3 (23.08%) SCOM
6 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
6 3 (23.08%) Banking
6 3 (23.08%) Retail
6 3 (23.08%) Terminal Server
6 3 (23.08%) Clustering
6 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Fusion
Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (23.08%) Lotus Domino
3 1 (7.692%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.692%) Lotus Notes
Communications & Networking
1 5 (38.46%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) NAS
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) DHCP
2 3 (23.08%) DNS
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) SMS
3 2 (15.38%) Wireless
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (7.692%) HSRP
4 1 (7.692%) MPLS
4 1 (7.692%) BGP
4 1 (7.692%) EIGRP
4 1 (7.692%) Firewall
4 1 (7.692%) VoIP
4 1 (7.692%) WLAN
4 1 (7.692%) ADSL
4 1 (7.692%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Exadata
General
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
1 3 (23.08%) Retail
1 3 (23.08%) Retail Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Investment Banking
3 1 (7.692%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 2 (15.38%) Analyst
1 2 (15.38%) Server Support
1 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (7.692%) Technical Manager
2 1 (7.692%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (7.692%) Lead Technical Architect
2 1 (7.692%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Lead Architect
2 1 (7.692%) Senior Technical Manager
2 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Senior Architect
2 1 (7.692%) HP Storage Specialist
2 1 (7.692%) HP Storage Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (7.692%) Project Engineer
2 1 (7.692%) Senior Technical Architect
2 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Cloud Computing
2 3 (23.08%) Clustering
3 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
3 1 (7.692%) EPoS
3 1 (7.692%) EMV
3 1 (7.692%) Firmware
3 1 (7.692%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 9 (69.23%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (61.54%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) ITIL
1 4 (30.77%) Project Management
1 4 (30.77%) Migration
2 3 (23.08%) Service Delivery
3 2 (15.38%) Change Management
3 2 (15.38%) Release Management
3 2 (15.38%) ITIL V3
4 1 (7.692%) Time Management
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Network Management
4 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) SLA
2 1 (7.692%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (61.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) VMware ESX
3 4 (30.77%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (23.08%) XenApp
4 3 (23.08%) Terminal Server
5 2 (15.38%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 1 (7.692%) ISA Server
6 1 (7.692%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) MOM
1 3 (23.08%) SCCM
1 3 (23.08%) SCOM
2 1 (7.692%) FortiGate
2 1 (7.692%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) VMware
2 5 (38.46%) Citrix
3 4 (30.77%) Lotus
3 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco
5 1 (7.692%) HP
5 1 (7.692%) Symantec
5 1 (7.692%) SonicWALL