The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESXi 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 VMware ESXi 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
VMware ESXi
Rank 119 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware ESXi 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.041% - -
As % of the System Software category 0.571% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 - £21.96
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%
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland VMware ESXi Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESXi
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland VMware ESXi Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESXi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Scotland VMware ESXi Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESXi
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware ESXi 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 - 1 - -
VMware ESXi
UK

VMware ESXi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing VMware ESXi 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 ESXi.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 4 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) VMware ESX
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Lotus
3 3 (60.00%) Lotus Domino
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) NAS
3 3 (60.00%) Migration
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL V3
4 2 (40.00%) ITIL
4 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (40.00%) Terminal Server
4 2 (40.00%) Change Management
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
5 1 (20.00%) Back Office
5 1 (20.00%) Firewall
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (20.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
5 1 (20.00%) Smartcard
5 1 (20.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP

VMware ESXi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 3 (60.00%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) SAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) NAS
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) HSRP
4 1 (20.00%) VPN
4 1 (20.00%) ADSL
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) BGP
4 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
General
1 1 (20.00%) Back Office
1 1 (20.00%) Banking
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
1 1 (20.00%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Project Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (20.00%) EPoS
2 1 (20.00%) EMV
2 1 (20.00%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (80.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Migration
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL
2 2 (40.00%) Change Management
2 2 (40.00%) ITIL V3
3 1 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 1 (20.00%) Project Management
3 1 (20.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (80.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (80.00%) VMware ESX
3 2 (40.00%) Terminal Server
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (60.00%) Lotus
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Citrix
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) SonicWALL