vSphere Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 107 89 103
Rank change year-on-year
-18 +14
Contract jobs citing vSphere 15 20 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.607% 0.757% 0.475%
As % of the System Software category 8.621% 10.47% 5.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 6
Average daily rate £363 £410 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.58% +49.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £222 £325 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £470 £288
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £21.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +125.29%
All System Software
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 174 191 225
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 7.039% 7.227% 8.221%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 92 63
Average daily rate £350 £311 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.54% +13.09%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £156 £179 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 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 £17.00 £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%
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 21 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
Edinburgh +12 9 £220 -48.83%
Glasgow -27 4 £294 -21.14%
Renfrewshire - 2 £425 -
vSphere
UK

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 26 (86.67%) Windows
2 25 (83.33%) MS Exchange
3 21 (70.00%) VMware
4 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2003
4 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2008
5 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
6 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 11 (36.67%) Citrix
7 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
8 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
9 9 (30.00%) SQL
9 9 (30.00%) Linux
9 9 (30.00%) SharePoint
10 8 (26.67%) Apache
11 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2007
12 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
12 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
12 6 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
12 6 (20.00%) Internet
12 6 (20.00%) CommVault
12 6 (20.00%) MCSE
12 6 (20.00%) ITIL
12 6 (20.00%) DNS
13 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
13 5 (16.67%) Java
13 5 (16.67%) .NET
13 5 (16.67%) NetApp
13 5 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 Development
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 25 (83.33%) MS Exchange
2 9 (30.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (26.67%) Apache
4 7 (23.33%) Exchange Server 2007
5 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
6 5 (16.67%) SharePoint Server
7 4 (13.33%) Lotus Notes
8 2 (6.667%) IIS
9 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (3.333%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Internet
1 6 (20.00%) DNS
2 4 (13.33%) DHCP
3 2 (6.667%) LDAP
4 1 (3.333%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 6 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 5 (16.67%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle 8/8i
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle 9i
5 1 (3.333%) TOAD
5 1 (3.333%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 1 (3.333%) Subversion
1 1 (3.333%) TortoiseSVN
General
1 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Analyst
1 7 (23.33%) Support Analyst
2 5 (16.67%) Systems Administrator
2 5 (16.67%) Administrator
3 4 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Support Specialist
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Support
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Support Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (10.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 2 (6.667%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Security Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Support
5 2 (6.667%) Support Engineer
5 2 (6.667%) Network Engineer
6 1 (3.333%) DBA
6 1 (3.333%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.667%) Handset
1 2 (6.667%) Replication
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Windows
2 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2003
2 19 (63.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (30.00%) Linux
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.333%) UNIX
5 1 (3.333%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (20.00%) ITIL
2 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 4 (13.33%) ITIL V2
4 3 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.667%) Infrastructure Management
6 1 (3.333%) Change Control
6 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
6 1 (3.333%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 6 (20.00%) MCSE
3 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 4 (13.33%) MCITP
5 2 (6.667%) MCTS
5 2 (6.667%) MCSA
6 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 13 (43.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) XenApp
4 1 (3.333%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
1 5 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
2 4 (13.33%) SCOM
2 4 (13.33%) WSUS
2 4 (13.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 21 (70.00%) VMware
2 11 (36.67%) Citrix
2 11 (36.67%) Microsoft
3 6 (20.00%) CommVault
4 5 (16.67%) NetApp
4 5 (16.67%) McAfee
4 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 5 (16.67%) Lumension
5 4 (13.33%) Veeam
5 4 (13.33%) Postini
5 4 (13.33%) Lotus
6 3 (10.00%) HP
7 2 (6.667%) Nortel
7 2 (6.667%) IBM
8 1 (3.333%) Oracle
8 1 (3.333%) Dell
8 1 (3.333%) Sun
8 1 (3.333%) Embarcadero
8 1 (3.333%) Altiris
8 1 (3.333%) Red Gate
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