The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX 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 Somerset 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 ESX Server
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 0.535% - -
As % of the System Software category 2.703% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +10.09%
All System Software
Somerset
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
37 20 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 19.79% 12.05% 6.918%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 0
Average daily rate £275 £346 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 2 6
Average hourly rate £10.00 £16.00 £13.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% +20.75%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware ESX
South West

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Somerset VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Somerset VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft