The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Somerset 1.087% - -
As % of the System Software category 5.405% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £200 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +116.85%
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 20.11% 11.90% 6.748%
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 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
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%
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset vSphere Daily 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 Somerset region over the 3 months to 22 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
Clevedon - 1 - -
Weston-super-Mare - 1 - -
vSphere
South West

vSphere
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 2 (100.00%) Windows
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%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Windows 8
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering
2 1 (50.00%) MCITP
2 1 (50.00%) LINC
2 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Somerset 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 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line 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 8
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Network Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) LINC
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) MCITP
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESX
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix