The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 23 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 South East 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 147 200 233
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +33
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 76 42 26
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.976% 0.413% 0.246%
As % of the System Software category 7.562% 5.109% 2.778%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 18 15
Average daily rate £400 £330 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.21% -17.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £216 £280 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £422 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+11.36% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 1 1
Average hourly rate £22.00 £17.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+25.71% +59.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.50 £23.50 £12.75
% change year-on-year
- +84.31%
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1005 822 936
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 12.91% 8.083% 8.870%
Number of daily rates quoted 477 335 347
Average daily rate £340 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £200 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 144 151
Average hourly rate £18.00 £16.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -10.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.65 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £41.50 £38.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East 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 South East region.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hyper-V across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Hyper-V Hourly Rate Histogram

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 South East region over the 3 months to 23 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
Buckinghamshire +22 27 £400 +23.07%
Surrey +17 13 £275 -6.77%
Hampshire +2 7 £404 -4.94%
Berkshire +22 6 £388 -
Middlesex +16 6 £425 -
East Sussex +12 6 £525 -
West Sussex +15 4 £329 -17.81%
Kent +2 3 - -
Home Counties +1 3 £550 +66.66%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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.

1 119 (82.07%) Windows
2 79 (54.48%) VMware
3 75 (51.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 75 (51.72%) Microsoft
4 66 (45.52%) VMware Infrastructure
5 57 (39.31%) Citrix
6 53 (36.55%) Security Cleared
7 48 (33.10%) Active Directory
8 47 (32.41%) MS Exchange
9 45 (31.03%) SAN
10 44 (30.34%) SC Cleared
11 36 (24.83%) XenApp
12 34 (23.45%) ITIL
13 33 (22.76%) SQL Server
13 33 (22.76%) Windows Server 2003
14 32 (22.07%) HP
15 30 (20.69%) SharePoint
15 30 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2010
16 26 (17.93%) SCCM
17 25 (17.24%) Cisco
18 23 (15.86%) MS Excel
18 23 (15.86%) SQL
19 22 (15.17%) Linux
19 22 (15.17%) SCOM
19 22 (15.17%) XenServer
19 22 (15.17%) DV Cleared
20 21 (14.48%) XenDesktop
20 21 (14.48%) Clustering
20 21 (14.48%) Firewall
21 18 (12.41%) LAN

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 3 (2.069%) JMS
1 3 (2.069%) SOAP
2 1 (0.690%) Application Packaging
2 1 (0.690%) ODBC
2 1 (0.690%) COM
Application Platforms
1 47 (32.41%) MS Exchange
2 30 (20.69%) SharePoint
2 30 (20.69%) Exchange Server 2010
3 17 (11.72%) Exchange Server 2003
4 16 (11.03%) Exchange Server 2007
5 12 (8.276%) Lync
6 8 (5.517%) CloudStack
6 8 (5.517%) SharePoint 2010
7 7 (4.828%) IIS
8 1 (0.690%) Exchange Server 2000
8 1 (0.690%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 23 (15.86%) MS Excel
2 13 (8.966%) MS Office
3 3 (2.069%) Photoshop
4 2 (1.379%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.690%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.690%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 45 (31.03%) SAN
2 21 (14.48%) Firewall
3 18 (12.41%) LAN
3 18 (12.41%) WAN
4 11 (7.586%) Wireless
4 11 (7.586%) NAS
5 10 (6.897%) VoIP
6 9 (6.207%) TCP/IP
6 9 (6.207%) DNS
7 8 (5.517%) DHCP
8 7 (4.828%) VPN
8 7 (4.828%) WLAN
9 6 (4.138%) IPsec
9 6 (4.138%) iSCSI
10 5 (3.448%) Network Security
10 5 (3.448%) SMTP
10 5 (3.448%) HTTP
10 5 (3.448%) Internet
11 4 (2.759%) 3G
11 4 (2.759%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (22.76%) SQL Server
2 17 (11.72%) SQL Server 2008
3 14 (9.655%) SQL Server 2005
4 6 (4.138%) Oracle 8/8i
5 4 (2.759%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (1.379%) SQLite
7 1 (0.690%) IDOL
Development Applications
1 4 (2.759%) Visual Studio
2 2 (1.379%) Subversion
General
1 6 (4.138%) Finance
2 3 (2.069%) Military
2 3 (2.069%) Banking
3 1 (0.690%) Multimedia
3 1 (0.690%) Retail
3 1 (0.690%) Back Office
3 1 (0.690%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 31 (21.38%) Analyst
2 25 (17.24%) Architect
3 24 (16.55%) Support Analyst
4 20 (13.79%) Support Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) Server Engineer
5 15 (10.34%) Technical Architect
6 11 (7.586%) Technical Specialist
6 11 (7.586%) 3rd Line Support
7 9 (6.207%) Consultant
8 8 (5.517%) Server Support
8 8 (5.517%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
8 8 (5.517%) IT Support
8 8 (5.517%) Server Analyst
9 7 (4.828%) Technical Support
10 6 (4.138%) Systems Support
10 6 (4.138%) Infrastructure Specialist
11 5 (3.448%) Technical Engineer
11 5 (3.448%) Technical Support Engineer
11 5 (3.448%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 5 (3.448%) Systems Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 21 (14.48%) Clustering
2 11 (7.586%) Fat Client
2 11 (7.586%) Thin Client
3 8 (5.517%) Management Information System
4 6 (4.138%) Mobile Computing
5 5 (3.448%) PKI
5 5 (3.448%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (3.448%) Celerra
6 3 (2.069%) Cryptography
7 2 (1.379%) EPoS
7 2 (1.379%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.379%) SecurID
7 2 (1.379%) IVR
8 1 (0.690%) CCTV
8 1 (0.690%) SaaS
8 1 (0.690%) Computer Science
8 1 (0.690%) Firmware
8 1 (0.690%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 119 (82.07%) Windows
2 75 (51.72%) Windows Server 2008
3 33 (22.76%) Windows Server 2003
4 22 (15.17%) Linux
5 14 (9.655%) Windows 7
6 13 (8.966%) Windows 2000 Server
7 11 (7.586%) CentOS
7 11 (7.586%) UNIX
8 9 (6.207%) Windows Server 2012
9 7 (4.828%) Windows 8
10 6 (4.138%) Windows XP
11 4 (2.759%) Oracle Linux
12 1 (0.690%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (23.45%) ITIL
2 15 (10.34%) Migration
3 14 (9.655%) Project Management
4 11 (7.586%) TOGAF
5 10 (6.897%) Time Management
6 8 (5.517%) Service Delivery
6 8 (5.517%) Information Security
7 7 (4.828%) Change Management
7 7 (4.828%) Service Management
8 6 (4.138%) Software Distribution
8 6 (4.138%) Capacity Planning
9 5 (3.448%) Incident Management
9 5 (3.448%) Compatibility Testing
9 5 (3.448%) CRM
9 5 (3.448%) PRINCE2
9 5 (3.448%) Configuration Management
10 4 (2.759%) Risk Management
10 4 (2.759%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (2.759%) Technical Architecture
10 4 (2.759%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (15.86%) SQL
2 6 (4.138%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.448%) Python
4 4 (2.759%) C
4 4 (2.759%) C#
4 4 (2.759%) C++
Qualifications
1 53 (36.55%) Security Cleared
2 44 (30.34%) SC Cleared
3 22 (15.17%) DV Cleared
4 15 (10.34%) Cisco Certification
4 15 (10.34%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (10.34%) MCSE
5 14 (9.655%) CCNA
6 9 (6.207%) MCP
7 4 (2.759%) MCITP
8 3 (2.069%) MCTS
8 3 (2.069%) ISEB
8 3 (2.069%) CCSP
9 2 (1.379%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (0.690%) Degree
10 1 (0.690%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.690%) Citrix Certification
10 1 (0.690%) MCSA
10 1 (0.690%) CCEE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (8.276%) SLA
2 4 (2.759%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.379%) JSP 440
System Software
1 66 (45.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 48 (33.10%) Active Directory
3 36 (24.83%) XenApp
4 22 (15.17%) XenServer
5 21 (14.48%) XenDesktop
6 13 (8.966%) Forefront TMG
7 12 (8.276%) Microsoft App-V
8 11 (7.586%) ISA Server
9 9 (6.207%) VMware ESXi
10 7 (4.828%) vSphere
11 5 (3.448%) UAG
12 4 (2.759%) Xen
12 4 (2.759%) Oracle RAC
12 4 (2.759%) DFS Replication
13 3 (2.069%) VMware ESX
14 2 (1.379%) Citrix Presentation Server
14 2 (1.379%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.690%) VMware Server
15 1 (0.690%) NFS
15 1 (0.690%) IAG
Systems Management
1 26 (17.93%) SCCM
2 22 (15.17%) SCOM
3 14 (9.655%) Backup Exec
4 6 (4.138%) OpenView
5 5 (3.448%) MOM
6 4 (2.759%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 3 (2.069%) NetBackup
7 3 (2.069%) OVSD
8 2 (1.379%) Cisco IPCC
8 2 (1.379%) SCVMM
9 1 (0.690%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 79 (54.48%) VMware
2 75 (51.72%) Microsoft
3 57 (39.31%) Citrix
4 32 (22.07%) HP
5 25 (17.24%) Cisco
6 15 (10.34%) AppSense
6 15 (10.34%) Dell
6 15 (10.34%) NetApp
7 10 (6.897%) CommVault
8 9 (6.207%) Oracle
9 7 (4.828%) Juniper
9 7 (4.828%) Lumension
10 6 (4.138%) EMC
11 5 (3.448%) 3PAR
11 5 (3.448%) F5
12 4 (2.759%) StorageTek
12 4 (2.759%) Red Hat
12 4 (2.759%) Nortel
12 4 (2.759%) Avaya
13 3 (2.069%) Sun
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