The first table below looks at the demand for VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Oracle VirtualBox
Rank 223 238 -
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 1 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.010% -
As % of the System Software category 0.100% 0.122% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £90 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £90 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1004 819 927
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 12.88% 8.072% 8.936%
Number of daily rates quoted 476 335 345
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 163 146 150
Average hourly rate £17.75 £16.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.57% -8.33%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £41.50 £39.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VirtualBox
England

VirtualBox
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East VirtualBox Jobs Demand Trend

VirtualBox
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VirtualBox within the South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Hampshire - 1 £90 -
VirtualBox
England

VirtualBox
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox.

1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
1 1 (50.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Sun
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Intel
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System

VirtualBox
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Apache
1 1 (50.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) FreeBSD
1 1 (50.00%) OpenBSD
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Management
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C++
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) RHCE
1 1 (50.00%) HPUX Certification
1 1 (50.00%) SCSA
1 1 (50.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Xen
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Postfix
1 1 (50.00%) Sendmail
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) OpenView
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) JBoss
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) Sun
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Intel
1 1 (50.00%) Veritas
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) Egenera