The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Workstation 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 VMware Workstation over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Workstation
Rank 212 239 235
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -4
Contract jobs citing VMware Workstation 8 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.100% 0.080% 0.104%
As % of the System Software category 0.743% 0.974% 1.183%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 6
Average daily rate - £340 £333
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £213 £315
% change year-on-year
+29.41% -32.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £20.00
All System Software
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1077 821 930
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 13.45% 8.213% 8.774%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 324 339
Average daily rate £340 £330 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% +3.12%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £212
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £486 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 180 160 171
Average hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £16.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% +4.47%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £41.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware Workstation
England

VMware Workstation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East VMware Workstation Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Workstation
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East VMware Workstation Daily Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East VMware Workstation Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Workstation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Workstation within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +19 6 - -
Hampshire - 2 - -
Surrey - - - - 1
VMware Workstation
England

VMware Workstation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation.

1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 21 (95.45%) Windows
3 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (77.27%) Windows Server 2008
4 17 (77.27%) Windows Server 2003
5 15 (68.18%) SQL
5 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
5 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
6 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
7 13 (59.09%) Windows 7
7 13 (59.09%) Windows XP
8 9 (40.91%) Citrix
9 8 (36.36%) MS Exchange
9 8 (36.36%) VB
9 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
9 8 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2003
9 8 (36.36%) SCCM
10 7 (31.82%) Exchange Server 2010
10 7 (31.82%) Oracle
10 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
10 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
11 6 (27.27%) SAN
11 6 (27.27%) Symantec
11 6 (27.27%) ITIL
11 6 (27.27%) Linux
11 6 (27.27%) VMware ESX
11 6 (27.27%) Migration
12 5 (22.73%) Validation
12 5 (22.73%) Regression Testing
12 5 (22.73%) Clustering

VMware Workstation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing VMware Workstation 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 Workstation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 8 (36.36%) MS Exchange
1 8 (36.36%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (31.82%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (31.82%) SharePoint
3 4 (18.18%) Tomcat
3 4 (18.18%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (9.091%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (27.27%) SAN
2 5 (22.73%) LAN
2 5 (22.73%) VPN
2 5 (22.73%) NAS
3 4 (18.18%) WAN
4 2 (9.091%) LDAP
5 1 (4.545%) SNMP
5 1 (4.545%) TCP/IP
5 1 (4.545%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (36.36%) SQL Server
2 4 (18.18%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 4 (18.18%) LoadRunner
General
1 2 (9.091%) Telecoms
2 1 (4.545%) Banking
2 1 (4.545%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Desktop Support
2 4 (18.18%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Support Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Test Manager
3 2 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.091%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (9.091%) Desktop Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Windows Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Information Security Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Tester
4 1 (4.545%) Security Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Test Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Integration Tester
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (4.545%) Applications Packager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Clustering
2 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
2 1 (4.545%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 21 (95.45%) Windows
2 17 (77.27%) Windows Server 2008
2 17 (77.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 13 (59.09%) Windows 7
3 13 (59.09%) Windows XP
4 6 (27.27%) Linux
5 1 (4.545%) Oracle Linux
5 1 (4.545%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.545%) UNIX
5 1 (4.545%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) ITIL
1 6 (27.27%) Migration
2 5 (22.73%) Validation
2 5 (22.73%) Regression Testing
2 5 (22.73%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (22.73%) Release Management
2 5 (22.73%) Integration Testing
2 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
3 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
3 2 (9.091%) SIEM
4 1 (4.545%) Capacity Management
4 1 (4.545%) Project Management
4 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.545%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 15 (68.18%) SQL
2 8 (36.36%) VB
3 1 (4.545%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.545%) VBA
3 1 (4.545%) T-SQL
3 1 (4.545%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 15 (68.18%) Security Cleared
2 14 (63.64%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) Degree
System Software
1 20 (90.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (68.18%) Active Directory
3 6 (27.27%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.545%) vSphere
4 1 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (4.545%) Terminal Server
4 1 (4.545%) Terminal Services
4 1 (4.545%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.545%) Snort
4 1 (4.545%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (4.545%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 8 (36.36%) SCCM
2 5 (22.73%) NetBackup
3 4 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (4.545%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 9 (40.91%) Citrix
3 7 (31.82%) Oracle
3 7 (31.82%) Microsoft
4 6 (27.27%) Symantec
5 5 (22.73%) NetApp
6 4 (18.18%) HP
7 2 (9.091%) Peregrine
8 1 (4.545%) ArcSight
8 1 (4.545%) Veeam
8 1 (4.545%) TippingPoint
8 1 (4.545%) McAfee
8 1 (4.545%) EMC
8 1 (4.545%) CA
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