The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V 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 West 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
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 91 124 116
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -8
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 17 12 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 0.843% 0.371% 0.212%
As % of the System Software category 7.359% 5.556% 2.830%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 3 4
Average daily rate £525 £324 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+62.03% -7.42%
UK excluding London average daily rate £366 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.98% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £12.75
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +84.31%
All System Software
South West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
231 216 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 11.45% 6.677% 7.491%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 97 86
Average daily rate £370 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £220 £195 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 30 32
Average hourly rate £13.75 £20.00 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-31.25% +25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £13.00 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £47.50 £27.70 £21.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
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 West region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

South West 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 West region.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West 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 West region.

South West Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

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 West 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
Gloucestershire +29 7 £575 +43.75%
Wiltshire - 6 £525 -
Bristol +15 2 £450 -
Dorset - 1 - -
Somerset - 1 £300 -
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 20 (64.52%) Windows
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 19 (61.29%) UNIX
2 19 (61.29%) Solaris
2 19 (61.29%) SAN
3 18 (58.06%) NetApp
3 18 (58.06%) Cisco
3 18 (58.06%) HP
3 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
4 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (54.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 17 (54.84%) Service Management
4 17 (54.84%) VMware
4 17 (54.84%) Enterprise Architecture
4 17 (54.84%) DV Cleared
4 17 (54.84%) IBM
4 17 (54.84%) Red Hat
4 17 (54.84%) LAN
4 17 (54.84%) WAN
4 17 (54.84%) Ethernet
4 17 (54.84%) C
5 5 (16.13%) Citrix
5 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
6 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
6 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
6 4 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2010
6 4 (12.90%) XenDesktop
7 3 (9.677%) Spring
7 3 (9.677%) Systems Analysis
7 3 (9.677%) Hibernate

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 (9.677%) Spring
1 3 (9.677%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) MS Exchange
2 4 (12.90%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (9.677%) IIS
3 3 (9.677%) Apache
4 2 (6.452%) SharePoint
5 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (3.226%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 1 (3.226%) MS Office
1 1 (3.226%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.226%) SAP GRC
Communications & Networking
1 19 (61.29%) SAN
2 17 (54.84%) LAN
2 17 (54.84%) WAN
2 17 (54.84%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.226%) NAS
3 1 (3.226%) NetScaler
3 1 (3.226%) PBX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.452%) MySQL
2 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (6.452%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 18 (58.06%) Architect
1 18 (58.06%) Technical Architect
2 7 (22.58%) Consultant
3 5 (16.13%) Technical Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Citrix Consultant
4 4 (12.90%) Citrix Technical Consultant
5 3 (9.677%) Developer
6 2 (6.452%) C# Developer
6 2 (6.452%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) Delphi Developer
7 1 (3.226%) Server Engineer
7 1 (3.226%) Technical Solutions Architect
7 1 (3.226%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.226%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (3.226%) Clustering
1 1 (3.226%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 20 (64.52%) Windows
1 20 (64.52%) Linux
2 19 (61.29%) UNIX
2 19 (61.29%) Solaris
3 17 (54.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.452%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
5 1 (3.226%) AIX
5 1 (3.226%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (54.84%) Service Management
1 17 (54.84%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (9.677%) Systems Analysis
2 3 (9.677%) Migration
2 3 (9.677%) OO
3 2 (6.452%) Project Management
3 2 (6.452%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (3.226%) Programme Management
4 1 (3.226%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (3.226%) Security Management
4 1 (3.226%) Contact Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (54.84%) C
2 3 (9.677%) Delphi
3 2 (6.452%) Python
3 2 (6.452%) C#
3 2 (6.452%) PHP
3 2 (6.452%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (58.06%) Security Cleared
2 17 (54.84%) DV Cleared
3 1 (3.226%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.452%) QA
System Software
1 17 (54.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) XenDesktop
3 1 (3.226%) XenApp
3 1 (3.226%) Forefront TMG
Systems Management
1 1 (3.226%) SCCM
1 1 (3.226%) SCOM
1 1 (3.226%) SCVMM
Vendors
1 18 (58.06%) NetApp
1 18 (58.06%) Cisco
1 18 (58.06%) HP
2 17 (54.84%) VMware
2 17 (54.84%) IBM
2 17 (54.84%) Red Hat
3 5 (16.13%) Citrix
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft
5 1 (3.226%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.226%) Oracle
5 1 (3.226%) SAP
5 1 (3.226%) Dell
5 1 (3.226%) Lotus
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