vSphere Contracts in the South West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere 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
VMware vSphere
Rank 86 113 112
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -1
Contract jobs citing vSphere 22 23 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South West 1.091% 0.711% 0.353%
As % of the System Software category 9.524% 10.65% 4.717%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 13 3
Average daily rate £293 £410 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.65% +5.80%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £318
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +10.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £21.96
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -8.92%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £41.74 £20.94
% change year-on-year
-28.12% +99.35%
Search 10 vSphere jobs in the South West
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%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 South West region.

South West vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the South West region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South West vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South West vSphere Hourly 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 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
Devon +10 11 £260 -
Bristol - 5 £493 -
Wiltshire - 5 £450 -
Somerset - 1 - -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 25 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (62.86%) Windows
4 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
4 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
6 13 (37.14%) Cisco
7 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
8 11 (31.43%) Linux
8 11 (31.43%) FalconStor
9 10 (28.57%) SAN
9 10 (28.57%) DHCP
9 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
9 10 (28.57%) DNS
9 10 (28.57%) Firewall
10 9 (25.71%) MS Exchange
10 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
10 9 (25.71%) Citrix
10 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
10 9 (25.71%) Exchange Server 2010
10 9 (25.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
11 7 (20.00%) Solaris
11 7 (20.00%) Oracle
12 6 (17.14%) WebLogic
12 6 (17.14%) SQL
12 6 (17.14%) Oracle 10g
12 6 (17.14%) Sun
12 6 (17.14%) UNIX
12 6 (17.14%) Middleware

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South West 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 Development
1 6 (17.14%) Middleware
2 1 (2.857%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 9 (25.71%) MS Exchange
1 9 (25.71%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (17.14%) WebLogic
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle Application Server
2 6 (17.14%) GlassFish
2 6 (17.14%) Windows Azure
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon AWS
3 5 (14.29%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (8.571%) Exchange Server 2003
4 3 (8.571%) Lotus Notes
4 3 (8.571%) Lotus Domino
5 1 (2.857%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.857%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (2.857%) SharePoint
5 1 (2.857%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) Office 365
1 2 (5.714%) MS Office
1 2 (5.714%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (2.857%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 10 (28.57%) SAN
1 10 (28.57%) DHCP
1 10 (28.57%) TCP/IP
1 10 (28.57%) DNS
1 10 (28.57%) Firewall
2 6 (17.14%) MPLS
3 1 (2.857%) VLAN
3 1 (2.857%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (2.857%) Internet
3 1 (2.857%) VoIP
3 1 (2.857%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (34.29%) SQL Server
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle 10g
2 6 (17.14%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (17.14%) Oracle 11g
3 2 (5.714%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.857%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.857%) ClearQuest
1 1 (2.857%) ClearCase
1 1 (2.857%) Git (software)
General
1 1 (2.857%) Marketing
1 1 (2.857%) Finance
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Analyst
2 9 (25.71%) Consultant
3 8 (22.86%) Architect
4 7 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 6 (17.14%) Infrastructure Architect
6 5 (14.29%) VMware Support Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
6 5 (14.29%) Support Consultant
7 3 (8.571%) VMware Consultant
7 3 (8.571%) VMware Technical Consultant
8 2 (5.714%) Wintel Analyst
8 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support
8 2 (5.714%) Migration Consultant
8 2 (5.714%) Server Engineer
8 2 (5.714%) Storage Consultant
9 1 (2.857%) Virtualisation Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Data Migration Engineer
9 1 (2.857%) Virtualisation Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) PaaS
1 6 (17.14%) IaaS
2 4 (11.43%) Clustering
3 3 (8.571%) PKI
4 2 (5.714%) EqualLogic
5 1 (2.857%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.857%) Replication
5 1 (2.857%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.857%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 22 (62.86%) Windows
2 15 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (31.43%) Linux
4 9 (25.71%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (25.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (20.00%) Solaris
6 6 (17.14%) UNIX
7 1 (2.857%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.857%) CentOS
7 1 (2.857%) Ubuntu
7 1 (2.857%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.857%) Windows 8
7 1 (2.857%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (17.14%) Load Balancing
2 4 (11.43%) Migration
2 4 (11.43%) Scrum
3 3 (8.571%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (5.714%) Data Protection
5 1 (2.857%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.857%) Technical Architecture
5 1 (2.857%) Network Load Balancing
5 1 (2.857%) Problem Management
5 1 (2.857%) Asset Management
5 1 (2.857%) Service Management
5 1 (2.857%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.857%) Software Deployment
5 1 (2.857%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (2.857%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (17.14%) SQL
2 1 (2.857%) LINC
2 1 (2.857%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.857%) VBScript
2 1 (2.857%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (14.29%) MCITP
2 5 (14.29%) MCSE
3 3 (8.571%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 3 (8.571%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.571%) MCSA
4 2 (5.714%) MCP
4 2 (5.714%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.857%) MCTS
5 1 (2.857%) CCA
5 1 (2.857%) Citrix Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.857%) SLA
System Software
1 25 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 6 (17.14%) Oracle RAC
4 5 (14.29%) XenApp
5 4 (11.43%) VMware ESX
6 2 (5.714%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (5.714%) UAG
6 2 (5.714%) ISA Server
7 1 (2.857%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (2.857%) NFS
7 1 (2.857%) XenServer
7 1 (2.857%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Backup Exec
2 3 (8.571%) SCCM
2 3 (8.571%) SCOM
2 3 (8.571%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (8.571%) Norton AntiVirus
3 2 (5.714%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (2.857%) WSUS
4 1 (2.857%) HP Data Protector
4 1 (2.857%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.857%) ZENworks
4 1 (2.857%) HP SIM
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) VMware
2 15 (42.86%) Microsoft
3 13 (37.14%) Cisco
4 11 (31.43%) FalconStor
5 9 (25.71%) Red Hat
5 9 (25.71%) Citrix
6 7 (20.00%) Oracle
7 6 (17.14%) Sun
8 5 (14.29%) HP
8 5 (14.29%) Dell
9 4 (11.43%) Sophos
9 4 (11.43%) Symantec
10 3 (8.571%) Lotus
11 2 (5.714%) CommVault
11 2 (5.714%) EMC
11 2 (5.714%) SonicWALL
12 1 (2.857%) ProCurve
12 1 (2.857%) Perforce
12 1 (2.857%) Wyse
12 1 (2.857%) Juniper
3rd Line Engineer / Infrastructure engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN
Gloucestershire, South West
3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day-...
OPUS
Rate: GBP300 to GBP350 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
3rd Line Engineer / Infrastructure engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN
Gloucestershire
3rd Line / Infrastructure Engineer -VMware, Exchange 2010, SAN is required on a 3-6 Month contract by a genuine market in Gloucestershire paying between £300-£350 per day...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £300 to £350 per day
Posted: 22 May 2013
Virtualisation Engineer
Plymouth, South West
Our client has an immediate and critical contract requirement for an experienced server engineer to join an ongoing programme of work. The successful applicant will have a high...
Rate: £250.00 per day
Posted: 1 May 2013
Citrix Xenapp, Xendesktop Infrastructure, Server Engineer ( 6 Months, Swindon £450 )
Swindon, South West
XenDesktop Infrastructure / Server Engineer / vSphere / Citrix Xenapp Swindon, £450 per dayA XenDesktop Infrastructure Engineer /vSphere / Citrix Xenapp Engineer is required on an initial 6-Month contract by a...
OPUS
Rate: GBP450 per day
Posted: 3 May 2013
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