The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure skills in IT contracts advertised for the Staffordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Infrastructure 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 Staffordshire 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 Infrastructure (VI3)
Rank 17 31 38
Rank change year-on-year
+14 +7
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure 5 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 5.435% 1.905% 0.833%
As % of the System Software category 41.67% 22.22% 9.091%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Average daily rate £135 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.50 £18.50 £20.50
% change year-on-year
+16.21% -9.75%
All System Software
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
12 18 22
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 13.04% 8.571% 9.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 11
Average daily rate £135 £275 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-50.90% -15.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £250 £282
10% offered a daily rate of more than £159 £303 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 2
Average hourly rate £12.81 £13.75 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.81% -54.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
VMware Infrastructure
West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire VMware Infrastructure Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Staffordshire VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the Staffordshire 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
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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
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Job
Vacancies
Cannock - 1 £175 -
Stoke-on-Trent - 1 - -
Burton-upon-Trent - - - - 1
VMware Infrastructure
West Midlands

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire region citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (33.33%) Windows
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
3 3 (33.33%) Firewall
3 3 (33.33%) CCNA
3 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (22.22%) XenServer
4 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (22.22%) Replication
4 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
4 2 (22.22%) ETL
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
4 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (22.22%) SQL

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) DNS
1 3 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (22.22%) LAN
2 2 (22.22%) WAN
2 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 1 (11.11%) HTTP
3 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
3 1 (11.11%) Network Security
3 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (22.22%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) SQL Server DBA
1 2 (22.22%) SQL DBA
1 2 (22.22%) Server Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) Administrator
1 2 (22.22%) DBA
1 2 (22.22%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Support Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Network Technician
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Consultant
2 1 (11.11%) Build Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
1 3 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Resource Management
1 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Project Management
2 1 (11.11%) Change Management
2 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
2 1 (11.11%) ERP
2 1 (11.11%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (11.11%) CCA
2 1 (11.11%) Citrix Certification
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) XenServer
3 1 (11.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Citrix
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) HP
5 1 (11.11%) Nortel
5 1 (11.11%) Symantec
5 1 (11.11%) Avaya
5 1 (11.11%) Red Hat
5 1 (11.11%) Brocade
5 1 (11.11%) Veeam
Staffordshire, West Midlands
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