The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 19 - 37
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing vSphere 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 1.176% - 0.913%
As % of the System Software category 10.00% - 8.696%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +125.29%
All System Software
Staffordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
10 25 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Staffordshire 11.76% 11.52% 10.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 5
Average daily rate £135 £288 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-53.04% -11.53%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £115 £238 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £159 £319 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 7
Average hourly rate £15.00 £15.13 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.82% +8.03%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.29 £12.25 £9.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.14 £16.50 £30.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
West Midlands

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Staffordshire 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 Staffordshire region.

Staffordshire vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Staffordshire 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Build Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) HP
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware