The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Stoke-on-Trent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 23 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 Vendors for the Stoke-on-Trent 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 14 22 20
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 2 2 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 6.250% 2.941% 1.818%
As % of the Vendors category 18.18% 7.692% 4.167%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £300 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +9.09%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.00 £22.69 £22.43
% change year-on-year
+1.37% +1.14%
All Vendors
Stoke-on-Trent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
11 26 24
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Stoke-on-Trent 34.38% 38.24% 43.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 20 4
Average daily rate £330 £300 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £175 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £330 £471
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
VMware
Staffordshire

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware across the Stoke-on-Trent region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Stoke-on-Trent VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Stoke-on-Trent VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing VMware 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.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Stoke-on-Trent region citing VMware 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Project Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 2000
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix