Suffolk VMware ESX Contracts

This section looks at the demand for VMware ESX Server skills within the Suffolk region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

VMware ESX Server
Location Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cheltenham City of London Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Hampshire Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redcar Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Suffolk Surrey Swindon Taunton Thames Valley Thurrock UK Uxbridge Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	28	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	7.692 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£348	£352
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.27	£36.95
% change on same period last year	-20.79 %
System Software Suffolk
Matching contract IT job ads	26	12
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.013 %
Daily rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum daily rate	£367	£283
Average daily rate	£375	£305
% change on same period last year	+22.95 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£327
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£328
% change on same period last year	+1.26 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	8
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.97	£25.23
Average hourly rate	£20.13	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-22.52 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.30	£26.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.53	£22.62
% change on same period last year	-9.26 %
VMware ESX East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

VMware ESX
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VMware ESX across the Suffolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware ESX across the Suffolk region.

VMware ESX
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX.

1 8 (100.00 %) VMware 1 8 (100.00 %) VMware Infrastructure 2 5 (62.50 %) MS Excel 2 5 (62.50 %) MS Exchange 2 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 2 5 (62.50 %) Blackberry 2 5 (62.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 2 5 (62.50 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 2 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (37.50 %) HP 3 3 (37.50 %) Dell 3 3 (37.50 %) SAN 3 3 (37.50 %) IBM

3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 3 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000 4 2 (25.00 %) Migration

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Suffolk region citing VMware ESX 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 ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 5 (62.50 %) MS Exchange 1 5 (62.50 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 1 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 5 (62.50 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 3 (37.50 %) Exchange Server 2007	Applications 1 5 (62.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 3 (37.50 %) SAN	Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Administrator 1 3 (37.50 %) Server Administrator
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) Blackberry	Operating Systems 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 1 3 (37.50 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) Migration	Qualifications 1 5 (62.50 %) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software 1 8 (100.00 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 8 (100.00 %) VMware 2 5 (62.50 %) Microsoft 3 3 (37.50 %) HP 3 3 (37.50 %) Dell 3 3 (37.50 %) IBM