The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 22 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 Surrey 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 77 90 81
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 2 7 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 0.173% 0.425% 1.097%
As % of the System Software category 1.515% 5.600% 11.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 10
Average daily rate £335 £375 £310
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.66% +20.96%
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+13.84% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 1
Average hourly rate - £15.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.84%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
132 125 176
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 11.41% 7.594% 9.654%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 60 71
Average daily rate £305 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.85% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £130 £140 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £508 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 23 17
Average hourly rate £15.50 £14.75 £15.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.08% -4.06%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £10.55 £11.60
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £17.55 £34.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
VMware ESX
South East

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Surrey VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) CommVault
3 1 (33.33%) Novell
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Sage
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) MOM
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey 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 Development
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) CMS
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) AutoCAD
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) SMS
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Systems Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Support
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 1 (33.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) CCNA
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) XenApp
3 1 (33.33%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 1 (33.33%) MOM
2 1 (33.33%) SCCM
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Juniper
3 1 (33.33%) CommVault
3 1 (33.33%) Novell
3 1 (33.33%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Sage
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Symantec
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Alterian
3 1 (33.33%) PlateSpin