The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX over the 3 months to 20 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 Swindon 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 42 - 38
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 2 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 0.563% - 0.269%
As % of the System Software category 5.263% - 5.882%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £325 £294
% change year-on-year
+7.69% +10.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £24.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-6.25% -4.00%
All System Software
Swindon
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
38 13 17
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Swindon 10.70% 3.881% 4.570%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 10 10
Average daily rate £450 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £283 £156 £368
10% offered a daily rate of more than £530 £450 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £13.75 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%
VMware ESX
Wiltshire

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) ZENworks
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
2 1 (50.00%) SCCM
2 1 (50.00%) SCOM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 1 (50.00%) Clustering

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Swindon 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 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (50.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) assyst
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Infrastructure Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (50.00%) Clustering
1 1 (50.00%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (50.00%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HP SIM
1 1 (50.00%) ZENworks
1 1 (50.00%) SCCM
1 1 (50.00%) SCOM
1 1 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) Sophos
2 1 (50.00%) Wyse
2 1 (50.00%) HP
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) EMC
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) Novell