The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Tyne and Wear region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 19 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 Vendors for the Tyne and Wear 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 17 19 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +12
Contract jobs citing VMware 12 25 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 6.154% 6.494% 1.042%
As % of the Vendors category 13.64% 13.59% 1.875%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 10 1
Average daily rate £369 £363 £150
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.72% +141.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £320
% change year-on-year
- +1.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 0
Average hourly rate £18.25 £19.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.94% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £24.50 £22.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
+11.36% +2.32%
All Vendors
Tyne and Wear
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
88 184 160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Tyne and Wear 45.13% 47.79% 55.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 88 71
Average daily rate £350 £340 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £250 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £500 £530
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 15 9
Average hourly rate £10.50 £21.50 £14.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.16% +50.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.20 £10.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.25 £27.50 £21.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
VMware
North East

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear 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 Tyne and Wear region.

Tyne and Wear VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Newcastle upon Tyne +16 7 £369 -18.05% 3
Gateshead +2 3 - -
South Shields - - - -
VMware
North East

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (47.37%) HP
3 8 (42.11%) SAN
4 7 (36.84%) VMware ESX
5 6 (31.58%) Cisco
5 6 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (26.32%) Fibre Channel
6 5 (26.32%) vSphere
6 5 (26.32%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 4 (21.05%) Windows
8 3 (15.79%) SAP
8 3 (15.79%) ITIL
8 3 (15.79%) Linux
8 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
8 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (10.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (10.53%) Replication
9 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
9 2 (10.53%) Finance
9 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (10.53%) Project Management
9 2 (10.53%) SQL
10 1 (5.263%) Oracle
10 1 (5.263%) Business Objects
10 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
10 1 (5.263%) IIS
10 1 (5.263%) UNIX
10 1 (5.263%) AIX

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) Middleware
1 1 (5.263%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) WebLogic
1 1 (5.263%) IIS
1 1 (5.263%) Apache
1 1 (5.263%) ESB
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) SAN
2 5 (26.32%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (26.32%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.263%) LAN
3 1 (5.263%) WAN
3 1 (5.263%) DHCP
3 1 (5.263%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.263%) VPN
3 1 (5.263%) DNS
3 1 (5.263%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.263%) Oracle 10g
1 1 (5.263%) BusinessObjects
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.263%) French Language
2 1 (5.263%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (57.89%) Administrator
2 5 (26.32%) Storage Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Storage Consultant
4 2 (10.53%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (10.53%) Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 1 (5.263%) Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Project Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Linux Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Applications Support
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.263%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Replication
2 1 (5.263%) Client/Server
2 1 (5.263%) Clustering
2 1 (5.263%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (10.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (5.263%) UNIX
4 1 (5.263%) AIX
4 1 (5.263%) Solaris
4 1 (5.263%) Windows XP
4 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (5.263%) CentOS
4 1 (5.263%) Ubuntu
4 1 (5.263%) Debian
4 1 (5.263%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) ITIL
1 3 (15.79%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (10.53%) Project Management
3 1 (5.263%) E-Commerce
3 1 (5.263%) ETL
3 1 (5.263%) RDF
3 1 (5.263%) Network Design
3 1 (5.263%) Enterprise Architecture
3 1 (5.263%) Load Balancing
3 1 (5.263%) Identity Management
3 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (5.263%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (5.263%) RHCE
2 1 (5.263%) RHCT
2 1 (5.263%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) BC Cleared
2 1 (5.263%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (68.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (36.84%) VMware ESX
3 6 (31.58%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (26.32%) vSphere
5 2 (10.53%) EMC RecoverPoint
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) HP
2 6 (31.58%) Cisco
3 3 (15.79%) SAP
3 3 (15.79%) Red Hat
4 1 (5.263%) Oracle
4 1 (5.263%) Business Objects
4 1 (5.263%) JBoss
4 1 (5.263%) Informatica
4 1 (5.263%) EMC
4 1 (5.263%) Avaya
4 1 (5.263%) Juniper
4 1 (5.263%) ProCurve
4 1 (5.263%) TippingPoint
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