The first table below looks at the demand for Microsoft Virtual Server skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Microsoft Virtual Server 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.

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
Microsoft Virtual Server
Rank 513 542 572
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +30
Contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server 28 37 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.057% 0.065% 0.029%
As % of the System Software category 0.593% 0.790% 0.397%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 4
Average daily rate £278 £345 £240
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.56% +43.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £199 £197 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £383 £338
UK excluding London average daily rate £278 £275 £210
% change year-on-year
+1.00% +30.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 2
Average hourly rate - £28.08 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +24.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year
- +62.79%
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4724 4683 4532
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.662% 8.192% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2272 2224 2005
Average daily rate £350 £340 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £190 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £480
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £315 £310
% change year-on-year
+3.17% +1.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 619 668 673
Average hourly rate £18.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +3.03%

Microsoft Virtual Server
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

Microsoft Virtual Server Jobs Demand Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK.

Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Microsoft Virtual Server Daily Rate Histogram

Microsoft Virtual Server
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK.

Microsoft Virtual Server Hourly Rate Trend

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Microsoft Virtual Server within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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
England +19 23 £225 -37.50% 5
South East +33 14 £233 -38.00% 1
London +8 8 £375 +4.16% 1
Surrey +20 7 £225 -40.00%
City of London -3 7 £525 +59.09%
Milton Keynes +3 5 £425 +70.34%
Buckinghamshire +2 5 £425 +70.34%
Scotland - 3 £373 -
Berkshire - 2 - -
South West +25 1 £175 -
Somerset - 1 £175 -
Suffolk - - - -
Manchester - - - -
East Midlands - - - -
Midlands - - - -
North West - - - - 2
Wales - - - -
West Midlands - - - - 1
East of England - - - -
West Yorkshire - - - -
Yorkshire - - - -
South Wales - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Lancashire - - - - 2
Nottinghamshire - - - -
Oxfordshire - - - - 1
Nottingham - - - -
Petersfield - - - -
Reading - - - -

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server.

1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 18 (47.37%) VMware
3 18 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
4 14 (36.84%) HP
5 13 (34.21%) Citrix
6 12 (31.58%) Active Directory
6 12 (31.58%) Finance
7 11 (28.95%) VMware ESX
7 11 (28.95%) Windows Server 2003
7 11 (28.95%) MS Office
8 10 (26.32%) LAN
8 10 (26.32%) WAN
9 9 (23.68%) SQL
9 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
9 9 (23.68%) Migration
10 8 (21.05%) Service Management
10 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
10 8 (21.05%) Change Management
10 8 (21.05%) Performance Management
10 8 (21.05%) QA
10 8 (21.05%) MS Visio
10 8 (21.05%) Project Management
10 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
11 7 (18.42%) Change Control
11 7 (18.42%) ITIL Certification
11 7 (18.42%) MS Exchange
11 7 (18.42%) Cisco
11 7 (18.42%) MS Excel

Microsoft Virtual Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Microsoft Virtual Server 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 Microsoft Virtual Server. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.632%) CSS
1 1 (2.632%) XML
1 1 (2.632%) .NET
1 1 (2.632%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 7 (18.42%) MS Exchange
2 4 (10.53%) IIS
3 2 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (5.263%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (2.632%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 11 (28.95%) MS Office
2 8 (21.05%) MS Visio
3 7 (18.42%) MS Excel
4 1 (2.632%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 10 (26.32%) LAN
1 10 (26.32%) WAN
2 4 (10.53%) SAN
3 3 (7.895%) Firewall
4 2 (5.263%) Network Security
4 2 (5.263%) Wireless
4 2 (5.263%) VoIP
4 2 (5.263%) WLAN
5 1 (2.632%) DNS
5 1 (2.632%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (23.68%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.895%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (7.895%) MySQL
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (7.895%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (5.263%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (2.632%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server 2012
4 1 (2.632%) MS Access
4 1 (2.632%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (2.632%) DTS
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 12 (31.58%) Finance
2 2 (5.263%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.263%) Law
3 1 (2.632%) Publishing
3 1 (2.632%) Back Office
3 1 (2.632%) Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Delivery Manager
1 8 (21.05%) Technical Manager
1 8 (21.05%) Systems Engineer
1 8 (21.05%) Technical Delivery Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Analyst
3 3 (7.895%) Architect
3 3 (7.895%) DBA
3 3 (7.895%) Consultant
3 3 (7.895%) SQL DBA
3 3 (7.895%) Support Analyst
4 2 (5.263%) Virtualisation Engineer
4 2 (5.263%) Administrator
4 2 (5.263%) 3rd Line Support
4 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (5.263%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.263%) Systems Support
4 2 (5.263%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (5.263%) Systems Support Analyst
5 1 (2.632%) SQL Programmer
5 1 (2.632%) Information Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.05%) Enterprise Storage
2 4 (10.53%) Clustering
3 3 (7.895%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.632%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.632%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 29 (76.32%) Windows
2 14 (36.84%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (28.95%) Windows Server 2003
4 6 (15.79%) Linux
5 3 (7.895%) Windows 7
5 3 (7.895%) Oracle Linux
5 3 (7.895%) Solaris
5 3 (7.895%) UNIX
5 3 (7.895%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (5.263%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.632%) Windows NT
7 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000
7 1 (2.632%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (23.68%) Migration
2 8 (21.05%) Service Management
2 8 (21.05%) Service Delivery
2 8 (21.05%) Change Management
2 8 (21.05%) Performance Management
2 8 (21.05%) Project Management
3 7 (18.42%) Change Control
3 7 (18.42%) ITIL
3 7 (18.42%) Incident Management
4 4 (10.53%) Information Security
5 2 (5.263%) Compatibility Testing
5 2 (5.263%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (5.263%) Data Security
5 2 (5.263%) Document Management
5 2 (5.263%) Network Management
5 2 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.632%) Software Deployment
6 1 (2.632%) RAD
6 1 (2.632%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (2.632%) Business Analysis
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) SQL
2 3 (7.895%) VBA
3 1 (2.632%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (18.42%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared
2 5 (13.16%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.632%) MCSE
3 1 (2.632%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.632%) MCITP
3 1 (2.632%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.05%) QA
2 1 (2.632%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 18 (47.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (31.58%) Active Directory
3 11 (28.95%) VMware ESX
4 5 (13.16%) Hyper-V
5 4 (10.53%) vSphere
6 3 (7.895%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (7.895%) Oracle RAC
7 2 (5.263%) XenApp
7 2 (5.263%) XenDesktop
8 1 (2.632%) Terminal Services
8 1 (2.632%) ISA Server
8 1 (2.632%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (2.632%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 2 (5.263%) SCOM
2 1 (2.632%) Tivoli Endpoint Manager
2 1 (2.632%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.632%) Backup Exec
2 1 (2.632%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 20 (52.63%) Microsoft
2 18 (47.37%) VMware
3 14 (36.84%) HP
4 13 (34.21%) Citrix
5 7 (18.42%) Cisco
6 6 (15.79%) Oracle
7 4 (10.53%) EMC
8 3 (7.895%) NetApp
8 3 (7.895%) Veritas
8 3 (7.895%) Red Hat
8 3 (7.895%) Brocade
9 1 (2.632%) IBM
9 1 (2.632%) Sybase
9 1 (2.632%) Business Objects
9 1 (2.632%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.632%) Mercator
9 1 (2.632%) Symantec
9 1 (2.632%) Intel
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Posted: 19 June 2013