The first table below looks at the demand for VCP5 in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VCP5 over the 3 months to 18 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 Qualifications currently tracked.

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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional 5 (VCP5)
Rank 532 576 -
Rank change year-on-year
+44 -
Contract jobs citing VCP5 22 13 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.045% 0.022% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.248% 0.130% -
Number of daily rates quoted 17 11 0
Average daily rate £325 £425 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.52% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £190 -
% change year-on-year
+47.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Qualifications
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
8856 10006 9823
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 18.19% 17.23% 15.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4727 5172 4786
Average daily rate £375 £375 £375
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £535 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 501 521 685
Average hourly rate £22.25 £20.06 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.91% -10.84%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.30 £12.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £40.70 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £21.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+2.32% -10.41%

VCP5
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VCP5 within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

VCP5 Jobs Demand Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VCP5 within the UK.

VCP5 Daily Rate Trend

VCP5
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VCP5 within the UK over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

VCP5 Daily Rate Histogram

VCP5
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 VCP5 within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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 +20 19 £303 -28.82% 7
East of England +20 7 £225 -
London +14 4 £353 -18.73% 6
South East - 3 £375 -
City of London +7 2 £350 -23.70% 3
Midlands - 2 £325 -
Yorkshire - 2 £265 -
West Midlands - 1 £340 - 1
Oxfordshire - 1 £395 -
Milton Keynes - 1 £275 -
Berkshire - 1 £375 -
Buckinghamshire - 1 £275 -
Reading - 1 £375 -
Sheffield - - - -
Solihull - - - -
Telford - - - - 1
Watford - - - -
Wembley - - - -
Wokingham - - - -
York - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Bromley - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Colchester - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Dagenham - - - -
Dronfield - - - -
Glasgow - - - -
Gloucester - - - -
Jersey - - - -

VCP5
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VCP5 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 VCP5.

1 37 (88.10%) VMware
1 37 (88.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 33 (78.57%) Windows
3 26 (61.90%) Active Directory
4 25 (59.52%) Windows Server 2008
5 18 (42.86%) Hyper-V
6 17 (40.48%) HP
7 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
7 16 (38.10%) SQL
7 16 (38.10%) Citrix
7 16 (38.10%) VCP4
8 15 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
9 14 (33.33%) MCITP
9 14 (33.33%) MS Exchange
10 13 (30.95%) ITIL
11 12 (28.57%) DNS
11 12 (28.57%) SAN
11 12 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
12 10 (23.81%) SCCM
12 10 (23.81%) vSphere
12 10 (23.81%) PRINCE
12 10 (23.81%) PRINCE2
13 9 (21.43%) IIS
13 9 (21.43%) Windows XP
13 9 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
13 9 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
13 9 (21.43%) XenDesktop
13 9 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
14 8 (19.05%) UAG
14 8 (19.05%) Windows 8

VCP5
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VCP5 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 VCP5. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (2.381%) SOAP
1 1 (2.381%) XML
Application Platforms
1 14 (33.33%) MS Exchange
2 12 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (21.43%) IIS
4 8 (19.05%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (11.90%) SharePoint
6 3 (7.143%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (7.143%) Office Communications Server
6 3 (7.143%) SharePoint 2010
7 2 (4.762%) Lync
8 1 (2.381%) OpenStack
8 1 (2.381%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 2 (4.762%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.381%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 12 (28.57%) DNS
1 12 (28.57%) SAN
2 7 (16.67%) VPN
3 3 (7.143%) DHCP
4 2 (4.762%) Firewall
4 2 (4.762%) NetScaler
5 1 (2.381%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (2.381%) VLAN
5 1 (2.381%) NAS
5 1 (2.381%) TCP/IP
5 1 (2.381%) LAN
5 1 (2.381%) WAN
5 1 (2.381%) OSPF
5 1 (2.381%) BGP
5 1 (2.381%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (9.524%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2000
2 3 (7.143%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (2.381%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 1 (2.381%) Banking
1 1 (2.381%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (26.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Consultant
3 6 (14.29%) Analyst
3 6 (14.29%) 3rd Line Support
4 4 (9.524%) VMware Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) Virtualisation Specialist
5 3 (7.143%) Architect
5 3 (7.143%) Server Engineer
5 3 (7.143%) Support Analyst
6 2 (4.762%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.762%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (4.762%) Infrastructure Consultant
6 2 (4.762%) Virtualisation Consultant
6 2 (4.762%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.381%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
7 1 (2.381%) IT Support
7 1 (2.381%) VMware Consultant
7 1 (2.381%) SAN Specialist
7 1 (2.381%) Senior Infrastructure Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.67%) Clustering
2 1 (2.381%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.381%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (2.381%) PaaS
2 1 (2.381%) HP StorageWorks
2 1 (2.381%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 33 (78.57%) Windows
2 25 (59.52%) Windows Server 2008
3 9 (21.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (21.43%) Windows XP
4 8 (19.05%) Windows 8
5 4 (9.524%) Linux
6 3 (7.143%) Windows 2000 Server
6 3 (7.143%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (2.381%) VMS
7 1 (2.381%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (30.95%) ITIL
2 10 (23.81%) PRINCE2
2 10 (23.81%) PRINCE
3 7 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
4 6 (14.29%) Incident Management
4 6 (14.29%) Operations Management
5 4 (9.524%) Project Management
6 3 (7.143%) Business Continuity
7 2 (4.762%) Migration
7 2 (4.762%) ITIL V3
7 2 (4.762%) Change Control
8 1 (2.381%) ERP
8 1 (2.381%) Load Balancing
8 1 (2.381%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (38.10%) SQL
2 8 (19.05%) PowerShell
3 2 (4.762%) VBScript
4 1 (2.381%) Bash shell
4 1 (2.381%) Perl
Qualifications
1 37 (88.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 16 (38.10%) VCP4
3 14 (33.33%) MCITP
4 9 (21.43%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (7.143%) CCAA
5 3 (7.143%) Degree
5 3 (7.143%) CCA
5 3 (7.143%) Citrix Certification
5 3 (7.143%) MCSE
5 3 (7.143%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.762%) VCAP
7 1 (2.381%) CCEE
7 1 (2.381%) CCIA
7 1 (2.381%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (2.381%) CCIE
7 1 (2.381%) CCEA
7 1 (2.381%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (2.381%) DV Cleared
7 1 (2.381%) Security Cleared
7 1 (2.381%) NCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.762%) SLA
2 1 (2.381%) QA
System Software
1 26 (61.90%) Active Directory
2 18 (42.86%) Hyper-V
3 15 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
4 10 (23.81%) vSphere
5 9 (21.43%) Forefront TMG
5 9 (21.43%) XenDesktop
6 8 (19.05%) VMware ESX
6 8 (19.05%) UAG
7 7 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
8 6 (14.29%) XenApp
9 4 (9.524%) vCloud
10 3 (7.143%) XenServer
10 3 (7.143%) ISA Server
11 1 (2.381%) Xen
11 1 (2.381%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 10 (23.81%) SCCM
2 6 (14.29%) HP SIM
3 4 (9.524%) SCOM
4 3 (7.143%) SCVMM
4 3 (7.143%) EMC NetWorker
5 1 (2.381%) BladeLogic
Vendors
1 37 (88.10%) VMware
2 17 (40.48%) HP
3 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 16 (38.10%) Citrix
4 7 (16.67%) NetApp
5 4 (9.524%) EMC
6 3 (7.143%) Intel
6 3 (7.143%) Cisco
6 3 (7.143%) Veritas
6 3 (7.143%) Altiris
7 2 (4.762%) AppSense
8 1 (2.381%) Juniper
8 1 (2.381%) Sophos
8 1 (2.381%) 3Com
8 1 (2.381%) Oracle
8 1 (2.381%) SAP
8 1 (2.381%) Dell
8 1 (2.381%) IronPort
8 1 (2.381%) Infoblox
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Austin Fraser are looking for a Vmware Administrator to join our client based in London It is essential that you have strong Virtualisation experience and the following technical...
Austin Fraser
Posted: 12 June 2013
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