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

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
Oracle VirtualBox
Rank 532 581 -
Rank change year-on-year
+49 -
Contract jobs citing VirtualBox 2 5 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.004% 0.008% -
As % of the System Software category 0.045% 0.107% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £90 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-48.57% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £90 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
4421 4683 4368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.381% 7.900% 7.257%
Number of daily rates quoted 2133 2251 1924
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 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 609 632 645
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.18 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £35.50 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%

VirtualBox
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VirtualBox Jobs Demand Trend

VirtualBox
Daily Rate Trend

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

VirtualBox Daily Rate Trend

VirtualBox
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VirtualBox within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 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
England +53 2 £90 -48.57%
London +28 1 £90 -48.57%
South East +17 1 £90 -
Hampshire - 1 £90 -
Portsmouth - 1 £90 -

VirtualBox
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox.

1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (25.00%) Change Control
3 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
3 1 (25.00%) Egenera
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Postfix
3 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
3 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (25.00%) SCSA
3 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 1 (25.00%) Squid
3 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
3 1 (25.00%) Xen
3 1 (25.00%) VMware Server
3 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) LAMP
3 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Sun

VirtualBox
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VirtualBox 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 VirtualBox. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) IIS
1 1 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Linux
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (25.00%) OpenBSD
3 1 (25.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) FreeBSD
3 1 (25.00%) AIX
3 1 (25.00%) HPUX
3 1 (25.00%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Operations Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) Perl
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SCSA
1 1 (25.00%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (25.00%) RHCE
1 1 (25.00%) HPUX Certification
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (25.00%) Postfix
2 1 (25.00%) Sendmail
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 1 (25.00%) Squid
2 1 (25.00%) Xen
2 1 (25.00%) VMware Server
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (25.00%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Egenera
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Sun
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) Intel
2 1 (25.00%) Veritas
2 1 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 1 (25.00%) Remedy
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (25.00%) JBoss
Portsmouth, Hampshire
The candidate should have previous experience of desktop hardware installations and have set up VirtualBox / Virtual Box in previous roles. Key Skills: Hardware Installation and Configuration ( SSD / RAM )...
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Rate: £80 - £100 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
The candidate should have previous experience of desktop hardware installations and have set up VirtualBox / Virtual Box in previous roles. Key Skills: Hardware Installation and Configuration ( SSD / RAM )...
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Rate: £80 - £100 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013