The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Consultant role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Virtualisation Consultant in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Consultant
Rank 526 553 565
Rank change year-on-year
+27 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Consultant 15 12 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.032% 0.021% 0.034%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.022% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 7 14
Average daily rate £363 £380 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.60% +1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £296 £324 £336
10% offered a daily rate of more than £420 £410 £584
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £363
% change year-on-year
+15.38% -10.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42697 54001 57544
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.14% 92.51% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24521 29759 31287
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2095 2581 2973
Average hourly rate £18.25 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.88 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Virtualisation Consultant
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Virtualisation Consultant within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Virtualisation Consultant Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

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

Virtualisation Consultant Daily Rate Trend

Virtualisation Consultant
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Virtualisation Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Virtualisation Consultant Daily Rate Histogram

Virtualisation Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Virtualisation Consultant Hourly Rate Trend

Virtualisation Consultant
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Consultant within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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 +46 13 £375 -1.31%
South East - 8 £395 -
Hampshire - 6 £420 -
London +32 4 £305 -19.73%
City of London +20 2 £305 -22.53%
Basingstoke - 2 £420 -
Scotland - 1 - -
South West - 1 £350 -
Oxfordshire - 1 £395 -
Exeter - 1 £350 -
Edinburgh - 1 - -
Devon - 1 £350 -
Berkshire - 1 £375 -
Southampton - 1 £275 -

Virtualisation Consultant
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Consultant in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Consultant in their job title.

1 22 (73.33%) VMware
1 22 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (63.33%) Windows
3 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
4 10 (33.33%) Migration
5 9 (30.00%) vSphere
6 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
7 7 (23.33%) NetApp
8 6 (20.00%) HP
8 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (16.67%) Citrix
9 5 (16.67%) HP SIM
10 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
10 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
11 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
11 3 (10.00%) SCVMM
11 3 (10.00%) Time Management
11 3 (10.00%) AppSense
11 3 (10.00%) Windows 2000
11 3 (10.00%) Solaris
11 3 (10.00%) Oracle
11 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
11 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
11 3 (10.00%) XenApp
11 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
12 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
12 2 (6.667%) VCP4
12 2 (6.667%) VCP5

Virtualisation Consultant
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Consultant in their job title 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 with Virtualisation Consultant in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (10.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.333%) VLAN
1 1 (3.333%) SAN
1 1 (3.333%) LAN
1 1 (3.333%) WAN
1 1 (3.333%) SMTP
1 1 (3.333%) DHCP
1 1 (3.333%) Kerberos
1 1 (3.333%) DNS
1 1 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (3.333%) German Language
1 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
1 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.333%) PKI
3 1 (3.333%) Data Extraction
3 1 (3.333%) SaaS
3 1 (3.333%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 19 (63.33%) Windows
2 6 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (10.00%) Windows 2000
4 3 (10.00%) Solaris
5 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
5 2 (6.667%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (3.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Migration
2 3 (10.00%) Time Management
2 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (3.333%) Software Testing
3 1 (3.333%) Operations Management
3 1 (3.333%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (3.333%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (3.333%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (3.333%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.667%) SQL
1 2 (6.667%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.333%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 4 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (6.667%) VCP4
4 2 (6.667%) VCP5
5 1 (3.333%) MCITP
5 1 (3.333%) CCNA
5 1 (3.333%) CCA
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (3.333%) CCEA
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.333%) MCSE
5 1 (3.333%) CCEE
5 1 (3.333%) CCAA
5 1 (3.333%) CCIA
System Software
1 22 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (30.00%) vSphere
3 8 (26.67%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) XenApp
5 2 (6.667%) Active Directory
5 2 (6.667%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.333%) XenServer
6 1 (3.333%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.333%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) HP SIM
2 3 (10.00%) SCVMM
3 2 (6.667%) SCCM
3 2 (6.667%) Backup Exec
4 1 (3.333%) WSUS
4 1 (3.333%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (73.33%) VMware
2 14 (46.67%) Microsoft
3 7 (23.33%) NetApp
4 6 (20.00%) HP
5 5 (16.67%) Citrix
6 3 (10.00%) AppSense
6 3 (10.00%) Oracle
7 2 (6.667%) EMC
8 1 (3.333%) Symantec
8 1 (3.333%) Dell
8 1 (3.333%) Red Hat
8 1 (3.333%) Cisco
8 1 (3.333%) Broadcom
8 1 (3.333%) FalconStor