Virtualisation Specialist Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Virtualisation Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Virtualization Specialist
Rank 499 568 575
Rank change year-on-year
+69 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Virtualisation Specialist 31 10 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.067% 0.017% 0.021%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.072% 0.019% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 8 8
Average daily rate £400 £383 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.57% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £400 £388
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +3.22%
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		 42797 53993 56874
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.65% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24561 29781 30909
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 2134 2552 2929
Average hourly rate £18.50 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.63% -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%

Virtualisation Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Virtualisation Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Virtualisation Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Virtualisation Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Virtualisation Specialist
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Virtualisation Specialist Daily Rate Histogram

Virtualisation Specialist
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Virtualisation Specialist Hourly Rate Trend

Virtualisation Specialist
Top 16 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Virtualisation Specialist within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +62 24 £400 +4.57%
London +29 15 £475 +30.13%
City of London +19 10 £475 +31.03%
Yorkshire +5 7 £375 -6.25%
Edinburgh - 6 - -
Scotland - 6 - -
West Yorkshire +5 3 £275 -31.25%
Leeds -6 3 £275 -31.25%
South East +24 1 £325 -23.52%
Southampton -3 1 £325 -23.52%
Hampshire -5 1 £325 -23.52%
East of England - 1 £400 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
Essex - 1 £400 -
Sheffield - 1 £375 -
Colchester - 1 £400 -

Virtualisation Specialist
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 30 (93.75%) VMware
1 30 (93.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (65.63%) Windows
3 15 (46.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 15 (46.88%) vSphere
4 13 (40.63%) Linux
5 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
5 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2008
6 10 (31.25%) Hyper-V
6 10 (31.25%) Citrix
6 10 (31.25%) SAN
6 10 (31.25%) NetApp
6 10 (31.25%) Clustering
6 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
7 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
7 9 (28.13%) EMC
7 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Certification
7 9 (28.13%) MCSE
7 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (25.00%) Cisco
8 8 (25.00%) UNIX
8 8 (25.00%) HP
9 7 (21.88%) vCloud
10 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
10 6 (18.75%) Fibre Channel
10 6 (18.75%) Open Source
10 6 (18.75%) Zenoss
10 6 (18.75%) MCITP
10 6 (18.75%) Apache
10 6 (18.75%) PHP

Virtualisation Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Virtualisation Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (3.125%) OpenGL
1 1 (3.125%) DirectX
1 1 (3.125%) WPF
1 1 (3.125%) WebGL
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) Apache
2 4 (12.50%) CloudStack
3 3 (9.375%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (3.125%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (3.125%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 10 (31.25%) SAN
2 6 (18.75%) Fibre Channel
3 5 (15.63%) Firewall
4 4 (12.50%) BIG-IP
4 4 (12.50%) FWSM
5 2 (6.250%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (6.250%) NAS
6 1 (3.125%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (3.125%) iSCSI
6 1 (3.125%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (18.75%) MySQL
2 2 (6.250%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2012
General
1 3 (9.375%) Advertising
2 2 (6.250%) Finance
3 1 (3.125%) Manufacturing
3 1 (3.125%) Front Office
3 1 (3.125%) Electronics
3 1 (3.125%) Telecoms
3 1 (3.125%) Local Government
3 1 (3.125%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 10 (31.25%) Clustering
2 6 (18.75%) Open Source
3 4 (12.50%) CLARiiON
3 4 (12.50%) Statistics
4 1 (3.125%) Visualisation
4 1 (3.125%) GPGPU
4 1 (3.125%) NHS
4 1 (3.125%) DTV
4 1 (3.125%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.125%) 3D Graphics
Operating Systems
1 21 (65.63%) Windows
2 13 (40.63%) Linux
3 11 (34.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (31.25%) Windows Server 2003
5 9 (28.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (25.00%) UNIX
7 4 (12.50%) Mac OS X
7 4 (12.50%) HPUX
8 1 (3.125%) Windows 7
8 1 (3.125%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (15.63%) Service Management
1 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
2 4 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 4 (12.50%) ITIL
2 4 (12.50%) E-Commerce
2 4 (12.50%) Data Management
2 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
2 4 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
2 4 (12.50%) Information Assurance
3 2 (6.250%) Migration
4 1 (3.125%) Business Continuity
4 1 (3.125%) Programme Management
4 1 (3.125%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (3.125%) Risk Management
4 1 (3.125%) User Experience Design
4 1 (3.125%) Change Control
4 1 (3.125%) Digital Marketing
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.75%) PHP
1 6 (18.75%) Shell Script
2 3 (9.375%) SQL
3 1 (3.125%) C
3 1 (3.125%) C#
3 1 (3.125%) C++
3 1 (3.125%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 15 (46.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 9 (28.13%) MCSE
2 9 (28.13%) Microsoft Certification
3 6 (18.75%) MCITP
4 5 (15.63%) Security Cleared
5 4 (12.50%) MCP
5 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 4 (12.50%) MCSA
6 3 (9.375%) VCP5
6 3 (9.375%) VCP4
7 1 (3.125%) VCAP
7 1 (3.125%) VTSP
7 1 (3.125%) CCA
7 1 (3.125%) Citrix Certification
7 1 (3.125%) Degree
7 1 (3.125%) SC Cleared
System Software
1 30 (93.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (46.88%) vSphere
3 10 (31.25%) Hyper-V
4 7 (21.88%) vCloud
5 6 (18.75%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
6 1 (3.125%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.125%) Microsoft App-V
6 1 (3.125%) XenApp
6 1 (3.125%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 6 (18.75%) Nagios
1 6 (18.75%) Zenoss
2 1 (3.125%) NetBackup
2 1 (3.125%) Backup Exec
2 1 (3.125%) SCOM
Vendors
1 30 (93.75%) VMware
2 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
3 10 (31.25%) Citrix
3 10 (31.25%) NetApp
4 9 (28.13%) Red Hat
4 9 (28.13%) EMC
5 8 (25.00%) HP
5 8 (25.00%) Cisco
6 4 (12.50%) IBM
6 4 (12.50%) Apple
6 4 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 4 (12.50%) F5
7 1 (3.125%) SAP
7 1 (3.125%) SolarWinds
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