The first table below looks at the demand for the VMware Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Engineer
Rank 497 534 551
Rank change year-on-year
+37 +17
Contract jobs requiring a VMware Engineer 43 47 29
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.091% 0.080% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.087% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 26 20
Average daily rate £325 £328 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.91% +0.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £200 £262
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £423
UK excluding London average daily rate £296 £328 £338
% change year-on-year
-9.67% -2.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £21.19
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
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 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

VMware Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VMware Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

VMware Engineer Daily Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

VMware Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Engineer
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 VMware Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +33 35 £325 -0.91%
London +8 12 £394 +14.96%
South West - 7 £260 -
South East +26 6 £325 -13.33%
Plymouth - 4 £260 -
Devon - 4 £260 -
City of London +14 3 £450 +83.67%
Berkshire +12 3 £389 -
Tyne and Wear +7 3 - -
North East +5 3 - -
Surrey +18 2 £319 -
North West +15 2 £250 +61.29%
Newcastle upon Tyne +10 2 - -
East Midlands -4 2 - -
West Midlands - 2 - -
Bournemouth - 2 £438 -
Birmingham - 2 - -
Ascot - 2 £389 -
Dorset - 2 £438 -
Derbyshire +11 1 - -
Reading +8 1 - -
Gateshead +6 1 - -
Yorkshire +2 1 £150 -57.14%
Hampshire -10 1 £325 -13.33%
South Yorkshire - 1 £150 -
Somerset - 1 £280 -
Wigan - 1 - -
Taunton - 1 £280 -
Manchester - 1 - -
Doncaster - 1 £150 -

VMware Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited VMware Engineer 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 VMware Engineer in their job title.

1 65 (100.00%) VMware
2 38 (58.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (46.15%) vSphere
4 29 (44.62%) Windows
5 18 (27.69%) VMware ESX
6 16 (24.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 16 (24.62%) HP
7 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 14 (21.54%) Citrix
9 13 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
9 13 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
10 11 (16.92%) SAN
11 10 (15.38%) Cisco
11 10 (15.38%) Finance
12 9 (13.85%) Oracle
13 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2003
13 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
13 8 (12.31%) Veritas
13 8 (12.31%) Financial Institution
13 8 (12.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 8 (12.31%) Hedge funds
14 7 (10.77%) Migration
14 7 (10.77%) ITIL
14 7 (10.77%) Linux
15 5 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
15 5 (7.692%) Red Hat
15 5 (7.692%) NetApp
15 5 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
15 5 (7.692%) IBM
15 5 (7.692%) MS Exchange

VMware Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited VMware Engineer 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 VMware Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.538%) COM
1 1 (1.538%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 5 (7.692%) MS Exchange
2 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (3.077%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (1.538%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (4.615%) MS Excel
2 2 (3.077%) MS Office
2 2 (3.077%) S-PLUS
3 1 (1.538%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 11 (16.92%) SAN
2 5 (7.692%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (6.154%) VLAN
3 4 (6.154%) LAN
3 4 (6.154%) WAN
3 4 (6.154%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (4.615%) MPLS
4 3 (4.615%) HTTP
4 3 (4.615%) DNS
4 3 (4.615%) iSCSI
4 3 (4.615%) Firewall
5 2 (3.077%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (3.077%) DHCP
6 1 (1.538%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.538%) VPN
6 1 (1.538%) VoIP
6 1 (1.538%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.538%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.538%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.538%) DTS
General
1 10 (15.38%) Finance
2 8 (12.31%) Financial Institution
3 2 (3.077%) Investment Banking
3 2 (3.077%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (12.31%) Hedge funds
2 2 (3.077%) EqualLogic
3 1 (1.538%) IaaS
3 1 (1.538%) PaaS
3 1 (1.538%) CLARiiON
3 1 (1.538%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 29 (44.62%) Windows
2 13 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (12.31%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (10.77%) Linux
5 5 (7.692%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (6.154%) Windows 7
7 2 (3.077%) Windows XP
7 2 (3.077%) VMS
7 2 (3.077%) UNIX
8 1 (1.538%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (1.538%) Tru64
8 1 (1.538%) AIX
8 1 (1.538%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (10.77%) Migration
1 7 (10.77%) ITIL
2 4 (6.154%) Project Management
3 3 (4.615%) E-Commerce
4 2 (3.077%) Change Management
5 1 (1.538%) Configuration Management
5 1 (1.538%) PRINCE
5 1 (1.538%) PRINCE2
5 1 (1.538%) Incident Management
5 1 (1.538%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (1.538%) Load Balancing
5 1 (1.538%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (6.154%) PowerShell
1 4 (6.154%) SQL
2 2 (3.077%) VBScript
3 1 (1.538%) Bash shell
3 1 (1.538%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.538%) VB
3 1 (1.538%) Java
3 1 (1.538%) Perl
Qualifications
1 16 (24.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 5 (7.692%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (6.154%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.615%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (4.615%) Citrix Certification
4 3 (4.615%) CCNP
4 3 (4.615%) CCNA
5 2 (3.077%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.077%) MCSE
5 2 (3.077%) MCP
5 2 (3.077%) VCP4
5 2 (3.077%) VCP5
6 1 (1.538%) CCEA
6 1 (1.538%) MCSA
6 1 (1.538%) MCITP
6 1 (1.538%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.538%) QA
System Software
1 38 (58.46%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (46.15%) vSphere
3 18 (27.69%) VMware ESX
4 13 (20.00%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (12.31%) Active Directory
5 8 (12.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 5 (7.692%) XenApp
6 5 (7.692%) VMware Server
7 2 (3.077%) XenServer
7 2 (3.077%) XenDesktop
7 2 (3.077%) vCloud
8 1 (1.538%) PowerHA
8 1 (1.538%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (1.538%) VMware Workstation
8 1 (1.538%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (4.615%) SCCM
2 2 (3.077%) HP SIM
3 1 (1.538%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.538%) Sysprep
3 1 (1.538%) ARCserve
3 1 (1.538%) NetBackup
3 1 (1.538%) Backup Exec
3 1 (1.538%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (24.62%) HP
3 15 (23.08%) Microsoft
4 14 (21.54%) Citrix
5 10 (15.38%) Cisco
6 9 (13.85%) Oracle
7 8 (12.31%) Veritas
8 5 (7.692%) Red Hat
8 5 (7.692%) NetApp
8 5 (7.692%) IBM
9 4 (6.154%) Dell
9 4 (6.154%) FalconStor
10 3 (4.615%) EMC
10 3 (4.615%) Veeam
11 2 (3.077%) SonicWALL
11 2 (3.077%) Brocade
12 1 (1.538%) Twitter
12 1 (1.538%) 3PAR
12 1 (1.538%) McAfee
12 1 (1.538%) Websense
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