VMware ESX Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware ESX Server
Rank 288 284 268
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -16
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 271 350 395
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.584% 0.601% 0.644%
As % of the System Software category 6.278% 7.551% 8.841%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 211 244
Average daily rate £380 £350 £340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.57% +2.94%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+12.30% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 23
Average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-25.00% -6.25%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £30.00 £27.25
% change year-on-year
-25.00% +10.09%
All System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 4317 4635 4468
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 9.304% 7.953% 7.289%
Number of daily rates quoted 2073 2240 1970
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £202
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £460 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 599 613 651
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £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%

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

VMware ESX Jobs Demand Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Trend

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

VMware ESX Daily Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Daily Rate Histogram

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

VMware ESX Daily Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware ESX Hourly Rate Trend

VMware ESX
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

VMware ESX Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
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 ESX 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 -6 253 £385 +10.00%
London +6 137 £385 -0.64%
South East +19 66 £388 +10.71%
City of London +10 38 £425 +6.25%
Berkshire +29 23 £333 -5.00%
West Sussex +24 18 £504 +30.00%
East of England +18 15 £388 +82.35%
Buckinghamshire +8 15 £215 -14.17%
Bracknell - 13 - -
South West +15 11 £406 -3.33%
Scotland -11 9 £356 +21.79%
Aylesbury - 9 £175 -
Gatwick +16 8 £585 -
Cambridgeshire +14 8 £345 +28.37%
Cambridge +10 8 £345 +28.37%
Maidenhead - 8 £333 -
West Midlands +5 7 £356 +14.82%
Hampshire -14 7 £440 +30.37%
Crawley +14 6 £425 +6.25%
North West +3 6 £275 -6.38%
Milton Keynes +1 6 £295 +17.76%
Yorkshire -13 6 £295 -4.83%
North East +11 5 - -
Tyne and Wear +8 5 - -
Hertfordshire +7 5 £415 +100.00%
West Yorkshire -5 5 £244 -30.28%
Erskine - 4 £360 -
Renfrewshire - 4 £360 -
Docklands, London - 4 £369 -
Gloucestershire +24 3 £387 -7.85%

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX.

1 508 (99.41%) VMware
2 381 (74.56%) Windows
3 309 (60.47%) VMware Infrastructure
4 236 (46.18%) Active Directory
5 218 (42.66%) Windows Server 2008
6 207 (40.51%) Microsoft
7 192 (37.57%) Windows Server 2003
8 189 (36.99%) Citrix
9 167 (32.68%) SAN
10 160 (31.31%) vSphere
11 148 (28.96%) HP
12 139 (27.20%) Linux
13 120 (23.48%) SQL Server
14 106 (20.74%) MS Exchange
15 105 (20.55%) ITIL
16 102 (19.96%) XenApp
17 101 (19.77%) Clustering
18 99 (19.37%) EMC
19 98 (19.18%) DNS
20 97 (18.98%) IIS
21 96 (18.79%) SQL
22 81 (15.85%) Red Hat
23 80 (15.66%) Cisco
24 78 (15.26%) MS Excel
25 77 (15.07%) PowerShell
26 76 (14.87%) NAS
27 70 (13.70%) DHCP
28 69 (13.50%) Security Cleared
29 68 (13.31%) Migration
29 68 (13.31%) Windows XP

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VMware ESX 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 VMware ESX. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 39 (7.632%) .NET
2 25 (4.892%) ADSI
3 22 (4.305%) Web Services
4 21 (4.110%) Middleware
4 21 (4.110%) ASP.NET
5 9 (1.761%) XML
6 6 (1.174%) COM
7 5 (0.978%) Application Packaging
8 4 (0.783%) jQuery
8 4 (0.783%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.783%) CSS
8 4 (0.783%) Ajax
8 4 (0.783%) HTML
9 3 (0.587%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.391%) ASP
11 1 (0.196%) Windows SharePoint Services
11 1 (0.196%) Java SE
11 1 (0.196%) Regular Expression
11 1 (0.196%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 106 (20.74%) MS Exchange
2 97 (18.98%) IIS
3 63 (12.33%) Exchange Server 2010
4 58 (11.35%) SharePoint
5 56 (10.96%) Apache
6 54 (10.57%) Exchange Server 2007
7 36 (7.045%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 34 (6.654%) Exchange Server 2003
9 21 (4.110%) SharePoint 2010
10 19 (3.718%) Tomcat
11 11 (2.153%) Oracle Application Server
12 10 (1.957%) OpenEdge
13 8 (1.566%) SharePoint Server
14 6 (1.174%) Lync
15 5 (0.978%) BizTalk Server
16 4 (0.783%) WebSphere MQ
16 4 (0.783%) MQSeries
16 4 (0.783%) Lotus Domino
16 4 (0.783%) Amazon AWS
16 4 (0.783%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 78 (15.26%) MS Excel
2 34 (6.654%) MS Office
3 3 (0.587%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.391%) MS PowerPoint
5 1 (0.196%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.196%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 10 (1.957%) Dynamics NAV
2 6 (1.174%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.783%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.587%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.391%) AWD
5 2 (0.391%) Remedy ITSM
6 1 (0.196%) assyst
6 1 (0.196%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 167 (32.68%) SAN
2 98 (19.18%) DNS
3 76 (14.87%) NAS
4 70 (13.70%) DHCP
5 54 (10.57%) Firewall
6 42 (8.219%) TCP/IP
7 36 (7.045%) WAN
8 34 (6.654%) iSCSI
9 31 (6.067%) LAN
10 23 (4.501%) VPN
10 23 (4.501%) NetScaler
11 21 (4.110%) Internet
12 17 (3.327%) Network Security
12 17 (3.327%) Fibre Channel
13 16 (3.131%) Cisco Nexus
14 15 (2.935%) FTP
15 12 (2.348%) SNMP
15 12 (2.348%) SMTP
16 11 (2.153%) LDAP
16 11 (2.153%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 120 (23.48%) SQL Server
2 62 (12.13%) SQL Server 2008
3 42 (8.219%) SQL Server 2005
4 37 (7.241%) MySQL
5 15 (2.935%) Oracle 8/8i
6 11 (2.153%) Oracle 11g
7 10 (1.957%) SQL Server 2000
8 8 (1.566%) Oracle BI EE
9 6 (1.174%) Oracle 10g
10 5 (0.978%) SQL Server 2012
11 4 (0.783%) Oracle OWB
11 4 (0.783%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.587%) Oracle Reports
12 3 (0.587%) Oracle Discoverer
12 3 (0.587%) Oracle Exadata
13 2 (0.391%) DB2
13 2 (0.391%) DTS
14 1 (0.196%) TOAD
14 1 (0.196%) Crystal Reports
14 1 (0.196%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (2.740%) LoadRunner
2 10 (1.957%) WinRunner
3 8 (1.566%) TestDirector
3 8 (1.566%) QuickTest Pro
3 8 (1.566%) MSI
4 4 (0.783%) Oracle APEX
5 3 (0.587%) Selenium
5 3 (0.587%) InstallShield
5 3 (0.587%) Bugzilla
5 3 (0.587%) Subversion
6 2 (0.391%) Git (software)
6 2 (0.391%) Wise Package Studio
7 1 (0.196%) Hudson
7 1 (0.196%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.196%) Jenkins
General
1 68 (13.31%) Finance
2 47 (9.198%) Banking
3 19 (3.718%) Investment Banking
4 12 (2.348%) Telecoms
5 11 (2.153%) Front Office
5 11 (2.153%) Retail
6 7 (1.370%) Financial Institution
7 6 (1.174%) Back Office
7 6 (1.174%) Law
8 4 (0.783%) Publishing
9 3 (0.587%) Legal
9 3 (0.587%) Automotive
9 3 (0.587%) Online Betting
10 2 (0.391%) Advertising
10 2 (0.391%) Games
10 2 (0.391%) Marketing
10 2 (0.391%) French Language
10 2 (0.391%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.196%) Local Government
11 1 (0.196%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 84 (16.44%) Administrator
2 50 (9.785%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 50 (9.785%) Systems Engineer
3 46 (9.002%) Analyst
4 45 (8.806%) Systems Administrator
5 39 (7.632%) Support Engineer
6 38 (7.436%) Architect
7 35 (6.849%) Consultant
8 31 (6.067%) Senior Systems Engineer
9 27 (5.284%) 3rd Line Support
10 25 (4.892%) Wintel Engineer
11 19 (3.718%) Infrastructure Architect
12 18 (3.523%) VMware Engineer
12 18 (3.523%) Storage Administrator
13 17 (3.327%) UNIX Engineer
14 15 (2.935%) Windows Administrator
14 15 (2.935%) Infrastructure Analyst
15 14 (2.740%) Support Analyst
15 14 (2.740%) Citrix Engineer
16 12 (2.348%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 101 (19.77%) Clustering
2 40 (7.828%) Blackberry
3 19 (3.718%) Hedge funds
4 15 (2.935%) CLARiiON
4 15 (2.935%) Client/Server
5 14 (2.740%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.740%) Replication
6 11 (2.153%) Thin Client
6 11 (2.153%) Computer Science
6 11 (2.153%) Fat Client
7 8 (1.566%) iSeries
8 7 (1.370%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.174%) LPAR
9 6 (1.174%) HACMP
9 6 (1.174%) PKI
10 5 (0.978%) PDA
10 5 (0.978%) Fixed Income
11 3 (0.587%) EqualLogic
12 2 (0.391%) DataPower
12 2 (0.391%) Enterprise Storage
Operating Systems
1 381 (74.56%) Windows
2 218 (42.66%) Windows Server 2008
3 192 (37.57%) Windows Server 2003
4 139 (27.20%) Linux
5 68 (13.31%) Windows XP
6 66 (12.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 64 (12.52%) Windows 7
8 50 (9.785%) UNIX
9 33 (6.458%) Windows 2000
10 26 (5.088%) Solaris
11 23 (4.501%) Windows NT
12 22 (4.305%) HPUX
13 20 (3.914%) AIX
14 15 (2.935%) Windows Server 2012
15 10 (1.957%) Windows 2000 Server
15 10 (1.957%) CentOS
16 9 (1.761%) Ubuntu
17 7 (1.370%) Windows Vista
18 6 (1.174%) FreeBSD
18 6 (1.174%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (20.55%) ITIL
2 68 (13.31%) Migration
3 38 (7.436%) Disaster Recovery
4 29 (5.675%) Service Delivery
5 26 (5.088%) Project Management
6 25 (4.892%) Change Management
7 24 (4.697%) Service Management
8 18 (3.523%) Configuration Management
9 16 (3.131%) Load Balancing
9 16 (3.131%) ITIL V3
10 14 (2.740%) Capacity Planning
11 13 (2.544%) Test Scripting
12 11 (2.153%) High Availability
13 10 (1.957%) Test Automation
13 10 (1.957%) Time Management
13 10 (1.957%) Network Load Balancing
13 10 (1.957%) Validation
13 10 (1.957%) Regression Testing
13 10 (1.957%) B2B
14 9 (1.761%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 96 (18.79%) SQL
2 77 (15.07%) PowerShell
3 58 (11.35%) VBScript
4 41 (8.023%) Perl
5 32 (6.262%) VB
6 24 (4.697%) Shell Script
7 11 (2.153%) T-SQL
8 10 (1.957%) PHP
9 9 (1.761%) C#
10 8 (1.566%) C
11 6 (1.174%) JavaScript
11 6 (1.174%) AWK
11 6 (1.174%) sed
12 5 (0.978%) PL/SQL
13 4 (0.783%) Bash shell
14 3 (0.587%) C++
15 2 (0.391%) VB.NET
16 1 (0.196%) VBA
16 1 (0.196%) Python
16 1 (0.196%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 69 (13.50%) Security Cleared
2 64 (12.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 45 (8.806%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 42 (8.219%) Degree
5 38 (7.436%) SC Cleared
6 36 (7.045%) MCSE
7 26 (5.088%) DV Cleared
8 19 (3.718%) Citrix Certification
9 16 (3.131%) RHCE
10 15 (2.935%) Cisco Certification
11 14 (2.740%) MCITP
12 13 (2.544%) CCNA
13 12 (2.348%) Oracle Certification
14 9 (1.761%) CCA
15 8 (1.566%) HNC
16 7 (1.370%) MCP
16 7 (1.370%) CCEA
17 6 (1.174%) MCSA
17 6 (1.174%) OCP
17 6 (1.174%) OCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (1.174%) SLA
2 5 (0.978%) ISO 9001
3 4 (0.783%) QA
4 3 (0.587%) TickIT
5 2 (0.391%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.391%) COBIT
5 2 (0.391%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 309 (60.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 236 (46.18%) Active Directory
3 160 (31.31%) vSphere
4 102 (19.96%) XenApp
5 64 (12.52%) VMware ESXi
6 44 (8.611%) XenDesktop
7 43 (8.415%) Citrix Presentation Server
8 31 (6.067%) Hyper-V
9 21 (4.110%) NFS
10 16 (3.131%) ISA Server
11 15 (2.935%) XenServer
12 13 (2.544%) Microsoft App-V
13 12 (2.348%) vCloud
14 10 (1.957%) Postfix
15 9 (1.761%) Terminal Services
15 9 (1.761%) VMware Workstation
16 8 (1.566%) Samba
17 7 (1.370%) Oracle RMAN
17 7 (1.370%) ProxySG
18 6 (1.174%) UAG
Systems Management
1 45 (8.806%) SCOM
2 41 (8.023%) SCCM
3 31 (6.067%) NetBackup
4 28 (5.479%) Backup Exec
5 21 (4.110%) EMC NetWorker
6 17 (3.327%) HP Quality Center
7 15 (2.935%) BladeLogic
7 15 (2.935%) Legato
8 14 (2.740%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
9 13 (2.544%) MOM
10 12 (2.348%) Nagios
10 12 (2.348%) Norton AntiVirus
11 10 (1.957%) WSUS
11 10 (1.957%) HP SIM
12 9 (1.761%) Cacti
13 8 (1.566%) McAfee ePO
13 8 (1.566%) Tivoli
14 7 (1.370%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
14 7 (1.370%) OpenView
14 7 (1.370%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 508 (99.41%) VMware
2 207 (40.51%) Microsoft
3 189 (36.99%) Citrix
4 148 (28.96%) HP
5 99 (19.37%) EMC
6 81 (15.85%) Red Hat
7 80 (15.66%) Cisco
8 61 (11.94%) NetApp
9 59 (11.55%) Oracle
10 50 (9.785%) IBM
11 47 (9.198%) Veritas
12 41 (8.023%) Dell
12 41 (8.023%) Brocade
13 34 (6.654%) Sophos
14 29 (5.675%) Symantec
15 27 (5.284%) McAfee
16 26 (5.088%) F5
17 23 (4.501%) Sun
18 20 (3.914%) AppSense
19 18 (3.523%) BMC
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