The first part of the table below looks at the demand for VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure over the 3 months to 21 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the 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.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3)
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank94121161
Rank change year-on-year
Up+27Up+40
Matching contract IT job ads1109946587
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK1.897 %1.573 %1.064 %
As % of the System Software category24.58 %21.82 %19.72 %
Number of daily rates quoted559528247
Average daily rate£350£350£350
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£221£225£214
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£488£475£496
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted604454
Average hourly rate£20.00£23.25£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.97 %-27.34 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£15.50£18.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£39.50£39.25£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£21.50£22.43£32.50
% change year-on-year
-4.14 %-30.98 %
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategoryAll System Software
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
451143352977
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK7.717 %7.206 %5.394 %
Number of daily rates quoted215119001147
Average daily rate£340£350£325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85 %+7.69 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£195£200£175
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£460£475£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£308£275
% change year-on-year
+5.69 %+11.81 %
Number of hourly rates quoted623643530
Average hourly rate£17.50£18.00£18.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77 %-4.00 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.00£11.00£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£35.50£35.00£35.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate£16.50£17.50£17.50
% change year-on-year
-5.71 %-

VMware Infrastructure
Demand Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure Demand Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VMware Infrastructure Daily Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Infrastructure
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012.

VMware Infrastructure Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware Infrastructure
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 Infrastructure within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+291025£350-
LondonUp+75585£350-8.49 %
City of LondonUp+70175£363-3.33 %
South EastDown-32173£375+3.44 %
East of EnglandUp+462£325+5.69 %
North WestDown-1650£300+17.64 %
YorkshireDown-841£325-12.16 %
South WestDown-941£325-8.77 %
West SussexDown-1434£413+3.12 %
ScotlandUp+1933£323+37.23 %
West MidlandsDown-1032£310+21.66 %
East MidlandsUp+631£328+54.35 %
BuckinghamshireUp+1929£325+51.16 %
HampshireNo change029£375+15.38 %
BerkshireDown-5627£298-25.62 %
West YorkshireDown-1326£350+16.66 %
SurreyDown-1825£431+32.69 %
Milton KeynesUp+924£315+46.51 %
LeedsUp+523£350+89.18 %
CheshireUp+322£301+17.84 %
BirminghamDown-518£294+14.17 %
ManchesterNo change017£288-4.16 %
WalesDown-1217£274-15.76 %
South WalesDown-616£298-8.46 %
County AntrimUp+2115£260-20.00 %
Northern IrelandUp+2015£260-20.00 %
CambridgeshireDown-515£325-1.88 %
BelfastUp+2114£260-20.00 %
DorsetUp+1614£375+4.16 %
BedfordshireUp+1414£330+10.00 %

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure.

12091 (100.00 %)VMware
21420 (67.91 %)Windows
3857 (40.99 %)Active Directory
4752 (35.96 %)Citrix
5724 (34.62 %)Windows Server 2008
6675 (32.28 %)Microsoft
7644 (30.80 %)SAN
8587 (28.07 %)Windows Server 2003
9519 (24.82 %)MS Exchange
10513 (24.53 %)HP
11508 (24.29 %)Linux
12402 (19.23 %)VMware ESX
13401 (19.18 %)Cisco
14376 (17.98 %)Finance
15351 (16.79 %)vSphere
16331 (15.83 %)SQL Server
17324 (15.49 %)DNS
18318 (15.21 %)SQL
18318 (15.21 %)UNIX
19316 (15.11 %)Firewall
20284 (13.58 %)ITIL
21260 (12.43 %)Migration
22252 (12.05 %)Exchange Server 2010
23248 (11.86 %)Hyper-V
24247 (11.81 %)XenApp
25243 (11.62 %)TCP/IP
26240 (11.48 %)MS Excel
27234 (11.19 %)Oracle
28233 (11.14 %)Security Cleared
29232 (11.10 %)Microsoft Certification

VMware Infrastructure
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing VMware Infrastructure 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 Infrastructure. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1101 (4.830 %).NET
272 (3.443 %)Application Packaging
362 (2.965 %)Web Services
450 (2.391 %)Middleware
548 (2.296 %)WebSphere
634 (1.626 %)XML
727 (1.291 %)ASP.NET
818 (0.861 %)ASP
818 (0.861 %)J2EE
916 (0.765 %)Software Packaging
1014 (0.670 %)LAMP
1113 (0.622 %)ADSI
1113 (0.622 %)HTML
1212 (0.574 %).NET Remoting
1212 (0.574 %).NET Framework
1310 (0.478 %)SOAP
149 (0.430 %)Forefront TMG
149 (0.430 %)SAML
158 (0.383 %)JMS
158 (0.383 %)Flash
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1519 (24.82 %)MS Exchange
2252 (12.05 %)Exchange Server 2010
3202 (9.660 %)Exchange Server 2003
4181 (8.656 %)IIS
5169 (8.082 %)Exchange Server 2007
6162 (7.747 %)SharePoint
795 (4.543 %)Apache
859 (2.822 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
950 (2.391 %)Tomcat
950 (2.391 %)SharePoint 2010
1044 (2.104 %)Lotus Notes
1141 (1.961 %)Lync
1226 (1.243 %)WebLogic
1320 (0.956 %)BizTalk Server
1412 (0.574 %)IBM HTTP Server
1412 (0.574 %)WebSphere Application Server
1511 (0.526 %)Office Communications Server
1610 (0.478 %)SharePoint Server
179 (0.430 %)Exchange Server 5.5
179 (0.430 %)Lotus Domino
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1240 (11.48 %)MS Excel
2130 (6.217 %)MS Office
360 (2.869 %)MS Visio
420 (0.956 %)MS PowerPoint
517 (0.813 %)Office 365
517 (0.813 %)MS Project
64 (0.191 %)MATLAB
73 (0.143 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.096 %)PowerPivot
91 (0.048 %)Google Apps
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
15 (0.239 %)Dynamics CRM
15 (0.239 %)CODA-Financials
23 (0.143 %)SoftGrid
23 (0.143 %)Oracle EBS
32 (0.096 %)Maximo
32 (0.096 %)RMDS
32 (0.096 %)Remedy ITSM
32 (0.096 %)Lawson M3
41 (0.048 %)SAP ERP
41 (0.048 %)Dynamics AX
41 (0.048 %)Visualfiles
41 (0.048 %)assyst
41 (0.048 %)BASE24
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1644 (30.80 %)SAN
2324 (15.49 %)DNS
3316 (15.11 %)Firewall
4243 (11.62 %)TCP/IP
5202 (9.660 %)DHCP
6199 (9.517 %)LAN
7193 (9.230 %)WAN
8181 (8.656 %)NAS
9142 (6.791 %)VPN
1089 (4.256 %)iSCSI
1183 (3.969 %)VLAN
1274 (3.539 %)Internet
1274 (3.539 %)VoIP
1363 (3.013 %)Fibre Channel
1456 (2.678 %)SMTP
1552 (2.487 %)Network Security
1646 (2.200 %)SSL
1744 (2.104 %)Cisco ASA
1744 (2.104 %)HTTP
1744 (2.104 %)NetScaler
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1331 (15.83 %)SQL Server
280 (3.826 %)SQL Server 2008
378 (3.730 %)SQL Server 2005
462 (2.965 %)Oracle 8/8i
537 (1.769 %)RDBMS
636 (1.722 %)MySQL
728 (1.339 %)Oracle 10g
822 (1.052 %)Oracle 11g
917 (0.813 %)DB2
1012 (0.574 %)SQL Server 2000
1110 (0.478 %)ETL
1110 (0.478 %)Data Warehouse
129 (0.430 %)SQL Server Integration Services
138 (0.383 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
138 (0.383 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
146 (0.287 %)PostgreSQL
155 (0.239 %)OLTP
162 (0.096 %)OLAP
162 (0.096 %)Data Mining
162 (0.096 %)SQL Server 7
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
138 (1.817 %)MSI
224 (1.148 %)Visual Studio
322 (1.052 %)Subversion
418 (0.861 %)InstallShield
511 (0.526 %)Team Foundation Server
69 (0.430 %)Wise Package Studio
78 (0.383 %)VSS/SourceSafe
86 (0.287 %)Maven
86 (0.287 %)JIRA
95 (0.239 %)Ant
104 (0.191 %)AdminStudio
104 (0.191 %)Oracle Forms
104 (0.191 %)StarTeam
104 (0.191 %)Git (software)
104 (0.191 %)Cucumber
113 (0.143 %)Moq
113 (0.143 %)Selenium
122 (0.096 %)ClearCase
122 (0.096 %)LoadRunner
122 (0.096 %)K2 blackpoint
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1376 (17.98 %)Finance
2132 (6.313 %)Banking
382 (3.922 %)Telecoms
454 (2.582 %)Investment Banking
538 (1.817 %)Financial Institution
636 (1.722 %)Publishing
726 (1.243 %)Back Office
820 (0.956 %)Retail
914 (0.670 %)Electronics
1013 (0.622 %)Law
1110 (0.478 %)Manufacturing
129 (0.430 %)Pharmaceutical
137 (0.335 %)French Language
146 (0.287 %)Legal
155 (0.239 %)Online Betting
155 (0.239 %)Marketing
164 (0.191 %)Automotive
164 (0.191 %)Front Office
164 (0.191 %)Billing
164 (0.191 %)Local Government
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1237 (11.33 %)Architect
2222 (10.62 %)Analyst
3199 (9.517 %)Consultant
4171 (8.178 %)Administrator
5144 (6.887 %)Infrastructure Engineer
6125 (5.978 %)3rd Line Support
6125 (5.978 %)Systems Administrator
7108 (5.165 %)Support Engineer
893 (4.448 %)Technical Architect
992 (4.400 %)Support Analyst
1089 (4.256 %)Systems Engineer
1185 (4.065 %)Project Manager
1282 (3.922 %)Server Engineer
1370 (3.348 %)Infrastructure Architect
1456 (2.678 %)Linux Engineer
1552 (2.487 %)Infrastructure Manager
1650 (2.391 %)VMware Engineer
1745 (2.152 %)Server Support
1745 (2.152 %)Solutions Architect
1745 (2.152 %)Linux Administrator
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1220 (10.52 %)Clustering
290 (4.304 %)Replication
377 (3.682 %)Blackberry
377 (3.682 %)Thin Client
377 (3.682 %)Fat Client
442 (2.009 %)Client/Server
538 (1.817 %)CLARiiON
635 (1.674 %)Computer Science
635 (1.674 %)Management Information System
732 (1.530 %)Cloud Computing
824 (1.148 %)IVR
923 (1.100 %)AS400
1021 (1.004 %)PKI
1120 (0.956 %)Hedge funds
1219 (0.909 %)Enterprise Storage
1219 (0.909 %)Open Source
1318 (0.861 %)Derivative
1318 (0.861 %)CMDB
1414 (0.670 %)Mainframe
1513 (0.622 %)Mathematics
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
11420 (67.91 %)Windows
2724 (34.62 %)Windows Server 2008
3587 (28.07 %)Windows Server 2003
4508 (24.29 %)Linux
5318 (15.21 %)UNIX
6217 (10.38 %)Windows 7
7197 (9.421 %)Windows XP
8177 (8.465 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9146 (6.982 %)Solaris
1074 (3.539 %)Windows Vista
1161 (2.917 %)Windows 2000
1258 (2.774 %)AIX
1347 (2.248 %)Windows 2000 Server
1446 (2.200 %)Windows NT
1535 (1.674 %)CentOS
1621 (1.004 %)HPUX
1717 (0.813 %)Ubuntu
1816 (0.765 %)Oracle Linux
1913 (0.622 %)Mac OS X
2011 (0.526 %)VMS
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1284 (13.58 %)ITIL
2260 (12.43 %)Migration
3162 (7.747 %)Disaster Recovery
4115 (5.500 %)Project Management
592 (4.400 %)Load Balancing
689 (4.256 %)PRINCE2
778 (3.730 %)Change Management
870 (3.348 %)Service Management
964 (3.061 %)Business Continuity
1053 (2.535 %)Service Delivery
1150 (2.391 %)Capacity Planning
1243 (2.056 %)Configuration Management
1339 (1.865 %)Capacity Management
1435 (1.674 %)Change Control
1534 (1.626 %)Information Security
1633 (1.578 %)Incident Management
1732 (1.530 %)Data Migration
1831 (1.483 %)Problem Management
1930 (1.435 %)E-Commerce
2027 (1.291 %)Security Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1318 (15.21 %)SQL
2130 (6.217 %)PowerShell
3100 (4.782 %)VBScript
496 (4.591 %)Perl
589 (4.256 %)C
663 (3.013 %)Shell Script
760 (2.869 %)Java
760 (2.869 %)Python
851 (2.439 %)C#
949 (2.343 %)VB
1043 (2.056 %)Bash shell
1133 (1.578 %)PHP
1219 (0.909 %)Erlang
1313 (0.622 %)XPath
1313 (0.622 %)JavaScript
1313 (0.622 %)C++
1412 (0.574 %)Korn
1510 (0.478 %)VB.NET
169 (0.430 %)T-SQL
175 (0.239 %)Jython
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1233 (11.14 %)Security Cleared
2232 (11.10 %)Microsoft Certification
3194 (9.278 %)MCSE
4172 (8.226 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5166 (7.939 %)SC Cleared
6124 (5.930 %)Cisco Certification
792 (4.400 %)MCITP
882 (3.922 %)CCNA
981 (3.874 %)Degree
1072 (3.443 %)Citrix Certification
1161 (2.917 %)DV Cleared
1260 (2.869 %)MCP
1355 (2.630 %)CCNP
1447 (2.248 %)MCSA
1546 (2.200 %)CCA
1641 (1.961 %)RHCE
1739 (1.865 %)CCIE
1828 (1.339 %)ITIL Certification
1924 (1.148 %)MCTS
2023 (1.100 %)CCVP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
168 (3.252 %)SLA
236 (1.722 %)QA
39 (0.430 %)ISO/IEC 27001
48 (0.383 %)PCI DSS
56 (0.287 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
65 (0.239 %)COBIT
65 (0.239 %)ISO 9001
71 (0.048 %)ISO/IEC 20000
71 (0.048 %)COSO
71 (0.048 %)GxP
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1857 (40.99 %)Active Directory
2402 (19.23 %)VMware ESX
3351 (16.79 %)vSphere
4248 (11.86 %)Hyper-V
5247 (11.81 %)XenApp
6132 (6.313 %)XenDesktop
7114 (5.452 %)VMware ESXi
882 (3.922 %)XenServer
976 (3.635 %)Xen
1072 (3.443 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1151 (2.439 %)Terminal Services
1239 (1.865 %)NFS
1337 (1.769 %)VMware Server
1428 (1.339 %)Terminal Server
1527 (1.291 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
1527 (1.291 %)vCloud
1625 (1.196 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1625 (1.196 %)VMware Workstation
1720 (0.956 %)MetaFrame
1819 (0.909 %)ISA Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1143 (6.839 %)SCCM
2128 (6.121 %)SCOM
3100 (4.782 %)NetBackup
475 (3.587 %)vCenter
553 (2.535 %)Backup Exec
650 (2.391 %)Puppet
740 (1.913 %)Norton AntiVirus
839 (1.865 %)WSUS
931 (1.483 %)McAfee ePO
931 (1.483 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
1030 (1.435 %)HP SIM
1129 (1.387 %)EMC NetWorker
1228 (1.339 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1327 (1.291 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1426 (1.243 %)OpenView
1523 (1.100 %)Nagios
1622 (1.052 %)Tivoli
1721 (1.004 %)Legato
1817 (0.813 %)Cobbler
1914 (0.670 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
12091 (100.00 %)VMware
2752 (35.96 %)Citrix
3675 (32.28 %)Microsoft
4513 (24.53 %)HP
5401 (19.18 %)Cisco
6234 (11.19 %)Oracle
7206 (9.852 %)NetApp
8204 (9.756 %)Red Hat
9200 (9.565 %)EMC
10146 (6.982 %)Dell
11137 (6.552 %)IBM
12115 (5.500 %)Symantec
1374 (3.539 %)Veritas
1469 (3.300 %)CheckPoint
1561 (2.917 %)Sun
1659 (2.822 %)McAfee
1754 (2.582 %)AppSense
1847 (2.248 %)Lotus
1940 (1.913 %)Altiris
2038 (1.817 %)Juniper