The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within VMware, Inc.

VMware
Location
3 months to
21 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank425585
Rank change year-on-year
Up+13Up+30
Matching contract IT job ads210018501094
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK3.593 %3.075 %1.982 %
As % of the Vendors category7.739 %6.612 %4.509 %
Number of daily rates quoted1099947427
Average daily rate£339£341£339
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.73 %+0.73 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£213£225£210
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£475£475£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£325£325£300
% change year-on-year
-+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted154144125
Average hourly rate£22.69£23.00£27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.35 %-16.36 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£13.55£15.50£16.30
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£35.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£23.50£22.20£25.00
% change year-on-year
+5.87 %-11.22 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
271342797924265
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK46.42 %46.51 %43.97 %
Number of daily rates quoted138681401410998
Average daily rate£400£408£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.84 %+1.87 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£235£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted130815751443
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.25£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£40.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£20.00£19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+2.56 %

VMware
Demand Trend

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

VMware Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

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

VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
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 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+121951£340-2.85 %
LondonUp+34942£350-5.40 %
South EastDown-3408£340-2.85 %
City of LondonUp+32278£394+5.70 %
East of EnglandUp+1140£295-4.06 %
North WestUp+5113£300+17.74 %
HampshireUp+2110£325-
South WestDown-890£375+7.14 %
BerkshireDown-3086£320-20.00 %
West MidlandsUp+1885£307+13.51 %
ScotlandUp+2879£325+18.18 %
YorkshireDown-1477£323-4.44 %
East MidlandsUp+1261£315+43.18 %
West SussexDown-853£394+5.00 %
West YorkshireDown-848£325+8.33 %
SurreyDown-2147£363+11.53 %
CambridgeshireUp+1644£315-6.66 %
ManchesterUp+1443£313+4.16 %
CheshireUp+942£325+27.25 %
BuckinghamshireUp+2241£315+43.83 %
ReadingDown-2840£315-21.25 %
BirminghamUp+437£350+34.61 %
Milton KeynesUp+1734£315+46.39 %
LeedsNo change034£330+10.00 %
North EastUp+2133£350+5.66 %
EdinburghUp+1232£350+27.27 %
CambridgeUp+531£300-9.43 %
Tyne and WearUp+2230£350+3.70 %
SuffolkUp+1529£258+60.93 %
OxfordshireUp+926£338-15.62 %

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

12657 (66.09 %)Windows
22091 (52.01 %)VMware Infrastructure
31620 (40.30 %)Active Directory
41404 (34.93 %)Windows Server 2008
51380 (34.33 %)Citrix
61192 (29.65 %)Microsoft
71119 (27.84 %)SAN
81091 (27.14 %)Windows Server 2003
91024 (25.47 %)MS Exchange
10877 (21.82 %)HP
11825 (20.52 %)Linux
12784 (19.50 %)Cisco
13653 (16.24 %)VMware ESX
14635 (15.80 %)vSphere
15631 (15.70 %)SQL
16593 (14.75 %)Finance
17579 (14.40 %)SQL Server
18542 (13.48 %)Firewall
19533 (13.26 %)DNS
20507 (12.61 %)Exchange Server 2010
21465 (11.57 %)ITIL
22459 (11.42 %)Security Cleared
23456 (11.34 %)UNIX
24444 (11.04 %)Migration
25438 (10.90 %)Microsoft Certification
26428 (10.65 %)XenApp
27416 (10.35 %)NetApp
28411 (10.22 %)TCP/IP
29398 (9.900 %)MS Excel
30395 (9.826 %)Oracle

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1147 (3.657 %).NET
296 (2.388 %)Application Packaging
386 (2.139 %)Web Services
386 (2.139 %)WebSphere
480 (1.990 %)Middleware
553 (1.318 %)J2EE
652 (1.294 %)XML
734 (0.846 %)ASP.NET
828 (0.697 %)Software Packaging
927 (0.672 %)HTML
1025 (0.622 %)LAMP
1119 (0.473 %)ASP
1119 (0.473 %)Spring
1215 (0.373 %)Forefront TMG
1215 (0.373 %)SOAP
1314 (0.348 %)JRules
1413 (0.323 %)ADSI
1413 (0.323 %)Flash
1413 (0.323 %).NET Remoting
1512 (0.299 %).NET Framework
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
11024 (25.47 %)MS Exchange
2507 (12.61 %)Exchange Server 2010
3384 (9.552 %)Exchange Server 2003
4357 (8.881 %)Exchange Server 2007
5309 (7.687 %)IIS
6286 (7.114 %)SharePoint
7173 (4.303 %)Apache
8126 (3.134 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
984 (2.090 %)Tomcat
984 (2.090 %)Lync
1075 (1.866 %)SharePoint 2010
1161 (1.517 %)Lotus Notes
1254 (1.343 %)WebLogic
1337 (0.920 %)WebSphere Application Server
1427 (0.672 %)BizTalk Server
1524 (0.597 %)IBM HTTP Server
1619 (0.473 %)Exchange Server 2000
1718 (0.448 %)SharePoint Server
1718 (0.448 %)Exchange Server 5.5
1718 (0.448 %)WebSphere MQ
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
1398 (9.900 %)MS Excel
2218 (5.423 %)MS Office
360 (1.493 %)MS Visio
426 (0.647 %)MS Project
520 (0.498 %)MS PowerPoint
618 (0.448 %)Office 365
76 (0.149 %)MATLAB
76 (0.149 %)Spreadsheet
82 (0.050 %)PowerPivot
91 (0.025 %)Google Apps
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
112 (0.299 %)Dynamics CRM
29 (0.224 %)SoftGrid
29 (0.224 %)Dynamics NAV
37 (0.174 %)RMDS
46 (0.149 %)Oracle EBS
55 (0.124 %)CODA-Financials
64 (0.100 %)Sage 200
73 (0.075 %)Sage 1000
82 (0.050 %)Remedy ITSM
82 (0.050 %)Maximo
82 (0.050 %)Lawson M3
91 (0.025 %)Oracle BPM
91 (0.025 %)BASE24
91 (0.025 %)Oracle Applications
91 (0.025 %)Summit
91 (0.025 %)SAP ERP
91 (0.025 %)assyst
91 (0.025 %)Dynamics AX
91 (0.025 %)Visualfiles
91 (0.025 %)Misys Midas
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
11119 (27.84 %)SAN
2542 (13.48 %)Firewall
3533 (13.26 %)DNS
4411 (10.22 %)TCP/IP
5352 (8.756 %)LAN
6336 (8.358 %)DHCP
7327 (8.134 %)WAN
8231 (5.746 %)NAS
9223 (5.547 %)VPN
10141 (3.507 %)VLAN
11132 (3.284 %)Internet
12129 (3.209 %)VoIP
13115 (2.861 %)iSCSI
1486 (2.139 %)Fibre Channel
1583 (2.065 %)SMTP
1677 (1.915 %)Cisco ASA
1775 (1.866 %)LDAP
1873 (1.816 %)Wireless
1970 (1.741 %)Network Security
2066 (1.642 %)SSL
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
1579 (14.40 %)SQL Server
2158 (3.930 %)SQL Server 2008
3147 (3.657 %)SQL Server 2005
4100 (2.488 %)MySQL
585 (2.114 %)Oracle 8/8i
654 (1.343 %)RDBMS
745 (1.119 %)SQL Server 2000
842 (1.045 %)Oracle 10g
842 (1.045 %)Oracle 11g
928 (0.697 %)DB2
1022 (0.547 %)SQL Server Integration Services
1119 (0.473 %)SQL Server Analysis Services
1119 (0.473 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
1218 (0.448 %)Data Warehouse
1313 (0.323 %)PostgreSQL
1412 (0.299 %)Oracle Reports
1412 (0.299 %)DTS
1510 (0.249 %)EDRMS
1510 (0.249 %)ETL
165 (0.124 %)OLTP
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
158 (1.443 %)MSI
240 (0.995 %)Subversion
325 (0.622 %)InstallShield
424 (0.597 %)Visual Studio
517 (0.423 %)Team Foundation Server
612 (0.299 %)Wise Package Studio
711 (0.274 %)Git (software)
711 (0.274 %)Hudson
711 (0.274 %)Selenium
89 (0.224 %)Cucumber
89 (0.224 %)ClearCase
89 (0.224 %)VSS/SourceSafe
89 (0.224 %)Ant
89 (0.224 %)LoadRunner
98 (0.199 %)JIRA
98 (0.199 %)Maven
98 (0.199 %)ClearQuest
107 (0.174 %)JUnit
107 (0.174 %)QuickTest Pro
116 (0.149 %)StarTeam
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1593 (14.75 %)Finance
2191 (4.751 %)Banking
3131 (3.259 %)Telecoms
481 (2.015 %)Investment Banking
558 (1.443 %)Publishing
645 (1.119 %)Back Office
744 (1.095 %)Financial Institution
744 (1.095 %)Retail
826 (0.647 %)Law
923 (0.572 %)Legal
1021 (0.522 %)Pharmaceutical
1116 (0.398 %)Local Government
1214 (0.348 %)Electronics
1313 (0.323 %)Manufacturing
149 (0.224 %)Games
149 (0.224 %)Front Office
149 (0.224 %)French Language
149 (0.224 %)Marketing
157 (0.174 %)Advertising
165 (0.124 %)Automotive
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1480 (11.94 %)Analyst
2379 (9.428 %)Consultant
3363 (9.030 %)Administrator
4354 (8.806 %)Architect
5297 (7.388 %)Infrastructure Engineer
6294 (7.313 %)3rd Line Support
7278 (6.915 %)Support Engineer
8264 (6.567 %)Systems Administrator
9189 (4.701 %)Support Analyst
10171 (4.254 %)Server Engineer
11146 (3.632 %)Systems Engineer
12144 (3.582 %)Project Manager
13142 (3.532 %)Technical Architect
14133 (3.308 %)Server Support
15107 (2.662 %)Infrastructure Analyst
1698 (2.438 %)Network Engineer
1795 (2.363 %)Infrastructure Architect
1893 (2.313 %)Linux Engineer
1988 (2.189 %)3rd Line Support Engineer
2086 (2.139 %)Technical Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1339 (8.433 %)Clustering
2144 (3.582 %)Replication
3131 (3.259 %)Blackberry
493 (2.313 %)Fat Client
493 (2.313 %)Thin Client
570 (1.741 %)CLARiiON
657 (1.418 %)Management Information System
750 (1.244 %)Client/Server
844 (1.095 %)Computer Science
939 (0.970 %)Cloud Computing
1035 (0.871 %)AS400
1132 (0.796 %)PKI
1230 (0.746 %)Hedge funds
1328 (0.697 %)Open Source
1425 (0.622 %)Enterprise Storage
1425 (0.622 %)EMC Centera
1524 (0.597 %)Celerra
1524 (0.597 %)IVR
1622 (0.547 %)Derivative
1721 (0.522 %)NHS
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
12657 (66.09 %)Windows
21404 (34.93 %)Windows Server 2008
31091 (27.14 %)Windows Server 2003
4825 (20.52 %)Linux
5456 (11.34 %)UNIX
6376 (9.353 %)Windows 7
7309 (7.687 %)Windows XP
8305 (7.587 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9240 (5.970 %)Solaris
10116 (2.886 %)Windows 2000
1198 (2.438 %)Windows 2000 Server
1296 (2.388 %)AIX
1374 (1.841 %)Windows Vista
1465 (1.617 %)CentOS
1556 (1.393 %)HPUX
1655 (1.368 %)Windows NT
1742 (1.045 %)Ubuntu
1823 (0.572 %)NetWare
1920 (0.498 %)Mac OS X
1920 (0.498 %)Oracle Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1465 (11.57 %)ITIL
2444 (11.04 %)Migration
3244 (6.070 %)Disaster Recovery
4197 (4.900 %)Project Management
5153 (3.806 %)PRINCE2
6140 (3.483 %)Load Balancing
7117 (2.910 %)Change Management
8101 (2.512 %)Service Management
982 (2.040 %)Configuration Management
1080 (1.990 %)Business Continuity
1179 (1.965 %)Service Delivery
1275 (1.866 %)Change Control
1369 (1.716 %)Capacity Planning
1464 (1.592 %)Problem Management
1555 (1.368 %)Capacity Management
1654 (1.343 %)E-Commerce
1751 (1.269 %)Incident Management
1846 (1.144 %)Root Cause Analysis
1942 (1.045 %)Data Migration
2041 (1.020 %)Agile Software Development
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1631 (15.70 %)SQL
2202 (5.025 %)PowerShell
3179 (4.453 %)Perl
4140 (3.483 %)Java
5135 (3.358 %)VBScript
6121 (3.010 %)Shell Script
7117 (2.910 %)C
872 (1.791 %)VB
872 (1.791 %)Python
962 (1.542 %)Bash shell
1060 (1.493 %)C#
1155 (1.368 %)PHP
1222 (0.547 %)Korn
1222 (0.547 %)C++
1222 (0.547 %)JavaScript
1320 (0.498 %)Erlang
1416 (0.398 %)XPath
1513 (0.323 %)VB.NET
1611 (0.274 %)T-SQL
1710 (0.249 %)Ruby
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1459 (11.42 %)Security Cleared
2438 (10.90 %)Microsoft Certification
3353 (8.781 %)MCSE
4303 (7.537 %)SC Cleared
5282 (7.015 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6273 (6.791 %)Cisco Certification
7198 (4.925 %)CCNA
8191 (4.751 %)MCITP
9130 (3.234 %)DV Cleared
10121 (3.010 %)Citrix Certification
10121 (3.010 %)Degree
1198 (2.438 %)CCNP
1286 (2.139 %)MCP
1384 (2.090 %)CCA
1477 (1.915 %)MCSA
1556 (1.393 %)MCTS
1652 (1.294 %)RHCE
1751 (1.269 %)CCIE
1843 (1.070 %)ITIL Certification
1937 (0.920 %)VCP4
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1103 (2.562 %)SLA
245 (1.119 %)QA
320 (0.498 %)ISO/IEC 27001
414 (0.348 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
513 (0.323 %)PCI DSS
513 (0.323 %)ISO 9001
610 (0.249 %)COBIT
76 (0.149 %)GxP
81 (0.025 %)ISO/IEC 20000
81 (0.025 %)COSO
81 (0.025 %)ISO/IEC 17799
81 (0.025 %)GAMP
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
12091 (52.01 %)VMware Infrastructure
21620 (40.30 %)Active Directory
3653 (16.24 %)VMware ESX
4635 (15.80 %)vSphere
5428 (10.65 %)XenApp
6305 (7.587 %)Hyper-V
7187 (4.652 %)VMware ESXi
8178 (4.428 %)XenDesktop
9106 (2.637 %)XenServer
1094 (2.338 %)Citrix Presentation Server
1183 (2.065 %)Xen
1270 (1.741 %)Terminal Services
1360 (1.493 %)NFS
1458 (1.443 %)VMware Server
1545 (1.119 %)VMware Workstation
1641 (1.020 %)ISA Server
1739 (0.970 %)Terminal Server
1833 (0.821 %)vCloud
1932 (0.796 %)MetaFrame
2028 (0.697 %)Veritas Cluster Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1294 (7.313 %)SCCM
2225 (5.597 %)SCOM
3170 (4.229 %)NetBackup
4122 (3.035 %)Backup Exec
597 (2.413 %)vCenter
673 (1.816 %)Puppet
772 (1.791 %)WSUS
851 (1.269 %)HP SIM
948 (1.194 %)Norton AntiVirus
1046 (1.144 %)EMC NetWorker
1143 (1.070 %)Tivoli
1143 (1.070 %)OpenView Configuration Management
1235 (0.871 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
1235 (0.871 %)McAfee ePO
1333 (0.821 %)Nagios
1333 (0.821 %)Red Hat Spacewalk
1428 (0.697 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
1527 (0.672 %)OpenView
1625 (0.622 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
1724 (0.597 %)MOM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
11380 (34.33 %)Citrix
21192 (29.65 %)Microsoft
3877 (21.82 %)HP
4784 (19.50 %)Cisco
5416 (10.35 %)NetApp
6395 (9.826 %)Oracle
7359 (8.930 %)EMC
8356 (8.856 %)Red Hat
9260 (6.468 %)IBM
10215 (5.348 %)Symantec
11206 (5.124 %)Dell
12132 (3.284 %)Veritas
13116 (2.886 %)CheckPoint
1498 (2.438 %)Sun
1593 (2.313 %)McAfee
1688 (2.189 %)Juniper
1782 (2.040 %)Brocade
1877 (1.915 %)AppSense
1973 (1.816 %)JBoss
2068 (1.692 %)Lotus