The first table below looks at the demand for Hyper-V skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hyper-V over the 3 months to 24 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 for the West Midlands region.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Microsoft Hyper-V
Rank 88 83 88
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +5
Contract jobs citing Hyper-V 7 20 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.429% 0.892% 0.740%
As % of the System Software category 4.094% 11.70% 8.485%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
Average daily rate £365 £265 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.73% -34.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £263 £377
10% offered a daily rate of more than £373 £350 £421
UK excluding London average daily rate £366 £330 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.98% -5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
Average hourly rate - £19.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +5.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.50 £12.75
% change year-on-year
-6.38% +84.31%
All System Software
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
171 171 165
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 10.47% 7.627% 8.721%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 63 61
Average daily rate £275 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.33% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £108 £225 £227
10% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £400 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 45 38
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.25 £14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.31 £11.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £23.10 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

West Midlands Hyper-V Jobs Demand Trend

Hyper-V
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Hyper-V across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Hyper-V Daily Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Hyper-V across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Hyper-V Hourly Rate Trend

Hyper-V
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hyper-V within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 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
Birmingham +7 2 £370 +39.62%
Wolverhampton - 1 - -
Hyper-V
England

Hyper-V
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V.

1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 8 (61.54%) VMware
3 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
4 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
4 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
6 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
6 4 (30.77%) SCOM
6 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
7 3 (23.08%) Migration
7 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
7 3 (23.08%) Windows Vista
7 3 (23.08%) WSUS
7 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
7 3 (23.08%) MCSE
7 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
7 3 (23.08%) SAN
8 2 (15.38%) MOM
8 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
8 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
8 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 2 (15.38%) EMC
8 2 (15.38%) SCVMM
8 2 (15.38%) SCCM
8 2 (15.38%) Lync
8 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005

Hyper-V
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Hyper-V 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 Hyper-V. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (30.77%) MS Exchange
1 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (23.08%) Exchange Server 2003
2 3 (23.08%) SharePoint
3 2 (15.38%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (15.38%) Lync
3 2 (15.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (7.692%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (23.08%) SAN
2 1 (7.692%) VoIP
2 1 (7.692%) DHCP
2 1 (7.692%) VPN
2 1 (7.692%) DNS
2 1 (7.692%) Firewall
2 1 (7.692%) Wireless
2 1 (7.692%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server
1 2 (15.38%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (7.692%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Server Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Consultant
2 2 (15.38%) Wintel Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Network Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Wintel Support
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Consultant
3 1 (7.692%) Help Desk Support
3 1 (7.692%) Network Manager
3 1 (7.692%) Wintel Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Wintel Server Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Server Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Administrator
3 1 (7.692%) Architect
3 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
2 1 (7.692%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (30.77%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (23.08%) Windows Vista
4 3 (23.08%) Windows 7
5 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
6 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (7.692%) Windows XP
6 1 (7.692%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Migration
2 1 (7.692%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) MCSE
3 1 (7.692%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) Active Directory
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (7.692%) ISA Server
2 1 (7.692%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 4 (30.77%) SCOM
2 3 (23.08%) WSUS
3 2 (15.38%) MOM
3 2 (15.38%) SCVMM
3 2 (15.38%) SCCM
4 1 (7.692%) Backup Exec
4 1 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) EMC
4 1 (7.692%) WatchGuard
4 1 (7.692%) PlateSpin
4 1 (7.692%) Citrix
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) Symantec
4 1 (7.692%) NetApp