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vSphere Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 90 98 90
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -8
Contract jobs citing vSphere 7 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.417% 0.220% 0.415%
As % of the System Software category 3.590% 3.049% 4.469%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
Average daily rate £159 £525 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-69.76% +40.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £118 £405 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £545 £435
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £355 £343
% change year-on-year
-8.45% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £30.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.66% +50.00%
All System Software
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category		 195 164 179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 11.62% 7.221% 9.275%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 65 77
Average daily rate £280 £300 £280
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £169 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £318 £305
% change year-on-year
+2.36% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 47 33
Average hourly rate £14.00 £14.50 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.44% -14.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.55 £11.50 £11.65
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.25 £23.10 £28.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.00 £17.00 £16.75
% change year-on-year
- +1.49%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands vSphere Jobs Demand Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Midlands vSphere Hourly Rate Trend

vSphere
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing vSphere within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
Warwickshire - 2 - -
Birmingham +7 1 £210 -60.00% 1
Coventry +7 1 £108 -71.33%
Shropshire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 - - 3
Worcestershire - - - -
Solihull - - - -
Wolverhampton - - - -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing vSphere 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 vSphere.

1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 12 (92.31%) Windows Server 2008
2 12 (92.31%) Windows
3 11 (84.62%) Windows Server 2003
4 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
6 7 (53.85%) Citrix
7 6 (46.15%) DNS
8 5 (38.46%) Cisco
8 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
8 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
8 5 (38.46%) DHCP
8 5 (38.46%) XenApp
8 5 (38.46%) Firewall
8 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
9 4 (30.77%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
9 4 (30.77%) MPLS
9 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
9 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (30.77%) SAN
10 3 (23.08%) MCP
10 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
10 3 (23.08%) Network Security
11 2 (15.38%) DFS Replication
11 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
11 2 (15.38%) Finance
11 2 (15.38%) Replication
11 2 (15.38%) Degree
11 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing vSphere 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 vSphere. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (38.46%) MS Exchange
1 5 (38.46%) Exchange Server 2010
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (30.77%) Exchange Server 2007
2 4 (30.77%) SharePoint
3 1 (7.692%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 1 (7.692%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 1 (7.692%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
2 5 (38.46%) DHCP
2 5 (38.46%) Firewall
3 4 (30.77%) MPLS
3 4 (30.77%) SAN
4 3 (23.08%) TCP/IP
4 3 (23.08%) Network Security
5 1 (7.692%) LAN
5 1 (7.692%) WAN
5 1 (7.692%) VLAN
5 1 (7.692%) Cisco IPT
5 1 (7.692%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (15.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (15.38%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Technician
3 1 (7.692%) 3rd Line Server Support
3 1 (7.692%) Coordinator
3 1 (7.692%) Desktop Support
3 1 (7.692%) Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Network Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Server Support
3 1 (7.692%) Support Analyst
3 1 (7.692%) Technical Support
3 1 (7.692%) Citrix Support
3 1 (7.692%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) Wintel Support
3 1 (7.692%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (7.692%) Build Engineer
3 1 (7.692%) VMware Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
1 2 (15.38%) Replication
1 2 (15.38%) Blackberry
2 1 (7.692%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 12 (92.31%) Windows Server 2008
1 12 (92.31%) Windows
2 11 (84.62%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (7.692%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 1 (7.692%) PRINCE2
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (23.08%) MCP
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 2 (15.38%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (7.692%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (7.692%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (7.692%) MCSE
4 1 (7.692%) CCNP
4 1 (7.692%) CCNA
4 1 (7.692%) VCP4
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (61.54%) Active Directory
3 5 (38.46%) XenApp
4 2 (15.38%) DFS Replication
5 1 (7.692%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (7.692%) WSUS
1 1 (7.692%) SCCM
1 1 (7.692%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 13 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (53.85%) Citrix
3 5 (38.46%) Cisco
3 5 (38.46%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.692%) Red Hat
4 1 (7.692%) HP
4 1 (7.692%) EMC
4 1 (7.692%) Symantec
4 1 (7.692%) McAfee
4 1 (7.692%) Sophos
VMware Engineer
Walsall, West Midlands (County)
VMware/vSphere/Windows Server/SQL/Active Directory/VLANs. Roc searches client based in Walsall require a VMware Engineer to join their team on a 6 month initial contract.
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Posted: 12 June 2013
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