The first table below looks at the demand for VMware ESX skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Sussex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware ESX 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 Sussex 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
VMware ESX Server
Rank 21 50 44
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -6
Contract jobs citing VMware ESX 19 9 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 5.135% 1.368% 1.810%
As % of the System Software category 31.67% 13.24% 8.791%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 6
Average daily rate £504 £388 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.00% +10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £358 £285 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £400 £381
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £325 £290
% change year-on-year
+15.38% +12.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £34.13 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +8.00%
All System Software
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
60 68 91
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 16.22% 10.33% 20.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 29 31
Average daily rate £425 £388 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.67% +10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £488 £413
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 3 9
Average hourly rate £16.50 £14.13 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.81% -29.37%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.23 £15.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £29.10 £32.83 £84.20
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
VMware ESX
South East

VMware ESX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region.

West Sussex 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 across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

West Sussex VMware ESX Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware ESX
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 West Sussex 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
Gatwick +17 8 £585 -
Crawley +14 7 £425 +6.25%
Horsham - 1 - -
VMware ESX
South East

VMware ESX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 20 (86.96%) Windows
3 17 (73.91%) Windows Server 2008
4 15 (65.22%) Linux
4 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
5 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
5 13 (56.52%) SQL Server 2008
6 12 (52.17%) vSphere
6 12 (52.17%) MySQL
6 12 (52.17%) Apache
7 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
8 10 (43.48%) NetApp
8 10 (43.48%) Red Hat
8 10 (43.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (34.78%) XenApp
9 8 (34.78%) Clustering
9 8 (34.78%) Dynamics NAV
9 8 (34.78%) SharePoint 2010
9 8 (34.78%) PHP
9 8 (34.78%) OpenEdge
9 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
10 7 (30.43%) Cisco
11 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (26.09%) DHCP
11 6 (26.09%) DNS
11 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
12 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
12 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
12 5 (21.74%) HP
12 5 (21.74%) Citrix

VMware ESX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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 2 (8.696%) Web Services
1 2 (8.696%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (52.17%) Apache
2 8 (34.78%) SharePoint 2010
2 8 (34.78%) OpenEdge
2 8 (34.78%) SharePoint
3 4 (17.39%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 3 (13.04%) MS Exchange
4 3 (13.04%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (8.696%) Zimbra
5 2 (8.696%) IIS
6 1 (4.348%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Excel
1 3 (13.04%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.348%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 8 (34.78%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (4.348%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 6 (26.09%) DHCP
1 6 (26.09%) DNS
2 5 (21.74%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (13.04%) SSL
3 3 (13.04%) VPN
4 2 (8.696%) IP Telephony
4 2 (8.696%) ADSL
4 2 (8.696%) Broadband
4 2 (8.696%) LAN
4 2 (8.696%) WAN
4 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
4 2 (8.696%) Firewall
4 2 (8.696%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (56.52%) SQL Server
1 13 (56.52%) SQL Server 2008
2 12 (52.17%) MySQL
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server 2000
3 3 (13.04%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
4 1 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
1 3 (13.04%) Online Betting
2 2 (8.696%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (56.52%) Analyst
2 11 (47.83%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Systems Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Project Manager
3 3 (13.04%) Administrator
3 3 (13.04%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Windows Systems Administrator
4 2 (8.696%) VMware Engineer
4 2 (8.696%) Wintel Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Support Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) IT Manager
5 1 (4.348%) Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.348%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Wintel Systems Administrator
5 1 (4.348%) Agile Project Manager
5 1 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 8 (34.78%) Clustering
2 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 20 (86.96%) Windows
2 17 (73.91%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (65.22%) Linux
4 10 (43.48%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 5 (21.74%) Windows 7
6 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (4.348%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Project Management
2 3 (13.04%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (8.696%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (8.696%) ITIL
4 1 (4.348%) Data Security
4 1 (4.348%) Migration
4 1 (4.348%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.348%) Scrum
4 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
4 1 (4.348%) PRINCE2
4 1 (4.348%) Waterfall
4 1 (4.348%) Budget Control
4 1 (4.348%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) PHP
2 2 (8.696%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.696%) VBScript
3 1 (4.348%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (65.22%) Active Directory
2 12 (52.17%) vSphere
3 8 (34.78%) XenApp
4 6 (26.09%) VMware Infrastructure
5 3 (13.04%) Postfix
5 3 (13.04%) Citrix Presentation Server
6 2 (8.696%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (100.00%) VMware
2 11 (47.83%) Microsoft
3 10 (43.48%) NetApp
3 10 (43.48%) Red Hat
4 7 (30.43%) Cisco
5 5 (21.74%) HP
5 5 (21.74%) Citrix
6 3 (13.04%) Sophos
6 3 (13.04%) Juniper
7 2 (8.696%) SAP
7 2 (8.696%) CommVault
7 2 (8.696%) Avaya
7 2 (8.696%) IBM
8 1 (4.348%) EMC
8 1 (4.348%) Oracle