The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 18 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 Vendors 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.

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

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 9 17 8
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -9
Contract jobs citing VMware 44 46 60
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 11.64% 7.278% 12.96%
As % of the Vendors category 21.36% 16.97% 28.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 22
Average daily rate £418 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.37% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £282 £325 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £586 £498 £449
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 5
Average hourly rate £34.13 £37.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.00% +87.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.43 £37.50 £19.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.83 £37.50 £68.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £22.25 £21.86
% change year-on-year
+6.74% +1.78%
All Vendors
West Sussex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
206 271 209
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Sussex 54.50% 42.88% 45.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 133 90
Average daily rate £375 £370 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% -1.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £585 £494 £485
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 11 21
Average hourly rate £25.75 £14.90 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+72.81% -25.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £11.81 £13.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.80 £29.85 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.63 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-3.18% -1.87%
VMware
South East

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Sussex VMware Jobs Demand Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Sussex VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Sussex VMware Daily Rate Histogram

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Sussex VMware Hourly Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VMware across the West Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

West Sussex VMware Hourly Rate Histogram

VMware
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 West Sussex region over the 3 months to 18 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
Crawley +11 18 £410 -13.68% 1
Gatwick +7 13 £585 +50.96% 2
Horsham 0 2 - -
East Grinstead - 1 £350 -
Burgess Hill - - - - 4
Chichester - - - -
Shoreham-by-Sea - - - -
Haywards Heath - - - -
VMware
South East

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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.

1 56 (81.16%) Windows
2 32 (46.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (46.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 31 (44.93%) Active Directory
4 29 (42.03%) vSphere
5 27 (39.13%) NetApp
6 25 (36.23%) Cisco
6 25 (36.23%) VMware Infrastructure
7 23 (33.33%) VMware ESX
7 23 (33.33%) DNS
7 23 (33.33%) Linux
8 21 (30.43%) Citrix
8 21 (30.43%) SAN
9 20 (28.99%) Firewall
10 19 (27.54%) HP
11 18 (26.09%) DHCP
11 18 (26.09%) XenApp
12 16 (23.19%) Clustering
12 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2003
13 15 (21.74%) LAN
13 15 (21.74%) SQL Server
13 15 (21.74%) ITIL
14 14 (20.29%) Project Management
15 13 (18.84%) Red Hat
15 13 (18.84%) WAN
15 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
15 13 (18.84%) Juniper
15 13 (18.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 13 (18.84%) Windows 7
15 13 (18.84%) SQL Server 2008

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Sussex region 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.

Application Development
1 4 (5.797%) WebSphere
2 3 (4.348%) .NET
3 1 (1.449%) COM
3 1 (1.449%) RSS
3 1 (1.449%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 12 (17.39%) Apache
2 11 (15.94%) SharePoint
3 8 (11.59%) OpenEdge
3 8 (11.59%) SharePoint 2010
4 7 (10.14%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 6 (8.696%) MS Exchange
6 5 (7.246%) IIS
7 4 (5.797%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (4.348%) WebLogic
8 3 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (2.899%) Exchange Server 2007
9 2 (2.899%) Lync
Applications
1 3 (4.348%) MS Office
1 3 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.899%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.899%) MS Project
3 1 (1.449%) Office 365
Business Applications
1 8 (11.59%) Dynamics NAV
2 3 (4.348%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 23 (33.33%) DNS
2 21 (30.43%) SAN
3 20 (28.99%) Firewall
4 18 (26.09%) DHCP
5 15 (21.74%) LAN
6 13 (18.84%) WAN
6 13 (18.84%) TCP/IP
7 11 (15.94%) VPN
8 9 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
9 5 (7.246%) NetScaler
9 5 (7.246%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (7.246%) VLAN
9 5 (7.246%) SNMP
10 4 (5.797%) ISDN
10 4 (5.797%) IPsec
10 4 (5.797%) BGP
10 4 (5.797%) Junos
11 3 (4.348%) Wireless
11 3 (4.348%) SSL
12 2 (2.899%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 13 (18.84%) SQL Server 2008
3 10 (14.49%) MySQL
4 3 (4.348%) Oracle 8/8i
4 3 (4.348%) Oracle 10g
5 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2000
5 1 (1.449%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (1.449%) DB2
General
1 12 (17.39%) Finance
2 8 (11.59%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.797%) Back Office
4 3 (4.348%) Online Betting
5 2 (2.899%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 24 (34.78%) Analyst
2 19 (27.54%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 10 (14.49%) Infrastructure Manager
4 9 (13.04%) Project Manager
5 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 8 (11.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 6 (8.696%) Server Engineer
7 5 (7.246%) Consultant
8 4 (5.797%) Infrastructure Team Leader
8 4 (5.797%) Team Leader
9 3 (4.348%) Administrator
9 3 (4.348%) Systems Administrator
9 3 (4.348%) 3rd Line Support
10 2 (2.899%) Technical Consultant
10 2 (2.899%) 2nd Line Support
10 2 (2.899%) Network Engineer
10 2 (2.899%) IT Manager
10 2 (2.899%) Technical Architect
10 2 (2.899%) Architect
10 2 (2.899%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.19%) Clustering
2 6 (8.696%) Blackberry
3 4 (5.797%) IVR
4 2 (2.899%) SecurID
4 2 (2.899%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.899%) iSeries
5 1 (1.449%) CCTV
5 1 (1.449%) DataPower
Operating Systems
1 56 (81.16%) Windows
2 32 (46.38%) Windows Server 2008
3 23 (33.33%) Linux
4 16 (23.19%) Windows Server 2003
5 13 (18.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 13 (18.84%) Windows 7
6 5 (7.246%) Solaris
7 4 (5.797%) UNIX
7 4 (5.797%) Windows XP
8 3 (4.348%) AIX
9 2 (2.899%) Debian
9 2 (2.899%) Ubuntu
9 2 (2.899%) Windows Vista
9 2 (2.899%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (21.74%) ITIL
2 14 (20.29%) Project Management
3 10 (14.49%) PRINCE2
4 8 (11.59%) Migration
5 4 (5.797%) Scrum
6 3 (4.348%) Business Continuity
6 3 (4.348%) Performance Management
6 3 (4.348%) Service Management
6 3 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (4.348%) Configuration Management
7 2 (2.899%) Mobile Device Management
7 2 (2.899%) Budget Control
7 2 (2.899%) Network Architecture
7 2 (2.899%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (2.899%) Waterfall
7 2 (2.899%) Data Security
7 2 (2.899%) Service Delivery
7 2 (2.899%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (2.899%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.59%) PHP
2 7 (10.14%) PowerShell
3 5 (7.246%) SQL
4 2 (2.899%) VBScript
5 1 (1.449%) VB
Qualifications
1 11 (15.94%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (7.246%) MCSE
2 5 (7.246%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.246%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (7.246%) SC Cleared
2 5 (7.246%) Security Cleared
3 4 (5.797%) CCNP
4 3 (4.348%) MCITP
5 2 (2.899%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 1 (1.449%) IBM Certification
6 1 (1.449%) CCNA
6 1 (1.449%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (1.449%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (1.449%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.348%) PCI DSS
2 2 (2.899%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.449%) SLA
System Software
1 31 (44.93%) Active Directory
2 29 (42.03%) vSphere
3 25 (36.23%) VMware Infrastructure
4 23 (33.33%) VMware ESX
5 18 (26.09%) XenApp
6 10 (14.49%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (8.696%) Hyper-V
8 3 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
8 3 (4.348%) Citrix Presentation Server
9 2 (2.899%) XenDesktop
10 1 (1.449%) VMware Server
10 1 (1.449%) Postfix
10 1 (1.449%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 8 (11.59%) NetBackup
2 6 (8.696%) WSUS
2 6 (8.696%) SCCM
3 5 (7.246%) SCOM
3 5 (7.246%) HP SIM
3 5 (7.246%) Backup Exec
4 2 (2.899%) Cisco IPCC
5 1 (1.449%) Control-M
Vendors
1 32 (46.38%) Microsoft
2 27 (39.13%) NetApp
3 25 (36.23%) Cisco
4 21 (30.43%) Citrix
5 19 (27.54%) HP
6 13 (18.84%) Juniper
6 13 (18.84%) Red Hat
7 11 (15.94%) CheckPoint
8 8 (11.59%) Symantec
8 8 (11.59%) SAP
9 7 (10.14%) Oracle
10 6 (8.696%) ProCurve
11 5 (7.246%) SolarWinds
11 5 (7.246%) LANDesk
12 4 (5.797%) EMC
13 3 (4.348%) Avaya
13 3 (4.348%) StorageTek
13 3 (4.348%) IBM
13 3 (4.348%) Dell
13 3 (4.348%) F5
Gatwick, South East
This is an initial 8 week contract to join an end-user organisation going through several large scale challenging data migration projects.
Rate: £350 - £999 per day + "please quote"
Posted: 7 June 2013
Gatwick, South East
This is an initial 3 month contract with an extremely busy end-user client going through a large IP Telephony & Networking projects running concurrently therefore extensions are likely...
Rate: £350 - £999 per day + "Please quote"
Posted: 6 June 2013