The first table below looks at the demand for VMware Certified Professional (VCP) in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware Certified Professional (VCP) over the 3 months to 20 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 Qualifications for the West Yorkshire 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Rank 88 84 70
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -14
Contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 6 8 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.473% 0.494% 0.275%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.000% 3.540% 2.041%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 1
Average daily rate £250 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-25.92% +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £295 £310 £300
% change year-on-year
-4.83% +3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £175.00 - £20.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £27.00 £12.50 £20.25
% change year-on-year
+116.00% -38.27%
All Qualifications
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
200 226 147
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 15.77% 13.95% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 127 58
Average daily rate £300 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £238 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 9 13
Average hourly rate £12.75 £20.50 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.80% -6.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.86 £12.00 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £175.00 £50.00 £25.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- -10.00%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

West Yorkshire VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Jobs Demand Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Daily Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire VMware Certified Professional (VCP) Hourly Rate Trend

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Bradford - 4 £250 -
Leeds -3 2 £265 -21.48%
VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Yorkshire

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP).

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
4 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
4 5 (62.50%) SAN
4 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (50.00%) Firewall
5 4 (50.00%) CCNA
5 4 (50.00%) Citrix
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 4 (50.00%) MCSE
5 4 (50.00%) MCSA
5 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
5 4 (50.00%) VoIP
5 4 (50.00%) ITIL
5 4 (50.00%) Cisco
6 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
6 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
6 3 (37.50%) Linux
6 3 (37.50%) Lotus Notes
6 3 (37.50%) Lotus Domino
6 3 (37.50%) Lotus
6 3 (37.50%) Wireless
6 3 (37.50%) Replication
6 3 (37.50%) LANDesk
7 2 (25.00%) VCP4

VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing VMware Certified Professional (VCP) 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 Certified Professional (VCP). Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (37.50%) Lotus Notes
2 3 (37.50%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) SAN
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
2 4 (50.00%) VoIP
3 3 (37.50%) Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Support Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Analyst
1 3 (37.50%) Senior Support Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Support Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Support Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Specialist
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (37.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (12.50%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) MCSE
1 4 (50.00%) MCSA
1 4 (50.00%) CCNA
1 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (25.00%) VCP4
2 2 (25.00%) VCP5
3 1 (12.50%) MCITP
3 1 (12.50%) CCA
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix Certification
System Software
1 7 (87.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (75.00%) Active Directory
3 5 (62.50%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (25.00%) vCloud
5 1 (12.50%) XenApp
5 1 (12.50%) XenDesktop
5 1 (12.50%) vSphere
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) VMware
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 4 (50.00%) Citrix
3 4 (50.00%) Cisco
4 3 (37.50%) LANDesk
4 3 (37.50%) Lotus
5 1 (12.50%) CheckPoint
5 1 (12.50%) HP
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