The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills 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 vSphere over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware vSphere
Rank 78 82 70
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -12
Contract jobs citing vSphere 13 8 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.021% 0.494% 0.090%
As % of the System Software category 10.83% 7.080% 1.282%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 1
Average daily rate £275 £338 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.51% +12.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £310
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +116.85%
All System Software
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
120 113 78
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 9.427% 6.984% 7.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 37 24
Average daily rate £275 £325 £388
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-15.38% -16.12%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 27 17
Average hourly rate £15.50 £13.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.81% -35.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.58 £10.30 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.50 £30.00 £28.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire vSphere Daily Rate Trend

vSphere
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing vSphere across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Yorkshire vSphere Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire 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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leeds +4 9 £275 -18.51%
Bradford - 4 £200 -
Wetherby - 1 - -
vSphere
Yorkshire

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 13 (81.25%) VMware
3 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
4 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
6 7 (43.75%) SQL
6 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
7 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
8 5 (31.25%) Citrix
8 5 (31.25%) Cisco
8 5 (31.25%) SAN
8 5 (31.25%) NetApp
8 5 (31.25%) HP
8 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
9 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
9 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
9 4 (25.00%) Project Management
9 4 (25.00%) XenApp
9 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
9 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
10 3 (18.75%) XenServer
10 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
10 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
10 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
10 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (18.75%) Clustering
10 3 (18.75%) Oracle
10 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
10 3 (18.75%) Linux
10 3 (18.75%) ITIL

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 Development
1 1 (6.250%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) MS Exchange
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (25.00%) SharePoint 2010
2 4 (25.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (12.50%) IIS
3 2 (12.50%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (6.250%) SAS
4 1 (6.250%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) MS Excel
1 2 (12.50%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (31.25%) SAN
2 2 (12.50%) DNS
2 2 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (12.50%) Firewall
3 1 (6.250%) NAS
3 1 (6.250%) FCoE
3 1 (6.250%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (6.250%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (6.250%) Reverse Proxy
3 1 (6.250%) iSCSI
3 1 (6.250%) Intranet
3 1 (6.250%) SSH
3 1 (6.250%) BIG-IP
3 1 (6.250%) SMTP
3 1 (6.250%) DHCP
3 1 (6.250%) FTP
3 1 (6.250%) HTTP
3 1 (6.250%) TCP/IP
3 1 (6.250%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server 2008
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (12.50%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (6.250%) Data Mining
General
1 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
1 1 (6.250%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (25.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 3 (18.75%) Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Rollout Manager
4 1 (6.250%) VMware Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) VMware Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Citrix Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Server Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Rollout Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.250%) Exchange Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Linux Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (18.75%) Clustering
2 1 (6.250%) CMDB
2 1 (6.250%) Celerra
2 1 (6.250%) NHS
2 1 (6.250%) Firmware
2 1 (6.250%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 15 (93.75%) Windows
2 10 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (43.75%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (18.75%) Windows 7
4 3 (18.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (18.75%) Linux
5 1 (6.250%) Debian
5 1 (6.250%) CentOS
5 1 (6.250%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) Project Management
2 3 (18.75%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) CRM
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Migration
4 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (43.75%) SQL
2 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.250%) PHP
3 1 (6.250%) VBScript
3 1 (6.250%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) MCITP
1 1 (6.250%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) BC Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
1 1 (6.250%) CCA
1 1 (6.250%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (6.250%) PMP
1 1 (6.250%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (6.250%) MCP
1 1 (6.250%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.250%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (25.00%) XenApp
4 3 (18.75%) XenServer
5 2 (12.50%) XenDesktop
6 1 (6.250%) VMware ESX
6 1 (6.250%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 1 (6.250%) PureDisk
1 1 (6.250%) SCCM
1 1 (6.250%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 13 (81.25%) VMware
2 6 (37.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
3 5 (31.25%) Cisco
3 5 (31.25%) NetApp
3 5 (31.25%) HP
4 4 (25.00%) CheckPoint
5 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 2 (12.50%) EMC
6 2 (12.50%) Red Hat
6 2 (12.50%) Symantec
7 1 (6.250%) F5
7 1 (6.250%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.250%) Brocade
7 1 (6.250%) Websense
7 1 (6.250%) Barracuda Networks
7 1 (6.250%) Syncsort
7 1 (6.250%) Remedy
7 1 (6.250%) Nokia
7 1 (6.250%) IBM
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