The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Worcestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited VMware 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 Vendors for the Worcestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
VMware
Rank 18 12 10
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -2
Contract jobs citing VMware 5 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 5.376% 1.786% 5.172%
As % of the Vendors category 9.804% 5.000% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £215 - £233
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.88 £22.43
% change year-on-year
-1.63% +1.98%
All Vendors
Worcestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
51 20 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Worcestershire 54.84% 35.71% 51.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 6 19
Average daily rate £300 £318 £233
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.51% +36.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £225 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £468 £465 £361
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 2 6
Average hourly rate £19.50 £14.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+34.48% -42.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.00 £10.90 £10.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.00 £14.50 £27.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
VMware
West Midlands

VMware
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Worcestershire 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 Worcestershire region.

Worcestershire VMware Daily Rate Trend

VMware
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Worcestershire VMware Hourly Rate Trend

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 Worcestershire 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
Worcester - 4 £263 -
Kidderminster - 1 £168 -
VMware
West Midlands

VMware
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (55.56%) Firewall
4 4 (44.44%) Cisco
4 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 4 (44.44%) Linux
4 4 (44.44%) C#
4 4 (44.44%) .NET
4 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
4 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
5 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
5 3 (33.33%) C
5 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
5 3 (33.33%) ISO 9001
5 3 (33.33%) C++
5 3 (33.33%) MS Office
5 3 (33.33%) Automotive
5 3 (33.33%) TickIT
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
5 3 (33.33%) Validation
5 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
5 3 (33.33%) Retail
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) QA
6 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (11.11%) WatchGuard

VMware
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Worcestershire 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 (44.44%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (11.11%) jQuery
3 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
3 1 (11.11%) CSS
3 1 (11.11%) XHTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (11.11%) CMS
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (11.11%) Photoshop
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) SAN
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) VoIP
2 1 (11.11%) WLAN
2 1 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (33.33%) Automotive
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Coordinator
1 3 (33.33%) Tester
1 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (33.33%) Software Tester
2 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (11.11%) Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Web Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Systems Support
2 1 (11.11%) Administrator
2 1 (11.11%) Front-End Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Front-End Web Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows XP
2 4 (44.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (44.44%) Windows 7
3 1 (11.11%) Windows 2000
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Vista
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (33.33%) Change Management
1 3 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 3 (33.33%) Validation
1 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Service Management
2 1 (11.11%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) OO
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) C
2 3 (33.33%) C++
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) PHP
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) ISO 9001
1 3 (33.33%) TickIT
1 3 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (33.33%) VMware ESX
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Terminal Services
3 1 (11.11%) ISA Server
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Backup Exec
1 1 (11.11%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
1 4 (44.44%) Red Hat
2 1 (11.11%) WatchGuard
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec
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