The first table below looks at the demand for vSphere skills in IT contracts advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited vSphere 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 of the System Software category for the 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 vSphere
Rank 92 108 83
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -25
Contract jobs citing vSphere 23 8 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.220% 0.348% 0.619%
As % of the System Software category 12.04% 4.082% 7.051%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 8
Average daily rate £325 £338 £345
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -2.17%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £325 £170
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £375 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £350 £311
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +12.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £25.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £43.37 £19.25
% change year-on-year
-30.82% +125.29%
All System Software
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
191 196 156
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 10.13% 8.529% 8.779%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 68 54
Average daily rate £350 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £138 £135 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £420 £394
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 48 34
Average hourly rate £14.88 £14.00 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -9.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.29 £10.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.00 £30.00 £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
vSphere
England

vSphere
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

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 Yorkshire region.

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 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
West Yorkshire +2 12 £275 -18.51%
North Yorkshire - 6 £363 -
South Yorkshire - 1 £300 -
vSphere
England

vSphere
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 26 (86.67%) Windows
1 26 (86.67%) VMware
2 20 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
4 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 11 (36.67%) Clustering
6 9 (30.00%) Cisco
6 9 (30.00%) Linux
7 8 (26.67%) SQL
7 8 (26.67%) Oracle
7 8 (26.67%) CheckPoint
7 8 (26.67%) HP
8 7 (23.33%) Citrix
8 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
9 6 (20.00%) IIS
9 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
9 6 (20.00%) Firewall
9 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
9 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
10 5 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
10 5 (16.67%) F5
10 5 (16.67%) Windows 7
10 5 (16.67%) CentOS
10 5 (16.67%) Debian
10 5 (16.67%) BIG-IP
10 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 5 (16.67%) Juniper
10 5 (16.67%) SAN

vSphere
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 2 (6.667%) Middleware
1 2 (6.667%) WebSphere
1 2 (6.667%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (3.333%) .NET
2 1 (3.333%) J2EE
2 1 (3.333%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (23.33%) MS Exchange
2 6 (20.00%) IIS
2 6 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 5 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
3 5 (16.67%) Apache
3 5 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
5 3 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (6.667%) WebLogic
7 1 (3.333%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (3.333%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 2 (6.667%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.667%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 6 (20.00%) Firewall
1 6 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (16.67%) BIG-IP
2 5 (16.67%) SAN
3 4 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 4 (13.33%) NAS
3 4 (13.33%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (10.00%) DNS
5 1 (3.333%) Reverse Proxy
5 1 (3.333%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (3.333%) FCoE
5 1 (3.333%) Intranet
5 1 (3.333%) SSH
5 1 (3.333%) LDAP
5 1 (3.333%) SMTP
5 1 (3.333%) DHCP
5 1 (3.333%) FTP
5 1 (3.333%) HTTP
5 1 (3.333%) TCP/IP
5 1 (3.333%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2012
2 2 (6.667%) Oracle 8/8i
2 2 (6.667%) RDBMS
2 2 (6.667%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (3.333%) Data Mining
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Maven
2 2 (6.667%) Jenkins
2 2 (6.667%) Subversion
2 2 (6.667%) Ant
2 2 (6.667%) MSI
2 2 (6.667%) AdminStudio
3 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
General
1 2 (6.667%) Marketing
2 1 (3.333%) Manufacturing
2 1 (3.333%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Build Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) VMware Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Virtualisation Specialist
3 3 (10.00%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.00%) Linux Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Systems Integrator
4 2 (6.667%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Release Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.667%) Configuration Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) VMware Consultant
5 1 (3.333%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.333%) Exchange Consultant
5 1 (3.333%) Consultant
5 1 (3.333%) Rollout Manager
5 1 (3.333%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (3.333%) Citrix Consultant
5 1 (3.333%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (36.67%) Clustering
2 2 (6.667%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.333%) NHS
3 1 (3.333%) Firmware
3 1 (3.333%) E-Learning
3 1 (3.333%) CMDB
3 1 (3.333%) Celerra
Operating Systems
1 26 (86.67%) Windows
2 20 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 9 (30.00%) Linux
5 5 (16.67%) Debian
5 5 (16.67%) CentOS
5 5 (16.67%) Windows 7
6 4 (13.33%) Ubuntu
6 4 (13.33%) UNIX
7 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (3.333%) HPUX
8 1 (3.333%) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (16.67%) ITIL
1 5 (16.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (13.33%) Project Management
3 3 (10.00%) Change Management
4 2 (6.667%) Migration
4 2 (6.667%) Configuration Management
4 2 (6.667%) CRM
4 2 (6.667%) Technical Architecture
4 2 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Compatibility Testing
4 2 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (3.333%) Load Balancing
5 1 (3.333%) Incident Management
5 1 (3.333%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
3 3 (10.00%) VBScript
3 3 (10.00%) Java
4 2 (6.667%) Perl
4 2 (6.667%) PHP
4 2 (6.667%) Bash shell
4 2 (6.667%) Python
4 2 (6.667%) AWK
4 2 (6.667%) Jython
5 1 (3.333%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 2 (6.667%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) MCITP
3 1 (3.333%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) BC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) MCP
3 1 (3.333%) MCSE
3 1 (3.333%) CCA
3 1 (3.333%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.333%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.333%) SLA
1 1 (3.333%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 15 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
4 3 (10.00%) XenApp
4 3 (10.00%) XenServer
5 2 (6.667%) XenDesktop
6 1 (3.333%) VMware ESX
6 1 (3.333%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Nagios
1 4 (13.33%) SCCM
1 4 (13.33%) Puppet
2 3 (10.00%) Cacti
3 1 (3.333%) CA Wily
3 1 (3.333%) PureDisk
3 1 (3.333%) SCOM
3 1 (3.333%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.333%) WSUS
Vendors
1 26 (86.67%) VMware
2 15 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 9 (30.00%) Cisco
4 8 (26.67%) Oracle
4 8 (26.67%) CheckPoint
4 8 (26.67%) HP
5 7 (23.33%) Citrix
6 6 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 5 (16.67%) Juniper
7 5 (16.67%) NetApp
7 5 (16.67%) EMC
7 5 (16.67%) F5
8 3 (10.00%) IBM
9 2 (6.667%) Symantec
9 2 (6.667%) Endeca
10 1 (3.333%) Brocade
10 1 (3.333%) Barracuda Networks
10 1 (3.333%) Syncsort
10 1 (3.333%) SolarWinds
10 1 (3.333%) Twitter
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