VMware Contracts in London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for knowledge and experience of VMware products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware over the 3 months to 23 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never 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.

VMware England / London
Location	3 months to 23 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	90	51	40
Rank change year-on-year	-39	-11
Contract jobs citing VMware	584	814	1032
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London	2.82%	3.76%	4.40%
As % of the Vendors category	6.82%	9.10%	10.01%
Number of daily rates quoted	418	607	708
Median daily rate	£444	£420	£375
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.59%	+12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£272	£251	£234
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£600	£550	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£358	£330
% change year-on-year	+4.89%	+8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted	12	5	59
Median hourly rate	£47.00	£19.00	£22.83
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+147.36%	-16.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.70	£15.40	£14.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£19.60	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.00	£28.50	£22.75
% change year-on-year	-40.35%	+25.27%

VMware is in the vendor products and services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all vendor product and service related skills in contract job vacancies advertised in London.

Contract Vendor Product & Service Skills London
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for skills associated with vendor products and/or services	8558	8945	10313
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London	41.38%	41.35%	44.02%
Number of daily rates quoted	5794	6177	6805
Median daily rate	£475	£450	£425
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+5.55%	+5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£275	£275	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£625	£607	£600
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£361
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	+3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted	109	112	257
Median hourly rate	£23.75	£18.00	£20.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+31.94%	-10.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.93	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£42.33	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.50	£20.50	£18.50
% change year-on-year	-14.63%	+10.81%

VMware
Job Vacancy Trend in London

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in London citing VMware as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Vendors category.

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing VMware in London.

Contractor daily rate trend for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in London

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing VMware in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for VMware in London

VMware
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in London

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing VMware in London over the 3 months to 23 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for VMware in London

VMware
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware within the London region over the 3 months to 23 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
City of London	-26	86	£430	-9.47%	47
Croydon	+1	24	£463	+17.83%	1
Hammersmith	-	9	£555	-
New Malden	-	8	-	-	3
Uxbridge	-1	6	£450	+11.52%	1
West End of London	-	6	£435	-	3
Docklands, London	0	3	£481	+4.61%
Osterley	0	3	£500	-1.96%
Kingston Upon Thames	-6	3	£375	-	2
Hounslow	0	2	£375	-9.63%	2
Chessington	-	2	£438	-
Feltham	-	2	£425	-
Hayes	+3	1	£500	+5.26%
Twickenham	+3	1	£363	-	1
Bromley	-	1	£325	-
VMware England

VMware
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in London

For the 6 months to 23 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing VMware also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the London region with a requirement for VMware.

1	655 (53.60%)	Windows
2	637 (52.13%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	442 (36.17%)	Active Directory
4	440 (36.01%)	Linux
5	363 (29.71%)	Windows Server
6	352 (28.81%)	Microsoft
7	275 (22.50%)	Citrix
8	262 (21.44%)	Cisco
9	253 (20.70%)	Firewall
10	245 (20.05%)	DevOps
11	234 (19.15%)	DNS
12	223 (18.25%)	Amazon AWS
13	218 (17.84%)	Puppet
14	214 (17.51%)	Data Centre
15	213 (17.43%)	Finance

16	212 (17.35%)	Windows Server 2012
17	209 (17.10%)	PowerShell
18	198 (16.20%)	SAN
19	180 (14.73%)	Windows Server 2008
20	169 (13.83%)	ITIL
20	169 (13.83%)	Agile Software Development
20	169 (13.83%)	Security Cleared
21	167 (13.67%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
22	166 (13.58%)	Ansible
23	164 (13.42%)	Migration
24	163 (13.34%)	Office 365
25	162 (13.26%)	Python
26	159 (13.01%)	SCCM
27	157 (12.85%)	Hyper-V
28	155 (12.68%)	Unix

VMware
Co-occurring IT Skills in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	129 (10.56%)	MS Exchange
2	78 (6.38%)	Apache
3	64 (5.24%)	SharePoint
4	59 (4.83%)	Exchange Server 2010
5	58 (4.75%)	IIS
6	50 (4.09%)	Tomcat
7	46 (3.76%)	Exchange Server 2013
8	40 (3.27%)	Elasticsearch
9	39 (3.19%)	OpenStack
10	32 (2.62%)	Skype for Business
11	22 (1.80%)	Confluence
12	21 (1.72%)	Cloud Foundry
13	20 (1.64%)	WebSphere
14	15 (1.23%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
14	15 (1.23%)	Exchange Server 2007
14	15 (1.23%)	nginx
15	11 (0.90%)	CMS
15	11 (0.90%)	SAS
16	10 (0.82%)	JBoss
16	10 (0.82%)	Jetty

Applications
1	49 (4.01%)	Microsoft Office
2	22 (1.80%)	MS Visio
3	14 (1.15%)	Microsoft Excel
4	4 (0.33%)	Acrobat
5	3 (0.25%)	Microsoft Project
6	2 (0.16%)	3ds Max
6	2 (0.16%)	AutoCAD
6	2 (0.16%)	CINEMA 4D
6	2 (0.16%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	2 (0.16%)	SketchUp
7	1 (0.082%)	HipChat
7	1 (0.082%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	9 (0.74%)	Dynamics CRM
1	9 (0.74%)	Payment Gateway
2	4 (0.33%)	Dynamics AX
2	4 (0.33%)	Remedy ITSM
2	4 (0.33%)	SAP Oil and Gas
3	1 (0.082%)	Maximo
3	1 (0.082%)	Oracle Applications
3	1 (0.082%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	223 (18.25%)	Amazon AWS
2	163 (13.34%)	Office 365
3	152 (12.44%)	Microsoft Azure
4	43 (3.52%)	IaaS
5	42 (3.44%)	PaaS
6	40 (3.27%)	SaaS
7	32 (2.62%)	GitHub
8	25 (2.05%)	Amazon EC2
8	25 (2.05%)	Amazon S3
9	24 (1.96%)	Azure Active Directory
10	21 (1.72%)	AWS CloudFormation
11	20 (1.64%)	Virtual Private Cloud
12	19 (1.55%)	Amazon ELB
13	16 (1.31%)	Cloud Computing
14	15 (1.23%)	Amazon CloudWatch
15	12 (0.98%)	Mimecast
16	10 (0.82%)	Google Cloud Platform
16	10 (0.82%)	IBM Cloud
17	6 (0.49%)	SoftLayer
18	5 (0.41%)	OpenShift

Communications & Networking
1	253 (20.70%)	Firewall
2	234 (19.15%)	DNS
3	198 (16.20%)	SAN
4	129 (10.56%)	WAN
5	125 (10.23%)	DHCP
6	114 (9.33%)	LAN
6	114 (9.33%)	TCP/IP
7	93 (7.61%)	VPN
8	67 (5.48%)	LDAP
9	60 (4.91%)	Cisco ASA
10	59 (4.83%)	NAS
11	51 (4.17%)	HTTP
12	46 (3.76%)	MPLS
13	40 (3.27%)	NetScaler
14	38 (3.11%)	Network Security
15	37 (3.03%)	SSL
16	36 (2.95%)	Internet
17	35 (2.86%)	Cisco Nexus
17	35 (2.86%)	Wireless
18	32 (2.62%)	VoIP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	135 (11.05%)	SQL Server
2	60 (4.91%)	PostgreSQL
3	33 (2.70%)	Hadoop
4	32 (2.62%)	MySQL
5	30 (2.45%)	MongoDB
6	29 (2.37%)	Big Data
7	28 (2.29%)	SQL Server 2012
8	22 (1.80%)	Oracle Database
9	18 (1.47%)	SQL Server 2008
10	15 (1.23%)	Oracle Database 11g
11	14 (1.15%)	SQL Server 2005
12	13 (1.06%)	Amazon RDS
13	11 (0.90%)	NoSQL
14	8 (0.65%)	Apache Cassandra
14	8 (0.65%)	Relational Database
15	7 (0.57%)	DB2
15	7 (0.57%)	SQL Server 2016
16	5 (0.41%)	HBase
16	5 (0.41%)	SQL Server 2014
17	3 (0.25%)	Blockchain

Development Applications
1	113 (9.25%)	Git (software)
2	105 (8.59%)	Jenkins
3	43 (3.52%)	Vagrant
4	35 (2.86%)	JIRA
5	31 (2.54%)	Maven
6	23 (1.88%)	Bitbucket
7	20 (1.64%)	Sonatype Nexus
8	17 (1.39%)	JUnit
9	14 (1.15%)	TeamCity
10	13 (1.06%)	SonarQube
11	12 (0.98%)	Ant
12	11 (0.90%)	Liquibase
13	7 (0.57%)	GitLab
13	7 (0.57%)	Subversion
14	6 (0.49%)	Selenium
15	5 (0.41%)	JMeter
15	5 (0.41%)	LoadRunner
15	5 (0.41%)	MSI
15	5 (0.41%)	Octopus Deploy
15	5 (0.41%)	Team Foundation Server

General
1	213 (17.43%)	Finance
2	109 (8.92%)	Banking
3	30 (2.45%)	Investment Banking
4	28 (2.29%)	Retail
5	27 (2.21%)	Telecoms
6	23 (1.88%)	Law
7	22 (1.80%)	Legal
8	12 (0.98%)	Back Office
9	10 (0.82%)	Financial Institution
9	10 (0.82%)	Games
9	10 (0.82%)	Manufacturing
10	8 (0.65%)	Billing
11	7 (0.57%)	Marketing
12	6 (0.49%)	Publishing
13	4 (0.33%)	Electronics
13	4 (0.33%)	Military
14	3 (0.25%)	Advertising
14	3 (0.25%)	International Banking
15	2 (0.16%)	Multimedia
15	2 (0.16%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	178 (14.57%)	Architect
2	161 (13.18%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	138 (11.29%)	DevOps Engineer
4	113 (9.25%)	Administrator
4	113 (9.25%)	VMware Engineer
5	112 (9.17%)	Analyst
6	82 (6.71%)	Systems Administrator
7	78 (6.38%)	Consultant
8	74 (6.06%)	Linux Engineer
9	66 (5.40%)	Windows Engineer
10	59 (4.83%)	3rd Line Engineer
10	59 (4.83%)	Infrastructure Architect
10	59 (4.83%)	Support Engineer
10	59 (4.83%)	Systems Engineer
11	51 (4.17%)	Linux Administrator
11	51 (4.17%)	Network Engineer
12	47 (3.85%)	AWS Engineer
12	47 (3.85%)	Linux Systems Administrator
13	37 (3.03%)	Server Engineer
13	37 (3.03%)	Support Analyst

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	61 (4.99%)	Elastic Stack
2	44 (3.60%)	Web Services
3	29 (2.37%)	Sensu
4	25 (2.05%)	Middleware
5	24 (1.96%)	.NET
6	22 (1.80%)	REST
7	19 (1.55%)	MCollective
7	19 (1.55%)	SOAP
8	17 (1.39%)	LAMP
8	17 (1.39%)	Oracle GoldenGate
8	17 (1.39%)	SAML
9	15 (1.23%)	Node.js
9	15 (1.23%)	RESTful
10	11 (0.90%)	JSON
11	9 (0.74%)	802.1X
11	9 (0.74%)	Software Packaging
12	8 (0.65%)	Kafka
12	8 (0.65%)	OpenID
12	8 (0.65%)	Spring
12	8 (0.65%)	XML

Miscellaneous
1	214 (17.51%)	Data Centre
2	58 (4.75%)	Clustering
3	47 (3.85%)	Analytical Skills
4	37 (3.03%)	Private Cloud
5	36 (2.95%)	Computer Science
5	36 (2.95%)	PKI
6	32 (2.62%)	Linux Command Line
7	29 (2.37%)	Replication
8	25 (2.05%)	Management Information System
9	21 (1.72%)	Blackberry
10	18 (1.47%)	Hybrid Cloud
11	14 (1.15%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
12	13 (1.06%)	EMC VNX
12	13 (1.06%)	Video Conferencing
13	12 (0.98%)	Enterprise Storage
14	11 (0.90%)	Client/Server
15	10 (0.82%)	Greenfield Project
16	9 (0.74%)	IVR
16	9 (0.74%)	Thin Client
16	9 (0.74%)	VxBlock/Vblock

Operating Systems
1	655 (53.60%)	Windows
2	440 (36.01%)	Linux
3	363 (29.71%)	Windows Server
4	212 (17.35%)	Windows Server 2012
5	180 (14.73%)	Windows Server 2008
6	167 (13.67%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7	155 (12.68%)	Unix
8	124 (10.15%)	CentOS
9	92 (7.53%)	Windows 7
10	90 (7.36%)	Windows 10
11	88 (7.20%)	Ubuntu
12	65 (5.32%)	Windows Server 2003
13	45 (3.68%)	SUSE
14	38 (3.11%)	Solaris
15	36 (2.95%)	AIX
16	20 (1.64%)	Oracle Linux
16	20 (1.64%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
17	18 (1.47%)	Mac OS X
18	17 (1.39%)	Windows 8
19	12 (0.98%)	Android

Processes & Methodologies
1	245 (20.05%)	DevOps
2	169 (13.83%)	Agile Software Development
2	169 (13.83%)	ITIL
3	164 (13.42%)	Migration
4	135 (11.05%)	Configuration Management
5	90 (7.36%)	Continuous Integration
6	79 (6.46%)	Service Management
7	60 (4.91%)	Project Management
8	57 (4.66%)	Load Balancing
9	56 (4.58%)	Open Source
10	55 (4.50%)	Continuous Delivery
11	50 (4.09%)	Disaster Recovery
11	50 (4.09%)	Scrum
12	49 (4.01%)	Change Management
12	49 (4.01%)	High Availability
13	43 (3.52%)	ITIL V3
13	43 (3.52%)	Performance Tuning
14	39 (3.19%)	Virtual Environments
15	37 (3.03%)	Problem Management
16	36 (2.95%)	Network Design

Programming Languages
1	209 (17.10%)	PowerShell
2	162 (13.26%)	Python
3	151 (12.36%)	Bash Shell
4	129 (10.56%)	SQL
5	99 (8.10%)	Java
6	96 (7.86%)	Perl
6	96 (7.86%)	Ruby
7	33 (2.70%)	Shell Script
8	28 (2.29%)	Groovy
9	27 (2.21%)	C
10	18 (1.47%)	Korn
11	17 (1.39%)	Go
12	15 (1.23%)	JavaScript
13	14 (1.15%)	VBScript
14	13 (1.06%)	C#
15	12 (0.98%)	PHP
16	8 (0.65%)	tcsh
17	5 (0.41%)	VB
18	4 (0.33%)	Scala
19	3 (0.25%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	169 (13.83%)	Security Cleared
2	124 (10.15%)	SC Cleared
3	91 (7.45%)	Microsoft Certification
4	85 (6.96%)	Cisco Certification
5	82 (6.71%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6	55 (4.50%)	MCSE
7	47 (3.85%)	CCNP
7	47 (3.85%)	Degree
8	43 (3.52%)	CCNA
9	41 (3.36%)	DV Cleared
10	20 (1.64%)	Computer Science Degree
11	18 (1.47%)	Citrix Certification
12	17 (1.39%)	MCITP
12	17 (1.39%)	MCP
13	16 (1.31%)	ITIL Certification
13	16 (1.31%)	MCSA
14	15 (1.23%)	VCP6
15	14 (1.15%)	CCIE
16	10 (0.82%)	VCAP
17	8 (0.65%)	CCSP

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	34 (2.78%)	SLA
2	19 (1.55%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	15 (1.23%)	Disclosure Scotland
4	14 (1.15%)	PCI DSS
5	10 (0.82%)	QA
6	8 (0.65%)	JSP 440
7	5 (0.41%)	GPG13
8	4 (0.33%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9	3 (0.25%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
10	2 (0.16%)	COBIT
11	1 (0.082%)	BS25999
11	1 (0.082%)	Cyber Essentials
11	1 (0.082%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
11	1 (0.082%)	ISO 9001

System Software
1	637 (52.13%)	VMware Infrastructure
2	442 (36.17%)	Active Directory
3	157 (12.85%)	Hyper-V
4	150 (12.27%)	vSphere
5	140 (11.46%)	VMware ESXi
6	129 (10.56%)	Docker
7	92 (7.53%)	XenApp
8	77 (6.30%)	vCloud
9	69 (5.65%)	Virtual Machines
10	63 (5.16%)	XenDesktop
11	38 (3.11%)	KVM
12	35 (2.86%)	Microsoft App-V
13	29 (2.37%)	Virtual Servers
14	21 (1.72%)	Xen
15	19 (1.55%)	Virtual Desktop
16	18 (1.47%)	NFS
16	18 (1.47%)	XenServer
17	15 (1.23%)	DFS Replication
18	14 (1.15%)	Squid
19	13 (1.06%)	Postfix

Systems Management
1	218 (17.84%)	Puppet
2	166 (13.58%)	Ansible
3	159 (13.01%)	SCCM
4	73 (5.97%)	vCenter Server
5	67 (5.48%)	Opscode Chef
6	65 (5.32%)	Terraform
7	51 (4.17%)	SCOM
8	47 (3.85%)	Kubernetes
9	42 (3.44%)	Nagios
10	40 (3.27%)	vRealize
11	39 (3.19%)	ZABBIX
12	36 (2.95%)	NetBackup
13	31 (2.54%)	Kibana
14	30 (2.45%)	logstash
15	26 (2.13%)	Graphite
15	26 (2.13%)	yum
16	22 (1.80%)	Docker Swarm
17	20 (1.64%)	PowerCLI
18	19 (1.55%)	Microsoft Clustering
19	18 (1.47%)	Rsyslog

Vendors
1	352 (28.81%)	Microsoft
2	275 (22.50%)	Citrix
3	262 (21.44%)	Cisco
4	140 (11.46%)	Red Hat
5	139 (11.37%)	HP
6	126 (10.31%)	Oracle
7	87 (7.12%)	EMC
8	71 (5.81%)	IBM
9	66 (5.40%)	NetApp
10	57 (4.66%)	Dell
11	42 (3.44%)	CheckPoint
11	42 (3.44%)	Symantec
12	41 (3.36%)	Palo Alto
13	40 (3.27%)	Juniper
14	38 (3.11%)	F5
15	37 (3.03%)	Fortinet
15	37 (3.03%)	ServiceNow
16	28 (2.29%)	SolarWinds
17	27 (2.21%)	AppSense
17	27 (2.21%)	Atlassian