VMware Infrastructure Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 25 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.

VMware Infrastructure (VI3) UK
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	120	88	83
Rank change year-on-year	-32	-5
Contract jobs citing VMware Infrastructure	925	1374	1433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	2.00%	2.59%	2.56%
As % of the System Software category	17.92%	20.54%	24.18%
Number of daily rates quoted	607	887	859
Median daily rate	£400	£400	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	-	+14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£206	£236	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£541	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£375	£335
% change year-on-year	-	+11.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted	47	61	90
Median hourly rate	£18.00	£32.50	£35.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-44.61%	-7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.00	£16.50	£17.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£52.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£17.25	£35.00	£37.50
% change year-on-year	-50.71%	-6.66%

VMware Infrastructure is in the system software skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills.

Contract System Software Skills UK
Contract job vacancies with a requirement for system software skills	5162	6689	5926
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	11.15%	12.61%	10.57%
Number of daily rates quoted	3309	4127	3352
Median daily rate	£401	£400	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+0.31%	+14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£180	£200	£180
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£550	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£375	£350	£325
% change year-on-year	+7.14%	+7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted	304	468	622
Median hourly rate	£17.00	£20.00	£17.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-15.00%	+14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.15	£12.00	£11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£47.50	£42.00	£40.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£16.00	£22.00	£17.50
% change year-on-year	-27.27%	+25.71%

VMware Infrastructure
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate trend for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for VMware Infrastructure in the UK

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VMware Infrastructure within the UK over the 3 months to 25 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
England	-27	856	£400	-	355
London	-60	306	£444	+9.50%	106
South East	+8	257	£400	-	73
Hampshire	+6	80	£425	+11.47%	19
North West	+30	68	£361	-9.68%	40
East of England	-1	61	£413	-8.33%	25
South West	-26	54	£358	-8.91%	25
Buckinghamshire	+11	46	£400	-	5
Yorkshire	-22	46	£350	-12.50%	44
City of London	-30	44	£438	+8.69%	24
Berkshire	+5	43	£360	-7.09%	22
Milton Keynes	+16	41	£400	-2.43%	3
Scotland	-22	35	£395	+17.03%	12
Hertfordshire	+23	31	£550	+29.41%	9
West Yorkshire	-18	31	£425	+6.25%	35
West Midlands	+8	30	£250	-27.53%	23
Surrey	-23	29	£375	-11.76%	11
Leeds	-9	27	£425	+6.25%	19
Bristol	-9	26	£401	+9.93%	10
East Midlands	-5	23	£375	+15.38%	12
Lancashire	+19	20	£448	+6.86%	4
Kent	+14	20	£338	-18.67%	2
Basingstoke	-4	20	£425	-	3
Manchester	+1	19	£350	+7.69%	21
Reading	+8	18	£313	-16.66%	11
Wales	-3	18	£310	-20.00%	7
Croydon	+6	17	£463	+17.83%
Preston	-6	17	£448	+8.48%	3
Cheshire	+21	16	£320	-24.70%	12
South Wales	-3	15	£300	-22.58%	4

VMware Infrastructure
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing VMware Infrastructure also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for VMware Infrastructure.

1	1792 (100.00%)	VMware
2	1085 (60.55%)	Windows
3	715 (39.90%)	Active Directory
4	639 (35.66%)	Microsoft
5	628 (35.04%)	Linux
6	577 (32.20%)	Windows Server
7	401 (22.38%)	Cisco
8	395 (22.04%)	Citrix
9	368 (20.54%)	Firewall
10	366 (20.42%)	Security Cleared
10	366 (20.42%)	Windows Server 2012
11	361 (20.15%)	Windows Server 2008
12	352 (19.64%)	ITIL
13	348 (19.42%)	DNS
14	342 (19.08%)	Data Centre

15	305 (17.02%)	SAN
16	304 (16.96%)	PowerShell
17	301 (16.80%)	Hyper-V
18	288 (16.07%)	DevOps
19	268 (14.96%)	SC Cleared
20	265 (14.79%)	SQL
21	261 (14.56%)	VMware ESXi
22	260 (14.51%)	HP
23	256 (14.29%)	SQL Server
23	256 (14.29%)	Finance
24	255 (14.23%)	MS Exchange
25	229 (12.78%)	vSphere
26	228 (12.72%)	Unix
27	227 (12.67%)	Red Hat
28	225 (12.56%)	Migration

VMware Infrastructure
Co-occurring IT Skills 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	255 (14.23%)	MS Exchange
2	127 (7.09%)	IIS
3	117 (6.53%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	96 (5.36%)	SharePoint
5	82 (4.58%)	Apache
6	80 (4.46%)	Tomcat
7	74 (4.13%)	Skype for Business
8	73 (4.07%)	OpenStack
9	64 (3.57%)	Exchange Server 2013
10	47 (2.62%)	WebSphere
11	44 (2.46%)	JBoss
12	33 (1.84%)	Exchange Server 2007
13	30 (1.67%)	Jetty
14	29 (1.62%)	nginx
15	24 (1.34%)	BizTalk Server
16	22 (1.23%)	Mongrel
17	20 (1.12%)	Confluence
18	19 (1.06%)	WildFly
19	18 (1.00%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
19	18 (1.00%)	WebLogic

Applications
1	118 (6.58%)	Microsoft Office
2	34 (1.90%)	MS Visio
3	21 (1.17%)	Microsoft Excel
4	6 (0.33%)	Microsoft Project
4	6 (0.33%)	Spreadsheet
5	4 (0.22%)	Acrobat
5	4 (0.22%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
6	1 (0.056%)	Adobe Creative Suite
6	1 (0.056%)	Mozilla Thunderbird
6	1 (0.056%)	Shockwave

Business Applications
1	20 (1.12%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	13 (0.73%)	Dynamics CRM
3	10 (0.56%)	Payment Gateway
4	7 (0.39%)	Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5	5 (0.28%)	Dynamics AX
6	4 (0.22%)	Oracle Applications
6	4 (0.22%)	Pegasus Opera
7	3 (0.17%)	Remedy ITSM
8	2 (0.11%)	Bankmaster
8	2 (0.11%)	Primavera
8	2 (0.11%)	Teamcenter
9	1 (0.056%)	Sage CRM
9	1 (0.056%)	SAP S/4HANA
9	1 (0.056%)	Sentinel

Cloud Services
1	191 (10.66%)	Microsoft Azure
2	185 (10.32%)	Office 365
3	176 (9.82%)	Amazon AWS
4	49 (2.73%)	IaaS
5	46 (2.57%)	PaaS
6	33 (1.84%)	Cloud Computing
7	30 (1.67%)	Amazon EC2
8	28 (1.56%)	SaaS
9	26 (1.45%)	Google Cloud Platform
10	22 (1.23%)	Google App Engine
11	20 (1.12%)	Azure Active Directory
12	18 (1.00%)	OpenShift
13	12 (0.67%)	GitHub
14	10 (0.56%)	Amazon S3
14	10 (0.56%)	AWS CloudFormation
14	10 (0.56%)	IBM Cloud
14	10 (0.56%)	Virtual Private Cloud
15	8 (0.45%)	Mimecast
16	7 (0.39%)	Bluemix
16	7 (0.39%)	OneDrive

Communications & Networking
1	368 (20.54%)	Firewall
2	348 (19.42%)	DNS
3	305 (17.02%)	SAN
4	208 (11.61%)	DHCP
5	203 (11.33%)	WAN
6	201 (11.22%)	TCP/IP
7	193 (10.77%)	LAN
8	122 (6.81%)	VPN
9	101 (5.64%)	NAS
10	80 (4.46%)	HTTP
11	75 (4.19%)	Internet
12	73 (4.07%)	Network Security
13	72 (4.02%)	LDAP
13	72 (4.02%)	SSL
14	58 (3.24%)	MPLS
14	58 (3.24%)	NetScaler
14	58 (3.24%)	VoIP
15	54 (3.01%)	Cisco ASA
16	50 (2.79%)	IPsec
17	47 (2.62%)	Wireless

Database & Business Intelligence
1	256 (14.29%)	SQL Server
2	63 (3.52%)	SQL Server 2012
3	49 (2.73%)	MySQL
4	40 (2.23%)	SQL Server 2008
5	36 (2.01%)	SQL Server 2005
6	33 (1.84%)	Big Data
6	33 (1.84%)	Hadoop
7	32 (1.79%)	MongoDB
8	30 (1.67%)	PostgreSQL
9	27 (1.51%)	Relational Database
10	25 (1.40%)	Oracle Database
11	19 (1.06%)	Apache Cassandra
12	18 (1.00%)	SQL Server 2016
13	16 (0.89%)	SQL Server 2014
14	12 (0.67%)	NoSQL
15	11 (0.61%)	Oracle Reports
16	10 (0.56%)	DB2
16	10 (0.56%)	RDBMS
17	9 (0.50%)	HBase
18	8 (0.45%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	142 (7.92%)	Jenkins
2	97 (5.41%)	Git (software)
3	34 (1.90%)	Maven
4	30 (1.67%)	JIRA
5	24 (1.34%)	Subversion
6	21 (1.17%)	TeamCity
6	21 (1.17%)	Travis CI
7	18 (1.00%)	MSI
7	18 (1.00%)	Octopus Deploy
8	17 (0.95%)	GitLab
9	15 (0.84%)	Selenium
9	15 (0.84%)	Team Foundation Server
9	15 (0.84%)	Vagrant
10	14 (0.78%)	Bitbucket
11	12 (0.67%)	Sonatype Nexus
12	10 (0.56%)	Oracle APEX
12	10 (0.56%)	Visual Studio
13	7 (0.39%)	InstallShield
13	7 (0.39%)	JUnit
13	7 (0.39%)	LoadRunner

General
1	256 (14.29%)	Finance
2	95 (5.30%)	Banking
3	66 (3.68%)	Telecoms
4	58 (3.24%)	Manufacturing
5	31 (1.73%)	Retail
6	28 (1.56%)	Law
7	26 (1.45%)	Investment Banking
8	24 (1.34%)	Legal
9	23 (1.28%)	Electronics
10	22 (1.23%)	Marketing
11	16 (0.89%)	Back Office
12	14 (0.78%)	Games
13	10 (0.56%)	Billing
13	10 (0.56%)	Local Government
13	10 (0.56%)	Military
14	7 (0.39%)	Financial Institution
15	5 (0.28%)	French Language
16	3 (0.17%)	Automotive
17	2 (0.11%)	Advertising
17	2 (0.11%)	Aerospace

Job Titles
1	223 (12.44%)	Architect
2	208 (11.61%)	Infrastructure Engineer
3	185 (10.32%)	Analyst
4	149 (8.31%)	Administrator
5	131 (7.31%)	Consultant
6	126 (7.03%)	VMware Engineer
7	123 (6.86%)	DevOps Engineer
8	115 (6.42%)	Support Engineer
9	100 (5.58%)	Systems Administrator
10	81 (4.52%)	Windows Engineer
11	70 (3.91%)	Infrastructure Architect
11	70 (3.91%)	Technical Architect
12	68 (3.79%)	Linux Administrator
13	66 (3.68%)	Systems Engineer
14	63 (3.52%)	3rd Line Engineer
15	60 (3.35%)	Linux Engineer
16	59 (3.29%)	Support Analyst
17	58 (3.24%)	Server Engineer
18	57 (3.18%)	Linux Systems Administrator
19	52 (2.90%)	Network Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	67 (3.74%)	Middleware
2	59 (3.29%)	.NET
3	53 (2.96%)	Web Services
4	39 (2.18%)	J2EE
5	26 (1.45%)	XML
6	22 (1.23%)	Elastic Stack
7	21 (1.17%)	Servlets
8	20 (1.12%)	RESTful
9	17 (0.95%)	LAMP
10	15 (0.84%)	Sensu
11	14 (0.78%)	802.1X
11	14 (0.78%)	SAML
12	13 (0.73%)	JSON
13	12 (0.67%)	ASP.NET
13	12 (0.67%)	HTML
13	12 (0.67%)	Node.js
14	11 (0.61%)	SOAP
15	10 (0.56%)	MCollective
15	10 (0.56%)	Spring
16	9 (0.50%)	REST

Miscellaneous
1	342 (19.08%)	Data Centre
2	106 (5.92%)	Clustering
3	97 (5.41%)	Analytical Skills
4	66 (3.68%)	Computer Science
5	61 (3.40%)	Replication
6	56 (3.13%)	Management Information System
7	44 (2.46%)	Private Cloud
8	40 (2.23%)	Fat Client
8	40 (2.23%)	Thin Client
9	36 (2.01%)	Video Conferencing
10	32 (1.79%)	EMC VNX
11	29 (1.62%)	PKI
12	26 (1.45%)	VxBlock/Vblock
13	24 (1.34%)	Hybrid Cloud
14	23 (1.28%)	Blackberry
14	23 (1.28%)	Enterprise Storage
15	21 (1.17%)	Enterprise Software
16	20 (1.12%)	Client/Server
17	16 (0.89%)	Foreign Exchange (FX)
17	16 (0.89%)	NHS

Operating Systems
1	1085 (60.55%)	Windows
2	628 (35.04%)	Linux
3	577 (32.20%)	Windows Server
4	366 (20.42%)	Windows Server 2012
5	361 (20.15%)	Windows Server 2008
6	228 (12.72%)	Unix
7	208 (11.61%)	Windows 7
8	198 (11.05%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9	163 (9.10%)	Windows Server 2003
10	132 (7.37%)	CentOS
11	123 (6.86%)	Windows 10
12	79 (4.41%)	Solaris
13	67 (3.74%)	Ubuntu
14	59 (3.29%)	AIX
15	44 (2.46%)	SUSE
16	41 (2.29%)	Windows 8
17	25 (1.40%)	Windows Vista
18	24 (1.34%)	Oracle Linux
19	23 (1.28%)	SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
20	22 (1.23%)	Mac OS X

Processes & Methodologies
1	352 (19.64%)	ITIL
2	288 (16.07%)	DevOps
3	225 (12.56%)	Migration
4	209 (11.66%)	Agile Software Development
5	176 (9.82%)	Configuration Management
6	107 (5.97%)	Continuous Integration
7	98 (5.47%)	High Availability
7	98 (5.47%)	Project Management
8	97 (5.41%)	Disaster Recovery
8	97 (5.41%)	Open Source
8	97 (5.41%)	Service Management
8	97 (5.41%)	Virtual Environments
9	88 (4.91%)	Change Management
10	77 (4.30%)	Load Balancing
11	75 (4.19%)	ITIL V3
12	71 (3.96%)	Scrum
13	65 (3.63%)	Server Virtualisation
14	61 (3.40%)	Problem Management
15	57 (3.18%)	Incident Management
16	55 (3.07%)	Network Design

Programming Languages
1	304 (16.96%)	PowerShell
2	265 (14.79%)	SQL
3	183 (10.21%)	Python
4	131 (7.31%)	Bash Shell
5	116 (6.47%)	Java
6	114 (6.36%)	Perl
7	60 (3.35%)	Ruby
8	43 (2.40%)	VBScript
9	42 (2.34%)	Shell Script
10	30 (1.67%)	PHP
11	29 (1.62%)	C
11	29 (1.62%)	JavaScript
12	23 (1.28%)	C#
13	20 (1.12%)	Korn
14	16 (0.89%)	VB
15	11 (0.61%)	Go
16	8 (0.45%)	C++
17	6 (0.33%)	Groovy
18	5 (0.28%)	T-SQL
18	5 (0.28%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	366 (20.42%)	Security Cleared
2	268 (14.96%)	SC Cleared
3	166 (9.26%)	Microsoft Certification
4	135 (7.53%)	Cisco Certification
5	114 (6.36%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6	106 (5.92%)	MCSE
7	92 (5.13%)	DV Cleared
8	89 (4.97%)	Degree
9	82 (4.58%)	CCNA
10	78 (4.35%)	CCNP
11	51 (2.85%)	MCSA
12	44 (2.46%)	MCITP
13	42 (2.34%)	MCP
14	29 (1.62%)	Computer Science Degree
15	21 (1.17%)	Citrix Certification
16	20 (1.12%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
17	19 (1.06%)	ITIL Certification
18	16 (0.89%)	VCAP
18	16 (0.89%)	VCP6
19	14 (0.78%)	CCIE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	74 (4.13%)	SLA
2	27 (1.51%)	Disclosure Scotland
3	23 (1.28%)	QA
4	22 (1.23%)	ISO/IEC 27001
5	18 (1.00%)	PCI DSS
6	16 (0.89%)	JSP 440
7	7 (0.39%)	Sarbanes-Oxley
8	6 (0.33%)	GDPR
9	4 (0.22%)	HL7
9	4 (0.22%)	PMO
10	3 (0.17%)	COBIT
11	2 (0.11%)	Cyber Essentials
11	2 (0.11%)	Data Quality
11	2 (0.11%)	Def Stans
11	2 (0.11%)	GPG13
11	2 (0.11%)	ISO 9001
12	1 (0.056%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
12	1 (0.056%)	ISO 22301
12	1 (0.056%)	PMBOK
12	1 (0.056%)	Solvency II

System Software
1	715 (39.90%)	Active Directory
2	301 (16.80%)	Hyper-V
3	261 (14.56%)	VMware ESXi
4	229 (12.78%)	vSphere
5	128 (7.14%)	XenApp
6	118 (6.58%)	Virtual Machines
7	90 (5.02%)	XenDesktop
8	84 (4.69%)	Virtual Servers
9	83 (4.63%)	Docker
10	72 (4.02%)	Microsoft App-V
11	68 (3.79%)	KVM
12	65 (3.63%)	Xen
13	60 (3.35%)	Virtual Desktop
14	55 (3.07%)	vCloud
15	33 (1.84%)	XenServer
16	32 (1.79%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
16	32 (1.79%)	VMware Workstation
17	28 (1.56%)	VirtualBox
18	19 (1.06%)	Oracle RAC
19	16 (0.89%)	NFS

Systems Management
1	217 (12.11%)	SCCM
2	201 (11.22%)	Puppet
3	146 (8.15%)	Ansible
4	104 (5.80%)	vCenter Server
5	100 (5.58%)	Opscode Chef
6	93 (5.19%)	SCOM
7	58 (3.24%)	vRealize
8	57 (3.18%)	NetBackup
9	49 (2.73%)	Microsoft Clustering
10	40 (2.23%)	Nagios
11	34 (1.90%)	WSUS
12	29 (1.62%)	AirWatch
13	26 (1.45%)	Symantec Endpoint Protection
13	26 (1.45%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
13	26 (1.45%)	vMotion
14	25 (1.40%)	Norton AntiVirus
15	23 (1.28%)	OpenView Configuration Management
15	23 (1.28%)	PowerCLI
16	22 (1.23%)	EMC NetWorker
17	21 (1.17%)	ZABBIX

Vendors
1	1792 (100.00%)	VMware
2	639 (35.66%)	Microsoft
3	401 (22.38%)	Cisco
4	395 (22.04%)	Citrix
5	260 (14.51%)	HP
6	227 (12.67%)	Red Hat
7	173 (9.65%)	Oracle
8	138 (7.70%)	NetApp
9	137 (7.65%)	EMC
10	94 (5.25%)	IBM
11	90 (5.02%)	Dell
12	79 (4.41%)	Symantec
13	71 (3.96%)	F5
14	54 (3.01%)	Avaya
15	51 (2.85%)	McAfee
16	50 (2.79%)	Veeam
17	49 (2.73%)	Veritas
18	46 (2.57%)	CheckPoint
18	46 (2.57%)	Juniper
19	39 (2.18%)	AppSense