The first table below looks at the demand for Legato skills in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legato 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 Systems Management category for the Berkshire 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
EMC Legato
Rank - 133 122
Contract jobs citing Legato 0 4 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire - 0.131% 0.205%
As % of the Systems Management category - 2.410% 2.281%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 3
Average daily rate - - £280
UK excluding London average daily rate £288 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
-16.66% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £34.00
All Systems Management
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
195 166 263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 8.015% 5.416% 9.001%
Number of daily rates quoted 75 69 100
Average daily rate £354 £316 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.77% -2.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £168 £250 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £478 £450 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 11
Average hourly rate £20.50 £45.00 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-54.44% +12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £15.58 £16.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £45.00 £41.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Legato
South East

Legato
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Legato across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Berkshire Legato Jobs Demand Trend

Legato
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Legato across the Berkshire region.

Berkshire Legato Daily Rate Trend

Legato
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Legato Hourly Rate Trend

Legato
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Legato 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 Legato.

1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) NFS
2 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
2 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) SAN
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas
2 3 (75.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (50.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) Cisco
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) IPv6
4 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (25.00%) Dell
4 1 (25.00%) EMC
4 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
4 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
4 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (25.00%) ARCserve
4 1 (25.00%) Symantec
4 1 (25.00%) McAfee

Legato
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Legato 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 Legato. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (25.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) SAN
1 3 (75.00%) NAS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) IPv6
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) UNIX
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Product Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 1 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 1 (25.00%) ARCserve
2 1 (25.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Veritas
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (25.00%) Symantec
3 1 (25.00%) McAfee
3 1 (25.00%) Sophos
3 1 (25.00%) VMware
3 1 (25.00%) Dell
3 1 (25.00%) EMC
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco
3 1 (25.00%) IBM
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft