The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EqualLogic in IT contracts advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EqualLogic over the 3 months to 24 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the Birmingham 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dell EqualLogic
Rank 41 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing EqualLogic 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.456% - -
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.247% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £125 £250 -
% change year-on-year
-50.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £18.00 -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
Birmingham
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
89 85 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Birmingham 20.27% 13.69% 16.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 38 43
Average daily rate £340 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+13.23% +0.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £158 £159
10% offered a daily rate of more than £459 £518 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 7
Average hourly rate £24.75 £15.00 £13.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+65.00% +15.38%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £12.62 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £78.40 £20.80 £61.51
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £26.00
% change year-on-year
- -13.46%
EqualLogic
West Midlands

EqualLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing EqualLogic 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 EqualLogic.

1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) S-PLUS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) VCP4
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp

EqualLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Birmingham region citing EqualLogic 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 EqualLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) S-PLUS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) MPLS
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Technical Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Consultant
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Consultant
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2012
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (50.00%) VCP4
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) XenServer
2 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Dell
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) SonicWALL
1 2 (100.00%) Veeam
2 1 (50.00%) WatchGuard
2 1 (50.00%) NetApp
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix