The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dell over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors for the Bristol 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Dell, Inc.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dell
Rank 48 58 47
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -11
Contract jobs citing Dell 2 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.375% 0.353% 0.310%
As % of the Vendors category 0.922% 1.132% 0.823%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Average daily rate £325 £125 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+160.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.63 £15.00 £15.50
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -3.22%
All Vendors
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
217 265 243
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 40.64% 31.18% 37.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 169 110
Average daily rate £325 £313 £348
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.00% -10.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £252 £160 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £515 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 20 19
Average hourly rate £17.00 £22.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-24.44% +40.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.00 £16.25 £11.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £25.20 £40.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Dell
South West

Dell
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Dell across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

Bristol Dell Jobs Demand Trend

Dell
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Dell Daily Rate Trend

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Dell Hourly Rate Trend

Dell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Dell 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 Dell.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) EqualLogic
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 2 (66.67%) SonicWALL
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) CommVault
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (33.33%) Service Management
3 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (33.33%) MCSE
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
3 1 (33.33%) VoIP

Dell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Dell 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 Dell. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
1 2 (66.67%) EqualLogic
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
1 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
1 1 (33.33%) Problem Management
1 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) MCP
1 1 (33.33%) MCSE
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
1 1 (33.33%) MCTS
1 1 (33.33%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) SCCM
1 2 (66.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) SonicWALL
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) CommVault
2 2 (66.67%) Red Hat
3 1 (33.33%) HP