Buckinghamshire EMC Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services in IT contracts within the Buckinghamshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited EMC over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Kidlington Knutsford Lancashire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Reading Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Malling West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	73
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching contract IT job ads	7	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.408 %	2.360 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£407
% change on same period last year	-12.57 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£35.00	£33.00
Average hourly rate	£37.70	£33.00
% change on same period last year	+14.24 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£40.40	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.28	£34.34
% change on same period last year	-11.83 %
Vendors Buckinghamshire
Matching contract IT job ads	497	678
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.672 %	0.669 %
Daily rates quoted	133	157
Average minimum daily rate	£332	£300
Average daily rate	£346	£315
% change on same period last year	+9.88 %
Average maximum daily rate	£361	£331
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	81	88
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.57	£29.87
Average hourly rate	£22.85	£30.99
% change on same period last year	-26.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.13	£32.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.29	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-1.97 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the EMC Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EMC across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the Buckinghamshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC across the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Milton Keynes	+1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing EMC 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 EMC.

1 7 (43.75 %) Solaris 1 7 (43.75 %) UML 1 7 (43.75 %) C 1 7 (43.75 %) HNC 1 7 (43.75 %) Sun 1 7 (43.75 %) Electronics 1 7 (43.75 %) Aerospace 1 7 (43.75 %) Validation 1 7 (43.75 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 6 (37.50 %) HPUX 2 6 (37.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 2 6 (37.50 %) HP 2 6 (37.50 %) Unicenter 2 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 6 (37.50 %) IBM

3 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 2 (12.50 %) SAN 5 1 (6.250 %) CLARiiON 5 1 (6.250 %) Symmetrix 5 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 5 1 (6.250 %) Release Management 5 1 (6.250 %) Celerra 5 1 (6.250 %) Finance 5 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS 5 1 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 5 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script 5 1 (6.250 %) Remedy 5 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry 5 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 5 1 (6.250 %) Dell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing EMC 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 EMC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (6.250 %) SAS 1 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server	Communications & Networking 1 2 (12.50 %) SAN 2 1 (6.250 %) VPN 2 1 (6.250 %) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Discoverer	Development Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (6.250 %) Oracle Forms 1 1 (6.250 %) Rational Rose
General 1 7 (43.75 %) Electronics 1 7 (43.75 %) Aerospace 2 1 (6.250 %) Insurance 2 1 (6.250 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Integration Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Systems Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) Hardware Engineer 2 2 (12.50 %) UNIX Specialist 3 1 (6.250 %) Server Engineer 3 1 (6.250 %) Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Administrator 3 1 (6.250 %) Technical Lead 3 1 (6.250 %) SAN Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 7 (43.75 %) Field-Programmable Gate Array 2 1 (6.250 %) Celerra 2 1 (6.250 %) Blackberry 2 1 (6.250 %) CLARiiON 2 1 (6.250 %) Symmetrix	Operating Systems 1 7 (43.75 %) Solaris 2 6 (37.50 %) HPUX 3 4 (25.00 %) UNIX 4 1 (6.250 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (43.75 %) UML 1 7 (43.75 %) Validation 2 1 (6.250 %) Release Management	Programming Languages 1 7 (43.75 %) C 2 1 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) SQL 2 1 (6.250 %) VBScript 2 1 (6.250 %) VB 2 1 (6.250 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 7 (43.75 %) HNC	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (37.50 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software 1 1 (6.250 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 6 (37.50 %) Unicenter 1 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 2 1 (6.250 %) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors 1 7 (43.75 %) Sun 2 6 (37.50 %) HP 2 6 (37.50 %) IBM 3 1 (6.250 %) Microsoft 3 1 (6.250 %) Oracle 3 1 (6.250 %) Cisco 3 1 (6.250 %) Dell 3 1 (6.250 %) VERITAS 3 1 (6.250 %) Remedy