The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridge 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 Cambridge 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 - 45 31
Contract jobs citing Dell 0 4 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge - 0.957% 0.400%
As % of the Vendors category - 2.353% 1.176%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £160 -
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
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
161 170 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.08% 40.67% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 81 36
Average daily rate £300 £303 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.82% -6.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 17 15
Average hourly rate £22.45 £41.25 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.57% +205.55%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.75 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £47.50 £31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Dell
Cambridgeshire

Dell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Dell Hourly Rate Trend

Dell
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Service Management
2 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (25.00%) EMC
2 2 (25.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) SAN
2 2 (25.00%) CLARiiON
2 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (25.00%) PureDisk
2 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
3 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Xen
3 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
3 1 (12.50%) Project Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Active Directory

Dell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge 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 Development
1 1 (12.50%) Application Packaging
Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 2 (25.00%) IT Assistant
1 2 (25.00%) Help Desk Assistant
2 1 (12.50%) Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Applications Packager
2 1 (12.50%) Service Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (12.50%) Senior Desktop Support
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) CLARiiON
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
2 2 (25.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (12.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Service Management
1 2 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Requirements Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Software Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) Project Management
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft App-V
1 1 (12.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) NetBackup
1 2 (25.00%) PureDisk
2 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) HP
1 2 (25.00%) EMC
1 2 (25.00%) Citrix
1 2 (25.00%) 3PAR
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft