Hertfordshire Dell Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Dell over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury St Edmunds Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire City of London County Antrim Coventry Crewe Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dudley East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Ely England Essex Falkirk Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Great Yarmouth Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hounslow Hove Hull Inverness Kendal Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Redditch Scotland Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southall Southampton Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon Thames Valley Thurrock Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Witham Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	74	88
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	8	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	1.286 %	1.376 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£100
Average daily rate	-	£110
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£120
UK excluding London average daily rate	£226	£247
% change on same period last year	-8.59 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£16.78	£16.00
Average hourly rate	£16.98	£16.00
% change on same period last year	+6.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.18	£16.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.33	£18.23
% change on same period last year	+6.02 %
Vendors Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	622	727
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.829 %	0.725 %
Daily rates quoted	214	289
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£340
Average daily rate	£371	£360
% change on same period last year	+3.09 %
Average maximum daily rate	£392	£380
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£359
% change on same period last year	+0.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	83
Average minimum hourly rate	£27.18	£21.87
Average hourly rate	£28.08	£23.62
% change on same period last year	+18.87 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.99	£25.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.10	£24.81
% change on same period last year	-2.85 %
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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 Dell, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Dell across the Hertfordshire 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 Dell across the Hertfordshire 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 Dell across the Hertfordshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dell across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Watford	-	4	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (58.33 %) HP 2 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 7 (29.17 %) Symantec 3 7 (29.17 %) Norton AntiVirus 4 6 (25.00 %) Windows 5 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 5 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 5 5 (20.83 %) EMC 6 4 (16.67 %) VPN 6 4 (16.67 %) IBM 6 4 (16.67 %) Internet 6 4 (16.67 %) VERITAS 6 4 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 6 4 (16.67 %) Firewall 6 4 (16.67 %) Windows Vista

7 3 (12.50 %) VMware 7 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 8 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory 8 2 (8.333 %) OpenView 8 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 8 2 (8.333 %) PMP 8 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification 8 2 (8.333 %) SAN 8 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 8 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 8 2 (8.333 %) Thin Client 8 2 (8.333 %) Wyse 8 2 (8.333 %) Government 8 2 (8.333 %) Replication 8 2 (8.333 %) CMDB

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 5 (20.83 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (4.167 %) BizTalk Server 2 1 (4.167 %) Exchange Server 2003	Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 2 2 (8.333 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (16.67 %) VPN 1 4 (16.67 %) Internet 1 4 (16.67 %) Firewall 2 2 (8.333 %) SAN 3 1 (4.167 %) Wireless 3 1 (4.167 %) DHCP	General 1 2 (8.333 %) Government
Job Titles 1 12 (50.00 %) Desktop Support 1 12 (50.00 %) Desktop Engineer 2 11 (45.83 %) Support Engineer 3 8 (33.33 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 4 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 4 4 (16.67 %) Analyst 4 4 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer 5 3 (12.50 %) Infrastructure Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Project Manager 6 2 (8.333 %) PC Support 6 2 (8.333 %) PC Support Engineer 6 2 (8.333 %) PC Engineer 7 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support Engineer 7 1 (4.167 %) Server Support Engineer 7 1 (4.167 %) Desktop Analyst 7 1 (4.167 %) Server Engineer 7 1 (4.167 %) 2nd Line Support 7 1 (4.167 %) Senior Project Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Desktop Support Analyst 7 1 (4.167 %) Senior Manager	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Thin Client 1 2 (8.333 %) Replication 1 2 (8.333 %) CMDB 1 2 (8.333 %) Fat Client
Operating Systems 1 6 (25.00 %) Windows 2 4 (16.67 %) Windows Vista 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows XP 3 1 (4.167 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (8.333 %) PRINCE2 1 2 (8.333 %) Logistics
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) C 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) PMP 1 2 (8.333 %) PMI Certification
System Software 1 2 (8.333 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 7 (29.17 %) Norton AntiVirus 2 2 (8.333 %) OpenView
Vendors 1 14 (58.33 %) HP 2 8 (33.33 %) Microsoft 3 7 (29.17 %) Symantec 4 5 (20.83 %) EMC 5 4 (16.67 %) IBM 5 4 (16.67 %) VERITAS 5 4 (16.67 %) CheckPoint 6 3 (12.50 %) Cisco 6 3 (12.50 %) VMware 7 2 (8.333 %) Altiris 7 2 (8.333 %) Citrix 7 2 (8.333 %) Wyse