The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Hitachi products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Hitachi over the 3 months to 23 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 London 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 Hitachi Ltd.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hitachi
Rank 363 397 390
Rank change year-on-year
+34 -7
Contract jobs citing Hitachi 14 13 45
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.048% 0.142%
As % of the Vendors category 0.144% 0.108% 0.315%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 40
Average daily rate £425 £475 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.52% +11.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £352 £299
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £863 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £444 £390 £375
% change year-on-year
+13.78% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £16.93
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year
- +25.00%
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9754 11998 14306
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.08% 44.55% 45.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6142 7276 8648
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £265 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 287 296 409
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.73 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Hitachi
England

Hitachi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Hitachi Jobs Demand Trend

Hitachi
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Hitachi Daily Rate Trend

Hitachi
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hitachi across the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

London Hitachi Daily Rate Histogram

Hitachi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Hitachi Hourly Rate Trend

Hitachi
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hitachi within the London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +16 1 £425 -10.52%
Hitachi
England

Hitachi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Hitachi 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 Hitachi.

1 14 (66.67%) SAN
2 11 (52.38%) EMC
3 10 (47.62%) NetApp
3 10 (47.62%) NAS
4 8 (38.10%) VMware
5 7 (33.33%) Cisco
5 7 (33.33%) Windows
5 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
5 7 (33.33%) Brocade
6 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
7 4 (19.05%) HP
7 4 (19.05%) Finance
7 4 (19.05%) Oracle
7 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
8 3 (14.29%) Data Management
8 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
8 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
8 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
8 3 (14.29%) AIX
8 3 (14.29%) UNIX
8 3 (14.29%) Linux
8 3 (14.29%) MS Exchange
8 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
8 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
8 3 (14.29%) Migration
8 3 (14.29%) Change Management
8 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
8 3 (14.29%) Banking

Hitachi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Hitachi 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 Hitachi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) .NET
2 1 (4.762%) Web Services
2 1 (4.762%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
1 3 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 2 (9.524%) SharePoint
2 2 (9.524%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Project
1 1 (4.762%) MS Office
1 1 (4.762%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 14 (66.67%) SAN
2 10 (47.62%) NAS
3 4 (19.05%) Fibre Channel
4 3 (14.29%) iSCSI
5 2 (9.524%) TCP/IP
6 1 (4.762%) LAN
6 1 (4.762%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.524%) Oracle 8/8i
1 2 (9.524%) SQL Server
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 3 (14.29%) Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Storage Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Consultant
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Administrator
3 2 (9.524%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Enterprise Architect
3 2 (9.524%) Storage Consultant
3 2 (9.524%) Storage Administrator
3 2 (9.524%) Microsoft Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Backup Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) SAN Storage Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Microsoft Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Strategy Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Linux Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Strategy Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Senior Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (14.29%) Hedge funds
2 1 (4.762%) LPAR
2 1 (4.762%) Symmetrix DMX
2 1 (4.762%) HP StorageWorks
2 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.762%) Firmware
2 1 (4.762%) CLARiiON
2 1 (4.762%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 5 (23.81%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (14.29%) AIX
3 3 (14.29%) UNIX
3 3 (14.29%) Linux
4 2 (9.524%) Solaris
4 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
4 2 (9.524%) Windows 8
5 1 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (4.762%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (14.29%) Data Management
1 3 (14.29%) TOGAF
1 3 (14.29%) Migration
1 3 (14.29%) Change Management
2 2 (9.524%) Capacity Management
3 1 (4.762%) Project Governance
3 1 (4.762%) Data Migration
3 1 (4.762%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.762%) ITIL
3 1 (4.762%) CRM
3 1 (4.762%) Risk Management
3 1 (4.762%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (4.762%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.524%) SQL
2 1 (4.762%) Perl
2 1 (4.762%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (4.762%) NCDA
1 1 (4.762%) NCIE
1 1 (4.762%) HP ASE
1 1 (4.762%) HP MASE
1 1 (4.762%) EMC Certification
System Software
1 7 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 2 (9.524%) NDS
3 2 (9.524%) XenApp
3 2 (9.524%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (9.524%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (9.524%) Hyper-V
4 1 (4.762%) XenServer
4 1 (4.762%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 1 (4.762%) Veritas Cluster Server
4 1 (4.762%) vSphere
4 1 (4.762%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) NetBackup
2 1 (4.762%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (4.762%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (4.762%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (4.762%) PureDisk
2 1 (4.762%) Legato
2 1 (4.762%) Backup Exec
2 1 (4.762%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 11 (52.38%) EMC
2 10 (47.62%) NetApp
3 8 (38.10%) VMware
4 7 (33.33%) Cisco
4 7 (33.33%) Brocade
5 4 (19.05%) HP
5 4 (19.05%) Oracle
6 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 3 (14.29%) Citrix
6 3 (14.29%) Symantec
7 2 (9.524%) Novell
7 2 (9.524%) Veritas
7 2 (9.524%) IBM
7 2 (9.524%) SAP
8 1 (4.762%) 3PAR
8 1 (4.762%) Sun
8 1 (4.762%) SGI