The first table below looks at the demand for Legato skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Legato over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Systems Management category 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Legato
Rank 357 403 424
Rank change year-on-year
+46 +21
Contract jobs citing Legato 20 12 18
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.092% 0.045% 0.058%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.565% 0.795% 1.215%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 9 12
Average daily rate £373 £425 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.35% -15.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £345 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.69% +6.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £25.50 - £17.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £34.00
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1278 1509 1482
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.901% 5.602% 4.769%
Number of daily rates quoted 852 851 845
Average daily rate £420 £375 £414
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.00% -9.36%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £250 £267
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £501 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 39 68
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.60 £15.45 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £33.65 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
Legato
England

Legato
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Legato Jobs Demand Trend

Legato
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Legato Daily Rate Trend

Legato
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Legato Hourly Rate Trend

Legato
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Legato within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 +19 6 £395 -18.97%
Legato
England

Legato
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Legato 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 Legato.

1 34 (75.56%) NetBackup
2 33 (73.33%) SAN
3 32 (71.11%) HP
4 30 (66.67%) IBM
5 29 (64.44%) Windows
6 28 (62.22%) Dell
7 24 (53.33%) Veritas
8 23 (51.11%) Backup Exec
8 23 (51.11%) VMware
9 22 (48.89%) Windows Server 2003
9 22 (48.89%) McAfee
10 20 (44.44%) Clustering
10 20 (44.44%) SCOM
11 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
11 19 (42.22%) IIS
11 19 (42.22%) Windows 2000
12 18 (40.00%) EMC
12 18 (40.00%) Citrix
13 17 (37.78%) VMware Infrastructure
13 17 (37.78%) XenApp
14 16 (35.56%) NAS
14 16 (35.56%) vSphere
15 15 (33.33%) Leostream
15 15 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
15 15 (33.33%) PlateSpin
15 15 (33.33%) VMware ESX
15 15 (33.33%) BMC
15 15 (33.33%) Sophos
15 15 (33.33%) Internet
15 15 (33.33%) ADSI

Legato
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Legato 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 Legato. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (33.33%) ADSI
1 15 (33.33%) .NET
1 15 (33.33%) ASP.NET
1 15 (33.33%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 19 (42.22%) IIS
2 15 (33.33%) Apache
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle Application Server
4 3 (6.667%) Exchange Server 2010
4 3 (6.667%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MS Project
1 1 (2.222%) MS Office
1 1 (2.222%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 33 (73.33%) SAN
2 16 (35.56%) NAS
3 15 (33.33%) Internet
3 15 (33.33%) FTP
4 10 (22.22%) VPN
4 10 (22.22%) Firewall
5 7 (15.56%) BIG-IP
6 6 (13.33%) DNS
6 6 (13.33%) DHCP
7 2 (4.444%) NetScaler
8 1 (2.222%) LAN
8 1 (2.222%) SMS
8 1 (2.222%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.889%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (8.889%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (15.56%) Banking
2 2 (4.444%) Finance
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 13 (28.89%) Storage Engineer
3 7 (15.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (11.11%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.889%) Oracle DBA
5 4 (8.889%) Administrator
5 4 (8.889%) DBA
6 3 (6.667%) Server Support
7 2 (4.444%) Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) Storage Consultant
7 2 (4.444%) Senior Storage Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) Citrix Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Support Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Backup Administrator
8 1 (2.222%) Wintel Support Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) 3rd Line Support
8 1 (2.222%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Windows Support Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Windows Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Clustering
2 9 (20.00%) Celerra
2 9 (20.00%) Symmetrix DMX
2 9 (20.00%) CLARiiON
2 9 (20.00%) Symmetrix
3 6 (13.33%) Computer Science
4 2 (4.444%) Replication
5 1 (2.222%) Firmware
5 1 (2.222%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 29 (64.44%) Windows
2 22 (48.89%) Windows Server 2003
3 19 (42.22%) Windows 2000
4 15 (33.33%) Windows NT
4 15 (33.33%) Windows XP
5 13 (28.89%) Solaris
6 11 (24.44%) Linux
7 10 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 8 (17.78%) Windows Server 2008
9 6 (13.33%) UNIX
10 3 (6.667%) Windows 2000 Server
11 1 (2.222%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (17.78%) Capacity Management
2 6 (13.33%) ITIL
3 4 (8.889%) Data Management
3 4 (8.889%) Migration
3 4 (8.889%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (8.889%) Configuration Management
3 4 (8.889%) Root Cause Analysis
4 3 (6.667%) Data Modelling
4 3 (6.667%) Network Load Balancing
5 2 (4.444%) Service Management
5 2 (4.444%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (2.222%) High Availability
6 1 (2.222%) Project Management
6 1 (2.222%) Data Protection
6 1 (2.222%) Operations Management
6 1 (2.222%) Validation
6 1 (2.222%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (2.222%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (26.67%) VB
2 11 (24.44%) VBScript
3 10 (22.22%) SQL
4 1 (2.222%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (13.33%) Degree
2 4 (8.889%) MCSE
2 4 (8.889%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (6.667%) NCDA
4 2 (4.444%) MCITP
4 2 (4.444%) MCSA
4 2 (4.444%) MCP
5 1 (2.222%) EMC Certification
5 1 (2.222%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.222%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 17 (37.78%) XenApp
2 16 (35.56%) vSphere
3 15 (33.33%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 15 (33.33%) VMware ESX
4 7 (15.56%) ProxySG
5 4 (8.889%) Oracle RMAN
5 4 (8.889%) Oracle RAC
5 4 (8.889%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (6.667%) Active Directory
7 1 (2.222%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 34 (75.56%) NetBackup
2 23 (51.11%) Backup Exec
3 20 (44.44%) SCOM
4 9 (20.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 7 (15.56%) SCCM
5 7 (15.56%) EMC NetWorker
6 6 (13.33%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (8.889%) HP SIM
8 3 (6.667%) BMC PATROL
8 3 (6.667%) Foglight
9 2 (4.444%) Data Guard
9 2 (4.444%) Tivoli
10 1 (2.222%) Norton AntiVirus
10 1 (2.222%) OpenView
10 1 (2.222%) WSUS
10 1 (2.222%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 32 (71.11%) HP
2 30 (66.67%) IBM
3 28 (62.22%) Dell
4 24 (53.33%) Veritas
5 23 (51.11%) VMware
6 22 (48.89%) McAfee
7 19 (42.22%) Microsoft
8 18 (40.00%) EMC
8 18 (40.00%) Citrix
9 15 (33.33%) Leostream
9 15 (33.33%) PlateSpin
9 15 (33.33%) BMC
9 15 (33.33%) Sophos
10 11 (24.44%) Oracle
11 10 (22.22%) Red Hat
12 9 (20.00%) NetApp
13 7 (15.56%) F5
13 7 (15.56%) Blue Coat
13 7 (15.56%) Cisco
13 7 (15.56%) Sun