The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Unisys 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 Unisys 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 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 the Unisys Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unisys
Rank 375 411 437
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +26
Contract jobs citing Unisys 2 4 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.015% 0.016%
As % of the Vendors category 0.021% 0.033% 0.036%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £400 £450 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £403 £438
% change year-on-year
-3.72% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
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 287 296 406
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 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Unisys
England

Unisys
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Unisys Jobs Demand Trend

Unisys
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Unisys Daily Rate Trend

Unisys
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Unisys Hourly Rate Trend

Unisys
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unisys 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 +15 1 - -
Unisys
England

Unisys
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
3 8 (61.54%) Teradata
3 8 (61.54%) TOGAF
3 8 (61.54%) DB2
3 8 (61.54%) HP
4 6 (46.15%) Sun
4 6 (46.15%) zOS
5 4 (30.77%) AIX
5 4 (30.77%) HPUX
5 4 (30.77%) Solaris
5 4 (30.77%) Linux
6 3 (23.08%) Finance
6 3 (23.08%) Banking
6 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
6 3 (23.08%) Zachman Framework
6 3 (23.08%) MS Office
6 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
6 3 (23.08%) MS Visio
6 3 (23.08%) IBM
7 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
7 2 (15.38%) WSDL
7 2 (15.38%) MS Access
7 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
7 2 (15.38%) IIS
7 2 (15.38%) Plumtree
7 2 (15.38%) Lotus
7 2 (15.38%) ASP
7 2 (15.38%) JSP
7 2 (15.38%) XML

Unisys
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (15.38%) WSDL
1 2 (15.38%) ASP
1 2 (15.38%) JSP
1 2 (15.38%) XML
1 2 (15.38%) XSL
1 2 (15.38%) ODBC
1 2 (15.38%) HTML
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) J2EE
1 2 (15.38%) Middleware
1 2 (15.38%) FIXML
1 2 (15.38%) OLE DB
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere
1 2 (15.38%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 2 (15.38%) SharePoint
1 2 (15.38%) IIS
1 2 (15.38%) Apache
1 2 (15.38%) Tomcat
1 2 (15.38%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (15.38%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (23.08%) MS Office
1 3 (23.08%) MS Excel
1 3 (23.08%) MS Visio
2 1 (7.692%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (61.54%) DB2
2 2 (15.38%) MS Access
2 2 (15.38%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) WinDbg
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Banking
2 2 (15.38%) Back Office
3 1 (7.692%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Architect
1 8 (61.54%) Infrastructure Architect
2 4 (30.77%) Mainframe Architect
3 3 (23.08%) Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 2 (15.38%) Applications Support
5 1 (7.692%) Middleware Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) Middleware Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (7.692%) Systems Analyst
5 1 (7.692%) DBA
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 2 (15.38%) SWIFT
3 1 (7.692%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (7.692%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) zOS
2 4 (30.77%) AIX
2 4 (30.77%) HPUX
2 4 (30.77%) Solaris
2 4 (30.77%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) Windows
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (15.38%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (7.692%) OS/390
4 1 (7.692%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (61.54%) TOGAF
3 3 (23.08%) Asset Management
3 3 (23.08%) Zachman Framework
4 2 (15.38%) Document Management
5 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (7.692%) Critical Path Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) Java
1 2 (15.38%) JavaScript
1 2 (15.38%) SQL
1 2 (15.38%) VBScript
2 1 (7.692%) ALGOL
2 1 (7.692%) JCL
2 1 (7.692%) COBOL
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (61.54%) Teradata
1 8 (61.54%) HP
2 6 (46.15%) Sun
3 3 (23.08%) IBM
4 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
4 2 (15.38%) Plumtree
4 2 (15.38%) Lotus
4 2 (15.38%) JBoss
4 2 (15.38%) Oracle