The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dell over the 3 months to 22 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 Manchester 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dell
Rank - 86 67
Contract jobs citing Dell 0 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.152% 0.195%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.303% 0.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Average daily rate - £190 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -65.45%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £325
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £17.50 £11.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +59.09%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £15.58 £15.13
% change year-on-year
-2.08% +2.97%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
383 661 420
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.66% 50.34% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 295 172
Average daily rate £320 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £467 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +29.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.10 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Dell
North West

Dell
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Dell Hourly Rate Trend

Dell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) WAN
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
2 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (42.86%) SLA
3 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (42.86%) Dell Certification
3 3 (42.86%) SAN
3 3 (42.86%) MCSA
3 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
3 3 (42.86%) MCP
3 3 (42.86%) LAN
3 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
4 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
4 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 2 (28.57%) EMC
4 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (28.57%) Clustering
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
5 1 (14.29%) Wyse
5 1 (14.29%) SurfControl
5 1 (14.29%) SUSE
5 1 (14.29%) Replication
5 1 (14.29%) NetBackup

Dell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 (14.29%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) MS Exchange
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) WAN
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) SAN
2 3 (42.86%) LAN
2 3 (42.86%) TCP/IP
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) MS Access
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) 2nd Line Support
1 3 (42.86%) Desktop Support
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) SQL DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Teradata DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) DBA
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Clustering
2 1 (14.29%) Replication
2 1 (14.29%) Fat Client
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Thin Client
2 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (71.43%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (42.86%) Windows XP
4 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (14.29%) SUSE
5 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
5 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (28.57%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (14.29%) Information Security
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) High Availability
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
1 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Certification
1 3 (42.86%) Dell Certification
1 3 (42.86%) MCSA
1 3 (42.86%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) SLA
2 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) XenApp
3 1 (14.29%) XenDesktop
3 1 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
1 4 (57.14%) Citrix
1 4 (57.14%) VMware
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 2 (28.57%) EMC
3 1 (14.29%) Wyse
3 1 (14.29%) SurfControl
3 1 (14.29%) Intel
3 1 (14.29%) Websense
3 1 (14.29%) Sun