The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC 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 EMC over the 3 months to 21 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 the EMC Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC
Rank 72 81 66
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -15
Contract jobs citing EMC 1 8 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.106% 0.615% 0.793%
As % of the Vendors category 0.265% 1.221% 1.961%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 5
Average daily rate - £148 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -32.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £364 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.06% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Average hourly rate - £17.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £30.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-12.29% -7.57%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
378 655 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.04% 50.38% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 297 167
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 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 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 £12.50 £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 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
EMC
North West

EMC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester EMC Jobs Demand Trend

EMC
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester EMC Daily Rate Trend

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester EMC Hourly Rate Trend

EMC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 21 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
Wigan - 1 - -
EMC
North West

EMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing EMC 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 EMC.

1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (57.14%) Cisco
4 3 (42.86%) ITIL
4 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
4 3 (42.86%) HP
4 3 (42.86%) CLARiiON
5 2 (28.57%) Firewall
5 2 (28.57%) Brocade
5 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
5 2 (28.57%) vSphere
5 2 (28.57%) Dell
5 2 (28.57%) VPN
5 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (28.57%) IBM
5 2 (28.57%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) Linux
6 1 (14.29%) MCSE
6 1 (14.29%) MCSA
6 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
6 1 (14.29%) SQL
6 1 (14.29%) VBScript
6 1 (14.29%) VB
6 1 (14.29%) Oracle

EMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing EMC 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 EMC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (42.86%) MS Exchange
2 2 (28.57%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
1 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) SAN
2 2 (28.57%) Firewall
2 2 (28.57%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 1 (14.29%) Ethernet
3 1 (14.29%) LAN
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco PIX
3 1 (14.29%) Wireless
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (28.57%) Windows Server Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Server Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Technical Support
3 1 (14.29%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Server Support Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) CLARiiON
2 1 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
2 1 (14.29%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (28.57%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Vista
4 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE2
2 1 (14.29%) PRINCE
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Service Management
2 1 (14.29%) Change Management
2 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) VBScript
1 1 (14.29%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
1 1 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (14.29%) CCNP
1 1 (14.29%) CCNA
System Software
1 4 (57.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (28.57%) Hyper-V
2 2 (28.57%) vSphere
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) NetBackup
1 1 (14.29%) SCCM
1 1 (14.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) VMware
2 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
3 3 (42.86%) HP
4 2 (28.57%) Brocade
4 2 (28.57%) Dell
4 2 (28.57%) IBM
5 1 (14.29%) Oracle
5 1 (14.29%) Websense
5 1 (14.29%) Red Hat
5 1 (14.29%) Intel
5 1 (14.29%) Citrix
5 1 (14.29%) Sun
5 1 (14.29%) SurfControl