The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EMC 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 Midlands 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC
Rank 23 30 35
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +5
Contract jobs citing EMC 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 1.170% 0.366% 0.880%
As % of the Vendors category 2.326% 0.613% 1.442%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £325 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £368 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-8.12% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £30.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-12.29% -7.57%
All Vendors
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
86 163 208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 50.29% 59.71% 61.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 40
Average daily rate £375 £400 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -10.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £244
10% offered a daily rate of more than £640 £575 £580
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 39
Average hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +35.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
EMC
England

EMC
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands 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 Midlands region.

Midlands EMC Hourly Rate Trend

EMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 3 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
2 2 (66.67%) VCP5
2 2 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenApp
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (66.67%) Change Control
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) DHCP
2 2 (66.67%) DNS
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) ISA Server
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Altiris

EMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands 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 Platforms
1 2 (66.67%) Office Communications Server
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
1 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) DHCP
1 2 (66.67%) DNS
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Server Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Change Control
1 2 (66.67%) Business Continuity
1 2 (66.67%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) VCP5
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) XenApp
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 2 (66.67%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) SCOM
3 1 (33.33%) Legato
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) Veritas
1 2 (66.67%) Altiris