North West Dell Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts within the North West region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Dell over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Amersham Belfast Berkshire Birkenhead Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Carlisle Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Dundee Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Ely England Essex Falkirk Fareham Gateshead Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Highlands Hove Hull Inverness Kent King's Lynn Kingswinford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Loughborough Macclesfield Maidstone Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Scotland Scottish Borders Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West Southall Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Westminster Weston-super-Mare Wiltshire Windsor Witham Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	129
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching contract IT job ads	17	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.017 %
As % of the category below	1.131 %	0.884 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£200
Average daily rate	-	£200
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£200
UK excluding London average daily rate	£204	£250
% change on same period last year	-18.71 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	7
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.88	£16.29
Average hourly rate	£23.18	£17.86
% change on same period last year	+29.82 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.49	£19.43
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£19.20	£18.35
% change on same period last year	+4.62 %
Vendors North West
Matching contract IT job ads	1503	1923
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.125 %	1.947 %
Daily rates quoted	312	413
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£320
Average daily rate	£354	£339
% change on same period last year	+4.49 %
Average maximum daily rate	£371	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.64 %
Hourly rates quoted	215	197
Average minimum hourly rate	£21.52	£20.05
Average hourly rate	£22.88	£21.53
% change on same period last year	+6.29 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.25	£23.01
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.34
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Dell, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Dell across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Dell across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Dell across the North West region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Dell across the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Dell within the North West region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cheshire	+10	7	-	-
Manchester	+1	4	-	-
Lancashire	+4	2	-	-
Merseyside	-3	2	-	-
Cumbria	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 28 (71.79 %) Windows 2 20 (51.28 %) HP 2 20 (51.28 %) Windows Server 2003 3 16 (41.03 %) Microsoft 4 15 (38.46 %) Active Directory 5 14 (35.90 %) SAN 6 13 (33.33 %) Windows NT 7 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 8 6 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 8 6 (15.38 %) MS Office 9 5 (12.82 %) IBM 9 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 9 5 (12.82 %) Linux 10 4 (10.26 %) Security Cleared 10 4 (10.26 %) SLA

10 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 10 4 (10.26 %) AIX 10 4 (10.26 %) Microsoft Certification 11 3 (7.692 %) Finance 11 3 (7.692 %) Citrix 11 3 (7.692 %) Terminal Services 11 3 (7.692 %) IIS 11 3 (7.692 %) UNIX 11 3 (7.692 %) ATL 11 3 (7.692 %) SQL 11 3 (7.692 %) Windows XP 11 3 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 11 3 (7.692 %) Brocade 11 3 (7.692 %) NetBackup 12 2 (5.128 %) Asset Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 3 (7.692 %) ATL	Application Platforms 1 3 (7.692 %) IIS 2 2 (5.128 %) Apache 2 2 (5.128 %) MS Exchange 3 1 (2.564 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 1 (2.564 %) Lotus Notes
Applications 1 6 (15.38 %) MS Office 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Excel 2 1 (2.564 %) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 14 (35.90 %) SAN 2 2 (5.128 %) DNS 2 2 (5.128 %) DHCP 3 1 (2.564 %) Ethernet 3 1 (2.564 %) TCP/IP 3 1 (2.564 %) LAN 3 1 (2.564 %) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (12.82 %) SQL Server 2 2 (5.128 %) MySQL 3 1 (2.564 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (2.564 %) TOAD 3 1 (2.564 %) Crystal Enterprise 3 1 (2.564 %) BusinessObjects	General 1 3 (7.692 %) Finance 2 2 (5.128 %) Pharmaceutical 3 1 (2.564 %) Financial Institution 3 1 (2.564 %) Health 3 1 (2.564 %) Home Office 3 1 (2.564 %) Banking 3 1 (2.564 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 6 (15.38 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (12.82 %) Infrastructure Specialist 2 5 (12.82 %) Security Specialist 3 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Engineer 3 4 (10.26 %) Desktop Support 3 4 (10.26 %) Consultant 4 3 (7.692 %) Desktop Support Engineer 4 3 (7.692 %) 3rd Line Support 4 3 (7.692 %) Infrastructure Consultant 4 3 (7.692 %) Break Fix Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) Active Directory Specialist 5 2 (5.128 %) MySQL Developer 5 2 (5.128 %) Server Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) 2nd Line Support 5 2 (5.128 %) Hardware Engineer 5 2 (5.128 %) Developer 5 2 (5.128 %) Analyst 6 1 (2.564 %) IT Consultant 6 1 (2.564 %) Systems Administrator 6 1 (2.564 %) Network Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.128 %) NHS 1 2 (5.128 %) Replication 2 1 (2.564 %) Statistics 2 1 (2.564 %) NPfIT
Operating Systems 1 28 (71.79 %) Windows 2 20 (51.28 %) Windows Server 2003 3 13 (33.33 %) Windows NT 4 10 (25.64 %) Windows 2000 Server 5 6 (15.38 %) Windows 2000 6 5 (12.82 %) Linux 7 4 (10.26 %) AIX 8 3 (7.692 %) UNIX 8 3 (7.692 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (10.26 %) Security Cleared 2 3 (7.692 %) SC Cleared 3 2 (5.128 %) Project Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Change Management 3 2 (5.128 %) Asset Management 4 1 (2.564 %) Incident Management
Programming Languages 1 3 (7.692 %) SQL 2 2 (5.128 %) Perl 3 1 (2.564 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 4 (10.26 %) MCSE 1 4 (10.26 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) Dell Certification 2 2 (5.128 %) MCP 3 1 (2.564 %) DCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (10.26 %) SLA	System Software 1 15 (38.46 %) Active Directory 2 3 (7.692 %) Terminal Services 2 3 (7.692 %) NetBackup 3 1 (2.564 %) Backup Exec
Systems Management 1 2 (5.128 %) MOM 2 1 (2.564 %) Oracle Enterprise Manager	Vendors 1 20 (51.28 %) HP 2 16 (41.03 %) Microsoft 3 5 (12.82 %) IBM 4 3 (7.692 %) Citrix 4 3 (7.692 %) Brocade 5 2 (5.128 %) iSOFT 5 2 (5.128 %) Symantec 5 2 (5.128 %) Toshiba 6 1 (2.564 %) Lotus 6 1 (2.564 %) Oracle 6 1 (2.564 %) Business Objects 6 1 (2.564 %) Fujitsu