Sheffield EMC Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services in IT contracts within the Sheffield region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited EMC over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barrow-in-Furness Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Farnborough Feltham Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Lewisham Liverpool London Malvern Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	25	27
Rank change on same period last year	+2
Matching contract IT job ads	9	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	5.769 %	4.651 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£300	-
Average daily rate	£300	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£300	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£393	£416
% change on same period last year	-5.53 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£30.14	£32.67
Average hourly rate	£30.21	£32.83
% change on same period last year	-7.97 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.29	£33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£31.67	£34.39
% change on same period last year	-7.89 %
Vendors Sheffield
Matching contract IT job ads	156	129
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.206 %	0.137 %
Daily rates quoted	30	26
Average minimum daily rate	£301	£332
Average daily rate	£309	£345
% change on same period last year	-10.18 %
Average maximum daily rate	£318	£357
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£356
% change on same period last year	+1.15 %
Hourly rates quoted	47	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£21.01
Average hourly rate	£26.95	£21.68
% change on same period last year	+24.28 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£27.32	£22.35
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.91	£25.10
% change on same period last year	-8.72 %
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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 the EMC Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the Sheffield 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 EMC across the Sheffield 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 EMC across the Sheffield region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC across the Sheffield region over the 3 months to 4 July 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 28 (84.85 %) SAN 2 27 (81.82 %) Unix 3 23 (69.70 %) VERITAS 4 22 (66.67 %) Solaris 5 21 (63.64 %) Sun 6 17 (51.52 %) HPUX 7 13 (39.39 %) Linux 8 12 (36.36 %) Cisco 8 12 (36.36 %) Brocade 9 11 (33.33 %) AIX 9 11 (33.33 %) NFS 9 11 (33.33 %) Change Management 10 10 (30.30 %) HP 11 9 (27.27 %) NetBackup 12 8 (24.24 %) ITSM

12 8 (24.24 %) OpenView 12 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 13 6 (18.18 %) Windows 13 6 (18.18 %) NetApp 14 3 (9.091 %) Finance 14 3 (9.091 %) Legal 14 3 (9.091 %) HP Data Protector 14 3 (9.091 %) ITIL 15 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 15 2 (6.061 %) Lotus Notes 15 2 (6.061 %) Lotus Domino 15 2 (6.061 %) Informix 15 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 8/8i 15 2 (6.061 %) MS Exchange 15 2 (6.061 %) Service Management

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Sheffield 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 (6.061 %) Lotus Notes 1 2 (6.061 %) Lotus Domino 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Exchange	Communications & Networking 1 28 (84.85 %) SAN 2 2 (6.061 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (6.061 %) SQL Server 1 2 (6.061 %) Informix 1 2 (6.061 %) Oracle 8/8i	General 1 3 (9.091 %) Finance 1 3 (9.091 %) Legal 2 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 14 (42.42 %) Support Engineer 2 5 (15.15 %) 2nd Line Support 3 4 (12.12 %) Project Engineer 4 3 (9.091 %) Storage Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Support Analyst 4 3 (9.091 %) Solaris Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Administrator 4 3 (9.091 %) Analyst 5 2 (6.061 %) Systems Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) UNIX Administrator 5 2 (6.061 %) EMC Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Storage Engineer 5 2 (6.061 %) Solaris Systems Administrator 6 1 (3.030 %) UNIX Specialist 6 1 (3.030 %) UNIX Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) 3rd Line Support	Operating Systems 1 27 (81.82 %) Unix 2 22 (66.67 %) Solaris 3 17 (51.52 %) HPUX 4 13 (39.39 %) Linux 5 11 (33.33 %) AIX 6 6 (18.18 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Change Management 2 8 (24.24 %) ITSM 3 3 (9.091 %) ITIL 4 2 (6.061 %) Service Management	Qualifications 1 2 (6.061 %) SNIA Certification 2 1 (3.030 %) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (3.030 %) SLA	System Software 1 11 (33.33 %) NFS 2 9 (27.27 %) NetBackup
Systems Management 1 8 (24.24 %) OpenView 2 3 (9.091 %) HP Data Protector 3 2 (6.061 %) Legato 3 2 (6.061 %) OVPA	Vendors 1 23 (69.70 %) VERITAS 2 21 (63.64 %) Sun 3 12 (36.36 %) Cisco 3 12 (36.36 %) Brocade 4 10 (30.30 %) HP 5 8 (24.24 %) Oracle 6 6 (18.18 %) NetApp 7 2 (6.061 %) Lotus