The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Symmetrix in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symmetrix 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 terms in our Miscellaneous category for the South East 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.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Symmetrix
Rank 228 245 241
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -4
Contract jobs citing Symmetrix 1 1 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.013% 0.010% 0.010%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.063% 0.051% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
Average daily rate £500 £318 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+57.48% -20.62%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £350 £425
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -17.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
1588 1963 1930
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 20.05% 18.98% 18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 833 795
Average daily rate £375 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+15.38% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 181 177
Average hourly rate £22.69 £27.50 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.49% -5.17%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £22.50 £25.66
% change year-on-year
-2.22% -12.31%
Symmetrix
England

Symmetrix
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Symmetrix across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

South East Symmetrix Jobs Demand Trend

Symmetrix
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Symmetrix Daily Rate Trend

Symmetrix
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Symmetrix Hourly Rate Trend

Symmetrix
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symmetrix within the South East region over the 3 months to 22 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
Berkshire +14 1 £500 +57.48%
Symmetrix
England

Symmetrix
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Symmetrix 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 Symmetrix.

1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
1 3 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 3 (100.00%) EMC Centera
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
1 3 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) SRDF
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning

Symmetrix
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Symmetrix 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 Symmetrix. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) Flash
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Storage Specialist
2 1 (33.33%) IBM Storage Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (100.00%) CLARiiON
1 3 (100.00%) EMC Centera
1 3 (100.00%) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) UNIX
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (100.00%) Business Continuity
2 2 (66.67%) Information Security
2 2 (66.67%) Service Delivery
2 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
1 3 (100.00%) Shell Script
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli
1 3 (100.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Oracle
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) IBM
1 3 (100.00%) EMC