The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term Celerra in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Celerra over the 3 months to 16 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all terms in our Miscellaneous category.

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.

EMC Celerra
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank536538520
Rank change year-on-year
Up+2Down-18
Matching contract IT job ads434316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.073 %0.070 %0.029 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.308 %0.255 %0.101 %
Number of daily rates quoted19232
Average daily rate£390£450£273
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-13.33 %+65.13 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£310£307£271
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£455£450£275
UK excluding London average daily rate£395£400-
% change year-on-year
-1.25 %-
Number of hourly rates quoted0110
Average hourly rate-£22.50£25.97
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
--13.36 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate--£25.97
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryAll Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
139801683015833
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK23.62 %27.43 %28.76 %
Number of daily rates quoted8259100028854
Average daily rate£435£525£500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.14 %+5.00 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£285£263
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£604£650£650
UK excluding London average daily rate£345£338£315
% change year-on-year
+2.22 %+7.14 %
Number of hourly rates quoted657720644
Average hourly rate£22.50£22.63£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-0.55 %+7.73 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£12.50£11.37£11.50
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£45.00£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£24.50£25.83£20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.14 %+29.15 %

Celerra
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Celerra within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Miscellaneous category.

Celerra Demand Trend

Celerra
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Celerra within the UK.

Celerra Daily Rate Trend

Celerra
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Celerra within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012.

Celerra Daily Rate Histogram

Celerra
Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Celerra within the UK.

Celerra Hourly Rate Trend

Celerra
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Celerra within the UK over the 3 months to 16 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank 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
EnglandUp+334£380-15.55 %
LondonUp+2321£350-22.22 %
ScotlandNew entry-8£400-
City of LondonUp+366£350+45.83 %
EdinburghNew entry-6£413-
South EastDown-14£450+47.54 %
West MidlandsNew entry-3£385-
SurreyNew entry-3£450-
WarwickshireNew entry-3£385-
East of EnglandDown-62--
South WestDown-202£375-11.76 %
MerseysideNew entry-2£250-
North WestNew entry-2£250-
HertfordshireNew entry-2--
LiverpoolNew entry-2£250-
BristolNew entry-2£375-
CamberleyNew entry-2£413-
WarwickNew entry-1£385-

Celerra
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Celerra 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 Celerra.

160 (88.24 %)EMC
241 (60.29 %)SAN
339 (57.35 %)CLARiiON
433 (48.53 %)Windows
525 (36.76 %)Cisco
624 (35.29 %)NAS
723 (33.82 %)Windows Server 2003
723 (33.82 %)VMware
723 (33.82 %)EMC Centera
822 (32.35 %)Replication
921 (30.88 %)NetApp
1020 (29.41 %)Migration
1119 (27.94 %)Firewall
1119 (27.94 %)EMC NetWorker
1217 (25.00 %)NetBackup
1217 (25.00 %)Active Directory
1217 (25.00 %)Windows Server 2008
1217 (25.00 %)Symmetrix DMX
1316 (23.53 %)SRDF
1316 (23.53 %)vSphere
1316 (23.53 %)ITIL
1415 (22.06 %)SQL
1415 (22.06 %)IBM
1415 (22.06 %)Clustering
1415 (22.06 %)Brocade
1513 (19.12 %)MS Exchange
1513 (19.12 %)UNIX
1513 (19.12 %)Symantec
1612 (17.65 %)Symmetrix
1612 (17.65 %)VMware Infrastructure

Celerra
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Celerra 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 Celerra. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
113 (19.12 %)MS Exchange
26 (8.824 %)Exchange Server 2007
35 (7.353 %)IIS
35 (7.353 %)Exchange Server 2010
43 (4.412 %)SharePoint
51 (1.471 %)Lotus Notes
51 (1.471 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
51 (1.471 %)Lync
51 (1.471 %)SharePoint 2010
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
12 (2.941 %)MS Excel
21 (1.471 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
141 (60.29 %)SAN
224 (35.29 %)NAS
319 (27.94 %)Firewall
410 (14.71 %)Wireless
59 (13.24 %)Fibre Channel
59 (13.24 %)Connectrix
59 (13.24 %)SMS
59 (13.24 %)Ethernet
66 (8.824 %)iSCSI
75 (7.353 %)TCP/IP
75 (7.353 %)FWSM
75 (7.353 %)FCoE
84 (5.882 %)Cisco ASA
84 (5.882 %)WAN
84 (5.882 %)BIG-IP
91 (1.471 %)Cisco PIX
91 (1.471 %)LDAP
91 (1.471 %)LAN
91 (1.471 %)Cisco Nexus
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
110 (14.71 %)SQL Server
25 (7.353 %)SQL Server 2005
25 (7.353 %)SQL Server 2008
31 (1.471 %)SQL Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (2.941 %)K2 blackpoint
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
17 (10.29 %)Banking
26 (8.824 %)Investment Banking
32 (2.941 %)Finance
41 (1.471 %)Retail
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
115 (22.06 %)Administrator
210 (14.71 %)Consultant
39 (13.24 %)Storage Specialist
48 (11.76 %)Storage Administrator
57 (10.29 %)Backup Administrator
57 (10.29 %)Analyst
66 (8.824 %)3rd Line Support
75 (7.353 %)EMC Engineer
75 (7.353 %)Storage Consultant
84 (5.882 %)Windows Server Specialist
84 (5.882 %)Storage Architect
84 (5.882 %)3rd Line Server Support
84 (5.882 %)Architect
84 (5.882 %)Server Support
84 (5.882 %)Server Specialist
84 (5.882 %)Storage Engineer
93 (4.412 %)Senior Support Analyst
93 (4.412 %)Systems Support Analyst
93 (4.412 %)Senior Analyst
93 (4.412 %)Senior Systems Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
139 (57.35 %)CLARiiON
223 (33.82 %)EMC Centera
322 (32.35 %)Replication
417 (25.00 %)Symmetrix DMX
515 (22.06 %)Clustering
612 (17.65 %)Symmetrix
77 (10.29 %)Enterprise Storage
84 (5.882 %)Open Source
93 (4.412 %)Blackberry
101 (1.471 %)Cloud Computing
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
133 (48.53 %)Windows
223 (33.82 %)Windows Server 2003
317 (25.00 %)Windows Server 2008
413 (19.12 %)UNIX
511 (16.18 %)Solaris
610 (14.71 %)Windows 2000 Server
78 (11.76 %)Linux
85 (7.353 %)HPUX
93 (4.412 %)AIX
101 (1.471 %)Windows XP
101 (1.471 %)Windows 7
101 (1.471 %)CentOS
101 (1.471 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
120 (29.41 %)Migration
216 (23.53 %)ITIL
38 (11.76 %)Capacity Planning
47 (10.29 %)ITIL V3
56 (8.824 %)Time Management
65 (7.353 %)Release Management
74 (5.882 %)Load Balancing
82 (2.941 %)Project Management
91 (1.471 %)Stakeholder Management
91 (1.471 %)Workflow
91 (1.471 %)Disaster Recovery
91 (1.471 %)Business Continuity
91 (1.471 %)Information Security
91 (1.471 %)Data Migration
91 (1.471 %)Knowledge Management
91 (1.471 %)Data Management
91 (1.471 %)BCP
91 (1.471 %)Configuration Management
91 (1.471 %)Capacity Management
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
115 (22.06 %)SQL
29 (13.24 %)Perl
35 (7.353 %)C
42 (2.941 %)Shell Script
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
15 (7.353 %)Security Cleared
24 (5.882 %)Microsoft Certification
24 (5.882 %)MCSE
33 (4.412 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
33 (4.412 %)EMC Certification
33 (4.412 %)SC Cleared
41 (1.471 %)Citrix Certification
41 (1.471 %)GISP
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (10.29 %)SLA
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
117 (25.00 %)Active Directory
216 (23.53 %)SRDF
216 (23.53 %)vSphere
312 (17.65 %)VMware Infrastructure
47 (10.29 %)EMC RecoverPoint
47 (10.29 %)XenApp
55 (7.353 %)VMware ESX
55 (7.353 %)NFS
63 (4.412 %)XenDesktop
72 (2.941 %)ISA Server
81 (1.471 %)VMware Workstation
81 (1.471 %)XenServer
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
119 (27.94 %)EMC NetWorker
217 (25.00 %)NetBackup
310 (14.71 %)SCCM
47 (10.29 %)ARCserve
56 (8.824 %)EMC Navisphere
65 (7.353 %)EMC TimeFinder
74 (5.882 %)Zenoss
74 (5.882 %)Nagios
74 (5.882 %)Backup Exec
82 (2.941 %)Legato
82 (2.941 %)MAILsweeper
82 (2.941 %)Norton AntiVirus
91 (1.471 %)SCOM
91 (1.471 %)HP SIM
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
160 (88.24 %)EMC
225 (36.76 %)Cisco
323 (33.82 %)VMware
421 (30.88 %)NetApp
515 (22.06 %)IBM
515 (22.06 %)Brocade
613 (19.12 %)Symantec
78 (11.76 %)Citrix
78 (11.76 %)Hitachi
87 (10.29 %)StorageTek
96 (8.824 %)HP
96 (8.824 %)Microsoft
105 (7.353 %)CheckPoint
105 (7.353 %)NCR
114 (5.882 %)Veeam
114 (5.882 %)F5
114 (5.882 %)CommVault
114 (5.882 %)Veritas
123 (4.412 %)Sun
123 (4.412 %)Oracle