The first part of the table below looks at the prevalence of the term CLARiiON in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited CLARiiON 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 CLARiiON
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank497488500
Rank change year-on-year
Down-9Up+12
Matching contract IT job ads829336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.139 %0.152 %0.065 %
As % of the Miscellaneous category0.587 %0.553 %0.227 %
Number of daily rates quoted405618
Average daily rate£360£450£334
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-20.00 %+34.83 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£250£220£275
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£428£500£473
UK excluding London average daily rate£360£220£325
% change year-on-year
+63.63 %-32.30 %
Number of hourly rates quoted331
Average hourly rate£25.00£30.00£32.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66 %-6.25 %
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.00-£32.00
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 %

CLARiiON
Demand Trend

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

CLARiiON Demand Trend

CLARiiON
Daily Rate Trend

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

CLARiiON Daily Rate Trend

CLARiiON
Daily Rate Histogram

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

CLARiiON Daily Rate Histogram

CLARiiON
Hourly Rate Trend

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

CLARiiON Hourly Rate Trend

CLARiiON
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CLARiiON 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
EnglandDown-569£360-20.00 %
LondonDown-333£363-19.44 %
South EastUp+513£300-25.00 %
City of LondonUp+2510£425-8.10 %
ScotlandNo change08£425+104.81 %
South WestNew entry-8£360-
BerkshireDown-77£375-6.25 %
North EastNo change05£400-
West MidlandsNew entry-5£399-
EdinburghUp+64£425+54.54 %
ReadingUp+44£375-6.25 %
Tyne and WearDown-44£400-
YorkshireDown-84£350-22.22 %
Newcastle upon TyneDown-94£400-
LeedsNew entry-4£350-
DorsetNew entry-4£360-
GloucestershireNew entry-4£360-
WarwickshireNew entry-4£385-
West YorkshireNew entry-4£350-
GlasgowUp+23--
BournemouthNew entry-3£360-
TwickenhamNew entry-3£250-
HampshireUp+32£250-
SurreyNew entry-2--
GloucesterNew entry-2--
CroydonUp+101£375-25.00 %
North WestDown-51--
MerseysideNew entry-1--
WarwickNew entry-1£385-
Northern IrelandNew entry-1--

CLARiiON
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1166 (88.77 %)EMC
2132 (70.59 %)SAN
383 (44.39 %)Windows
481 (43.32 %)Cisco
568 (36.36 %)VMware
666 (35.29 %)Symmetrix DMX
760 (32.09 %)NAS
854 (28.88 %)NetApp
946 (24.60 %)Symmetrix
1045 (24.06 %)UNIX
1143 (22.99 %)EMC Centera
1241 (21.93 %)Active Directory
1339 (20.86 %)Windows Server 2003
1339 (20.86 %)Migration
1339 (20.86 %)EMC NetWorker
1339 (20.86 %)Celerra
1438 (20.32 %)Brocade
1537 (19.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
1635 (18.72 %)NetBackup
1635 (18.72 %)ITIL
1734 (18.18 %)IBM
1832 (17.11 %)Windows Server 2008
1931 (16.58 %)Linux
1931 (16.58 %)Symantec
2029 (15.51 %)Firewall
2128 (14.97 %)MS Exchange
2128 (14.97 %)Solaris
2128 (14.97 %)Replication
2227 (14.44 %)Microsoft
2227 (14.44 %)HP

CLARiiON
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
15 (2.674 %)Middleware
21 (0.535 %)Software Packaging
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
128 (14.97 %)MS Exchange
218 (9.626 %)Exchange Server 2010
316 (8.556 %)IIS
49 (4.813 %)Exchange Server 2003
57 (3.743 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
66 (3.209 %)Exchange Server 2007
75 (2.674 %)Apache
75 (2.674 %)SharePoint
83 (1.604 %)WebLogic
92 (1.070 %)Tomcat
92 (1.070 %)WorkSite
101 (0.535 %)SharePoint 2010
101 (0.535 %)Lync
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
111 (5.882 %)MS Excel
24 (2.139 %)MS PowerPoint
33 (1.604 %)Office 365
41 (0.535 %)MS Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1132 (70.59 %)SAN
260 (32.09 %)NAS
329 (15.51 %)Firewall
420 (10.70 %)Fibre Channel
519 (10.16 %)DNS
616 (8.556 %)iSCSI
712 (6.417 %)Connectrix
811 (5.882 %)TCP/IP
910 (5.348 %)DHCP
109 (4.813 %)Ethernet
109 (4.813 %)SMS
109 (4.813 %)Wireless
118 (4.278 %)WAN
126 (3.209 %)Internet
126 (3.209 %)VPN
135 (2.674 %)Cisco IOS
135 (2.674 %)FTP
135 (2.674 %)SSL
135 (2.674 %)FCoE
135 (2.674 %)FWSM
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
122 (11.76 %)SQL Server
27 (3.743 %)SQL Server 2005
27 (3.743 %)SQL Server 2008
35 (2.674 %)MySQL
44 (2.139 %)Oracle 8/8i
53 (1.604 %)SQL Server 2000
53 (1.604 %)Oracle Exadata
62 (1.070 %)Informix
62 (1.070 %)InterSystems Cache
71 (0.535 %)RDBMS
71 (0.535 %)Oracle Reports
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
12 (1.070 %)K2 blackpoint
21 (0.535 %)ClearQuest
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
125 (13.37 %)Finance
218 (9.626 %)Banking
315 (8.021 %)Investment Banking
46 (3.209 %)Publishing
53 (1.604 %)Financial Institution
53 (1.604 %)Telecoms
62 (1.070 %)Legal
71 (0.535 %)Games
71 (0.535 %)Back Office
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
134 (18.18 %)Storage Specialist
230 (16.04 %)Administrator
230 (16.04 %)Storage Engineer
321 (11.23 %)Analyst
420 (10.70 %)EMC Storage Specialist
518 (9.626 %)Consultant
617 (9.091 %)Storage Administrator
713 (6.952 %)SAN Engineer
713 (6.952 %)Storage Consultant
713 (6.952 %)3rd Line Support
812 (6.417 %)SAN Storage Engineer
911 (5.882 %)UNIX Administrator
911 (5.882 %)Systems Administrator
1010 (5.348 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
118 (4.278 %)Server Engineer
118 (4.278 %)Infrastructure Engineer
118 (4.278 %)Storage Analyst
127 (3.743 %)Support Analyst
127 (3.743 %)Systems Analyst
136 (3.209 %)Server Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
166 (35.29 %)Symmetrix DMX
246 (24.60 %)Symmetrix
343 (22.99 %)EMC Centera
439 (20.86 %)Celerra
528 (14.97 %)Replication
619 (10.16 %)Clustering
717 (9.091 %)Firmware
813 (6.952 %)Enterprise Storage
97 (3.743 %)Blackberry
104 (2.139 %)Open Source
113 (1.604 %)CESG
113 (1.604 %)Cloud Computing
113 (1.604 %)HP StorageWorks
122 (1.070 %)Client/Server
122 (1.070 %)Statistics
131 (0.535 %)Credit Risk
131 (0.535 %)Market Risk
131 (0.535 %)Management Information System
131 (0.535 %)LPAR
131 (0.535 %)Hedge funds
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
183 (44.39 %)Windows
245 (24.06 %)UNIX
339 (20.86 %)Windows Server 2003
432 (17.11 %)Windows Server 2008
531 (16.58 %)Linux
628 (14.97 %)Solaris
716 (8.556 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
815 (8.021 %)AIX
98 (4.278 %)Windows 2000
106 (3.209 %)Windows 2000 Server
106 (3.209 %)SUSE
114 (2.139 %)HPUX
123 (1.604 %)CentOS
131 (0.535 %)Windows XP
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
139 (20.86 %)Migration
235 (18.72 %)ITIL
320 (10.70 %)Capacity Management
417 (9.091 %)Disaster Recovery
516 (8.556 %)Change Management
614 (7.487 %)Data Migration
710 (5.348 %)Time Management
89 (4.813 %)Load Balancing
97 (3.743 %)Data Protection
106 (3.209 %)Capacity Planning
106 (3.209 %)Performance Management
106 (3.209 %)Release Management
113 (1.604 %)Document Management
113 (1.604 %)Incident Management
113 (1.604 %)E-Commerce
113 (1.604 %)Project Management
113 (1.604 %)Continuous Improvement
113 (1.604 %)Change Control
122 (1.070 %)Configuration Management
122 (1.070 %)PRINCE2
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
122 (11.76 %)SQL
29 (4.813 %)Perl
32 (1.070 %)Shell Script
32 (1.070 %)PowerShell
41 (0.535 %)Korn
41 (0.535 %)PHP
41 (0.535 %)VBScript
41 (0.535 %)Bourne shell
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
124 (12.83 %)Security Cleared
220 (10.70 %)SC Cleared
38 (4.278 %)Microsoft Certification
47 (3.743 %)MCSE
56 (3.209 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
65 (2.674 %)DV Cleared
65 (2.674 %)Cisco Certification
74 (2.139 %)CCNP
83 (1.604 %)EMC Certification
92 (1.070 %)PMP
92 (1.070 %)PMI Certification
92 (1.070 %)CISSP
92 (1.070 %)CCNA
92 (1.070 %)CCIE
92 (1.070 %)CCSP
92 (1.070 %)Degree
92 (1.070 %)VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
101 (0.535 %)MCITP
101 (0.535 %)SNIA Certification
101 (0.535 %)Citrix Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
17 (3.743 %)SLA
22 (1.070 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
141 (21.93 %)Active Directory
237 (19.79 %)VMware Infrastructure
326 (13.90 %)vSphere
422 (11.76 %)SRDF
516 (8.556 %)EMC RecoverPoint
613 (6.952 %)VMware ESX
77 (3.743 %)XenApp
86 (3.209 %)NFS
95 (2.674 %)Hyper-V
95 (2.674 %)ISA Server
104 (2.139 %)Veritas Volume Manager
104 (2.139 %)Veritas Cluster Server
113 (1.604 %)XenDesktop
113 (1.604 %)Veritas File System
113 (1.604 %)Sendmail
122 (1.070 %)VMware ESXi
122 (1.070 %)Squid
122 (1.070 %)Snort
131 (0.535 %)Samba
131 (0.535 %)VMware Server
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
139 (20.86 %)EMC NetWorker
235 (18.72 %)NetBackup
320 (10.70 %)EMC TimeFinder
320 (10.70 %)EMC Navisphere
413 (6.952 %)SCCM
511 (5.882 %)Norton AntiVirus
68 (4.278 %)WSUS
68 (4.278 %)Backup Exec
76 (3.209 %)McAfee ePO
76 (3.209 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
76 (3.209 %)Legato
76 (3.209 %)ARCserve
85 (2.674 %)Nagios
94 (2.139 %)Zenoss
94 (2.139 %)BMC PATROL
103 (1.604 %)SCOM
103 (1.604 %)Tivoli
103 (1.604 %)PureDisk
112 (1.070 %)AppDNA
112 (1.070 %)AppManager
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1166 (88.77 %)EMC
281 (43.32 %)Cisco
368 (36.36 %)VMware
454 (28.88 %)NetApp
538 (20.32 %)Brocade
634 (18.18 %)IBM
731 (16.58 %)Symantec
827 (14.44 %)Microsoft
827 (14.44 %)HP
925 (13.37 %)Red Hat
1021 (11.23 %)Veritas
1118 (9.626 %)Oracle
1217 (9.091 %)Citrix
1314 (7.487 %)Remedy
1412 (6.417 %)CommVault
1412 (6.417 %)Sun
159 (4.813 %)Websense
159 (4.813 %)3PAR
167 (3.743 %)CA
176 (3.209 %)McAfee