The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Dell products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Dell 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 Vendors currently tracked.

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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Dell, Inc.

Dell
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank316312412
Rank change year-on-year
Down-4Up+100
Matching contract IT job ads291303124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.492 %0.494 %0.225 %
As % of the Vendors category1.061 %1.063 %0.512 %
Number of daily rates quoted11714040
Average daily rate£350£350£340
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+2.94 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£160£138£140
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£450£450£475
UK excluding London average daily rate£300£325£300
% change year-on-year
-7.69 %+8.33 %
Number of hourly rates quoted524740
Average hourly rate£15.00£16.50£14.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-9.09 %+17.85 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.30£11.41
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£24.00£25.60£31.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate£15.00£15.38£13.50
% change year-on-year
-2.43 %+13.88 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
274282850924236
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK46.34 %46.46 %44.02 %
Number of daily rates quoted140221424810950
Average daily rate£400£405£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.23 %+1.25 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£233£250£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£550£600£575
UK excluding London average daily rate£350£350£325
% change year-on-year
-+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted129815981456
Average hourly rate£20.00£20.00£19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-+2.56 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£11.50£11.38£11.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£40.00£37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£19.00£20.00£19.50
% change year-on-year
-5.00 %+2.56 %

Dell
Demand Trend

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

Dell Demand Trend

Dell
Daily Rate Trend

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

Dell Daily Rate Trend

Dell
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Dell Daily Rate Histogram

Dell
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Dell Hourly Rate Trend

Dell
Hourly Rate Histogram

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

Dell Hourly Rate Histogram

Dell
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 Dell 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-1275£350-2.09 %
LondonUp+38127£400+6.66 %
South EastDown-665£300-14.28 %
East of EnglandUp+325£450+164.70 %
BerkshireDown-322£293+112.72 %
YorkshireDown-1022£310+24.00 %
City of LondonUp+2520£438+25.00 %
West YorkshireDown-2215£313+19.04 %
HampshireUp+612£305-12.85 %
LeedsDown-2412£313-3.84 %
South WestDown-4312£130-61.19 %
HertfordshireDown-611£140-36.36 %
ScotlandUp+510£250+138.09 %
SurreyUp+110£300-26.82 %
BuckinghamshireNew entry-9£238-
Milton KeynesNew entry-9£238-
North WestDown-58£155-21.51 %
West MidlandsDown-108£350+47.36 %
West SussexDown-227£388-3.12 %
StevenageNew entry-7--
EssexUp+96£450+164.70 %
ReadingUp+36£473+45.38 %
DorsetUp+75--
BournemouthUp+65--
AberdeenUp+55£115+9.52 %
OxfordshireDown-65£363+183.20 %
CambridgeshireDown-105£160-
ColchesterNew entry-5£450-
PortsmouthUp+134--
CambridgeDown-124£160-

Dell
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1392 (76.12 %)Windows
2321 (62.33 %)HP
3222 (43.11 %)Active Directory
4206 (40.00 %)VMware
5191 (37.09 %)Microsoft
6147 (28.54 %)SAN
7146 (28.35 %)Windows Server 2008
8144 (27.96 %)VMware Infrastructure
9135 (26.21 %)Citrix
10124 (24.08 %)Windows XP
11115 (22.33 %)Windows 7
12113 (21.94 %)MS Exchange
13105 (20.39 %)Windows Server 2003
1498 (19.03 %)IBM
1593 (18.06 %)Cisco
1692 (17.86 %)MS Office
1791 (17.67 %)DNS
1882 (15.92 %)TCP/IP
1981 (15.73 %)vSphere
2077 (14.95 %)Clustering
2173 (14.17 %)Microsoft Certification
2270 (13.59 %)SCOM
2367 (13.01 %)DHCP
2461 (11.84 %)MS Excel
2461 (11.84 %)VMware ESX
2558 (11.26 %)Finance
2558 (11.26 %)Linux
2558 (11.26 %)NetApp
2657 (11.07 %)PowerShell
2754 (10.49 %)Exchange Server 2007

Dell
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
124 (4.660 %).NET
217 (3.301 %)Application Packaging
316 (3.107 %)XML
412 (2.330 %)ADSI
412 (2.330 %)Web Services
510 (1.942 %)ASP.NET
66 (1.165 %)HTML
74 (0.777 %)Forefront TMG
74 (0.777 %)LAMP
83 (0.583 %)CPAN
83 (0.583 %)WSH
92 (0.388 %)SAP Basis
101 (0.194 %)Software Packaging
101 (0.194 %)Symfony
101 (0.194 %)CakePHP
101 (0.194 %)J2EE
101 (0.194 %)ASP
101 (0.194 %)COM
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1113 (21.94 %)MS Exchange
254 (10.49 %)Exchange Server 2007
254 (10.49 %)Exchange Server 2003
352 (10.10 %)Exchange Server 2010
449 (9.515 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
544 (8.544 %)SharePoint
640 (7.767 %)IIS
723 (4.466 %)Lotus Notes
723 (4.466 %)SharePoint 2010
816 (3.107 %)Apache
98 (1.553 %)Lync
105 (0.971 %)Office Communications Server
113 (0.583 %)eRoom
113 (0.583 %)iPlanet
113 (0.583 %)Lotus Domino
113 (0.583 %)Tomcat
113 (0.583 %)ColdFusion
122 (0.388 %)Site Server
122 (0.388 %)SAS
122 (0.388 %)Exchange Server 2000
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
192 (17.86 %)MS Office
261 (11.84 %)MS Excel
38 (1.553 %)MS PowerPoint
47 (1.359 %)Vectorworks
47 (1.359 %)CINEMA 4D
54 (0.777 %)MS Visio
63 (0.583 %)MS Project
63 (0.583 %)Office 365
72 (0.388 %)Spreadsheet
81 (0.194 %)AutoCAD
81 (0.194 %)DeltaView
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
14 (0.777 %)Dynamics CRM
23 (0.583 %)SAP ERP
32 (0.388 %)Dynamics NAV
32 (0.388 %)Dynamics GP
41 (0.194 %)Cerner Millennium
41 (0.194 %)assyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1147 (28.54 %)SAN
291 (17.67 %)DNS
382 (15.92 %)TCP/IP
467 (13.01 %)DHCP
552 (10.10 %)WAN
651 (9.903 %)Firewall
744 (8.544 %)Internet
843 (8.350 %)LAN
930 (5.825 %)NAS
1026 (5.049 %)VPN
1121 (4.078 %)Unified Communications
1217 (3.301 %)Wireless
1217 (3.301 %)SMTP
1217 (3.301 %)SNMP
1315 (2.913 %)iSCSI
1414 (2.718 %)NetScaler
1513 (2.524 %)VLAN
1612 (2.330 %)Cisco IOS
1612 (2.330 %)Cisco ASA
1711 (2.136 %)VoIP
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
145 (8.738 %)SQL Server
214 (2.718 %)SQL Server 2008
313 (2.524 %)MySQL
411 (2.136 %)SQL Server 2005
56 (1.165 %)Oracle 11g
65 (0.971 %)Oracle 8/8i
73 (0.583 %)UniData
82 (0.388 %)SQL Server 2000
82 (0.388 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
91 (0.194 %)GIS
91 (0.194 %)MS Access
91 (0.194 %)Data Warehouse
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
13 (0.583 %)MSI
21 (0.194 %)Selenium
21 (0.194 %)ClearQuest
21 (0.194 %)Hudson
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
158 (11.26 %)Finance
217 (3.301 %)Telecoms
315 (2.913 %)Financial Institution
410 (1.942 %)Banking
56 (1.165 %)Front Office
56 (1.165 %)Back Office
64 (0.777 %)Manufacturing
64 (0.777 %)Retail
64 (0.777 %)Marketing
73 (0.583 %)German Language
73 (0.583 %)Pharmaceutical
73 (0.583 %)Automotive
82 (0.388 %)Law
82 (0.388 %)Legal
82 (0.388 %)Games
82 (0.388 %)Electronics
82 (0.388 %)Investment Banking
82 (0.388 %)French Language
91 (0.194 %)Online Betting
91 (0.194 %)Retail Banking
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
187 (16.89 %)Analyst
281 (15.73 %)Support Engineer
353 (10.29 %)Server Engineer
451 (9.903 %)Desktop Support
538 (7.379 %)Desktop Engineer
635 (6.796 %)Support Analyst
730 (5.825 %)Field Engineer
828 (5.437 %)Infrastructure Engineer
925 (4.854 %)Desktop Support Engineer
1024 (4.660 %)Administrator
1122 (4.272 %)Systems Engineer
1221 (4.078 %)Data Centre Engineer
1221 (4.078 %)Architect
1221 (4.078 %)Technical Architect
1320 (3.883 %)Consultant
1320 (3.883 %)3rd Line Support
1419 (3.689 %)Desktop Analyst
1419 (3.689 %)Systems Administrator
1518 (3.495 %)2nd Line Support
1518 (3.495 %)Server Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
177 (14.95 %)Clustering
254 (10.49 %)Blackberry
332 (6.214 %)Replication
422 (4.272 %)EqualLogic
519 (3.689 %)AS400
617 (3.301 %)Fat Client
617 (3.301 %)Thin Client
714 (2.718 %)Management Information System
88 (1.553 %)NHS
97 (1.359 %)PDA
106 (1.165 %)CLARiiON
113 (0.583 %)CMDB
113 (0.583 %)CESG
113 (0.583 %)Smartcard
122 (0.388 %)EPoS
122 (0.388 %)Statistics
122 (0.388 %)CCTV
122 (0.388 %)Computer Science
122 (0.388 %)iPhone
131 (0.194 %)FMCG
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1392 (76.12 %)Windows
2146 (28.35 %)Windows Server 2008
3124 (24.08 %)Windows XP
4115 (22.33 %)Windows 7
5105 (20.39 %)Windows Server 2003
658 (11.26 %)Linux
752 (10.10 %)Windows Vista
830 (5.825 %)UNIX
929 (5.631 %)Windows 2000
1027 (5.243 %)Solaris
1124 (4.660 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1211 (2.136 %)Windows NT
139 (1.748 %)AIX
139 (1.748 %)Mac OS X
148 (1.553 %)CentOS
155 (0.971 %)Ubuntu
155 (0.971 %)HPUX
163 (0.583 %)Windows 2000 Server
163 (0.583 %)Debian
172 (0.388 %)SUSE
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
149 (9.515 %)ITIL
231 (6.019 %)Project Management
330 (5.825 %)Disaster Recovery
330 (5.825 %)Load Balancing
428 (5.437 %)Business Continuity
525 (4.854 %)Migration
622 (4.272 %)Information Security
720 (3.883 %)Incident Management
720 (3.883 %)Asset Management
817 (3.301 %)Change Management
914 (2.718 %)Change Control
1011 (2.136 %)PRINCE2
1011 (2.136 %)Configuration Management
1110 (1.942 %)Service Management
1110 (1.942 %)Problem Management
128 (1.553 %)Service Delivery
136 (1.165 %)Risk Management
136 (1.165 %)CRM
145 (0.971 %)Requirements Engineering
145 (0.971 %)Network Load Balancing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
157 (11.07 %)PowerShell
254 (10.49 %)SQL
341 (7.961 %)VBScript
414 (2.718 %)Perl
414 (2.718 %)C
414 (2.718 %)C#
512 (2.330 %)VB.NET
69 (1.748 %)VB
74 (0.777 %)Bash shell
83 (0.583 %)C++
92 (0.388 %)Java
92 (0.388 %)PHP
92 (0.388 %)T-SQL
92 (0.388 %)Shell Script
101 (0.194 %)Python
101 (0.194 %)Ada
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
173 (14.17 %)Microsoft Certification
247 (9.126 %)Security Cleared
341 (7.961 %)MCSE
341 (7.961 %)MCP
440 (7.767 %)SC Cleared
525 (4.854 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
622 (4.272 %)Cisco Certification
719 (3.689 %)CCNA
817 (3.301 %)MCSA
913 (2.524 %)A+ Certification
1011 (2.136 %)CCNP
119 (1.748 %)ITIL Certification
128 (1.553 %)Dell Certification
128 (1.553 %)MCDST
128 (1.553 %)MCITP
128 (1.553 %)CCENT
128 (1.553 %)HP APS
137 (1.359 %)DCSE
137 (1.359 %)CCA
137 (1.359 %)Citrix Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
138 (7.379 %)SLA
26 (1.165 %)QA
32 (0.388 %)ISO 9001
41 (0.194 %)PCI DSS
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1222 (43.11 %)Active Directory
2144 (27.96 %)VMware Infrastructure
381 (15.73 %)vSphere
461 (11.84 %)VMware ESX
547 (9.126 %)XenApp
622 (4.272 %)Hyper-V
721 (4.078 %)Citrix Presentation Server
818 (3.495 %)XenDesktop
910 (1.942 %)VMware ESXi
109 (1.748 %)Terminal Services
117 (1.359 %)VMware Server
124 (0.777 %)Microsoft Virtual Server
124 (0.777 %)Sendmail
133 (0.583 %)XenServer
133 (0.583 %)Postfix
142 (0.388 %)vCloud
142 (0.388 %)BlackBerry Internet Service
151 (0.194 %)DFS Replication
151 (0.194 %)Novell eDirectory
151 (0.194 %)MailMarshal
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
170 (13.59 %)SCOM
250 (9.709 %)SCCM
341 (7.961 %)Backup Exec
438 (7.379 %)NetBackup
522 (4.272 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
617 (3.301 %)vCenter
715 (2.913 %)McAfee ePO
715 (2.913 %)HP SIM
814 (2.718 %)WMI
913 (2.524 %)Legato
1012 (2.330 %)WSUS
1111 (2.136 %)Opalis
129 (1.748 %)Norton AntiVirus
137 (1.359 %)Nagios
145 (0.971 %)Puppet
154 (0.777 %)CFEngine
154 (0.777 %)OpenView Configuration Management
163 (0.583 %)HP Data Protector
172 (0.388 %)SCVMM
181 (0.194 %)Sysprep
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1321 (62.33 %)HP
2206 (40.00 %)VMware
3191 (37.09 %)Microsoft
4135 (26.21 %)Citrix
598 (19.03 %)IBM
693 (18.06 %)Cisco
758 (11.26 %)NetApp
846 (8.932 %)EMC
945 (8.738 %)Symantec
1037 (7.184 %)McAfee
1135 (6.796 %)Sun
1228 (5.437 %)Compaq
1228 (5.437 %)Red Hat
1325 (4.854 %)Lotus
1422 (4.272 %)Leostream
1521 (4.078 %)Oracle
1619 (3.689 %)Veritas
1716 (3.107 %)Juniper
1716 (3.107 %)CA
1716 (3.107 %)Sophos