Permanent IT Jobs Contract IT Jobs

The first part of the table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC 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 EMC over the 3 months to 12 March 2010 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.

LinkEMC
Location
3 months to
12 Mar 2010
Same period 2009Same period 2008
Rank265190193
Rank change year-on-year
Down-75Up+3
Matching contract IT job ads237307644
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.505 %0.761 %0.789 %
As % of the Vendors category1.146 %1.728 %1.819 %
Daily rates quoted10992175
Average daily rate£360£375£425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.000 %-11.76 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£235£209£330
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£454£500£520
UK excluding London average daily rate£333£350£400
% change year-on-year
-5.000 %-12.50 %
Hourly rates quoted262456
Average hourly rate£26.74£30.80£30.69
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.19 %+0.350 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£23.75£22.50£20.00
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£47.50£39.00£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£25.97£30.60£30.51
% change year-on-year
-15.13 %+0.290 %
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryAll Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
206781777135400
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK44.07 %44.07 %43.39 %
Daily rates quoted8930513210009
Average daily rate£400£375£400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.660 %-6.250 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£230£225£250
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£575£538£600
UK excluding London average daily rate£338£350£357
% change year-on-year
-3.570 %-2.000 %
Hourly rates quoted118314133112
Average hourly rate£19.50£22.00£21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.36 %+4.760 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£10.00£11.50£11.99
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£36.48£40.00£40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate£18.88£21.50£20.00
% change year-on-year
-12.20 %+7.500 %

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.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the EMC Corporation.

EMC
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing EMC within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

EMC Demand Trend

EMC
Daily Rate Trend

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

EMC Daily Rate Trend

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

EMC Daily Rate Histogram

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EMC Hourly Rate Trend

EMC
Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010.

EMC Hourly Rate Histogram

EMC
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 EMC within the UK over the 3 months to 12 March 2010. 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-92209£350-6.66 %
LondonDown-9986£415+10.66 %
South EastDown-1943£450-14.28 %
City of LondonDown-6725£400-
East of EnglandUp+2219£375+72.41 %
North WestUp+619£270-
WalesUp+1815£361-
East MidlandsDown-413£325+41.30 %
South WalesNew entry-13£360-
South WestUp+312£323-7.85 %
CheshireNo change012£270-
YorkshireUp+911£306-12.50 %
ScotlandDown-1711£313-29.57 %
HertfordshireUp+1910£350-
BerkshireUp+1210£450-
SurreyDown-99£218-
Docklands, LondonNew entry-9£425-
South YorkshireUp+108£338-
SheffieldUp+98£338-
DorsetUp+78£323-
UxbridgeUp+48£220+10.00 %
HampshireDown-38£378-28.09 %
SuffolkDown-47£500+129.88 %
West MidlandsUp+86£250-
NorthamptonshireDown-106£350+52.17 %
ReadingDown-35£450-
DerbyNew entry-5£275-
DerbyshireNew entry-5£275-
BournemouthDown-64£315-
NorthamptonDown-94£350+52.17 %

EMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

1241 (52.85 %)SAN
2161 (35.31 %)Windows
3137 (30.04 %)UNIX
4102 (22.37 %)Solaris
5101 (22.15 %)Cisco
699 (21.71 %)Linux
795 (20.83 %)HP
892 (20.18 %)VMware
989 (19.52 %)Veritas
1084 (18.42 %)NetApp
1181 (17.76 %)CLARiiON
1277 (16.89 %)IBM
1375 (16.45 %)NAS
1467 (14.69 %)Brocade
1558 (12.72 %)Security Cleared
1657 (12.50 %)Finance
1756 (12.28 %)AIX
1854 (11.84 %)Sun
1953 (11.62 %)Oracle
2050 (10.96 %)VMware Infrastructure
2050 (10.96 %)NetBackup
2148 (10.53 %)NFS
2245 (9.868 %)DNS
2344 (9.649 %)Active Directory
2344 (9.649 %)Red Hat Linux
2443 (9.430 %)ITIL
2542 (9.211 %)Citrix
2542 (9.211 %)Hitachi
2542 (9.211 %)Red Hat
2641 (8.991 %)SC Cleared

EMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 12 March 2010, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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.

IT Contractor Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
112 (2.632 %)J2EE
211 (2.412 %)Middleware
36 (1.316 %)WebSphere
45 (1.096 %)ASP
45 (1.096 %)XML
45 (1.096 %).NET
53 (0.658 %)ASP.NET
62 (0.439 %)Spring
62 (0.439 %)CSS
62 (0.439 %)XSL
62 (0.439 %)XHTML
71 (0.219 %)CGI
71 (0.219 %)ADSI
71 (0.219 %)ODBC
71 (0.219 %)JDBC
71 (0.219 %)JSP
71 (0.219 %)Web Services
71 (0.219 %)HTML
71 (0.219 %)Oracle Fusion
71 (0.219 %)Oracle Streams
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
124 (5.263 %)MS Exchange
217 (3.728 %)Documentum
316 (3.509 %)Exchange Server 2007
412 (2.632 %)Exchange Server 2003
57 (1.535 %)SharePoint
57 (1.535 %)BizTalk Server
66 (1.316 %)SharePoint Server 2007
66 (1.316 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
74 (0.877 %)LiveLink
74 (0.877 %)WebSphere MQ
83 (0.658 %)WebLogic
83 (0.658 %)IIS
83 (0.658 %)CMS
92 (0.439 %)Exchange Server 2000
101 (0.219 %)SAS
101 (0.219 %)Lotus Notes
101 (0.219 %)Oracle Workflow
101 (0.219 %)Jetty
101 (0.219 %)Captiva
101 (0.219 %)Exchange Server 5.5
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
110 (2.193 %)MS Excel
22 (0.439 %)MATLAB
22 (0.439 %)Simulink
22 (0.439 %)Stateflow
22 (0.439 %)MS Project
31 (0.219 %)MS Office
31 (0.219 %)MS Visio
31 (0.219 %)NASTRAN
31 (0.219 %)MS PowerPoint
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
13 (0.658 %)Oracle Applications
22 (0.439 %)Oracle EBS R12
31 (0.219 %)Oracle 11i
31 (0.219 %)Oracle EBS
31 (0.219 %)SoftGrid
31 (0.219 %)Oracle BPM
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1241 (52.85 %)SAN
275 (16.45 %)NAS
345 (9.868 %)DNS
429 (6.360 %)TCP/IP
519 (4.167 %)LDAP
618 (3.947 %)DHCP
716 (3.509 %)Firewall
716 (3.509 %)SNMP
812 (2.632 %)BT 21CN
812 (2.632 %)MPLS
99 (1.974 %)LAN
99 (1.974 %)WAN
99 (1.974 %)Megaco
108 (1.754 %)Connectrix
108 (1.754 %)SS7
116 (1.316 %)Internet
125 (1.096 %)Kerberos
125 (1.096 %)SMTP
125 (1.096 %)SSH
134 (0.877 %)VLAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
117 (3.728 %)SQL Server
25 (1.096 %)EDRMS
34 (0.877 %)NonStop SQL
43 (0.658 %)RDBMS
43 (0.658 %)Oracle 10g
43 (0.658 %)DB2
43 (0.658 %)MySQL
43 (0.658 %)Oracle 8/8i
52 (0.439 %)Datawarehouse
52 (0.439 %)BusinessObjects
61 (0.219 %)TOAD
61 (0.219 %)OLTP
61 (0.219 %)Oracle Discoverer
61 (0.219 %)Oracle Reports
61 (0.219 %)Oracle 9i
61 (0.219 %)SQL Server 2000
61 (0.219 %)Oracle 11g
61 (0.219 %)SQL Server 2005
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
14 (0.877 %)LabVIEW
23 (0.658 %)Oracle Forms
32 (0.439 %)Visual Studio
32 (0.439 %)WinRunner
32 (0.439 %)QuickTest Pro
32 (0.439 %)LoadRunner
41 (0.219 %)JDeveloper
41 (0.219 %)ClearCase
41 (0.219 %)Oracle APEX
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
157 (12.50 %)Finance
239 (8.553 %)Banking
337 (8.114 %)Telecoms
422 (4.825 %)Government
516 (3.509 %)Investment Banking
69 (1.974 %)Front Office
78 (1.754 %)Military
87 (1.535 %)Electronics
87 (1.535 %)Manufacturing
96 (1.316 %)Electric
96 (1.316 %)Automotive
96 (1.316 %)Construction
105 (1.096 %)Financial Institution
105 (1.096 %)Health
105 (1.096 %)Law
114 (0.877 %)Local Government
114 (0.877 %)Legal
123 (0.658 %)Criminal Justice
123 (0.658 %)Retail
132 (0.439 %)Auditing
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
169 (15.13 %)Administrator
263 (13.82 %)Consultant
348 (10.53 %)Storage Engineer
447 (10.31 %)Architect
532 (7.018 %)Analyst
628 (6.140 %)Systems Administrator
724 (5.263 %)Storage Consultant
821 (4.605 %)Developer
821 (4.605 %)Storage Administrator
919 (4.167 %)Technical Architect
1018 (3.947 %)UNIX Administrator
1115 (3.289 %)Design Engineer
1115 (3.289 %)Solaris Administrator
1115 (3.289 %)Designer
1214 (3.070 %)Support Analyst
1312 (2.632 %)Storage Specialist
1411 (2.412 %)Senior Storage Engineer
1411 (2.412 %)Solaris Systems Administrator
1510 (2.193 %)Technical Leader
1510 (2.193 %)3rd Line Support
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
181 (17.76 %)CLARiiON
239 (8.553 %)Clustering
335 (7.675 %)Replication
434 (7.456 %)Symmetrix DMX
530 (6.579 %)Celerra
530 (6.579 %)Symmetrix
626 (5.702 %)EMC Centera
716 (3.509 %)HACMP
812 (2.632 %)LPAR
98 (1.754 %)Blackberry
106 (1.316 %)CCTV
106 (1.316 %)SCADA
106 (1.316 %)iSeries
106 (1.316 %)NHS
106 (1.316 %)Management Information System
115 (1.096 %)Client/Server
115 (1.096 %)Firmware
115 (1.096 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
124 (0.877 %)CMDB
124 (0.877 %)Fat Client
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1161 (35.31 %)Windows
2137 (30.04 %)UNIX
3102 (22.37 %)Solaris
499 (21.71 %)Linux
556 (12.28 %)AIX
644 (9.649 %)Red Hat Linux
740 (8.772 %)Windows Server 2003
826 (5.702 %)HPUX
826 (5.702 %)Windows Server 2008
924 (5.263 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1021 (4.605 %)SUSE
1118 (3.947 %)Windows 2000 Server
1216 (3.509 %)Windows 2000
1310 (2.193 %)NetWare
146 (1.316 %)Windows NT
146 (1.316 %)Windows XP
155 (1.096 %)VMS
163 (0.658 %)Windows 7
172 (0.439 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
143 (9.430 %)ITIL
234 (7.456 %)Capacity Planning
333 (7.237 %)Migration
422 (4.825 %)Validation
520 (4.386 %)Disaster Recovery
617 (3.728 %)Project Management
715 (3.289 %)Change Management
814 (3.070 %)Performance Management
910 (2.193 %)Network Design
910 (2.193 %)Workflow
107 (1.535 %)Technical Architecture
107 (1.535 %)Incident Management
116 (1.316 %)Risk Analysis
116 (1.316 %)System Testing
116 (1.316 %)TDD
116 (1.316 %)Configuration Management
116 (1.316 %)Service Management
125 (1.096 %)Data Management
125 (1.096 %)Stakeholder Management
125 (1.096 %)Performance Testing
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
139 (8.553 %)C
236 (7.895 %)Perl
333 (7.237 %)Shell Script
430 (6.579 %)SQL
526 (5.702 %)Java
612 (2.632 %)Korn
710 (2.193 %)Bash shell
88 (1.754 %)C++
96 (1.316 %)PHP
105 (1.096 %)VB
105 (1.096 %)AWK
113 (0.658 %)ActionScript
113 (0.658 %)C#
113 (0.658 %)ActionScript 3.0
122 (0.439 %)JavaScript
122 (0.439 %)VBA
122 (0.439 %)VB.NET
122 (0.439 %)ABAP
131 (0.219 %)Assembly Language
131 (0.219 %)PL/SQL
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
158 (12.72 %)Security Cleared
241 (8.991 %)SC Cleared
313 (2.851 %)Cisco Certification
411 (2.412 %)MCSE
411 (2.412 %)Microsoft Certification
59 (1.974 %)CCNA
66 (1.316 %)HNC
66 (1.316 %)HND
75 (1.096 %)ITIL Certification
75 (1.096 %)MCSA
84 (0.877 %)BC Cleared
84 (0.877 %)DV Cleared
84 (0.877 %)EMC Certification
84 (0.877 %)CCNP
93 (0.658 %)MCP
93 (0.658 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
93 (0.658 %)VCP4
102 (0.439 %)Degree
102 (0.439 %)MCITP
102 (0.439 %)CCDA
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
14 (0.877 %)SLA
22 (0.439 %)QA
22 (0.439 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
22 (0.439 %)GxP
31 (0.219 %)HL7
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
150 (10.96 %)VMware Infrastructure
248 (10.53 %)NFS
344 (9.649 %)Active Directory
424 (5.263 %)VMware ESX
520 (4.386 %)SRDF
619 (4.167 %)Veritas Volume Manager
717 (3.728 %)Veritas Cluster Server
812 (2.632 %)vSphere
911 (2.412 %)Veritas File System
1010 (2.193 %)Hyper-V
119 (1.974 %)Citrix Presentation Server
125 (1.096 %)ISA Server
134 (0.877 %)Tivoli Workload Scheduler
143 (0.658 %)Terminal Server
143 (0.658 %)Terminal Services
143 (0.658 %)XenApp
143 (0.658 %)EMC RecoverPoint
143 (0.658 %)Oracle RAC
152 (0.439 %)XenServer
152 (0.439 %)Oracle RMAN
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
150 (10.96 %)NetBackup
237 (8.114 %)EMC NetWorker
332 (7.018 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
422 (4.825 %)Legato
521 (4.605 %)Tivoli
615 (3.289 %)ARCserve
713 (2.851 %)Backup Exec
713 (2.851 %)EMC Navisphere
89 (1.974 %)EMC TimeFinder
95 (1.096 %)BMC PATROL
95 (1.096 %)MOM
95 (1.096 %)Systems Management Server (SMS)
95 (1.096 %)SCCM
95 (1.096 %)SCOM
103 (0.658 %)OpenView
103 (0.658 %)Veritas Storage Foundation
103 (0.658 %)WSUS
112 (0.439 %)Unicenter
112 (0.439 %)AppManager
112 (0.439 %)Netcool
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1101 (22.15 %)Cisco
295 (20.83 %)HP
392 (20.18 %)VMware
489 (19.52 %)Veritas
584 (18.42 %)NetApp
677 (16.89 %)IBM
767 (14.69 %)Brocade
854 (11.84 %)Sun
953 (11.62 %)Oracle
1042 (9.211 %)Citrix
1042 (9.211 %)Hitachi
1042 (9.211 %)Red Hat
1137 (8.114 %)Microsoft
1219 (4.167 %)Symantec
1318 (3.947 %)Dell
1414 (3.070 %)ADIC
1513 (2.851 %)SAP
1513 (2.851 %)BT
1612 (2.632 %)NetIQ
1710 (2.193 %)BMC