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 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 the EMC Corporation.

EMC
Location
3 months to
16 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank187216244
Rank change year-on-year
Up+29Up+28
Matching contract IT job ads570501347
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK0.963 %0.816 %0.630 %
As % of the Vendors category2.078 %1.757 %1.432 %
Number of daily rates quoted316253157
Average daily rate£400£400£350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-+14.28 %
90% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£264£265£225
10% of contracts offered a daily rate of more than£500£500£500
UK excluding London average daily rate£400£350£325
% change year-on-year
+14.28 %+7.69 %
Number of hourly rates quoted292737
Average hourly rate£30.50£33.00£26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.57 %+26.92 %
90% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£17.00£22.25£21.80
10% of contracts offered a hourly rate of more than£41.50£36.00£39.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate£30.50£33.00£25.97
% change year-on-year
-7.57 %+27.06 %
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 %

EMC
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total 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 16 May 2012.

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 16 May 2012.

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 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+36521£400-
LondonUp+22236£400-6.43 %
South EastDown-391£450+26.31 %
City of LondonUp+4369£425-5.55 %
North WestUp+249£373-0.53 %
South WestUp+1248£400+1.26 %
East of EnglandUp+2340£388+19.30 %
ScotlandUp+639£389+21.48 %
GloucestershireUp+529£400+14.28 %
HampshireUp+1325£300-
SurreyUp+1424£500+56.86 %
CheshireUp+223£374-1.90 %
EdinburghUp+1221£390+14.03 %
BerkshireDown-2021£438-2.77 %
CheltenhamDown-718£400+40.35 %
ReadingUp+117£438-
West MidlandsDown-916£385+50.98 %
GloucesterNew entry-16£400-
YorkshireDown-1515£275-30.37 %
EssexUp+1714£450-
East MidlandsDown-314£350-6.51 %
StroudNew entry-12£400-
TewkesburyNew entry-12£400-
MerseysideUp+911£250-13.79 %
West YorkshireDown-811£338+12.50 %
LeedsDown-1210£338+12.50 %
ManchesterDown-1810£148-32.72 %
DerbyUp+69£400+6.83 %
DerbyshireUp+49£400+0.07 %
BedfordshireNew entry-9£375-

EMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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.

1510 (49.18 %)SAN
2446 (43.01 %)Windows
3361 (34.81 %)VMware
4257 (24.78 %)Cisco
5241 (23.24 %)NetApp
6227 (21.89 %)HP
7221 (21.31 %)UNIX
8215 (20.73 %)Migration
9214 (20.64 %)Linux
10204 (19.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
11198 (19.09 %)Active Directory
12187 (18.03 %)IBM
13182 (17.55 %)Microsoft
14173 (16.68 %)NAS
15166 (16.01 %)CLARiiON
16161 (15.53 %)Windows Server 2008
17158 (15.24 %)Windows Server 2003
18149 (14.37 %)Citrix
18149 (14.37 %)Finance
19144 (13.89 %)NetBackup
20142 (13.69 %)Security Cleared
21135 (13.02 %)SQL
21135 (13.02 %)Oracle
22130 (12.54 %)ITIL
23124 (11.96 %)Brocade
24122 (11.76 %)Symmetrix DMX
25118 (11.38 %)MS Exchange
26117 (11.28 %)Banking
27113 (10.90 %)TCP/IP
28111 (10.70 %)Solaris

EMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 16 May 2012, 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
146 (4.436 %)Middleware
231 (2.989 %)WebSphere
329 (2.797 %)XML
415 (1.446 %).NET
513 (1.254 %)HTML
610 (0.964 %)XSLT
610 (0.964 %)Web Services
79 (0.868 %)J2EE
88 (0.771 %)Application Packaging
96 (0.579 %)WDK
105 (0.482 %)POSIX
114 (0.386 %)SAML
123 (0.289 %)COM
123 (0.289 %)ISPF
123 (0.289 %)Forefront TMG
132 (0.193 %).NET Framework
132 (0.193 %)Flash
132 (0.193 %)COM+
132 (0.193 %)Spring
141 (0.096 %)SAP Basis
IT Contractor Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
1118 (11.38 %)MS Exchange
261 (5.882 %)Exchange Server 2010
353 (5.111 %)IIS
450 (4.822 %)Exchange Server 2007
548 (4.629 %)Documentum
642 (4.050 %)Exchange Server 2003
730 (2.893 %)WebLogic
730 (2.893 %)SharePoint
825 (2.411 %)Apache
923 (2.218 %)Blackberry Enterprise Server
1021 (2.025 %)WebSphere MQ
1118 (1.736 %)Tomcat
1215 (1.446 %)IBM HTTP Server
1215 (1.446 %)WebSphere Application Server
1314 (1.350 %)Lync
1412 (1.157 %)Office Communications Server
158 (0.771 %)SharePoint 2010
166 (0.579 %)Lotus Notes
175 (0.482 %)Oracle Application Server
175 (0.482 %)Captiva
IT Contractor Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
159 (5.689 %)MS Excel
235 (3.375 %)MS Office
317 (1.639 %)MS Visio
416 (1.543 %)Office 365
510 (0.964 %)MS Project
68 (0.771 %)MS PowerPoint
76 (0.579 %)CATIA
85 (0.482 %)MATLAB
91 (0.096 %)S-PLUS
91 (0.096 %)AutoCAD
IT Contractor Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
19 (0.868 %)Teamcenter
24 (0.386 %)RMDS
33 (0.289 %)assyst
42 (0.193 %)Maximo
51 (0.096 %)Oracle Applications
51 (0.096 %)Oracle EBS
51 (0.096 %)SoftGrid
51 (0.096 %)Tridion
51 (0.096 %)Dynamics NAV
IT Contractor Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
1510 (49.18 %)SAN
2173 (16.68 %)NAS
3113 (10.90 %)TCP/IP
4110 (10.61 %)Firewall
595 (9.161 %)DNS
675 (7.232 %)DHCP
773 (7.040 %)WAN
863 (6.075 %)Fibre Channel
950 (4.822 %)iSCSI
1047 (4.532 %)LAN
1134 (3.279 %)MPLS
1232 (3.086 %)VPN
1232 (3.086 %)VLAN
1326 (2.507 %)Internet
1424 (2.314 %)VoIP
1522 (2.122 %)Connectrix
1621 (2.025 %)PABX
1718 (1.736 %)Ethernet
1816 (1.543 %)Wireless
1913 (1.254 %)SSL
IT Contractor Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
186 (8.293 %)SQL Server
228 (2.700 %)SQL Server 2008
326 (2.507 %)SQL Server 2005
425 (2.411 %)RDBMS
515 (1.446 %)EDRMS
515 (1.446 %)Oracle 8/8i
613 (1.254 %)Oracle 11g
78 (0.771 %)Oracle 10g
78 (0.771 %)MySQL
86 (0.579 %)Data Warehouse
86 (0.579 %)DB2
86 (0.579 %)SQL Server 2000
95 (0.482 %)SQL Server Reporting Services
95 (0.482 %)EDMS
95 (0.482 %)Oracle Reports
103 (0.289 %)Oracle Exadata
112 (0.193 %)Informix
112 (0.193 %)Oracle 9i
112 (0.193 %)InterSystems Cache
121 (0.096 %)GIS
IT Contractor Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
116 (1.543 %)Eclipse
25 (0.482 %)ClearQuest
34 (0.386 %)Oracle Forms
34 (0.386 %)ProC
34 (0.386 %)RequisitePro
43 (0.289 %)ChangeMan
52 (0.193 %)K2 blackpoint
52 (0.193 %)Team Foundation Server
52 (0.193 %)Bugzilla
61 (0.096 %)LabVIEW
61 (0.096 %)Subversion
61 (0.096 %)MSI
61 (0.096 %)Ant
61 (0.096 %)ClearCase
61 (0.096 %)Hudson
IT Contractor Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1149 (14.37 %)Finance
2117 (11.28 %)Banking
343 (4.147 %)Telecoms
442 (4.050 %)Investment Banking
528 (2.700 %)Back Office
621 (2.025 %)Electronics
720 (1.929 %)Automotive
816 (1.543 %)French Language
816 (1.543 %)Manufacturing
99 (0.868 %)Legal
107 (0.675 %)Financial Institution
107 (0.675 %)Retail
116 (0.579 %)Law
124 (0.386 %)Marketing
124 (0.386 %)Avionics
124 (0.386 %)Pharmaceutical
133 (0.289 %)Military
142 (0.193 %)Retail Banking
142 (0.193 %)German Language
142 (0.193 %)Spanish Language
IT Contractor Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1115 (11.09 %)Administrator
2112 (10.80 %)Storage Engineer
3103 (9.932 %)Architect
495 (9.161 %)Consultant
594 (9.065 %)Analyst
650 (4.822 %)Storage Consultant
749 (4.725 %)Systems Administrator
845 (4.339 %)Storage Specialist
944 (4.243 %)Project Manager
1042 (4.050 %)Storage Administrator
1141 (3.954 %)Infrastructure Engineer
1236 (3.472 %)EMC Engineer
1334 (3.279 %)Storage Architect
1433 (3.182 %)UNIX Administrator
1433 (3.182 %)Support Engineer
1531 (2.989 %)Infrastructure Architect
1531 (2.989 %)Infrastructure Manager
1627 (2.604 %)UNIX Systems Administrator
1627 (2.604 %)Systems Engineer
1726 (2.507 %)Storage Analyst
IT Contractor Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
1166 (16.01 %)CLARiiON
2122 (11.76 %)Symmetrix DMX
3104 (10.03 %)Clustering
499 (9.547 %)Replication
566 (6.365 %)Symmetrix
662 (5.979 %)EMC Centera
760 (5.786 %)Celerra
838 (3.664 %)Enterprise Storage
926 (2.507 %)Blackberry
1025 (2.411 %)Firmware
1124 (2.314 %)Client/Server
1215 (1.446 %)Mainframe
139 (0.868 %)HACMP
148 (0.771 %)LPAR
157 (0.675 %)Cloud Computing
157 (0.675 %)Open Source
166 (0.579 %)Management Information System
175 (0.482 %)VHDL
175 (0.482 %)iSeries
175 (0.482 %)Field-Programmable Gate Array
IT Contractor Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1446 (43.01 %)Windows
2221 (21.31 %)UNIX
3214 (20.64 %)Linux
4161 (15.53 %)Windows Server 2008
5158 (15.24 %)Windows Server 2003
6111 (10.70 %)Solaris
776 (7.329 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
860 (5.786 %)AIX
937 (3.568 %)HPUX
1028 (2.700 %)Windows 2000 Server
1124 (2.314 %)Windows XP
1216 (1.543 %)Windows 7
1313 (1.254 %)Windows 2000
1313 (1.254 %)zOS
1412 (1.157 %)SUSE
154 (0.386 %)NetWare
163 (0.289 %)MVS
163 (0.289 %)VMS
163 (0.289 %)CentOS
163 (0.289 %)Windows Vista
IT Contractor Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1215 (20.73 %)Migration
2130 (12.54 %)ITIL
352 (5.014 %)Disaster Recovery
450 (4.822 %)Project Management
544 (4.243 %)Load Balancing
642 (4.050 %)Data Migration
741 (3.954 %)Capacity Management
834 (3.279 %)Data Protection
933 (3.182 %)Change Control
1030 (2.893 %)Capacity Planning
1127 (2.604 %)Network Design
1223 (2.218 %)PRINCE2
1322 (2.122 %)Performance Management
1420 (1.929 %)Service Delivery
1519 (1.832 %)Incident Management
1618 (1.736 %)Data Management
1717 (1.639 %)Business Continuity
1717 (1.639 %)Root Cause Analysis
1815 (1.446 %)Network Load Balancing
1914 (1.350 %)Network Architecture
IT Contractor Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1135 (13.02 %)SQL
262 (5.979 %)Perl
347 (4.532 %)C
442 (4.050 %)Java
539 (3.761 %)PowerShell
635 (3.375 %)Shell Script
716 (1.543 %)VB
813 (1.254 %)VBScript
912 (1.157 %)Bash shell
109 (0.868 %)JavaScript
109 (0.868 %)Korn
118 (0.771 %)C#
118 (0.771 %)C++
127 (0.675 %)Python
134 (0.386 %)C-shell
134 (0.386 %)PL/SQL
143 (0.289 %)JCL
143 (0.289 %)REXX
143 (0.289 %)VBA
152 (0.193 %)Embedded C
IT Contractor Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1142 (13.69 %)Security Cleared
277 (7.425 %)SC Cleared
356 (5.400 %)Microsoft Certification
445 (4.339 %)DV Cleared
540 (3.857 %)VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
638 (3.664 %)MCSE
729 (2.797 %)Cisco Certification
827 (2.604 %)Degree
924 (2.314 %)MCITP
1021 (2.025 %)CCNA
1116 (1.543 %)NCDA
1212 (1.157 %)MCP
1311 (1.061 %)Citrix Certification
1311 (1.061 %)MCTS
1410 (0.964 %)CCNP
159 (0.868 %)MCSA
168 (0.771 %)CCA
168 (0.771 %)ITIL Certification
176 (0.579 %)CCIE
176 (0.579 %)PMI Certification
IT Contractor Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
126 (2.507 %)SLA
26 (0.579 %)QA
26 (0.579 %)ISO 9001
34 (0.386 %)Sarbanes-Oxley
43 (0.289 %)ISO 9000
52 (0.193 %)COBIT
52 (0.193 %)PCI DSS
61 (0.096 %)ISO/IEC 17799
61 (0.096 %)JTAG
61 (0.096 %)ISO/IEC 27001
61 (0.096 %)IEC 61508
IT Contractor Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
1204 (19.67 %)VMware Infrastructure
2198 (19.09 %)Active Directory
3103 (9.932 %)vSphere
457 (5.497 %)SRDF
553 (5.111 %)NFS
652 (5.014 %)XenApp
749 (4.725 %)VMware ESX
840 (3.857 %)XenDesktop
929 (2.797 %)EMC RecoverPoint
1023 (2.218 %)Veritas Cluster Server
1120 (1.929 %)Hyper-V
1212 (1.157 %)Veritas Volume Manager
1310 (0.964 %)UAG
148 (0.771 %)Xen
148 (0.771 %)ISA Server
157 (0.675 %)Terminal Services
157 (0.675 %)VMware Server
157 (0.675 %)Oracle RAC
166 (0.579 %)VMware ESXi
166 (0.579 %)Veritas File System
IT Contractor Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1144 (13.89 %)NetBackup
2100 (9.643 %)EMC NetWorker
352 (5.014 %)Tivoli
451 (4.918 %)SCCM
550 (4.822 %)Tivoli Storage Manager
634 (3.279 %)SCOM
731 (2.989 %)Ionix
731 (2.989 %)EMC TimeFinder
824 (2.314 %)EMC Navisphere
922 (2.122 %)Cacti
1017 (1.639 %)vCenter
1115 (1.446 %)Backup Exec
1115 (1.446 %)Legato
1115 (1.446 %)ARCserve
1115 (1.446 %)OpenView
1115 (1.446 %)McAfee ePO
1213 (1.254 %)Unicenter
1312 (1.157 %)CiscoWorks
1410 (0.964 %)Control-M
159 (0.868 %)BMC PATROL
IT Contractor Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1361 (34.81 %)VMware
2257 (24.78 %)Cisco
3241 (23.24 %)NetApp
4227 (21.89 %)HP
5187 (18.03 %)IBM
6182 (17.55 %)Microsoft
7149 (14.37 %)Citrix
8135 (13.02 %)Oracle
9124 (11.96 %)Brocade
1093 (8.968 %)Symantec
1183 (8.004 %)Red Hat
1271 (6.847 %)Veritas
1346 (4.436 %)Dell
1437 (3.568 %)CheckPoint
1535 (3.375 %)CommVault
1632 (3.086 %)Remedy
1731 (2.989 %)3PAR
1731 (2.989 %)Sun
1830 (2.893 %)Hitachi
1927 (2.604 %)Riverbed