The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term EqualLogic in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EqualLogic over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second 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.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Dell EqualLogic
Rank 515 559 597
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +38
Contract jobs citing EqualLogic 26 11 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.019% 0.006%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.201% 0.077% 0.023%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 3
Average daily rate £438 £250 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+75.00% -23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £135 £215 £305
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £460 £365
UK excluding London average daily rate £135 £250 £375
% change year-on-year
-46.20% -33.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £18.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+80.55% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £18.00 -
% change year-on-year
+80.55% -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12964 14261 17263
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.94% 24.57% 27.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 7811 8294 10400
Average daily rate £425 £425 £501
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -15.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £243 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £601 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £328
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +5.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 691 684
Average hourly rate £22.25 £22.50 £22.81
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.11% -1.36%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.43 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.65 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £21.63 £22.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year
-3.88% -10.00%

EqualLogic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

EqualLogic Jobs Demand Trend

EqualLogic
Daily Rate Trend

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

EqualLogic Daily Rate Trend

EqualLogic
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EqualLogic within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

EqualLogic Daily Rate Histogram

EqualLogic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

EqualLogic Hourly Rate Trend

EqualLogic
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 EqualLogic within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +30 26 £438 +75.00% 9
London +31 12 £450 +46.34% 3
South East +31 5 - - 3
West Midlands - 5 £135 - 1
Yorkshire - 3 - - 1
Birmingham - 3 - -
Sheffield - 2 - -
South Yorkshire - 2 - -
Surrey - 1 - - 1
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
South West - 1 - - 1
Bristol - 1 - - 1
Bury - - - -
Cardiff - - - -
Chester - - - -
Egham - - - - 1
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Brighton - - - -
County Antrim - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Belfast - - - -
Tonbridge - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Berkshire - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Hampshire - - - -
Kent - - - - 2

EqualLogic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EqualLogic 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 EqualLogic.

1 37 (92.50%) Windows
2 35 (87.50%) Dell
3 30 (75.00%) SAN
4 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
4 27 (67.50%) Microsoft
5 25 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
6 24 (60.00%) VMware
7 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2003
7 21 (52.50%) MS Exchange
8 20 (50.00%) DHCP
8 20 (50.00%) DNS
8 20 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
9 18 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
10 15 (37.50%) VLAN
11 14 (35.00%) iSCSI
11 14 (35.00%) Hyper-V
11 14 (35.00%) Windows Server 2012
12 13 (32.50%) HP
12 13 (32.50%) Cisco
12 13 (32.50%) SQL
12 13 (32.50%) Firewall
13 12 (30.00%) CCNA
13 12 (30.00%) WAN
13 12 (30.00%) LAN
13 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
13 12 (30.00%) Windows XP
13 12 (30.00%) SCOM
13 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
14 11 (27.50%) MPLS
15 10 (25.00%) Symantec

EqualLogic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing EqualLogic 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 EqualLogic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 21 (52.50%) MS Exchange
2 20 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 9 (22.50%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (5.000%) IIS
4 2 (5.000%) Exchange Server 2007
5 1 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (10.00%) S-PLUS
2 3 (7.500%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 30 (75.00%) SAN
2 20 (50.00%) DHCP
2 20 (50.00%) DNS
3 15 (37.50%) VLAN
4 14 (35.00%) iSCSI
5 13 (32.50%) Firewall
6 12 (30.00%) WAN
6 12 (30.00%) LAN
7 11 (27.50%) MPLS
8 10 (25.00%) SMTP
9 9 (22.50%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (22.50%) Kerberos
10 7 (17.50%) VPN
11 6 (15.00%) BGP
11 6 (15.00%) EIGRP
11 6 (15.00%) MGCP
11 6 (15.00%) Ethernet
11 6 (15.00%) SSL
11 6 (15.00%) IP Telephony
11 6 (15.00%) FirePass
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (15.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (7.500%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (15.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (7.500%) Finance
3 1 (2.500%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 7 (17.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (15.00%) Technical Specialist
3 5 (12.50%) Consultant
4 4 (10.00%) VMware Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Hardware Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) EMC Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Exchange Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Wintel Engineer
5 3 (7.500%) Administrator
5 3 (7.500%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) VMware Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Systems Engineer
6 2 (5.000%) VMware Consultant
6 2 (5.000%) Data Administrator
7 1 (2.500%) Senior Storage Consultant
7 1 (2.500%) Systems Manager
7 1 (2.500%) Network Specialist
7 1 (2.500%) Microsoft Consultant
7 1 (2.500%) Windows Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.00%) Clustering
2 3 (7.500%) Celerra
2 3 (7.500%) Hedge funds
3 2 (5.000%) PKI
4 1 (2.500%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 37 (92.50%) Windows
2 25 (62.50%) Windows Server 2008
3 21 (52.50%) Windows Server 2003
4 14 (35.00%) Windows Server 2012
5 12 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 8 (20.00%) Windows 8
7 6 (15.00%) Linux
8 3 (7.500%) Windows 7
9 2 (5.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (2.500%) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 7 (17.50%) ITIL
2 7 (17.50%) Service Delivery
3 6 (15.00%) PRINCE2
3 6 (15.00%) Software Deployment
4 2 (5.000%) Change Management
5 1 (2.500%) Performance Management
5 1 (2.500%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 13 (32.50%) SQL
2 12 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (30.00%) CCNA
1 12 (30.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (25.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
3 7 (17.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 7 (17.50%) MCSE
4 5 (12.50%) CCNP
5 2 (5.000%) VCP4
5 2 (5.000%) MCITP
6 1 (2.500%) MCTS
6 1 (2.500%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (17.50%) QA
System Software
1 27 (67.50%) Active Directory
2 18 (45.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (35.00%) Hyper-V
4 5 (12.50%) vSphere
5 4 (10.00%) VMware ESX
6 3 (7.500%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (7.500%) NFS
7 2 (5.000%) XenServer
7 2 (5.000%) UAG
8 1 (2.500%) XenDesktop
8 1 (2.500%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 12 (30.00%) SCOM
2 9 (22.50%) WSUS
2 9 (22.50%) SCVMM
3 8 (20.00%) Backup Exec
4 6 (15.00%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (7.500%) Cacti
5 3 (7.500%) OpenNMS
5 3 (7.500%) SCCM
5 3 (7.500%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 35 (87.50%) Dell
2 27 (67.50%) Microsoft
3 24 (60.00%) VMware
4 13 (32.50%) HP
4 13 (32.50%) Cisco
5 10 (25.00%) Symantec
6 9 (22.50%) EMC
6 9 (22.50%) Broadcom
7 7 (17.50%) SonicWALL
8 6 (15.00%) CommVault
8 6 (15.00%) NetApp
8 6 (15.00%) Altiris
8 6 (15.00%) Zeacom
8 6 (15.00%) F5
9 5 (12.50%) Veeam
10 4 (10.00%) Citrix
10 4 (10.00%) Sun
11 2 (5.000%) Red Hat
11 2 (5.000%) WatchGuard
12 1 (2.500%) DataCore
Walsall, West Midlands
You will be provided with the training where and when required including VMware for VMware enterprise partner status, Cisco and Microsoft.Experience*The candidate will be capable of...
Hudson
Rate: £140 - £148 per day
Posted: 5 June 2013
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