The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Hitachi 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 Hitachi over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second 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 Hitachi Ltd.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Hitachi
Rank 498 536 487
Rank change year-on-year
+38 -49
Contract jobs citing Hitachi 32 42 101
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.069% 0.072% 0.165%
As % of the Vendors category 0.147% 0.155% 0.354%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 23 74
Average daily rate £450 £400 £418
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -4.19%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £236 £310 £255
10% offered a daily rate of more than £565 £515 £543
UK excluding London average daily rate £475 £390 £375
% change year-on-year
+21.79% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £40.00 £16.85
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +137.38%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21775 27088 28510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.93% 46.48% 46.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11633 13855 14263
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1193 1289 1605
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Hitachi
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hitachi Jobs Demand Trend

Hitachi
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hitachi Daily Rate Trend

Hitachi
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Hitachi within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Hitachi Daily Rate Histogram

Hitachi
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hitachi Hourly Rate Trend

Hitachi
Top 24 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Hitachi within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 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
England +35 26 £450 +2.85%
London +21 13 £425 -10.52%
South East +18 4 £506 +22.72%
North West +11 4 £180 -44.61%
South Yorkshire +1 3 £500 -
Yorkshire 0 3 £500 -
Cheshire - 3 £328 -
Doncaster - 3 £500 -
Surrey +22 2 £413 -8.33%
Camberley 0 2 £413 -
Berkshire +13 1 £600 +166.66%
City of London +8 1 £425 -10.52%
Manchester +5 1 £175 -46.15%
East Midlands +2 1 £290 -31.76%
Winchester -2 1 - -
Hampshire -6 1 - -
South West - 1 - -
Wiltshire - 1 - -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £290 -
Maidenhead - 1 £600 -
Warrington - 1 £475 -
Swindon - 1 - -
Nottingham - 1 £290 -
Knutsford - 1 £180 -

Hitachi
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Hitachi 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 Hitachi.

1 28 (56.00%) SAN
2 20 (40.00%) VMware
3 18 (36.00%) Brocade
3 18 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (34.00%) NetApp
4 17 (34.00%) HP
5 16 (32.00%) EMC
5 16 (32.00%) IBM
5 16 (32.00%) NAS
6 15 (30.00%) Oracle
7 14 (28.00%) Windows
8 13 (26.00%) UNIX
8 13 (26.00%) Cisco
9 12 (24.00%) Data Management
10 11 (22.00%) Symantec
10 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
11 10 (20.00%) Citrix
11 10 (20.00%) Migration
12 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2003
12 9 (18.00%) AIX
12 9 (18.00%) Linux
12 9 (18.00%) Fibre Channel
13 8 (16.00%) Hyper-V
14 7 (14.00%) HP ASE
14 7 (14.00%) HP MASE
14 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
14 7 (14.00%) vSphere
14 7 (14.00%) XenServer
14 7 (14.00%) Finance
14 7 (14.00%) NetBackup

Hitachi
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Hitachi 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 Hitachi. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (6.000%) .NET
2 1 (2.000%) Web Services
2 1 (2.000%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 5 (10.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 3 (6.000%) SharePoint
2 3 (6.000%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 2 (4.000%) MS Office
2 1 (2.000%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.000%) Office 365
2 1 (2.000%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 2 (4.000%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.000%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.000%) Oracle ASCP
Communications & Networking
1 28 (56.00%) SAN
2 16 (32.00%) NAS
3 9 (18.00%) Fibre Channel
4 6 (12.00%) iSCSI
5 3 (6.000%) TCP/IP
6 2 (4.000%) HTTP
7 1 (2.000%) VPN
7 1 (2.000%) DNS
7 1 (2.000%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (2.000%) Internet
7 1 (2.000%) Firewall
7 1 (2.000%) Wireless
7 1 (2.000%) LAN
7 1 (2.000%) VoIP
7 1 (2.000%) WAN
7 1 (2.000%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.000%) SQL Server
1 3 (6.000%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 7 (14.00%) Finance
2 4 (8.000%) Banking
3 3 (6.000%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.000%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.000%) Financial Institution
5 1 (2.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Consultant
2 15 (30.00%) Storage Engineer
3 9 (18.00%) Storage Consultant
4 5 (10.00%) Architect
4 5 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
5 4 (8.000%) SAN Engineer
5 4 (8.000%) SAN Storage Engineer
5 4 (8.000%) Backup Engineer
6 3 (6.000%) AIX Engineer
6 3 (6.000%) Storage Specialist
6 3 (6.000%) Microsoft Consultant
6 3 (6.000%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.000%) Administrator
6 3 (6.000%) Oracle Consultant
6 3 (6.000%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (4.000%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.000%) Project Manager
7 2 (4.000%) Management Consultant
7 2 (4.000%) Solutions Consultant
7 2 (4.000%) Enterprise Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) HP StorageWorks
1 7 (14.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 6 (12.00%) Firmware
3 4 (8.000%) Hedge funds
4 3 (6.000%) Management Information System
5 2 (4.000%) Replication
5 2 (4.000%) CLARiiON
5 2 (4.000%) Clustering
5 2 (4.000%) HACMP
6 1 (2.000%) Equities
6 1 (2.000%) LPAR
6 1 (2.000%) Symmetrix DMX
6 1 (2.000%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 14 (28.00%) Windows
2 13 (26.00%) UNIX
3 9 (18.00%) AIX
3 9 (18.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (18.00%) Linux
4 7 (14.00%) Windows Server 2008
5 5 (10.00%) Solaris
6 4 (8.000%) HPUX
7 3 (6.000%) Windows XP
7 3 (6.000%) Windows 8
8 1 (2.000%) NetWare
8 1 (2.000%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (2.000%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (24.00%) Data Management
2 10 (20.00%) Migration
3 5 (10.00%) Capacity Management
4 4 (8.000%) TOGAF
5 3 (6.000%) Change Management
5 3 (6.000%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.000%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (4.000%) Project Management
6 2 (4.000%) Data Migration
7 1 (2.000%) Data Protection
7 1 (2.000%) Disaster Recovery
7 1 (2.000%) Risk Management
7 1 (2.000%) ITIL
7 1 (2.000%) CRM
7 1 (2.000%) ERP
7 1 (2.000%) Project Governance
7 1 (2.000%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 6 (12.00%) Shell Script
2 3 (6.000%) Perl
2 3 (6.000%) SQL
3 1 (2.000%) C
3 1 (2.000%) C++
3 1 (2.000%) Java
3 1 (2.000%) Korn
3 1 (2.000%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 7 (14.00%) HP ASE
1 7 (14.00%) HP MASE
1 7 (14.00%) NCDA
1 7 (14.00%) NCIE
2 3 (6.000%) Security Cleared
3 1 (2.000%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.000%) QA
System Software
1 18 (36.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 7 (14.00%) XenServer
3 7 (14.00%) Active Directory
3 7 (14.00%) vSphere
4 5 (10.00%) NDS
5 3 (6.000%) NFS
5 3 (6.000%) Oracle RAC
5 3 (6.000%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 3 (6.000%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 3 (6.000%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 3 (6.000%) XenApp
6 2 (4.000%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 7 (14.00%) NetBackup
1 7 (14.00%) Backup Exec
1 7 (14.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (4.000%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (2.000%) Legato
3 1 (2.000%) Tivoli
3 1 (2.000%) EMC NetWorker
3 1 (2.000%) SCCM
3 1 (2.000%) HP Data Protector
3 1 (2.000%) PureDisk
Vendors
1 20 (40.00%) VMware
2 18 (36.00%) Brocade
3 17 (34.00%) NetApp
3 17 (34.00%) HP
4 16 (32.00%) EMC
4 16 (32.00%) IBM
5 15 (30.00%) Oracle
6 13 (26.00%) Cisco
7 11 (22.00%) Symantec
7 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
8 10 (20.00%) Citrix
9 7 (14.00%) 3PAR
10 5 (10.00%) Novell
10 5 (10.00%) Veritas
11 3 (6.000%) StorageTek
11 3 (6.000%) SAP
12 1 (2.000%) Sun
12 1 (2.000%) Compaq
12 1 (2.000%) SGI
12 1 (2.000%) Veeam