The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Panasonic 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 Panasonic over the 3 months to 21 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 the Panasonic Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Panasonic
Rank 535 574 567
Rank change year-on-year
+39 -7
Contract jobs citing Panasonic 5 7 13
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.011% 0.012% 0.022%
As % of the Vendors category 0.023% 0.026% 0.046%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 9
Average daily rate - £175 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -56.25%
UK excluding London average daily rate - £175 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 £13.15
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -4.94%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £12.50 £12.50 -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £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 1218 1319 1577
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 £11.23 £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 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

Panasonic
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Panasonic Jobs Demand Trend

Panasonic
Daily Rate Trend

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

Panasonic Daily Rate Trend

Panasonic
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Panasonic Hourly Rate Trend

Panasonic
Top 4 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Panasonic within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 +43 5 - -
West Midlands +13 5 - -
Warwickshire -2 5 - -
Warwick - 2 - -

Panasonic
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Panasonic 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 Panasonic.

1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) EMC
2 5 (71.43%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) DHCP
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
3 4 (57.14%) Office 365
3 4 (57.14%) SCCM
4 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
5 1 (14.29%) CRM
5 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 1 (14.29%) VPN
5 1 (14.29%) C
5 1 (14.29%) MS Office
5 1 (14.29%) Content Management
5 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 1 (14.29%) Marketing
5 1 (14.29%) Photography
5 1 (14.29%) QA
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Middleware
5 1 (14.29%) 3G
5 1 (14.29%) Sony
5 1 (14.29%) SEO

Panasonic
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Panasonic 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 Panasonic. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (14.29%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Office 365
2 2 (28.57%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) DNS
1 5 (71.43%) DHCP
2 1 (14.29%) VPN
2 1 (14.29%) 3G
General
1 1 (14.29%) Marketing
1 1 (14.29%) Automotive
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Helpdesk Technician
2 1 (14.29%) Senior IT Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Desktop Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Technical Support
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Programme Manager
2 1 (14.29%) IT Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Photography
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (71.43%) Windows XP
2 5 (71.43%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (14.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (14.29%) CRM
1 1 (14.29%) E-Commerce
1 1 (14.29%) Content Management
1 1 (14.29%) Requirements Analysis
1 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (14.29%) SEO
1 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (57.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) HP
2 5 (71.43%) EMC
2 5 (71.43%) Cisco
3 1 (14.29%) Sony
3 1 (14.29%) AppSense
3 1 (14.29%) EPiServer
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix