The first table below looks at the prevalence of the term Symmetrix DMX in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symmetrix DMX 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC Symmetrix DMX
Rank 479 529 514
Rank change year-on-year
+50 -15
Contract jobs citing Symmetrix DMX 61 52 66
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.129% 0.089% 0.110%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.489% 0.362% 0.390%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 32 46
Average daily rate £408 £406 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.30% -9.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £362 £353 £420
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £505
UK excluding London average daily rate £444 £400 £450
% change year-on-year
+10.93% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All of the Miscellaneous Category
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Miscellaneous category
12468 14366 16938
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 26.41% 24.57% 28.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 7504 8442 10060
Average daily rate £425 £425 £525
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -19.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £252 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £345 £340
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +1.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 553 669 716
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.33 £11.29
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.85 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year
-4.34% -13.20%

Symmetrix DMX
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Symmetrix DMX Jobs Demand Trend

Symmetrix DMX
Daily Rate Trend

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

Symmetrix DMX Daily Rate Trend

Symmetrix DMX
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Symmetrix DMX within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Symmetrix DMX Daily Rate Histogram

Symmetrix DMX
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Symmetrix DMX Hourly Rate Trend

Symmetrix DMX
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symmetrix DMX 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 +55 56 £408 -6.85%
London +30 45 £400 -11.11%
South East +26 10 £456 +4.28%
Surrey +22 8 £456 +1.38%
Scotland -15 4 £425 +8.97%
City of London +13 3 £358 -21.64%
Edinburgh +7 3 £400 +2.56%
Canary Wharf - 3 £525 -
Camberley 0 2 £450 +9.09%
Buckinghamshire - 2 - -
Milton Keynes - 2 - -
East Midlands - 1 - -
Northamptonshire - 1 - -
Northampton - 1 - -
Glasgow - 1 £450 -

Symmetrix DMX
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 90 (97.83%) EMC
2 75 (81.52%) SAN
3 48 (52.17%) UNIX
4 46 (50.00%) Solaris
5 43 (46.74%) Linux
6 37 (40.22%) Finance
7 36 (39.13%) CLARiiON
8 35 (38.04%) Veritas
9 34 (36.96%) Sun
10 33 (35.87%) Shell Script
10 33 (35.87%) Cisco
11 32 (34.78%) Oracle
12 31 (33.70%) VMware
13 30 (32.61%) Symmetrix
13 30 (32.61%) Banking
13 30 (32.61%) RDF
14 29 (31.52%) NetApp
14 29 (31.52%) SUSE
14 29 (31.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
15 28 (30.43%) Migration
15 28 (30.43%) Korn
15 28 (30.43%) AIX
16 26 (28.26%) Windows
16 26 (28.26%) Investment Banking
16 26 (28.26%) EMC Centera
16 26 (28.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
17 24 (26.09%) Sybase
18 21 (22.83%) ITIL
18 21 (22.83%) Perl
18 21 (22.83%) Problem Management

Symmetrix DMX
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (1.087%) WebSphere
1 1 (1.087%) LAMP
1 1 (1.087%) X-Windows
Application Platforms
1 19 (20.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.174%) SAS
3 1 (1.087%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.087%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.087%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 75 (81.52%) SAN
2 13 (14.13%) NAS
3 10 (10.87%) Connectrix
4 4 (4.348%) TCP/IP
4 4 (4.348%) VPN
4 4 (4.348%) Firewall
5 3 (3.261%) HTTP
6 2 (2.174%) Fibre Channel
7 1 (1.087%) Network Security
7 1 (1.087%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (19.57%) Oracle Exadata
2 1 (1.087%) SQL Server 2008
2 1 (1.087%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.087%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (1.087%) MySQL
2 1 (1.087%) SQL Server
General
1 37 (40.22%) Finance
2 30 (32.61%) Banking
3 26 (28.26%) Investment Banking
4 10 (10.87%) Financial Institution
5 5 (5.435%) Corporate Banking
6 1 (1.087%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 35 (38.04%) Administrator
2 24 (26.09%) UNIX Systems Administrator
3 20 (21.74%) Systems Administrator
4 19 (20.65%) Storage Engineer
4 19 (20.65%) UNIX Administrator
5 14 (15.22%) Storage Administrator
5 14 (15.22%) Consultant
6 13 (14.13%) Storage Consultant
7 5 (5.435%) UNIX Engineer
7 5 (5.435%) SAN Engineer
7 5 (5.435%) Architect
8 4 (4.348%) Developer
8 4 (4.348%) SAN Storage Engineer
8 4 (4.348%) Backup Engineer
8 4 (4.348%) Storage Architect
9 3 (3.261%) EMC Storage Administrator
9 3 (3.261%) Analyst
10 2 (2.174%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.174%) Team Leader
10 2 (2.174%) Storage Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 36 (39.13%) CLARiiON
2 30 (32.61%) Symmetrix
3 26 (28.26%) EMC Centera
4 19 (20.65%) Wiki
5 18 (19.57%) Celerra
6 6 (6.522%) Replication
7 5 (5.435%) Clustering
8 3 (3.261%) Hedge funds
9 2 (2.174%) Computer Science
10 1 (1.087%) Enterprise Storage
10 1 (1.087%) Open Source
10 1 (1.087%) Fat Client
10 1 (1.087%) Firmware
10 1 (1.087%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 48 (52.17%) UNIX
2 46 (50.00%) Solaris
3 43 (46.74%) Linux
4 29 (31.52%) SUSE
5 28 (30.43%) AIX
6 26 (28.26%) Windows
7 8 (8.696%) HPUX
8 7 (7.609%) VMS
9 4 (4.348%) zOS
9 4 (4.348%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (1.087%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (32.61%) RDF
2 28 (30.43%) Migration
3 21 (22.83%) ITIL
3 21 (22.83%) Problem Management
4 19 (20.65%) Change Management
5 9 (9.783%) Capacity Management
6 6 (6.522%) Fund Management
7 5 (5.435%) Business Transformation
7 5 (5.435%) Wealth Management
7 5 (5.435%) Business Continuity
8 4 (4.348%) BCP
8 4 (4.348%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (4.348%) Data Management
9 2 (2.174%) Project Management
9 2 (2.174%) Service Delivery
9 2 (2.174%) Load Balancing
9 2 (2.174%) Performance Management
9 2 (2.174%) Data Migration
9 2 (2.174%) Risk Analysis
9 2 (2.174%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 33 (35.87%) Shell Script
2 28 (30.43%) Korn
3 21 (22.83%) Perl
4 5 (5.435%) C
5 4 (4.348%) C++
5 4 (4.348%) Assembly Language
5 4 (4.348%) REXX
5 4 (4.348%) JCL
6 3 (3.261%) VB
7 2 (2.174%) VBScript
8 1 (1.087%) Java
8 1 (1.087%) PHP
Qualifications
1 6 (6.522%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.348%) SC Cleared
3 3 (3.261%) NCDA
4 2 (2.174%) Degree
5 1 (1.087%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.087%) EMC Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.522%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (31.52%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 26 (28.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 16 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 13 (14.13%) SRDF
5 4 (4.348%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 1 (1.087%) NFS
Systems Management
1 12 (13.04%) NetBackup
2 10 (10.87%) EMC TimeFinder
2 10 (10.87%) EMC NetWorker
3 9 (9.783%) Legato
4 8 (8.696%) Backup Exec
5 4 (4.348%) Tivoli
6 3 (3.261%) EMC Navisphere
6 3 (3.261%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 90 (97.83%) EMC
2 35 (38.04%) Veritas
3 34 (36.96%) Sun
4 33 (35.87%) Cisco
5 32 (34.78%) Oracle
6 31 (33.70%) VMware
7 29 (31.52%) NetApp
8 24 (26.09%) Sybase
9 18 (19.57%) Brocade
9 18 (19.57%) HP
10 16 (17.39%) IBM
11 8 (8.696%) Dell
12 6 (6.522%) 3PAR
13 5 (5.435%) Microsoft
13 5 (5.435%) CommVault
14 3 (3.261%) Fujitsu
14 3 (3.261%) Red Hat
15 2 (2.174%) Symantec
15 2 (2.174%) Isilon
16 1 (1.087%) StorageTek
London
Global financial institution requires a storage administrator for a contract position. You should have extensive hands on experience within a support function, preferably from within financial services.
Scope AT Ltd
Rate: negotiable
Posted: 7 May 2013