The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Unisys 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 Unisys over the 3 months to 24 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 Unisys Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Unisys
Rank 517 572 569
Rank change year-on-year
+55 -3
Contract jobs citing Unisys 12 12 15
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.026% 0.021% 0.025%
As % of the Vendors category 0.055% 0.044% 0.053%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 6
Average daily rate £400 £426 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -2.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £368 £336 £388
10% offered a daily rate of more than £423 £465 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £388 £403 £438
% change year-on-year
-3.72% -8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21803 27081 28409
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.00% 46.44% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11623 13840 14202
Average daily rate £400 £400 £410
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -2.43%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £237 £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 1174 1312 1605
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.22 £11.50 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%

Unisys
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Unisys Jobs Demand Trend

Unisys
Daily Rate Trend

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

Unisys Daily Rate Trend

Unisys
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Unisys Hourly Rate Trend

Unisys
Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Unisys within the UK over the 3 months to 24 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 +45 11 £400 -6.15%
South East - 4 £369 -
Berkshire - 4 £369 -
Reading - 4 £369 -
London +36 2 £400 -11.11%
East of England +19 2 - -
Cambridgeshire - 2 - -
Peterborough - 2 - -
South West +23 1 £438 +8.69%
City of London +15 1 - -
Swindon -2 1 £438 +8.69%
Wiltshire -4 1 £438 +8.69%
Scotland - 1 - -
Midlands - 1 £400 -
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -
Edinburgh - 1 - -

Unisys
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Unisys 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 Unisys.

1 19 (70.37%) Mainframe
2 12 (44.44%) DB2
3 11 (40.74%) Finance
4 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (29.63%) Teradata
5 8 (29.63%) TOGAF
5 8 (29.63%) SQL
5 8 (29.63%) HP
6 7 (25.93%) IBM
6 7 (25.93%) COBOL
7 6 (22.22%) Sun
7 6 (22.22%) zOS
7 6 (22.22%) ALGOL
8 5 (18.52%) MVS
8 5 (18.52%) JCL
9 4 (14.81%) CICS
9 4 (14.81%) Micro Focus
9 4 (14.81%) Project Management
9 4 (14.81%) AIX
9 4 (14.81%) HPUX
9 4 (14.81%) Solaris
9 4 (14.81%) Linux
9 4 (14.81%) Banking
10 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
10 3 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
10 3 (11.11%) MS Excel
10 3 (11.11%) HTML
10 3 (11.11%) MS Office
10 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
11 2 (7.407%) WSDL

Unisys
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Unisys 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 Unisys. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (11.11%) HTML
2 2 (7.407%) WSDL
2 2 (7.407%) Middleware
2 2 (7.407%) FIXML
2 2 (7.407%) OLE DB
2 2 (7.407%) ASP
2 2 (7.407%) JSP
2 2 (7.407%) XML
2 2 (7.407%) XSL
2 2 (7.407%) ODBC
2 2 (7.407%) .NET
2 2 (7.407%) J2EE
2 2 (7.407%) WebSphere
2 2 (7.407%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.81%) CICS
2 2 (7.407%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (7.407%) SharePoint
2 2 (7.407%) IIS
2 2 (7.407%) Apache
2 2 (7.407%) Tomcat
2 2 (7.407%) Alfresco
Applications
1 3 (11.11%) MS Excel
1 3 (11.11%) MS Office
1 3 (11.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (3.704%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.407%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (44.44%) DB2
2 2 (7.407%) MS Access
2 2 (7.407%) Crystal Reports
2 2 (7.407%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (7.407%) WinDbg
General
1 11 (40.74%) Finance
2 4 (14.81%) Banking
3 2 (7.407%) Back Office
3 2 (7.407%) Telecoms
4 1 (3.704%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Infrastructure Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Architect
1 8 (29.63%) Analyst
2 4 (14.81%) Analyst Programmer
2 4 (14.81%) Programmer
2 4 (14.81%) Project Manager
2 4 (14.81%) Mainframe Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst Programmer
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (11.11%) Senior Programmer
3 3 (11.11%) Developer
3 3 (11.11%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Support Analyst
4 2 (7.407%) Applications Support
4 2 (7.407%) Mainframe Developer
4 2 (7.407%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.407%) Applications Support Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Middleware Analyst
5 1 (3.704%) Systems Analyst Programmer
5 1 (3.704%) Senior Systems Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 19 (70.37%) Mainframe
2 2 (7.407%) SWIFT
2 2 (7.407%) Open Source
3 1 (3.704%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.704%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) zOS
2 5 (18.52%) MVS
3 4 (14.81%) AIX
3 4 (14.81%) HPUX
3 4 (14.81%) Solaris
3 4 (14.81%) Linux
4 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (7.407%) Windows
4 2 (7.407%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (3.704%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (29.63%) TOGAF
3 4 (14.81%) Project Management
4 3 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 3 (11.11%) Zachman Framework
5 2 (7.407%) PRINCE
5 2 (7.407%) PRINCE2
5 2 (7.407%) UML
5 2 (7.407%) Document Management
5 2 (7.407%) Waterfall
6 1 (3.704%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (3.704%) Migration
6 1 (3.704%) Critical Path Analysis
Programming Languages
1 8 (29.63%) SQL
2 7 (25.93%) COBOL
3 6 (22.22%) ALGOL
4 5 (18.52%) JCL
5 2 (7.407%) Java
5 2 (7.407%) JavaScript
5 2 (7.407%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.407%) VBScript
6 1 (3.704%) LINC
6 1 (3.704%) VB
6 1 (3.704%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (7.407%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (3.704%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Teradata
1 8 (29.63%) HP
2 7 (25.93%) IBM
3 6 (22.22%) Sun
4 4 (14.81%) Micro Focus
5 2 (7.407%) Microsoft
5 2 (7.407%) Plumtree
5 2 (7.407%) Lotus
5 2 (7.407%) Oracle
5 2 (7.407%) JBoss
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