The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited EMC 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 for the West Midlands region.

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 EMC Corporation.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
EMC
Rank 72 87 83
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -4
Contract jobs citing EMC 23 16 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 1.393% 0.717% 0.580%
As % of the Vendors category 2.715% 1.463% 1.343%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 3 7
Average daily rate £330 £385 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-14.28% +50.98%
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £400 £350
% change year-on-year
-9.37% +14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
Average hourly rate £12.50 £20.00 £26.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.50% -23.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £26.75 £30.50 £33.00
% change year-on-year
-12.29% -7.57%
All Vendors
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
847 1094 819
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 51.30% 49.04% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 451 328
Average daily rate £325 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.51% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £225 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £494
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 98 92
Average hourly rate £19.50 £17.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+11.42% +20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £10.95 £10.97
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.80 £34.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
EMC
England

EMC
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

West Midlands EMC Jobs Demand Trend

EMC
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands EMC Daily Rate Trend

EMC
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands EMC Daily Rate Histogram

EMC
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands EMC Hourly Rate Trend

EMC
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

West Midlands EMC Hourly Rate Histogram

EMC
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing EMC within the West Midlands region 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
Warwickshire 0 7 - -
Birmingham +13 6 £320 -8.57%
Coventry -4 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £125 -
Herefordshire - 1 £200 -
EMC
England

EMC
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing EMC 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 EMC.

1 27 (49.09%) Windows
2 24 (43.64%) SAN
3 18 (32.73%) HP
3 18 (32.73%) Migration
4 16 (29.09%) VMware
5 15 (27.27%) Oracle
6 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
7 13 (23.64%) SQL
7 13 (23.64%) Windows Server 2008
8 12 (21.82%) Cisco
9 11 (20.00%) Solaris
10 10 (18.18%) Linux
11 9 (16.36%) UNIX
11 9 (16.36%) Citrix
11 9 (16.36%) Automotive
12 8 (14.55%) Validation
12 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
12 8 (14.55%) MS Exchange
13 7 (12.73%) LAN
13 7 (12.73%) NetApp
13 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2003
13 7 (12.73%) XenApp
13 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
13 7 (12.73%) Exchange Server 2010
14 6 (10.91%) Business Transformation
14 6 (10.91%) Wealth Management
14 6 (10.91%) Fund Management
14 6 (10.91%) Banking
14 6 (10.91%) Symmetrix
14 6 (10.91%) Investment Banking

EMC
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing EMC 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 EMC. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (1.818%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (14.55%) MS Exchange
2 7 (12.73%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (5.455%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (3.636%) Lync
4 2 (3.636%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (1.818%) SharePoint
5 1 (1.818%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (1.818%) Office Communications Server
5 1 (1.818%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 4 (7.273%) Office 365
2 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 24 (43.64%) SAN
2 7 (12.73%) LAN
3 6 (10.91%) WAN
3 6 (10.91%) DHCP
3 6 (10.91%) DNS
4 5 (9.091%) HTTP
5 4 (7.273%) NAS
6 1 (1.818%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.818%) Internet
6 1 (1.818%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.818%) VLAN
6 1 (1.818%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.636%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2000
2 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 9 (16.36%) Automotive
2 6 (10.91%) Banking
2 6 (10.91%) Investment Banking
2 6 (10.91%) Corporate Banking
2 6 (10.91%) Back Office
2 6 (10.91%) Aerospace
3 4 (7.273%) Electronics
4 1 (1.818%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.818%) Finance
4 1 (1.818%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (23.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Consultant
3 9 (16.36%) Storage Consultant
4 7 (12.73%) Architect
5 6 (10.91%) EMC Engineer
6 5 (9.091%) Administrator
6 5 (9.091%) Infrastructure Architect
7 4 (7.273%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (7.273%) UNIX Systems Administrator
7 4 (7.273%) Test Engineer
7 4 (7.273%) EMC Test Engineer
8 3 (5.455%) SAN Storage Consultant
8 3 (5.455%) EMC Storage Consultant
8 3 (5.455%) Storage Administrator
8 3 (5.455%) SAN Consultant
8 3 (5.455%) Helpdesk Technician
9 2 (3.636%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (3.636%) Data Consultant
9 2 (3.636%) Data Storage Consultant
9 2 (3.636%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.91%) Symmetrix
2 3 (5.455%) Replication
2 3 (5.455%) CLARiiON
2 3 (5.455%) Symmetrix DMX
3 2 (3.636%) Physics
3 2 (3.636%) Blackberry
4 1 (1.818%) iPhone
4 1 (1.818%) EqualLogic
4 1 (1.818%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.818%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.818%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 27 (49.09%) Windows
2 13 (23.64%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (20.00%) Solaris
4 10 (18.18%) Linux
5 9 (16.36%) UNIX
6 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2003
7 5 (9.091%) Windows XP
7 5 (9.091%) AIX
8 4 (7.273%) SUSE
9 2 (3.636%) HPUX
10 1 (1.818%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (32.73%) Migration
2 8 (14.55%) Validation
3 6 (10.91%) Fund Management
3 6 (10.91%) Wealth Management
3 6 (10.91%) Business Transformation
4 3 (5.455%) RDF
4 3 (5.455%) Business Continuity
5 2 (3.636%) High Availability
5 2 (3.636%) Data Migration
6 1 (1.818%) Data Architecture
6 1 (1.818%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (1.818%) Hazard Analysis
6 1 (1.818%) TOGAF
6 1 (1.818%) Network Design
6 1 (1.818%) Data Analysis
6 1 (1.818%) Incident Management
6 1 (1.818%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (1.818%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 13 (23.64%) SQL
2 3 (5.455%) Shell Script
2 3 (5.455%) Korn
3 1 (1.818%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.818%) C
3 1 (1.818%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
2 4 (7.273%) Microsoft Certification
3 3 (5.455%) Degree
4 2 (3.636%) HNC
4 2 (3.636%) HND
5 1 (1.818%) MCITP
5 1 (1.818%) VCP5
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.455%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (25.45%) Active Directory
2 7 (12.73%) XenApp
3 5 (9.091%) SRDF
4 3 (5.455%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (5.455%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 3 (5.455%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 2 (3.636%) Hyper-V
5 2 (3.636%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (3.636%) vSphere
6 1 (1.818%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (1.818%) ISA Server
6 1 (1.818%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (9.091%) SCCM
2 3 (5.455%) Tivoli Storage Manager
2 3 (5.455%) EMC TimeFinder
3 2 (3.636%) NetBackup
3 2 (3.636%) SCOM
4 1 (1.818%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.818%) WSUS
4 1 (1.818%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 18 (32.73%) HP
2 16 (29.09%) VMware
3 15 (27.27%) Oracle
4 12 (21.82%) Cisco
5 9 (16.36%) Citrix
6 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
7 7 (12.73%) NetApp
8 6 (10.91%) IBM
9 5 (9.091%) Veritas
9 5 (9.091%) Panasonic
10 4 (7.273%) Symantec
11 3 (5.455%) Sybase
11 3 (5.455%) 3PAR
11 3 (5.455%) Sun
12 1 (1.818%) Altiris
12 1 (1.818%) Sophos
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