West Midlands EMC Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of EMC products and/or services in IT contracts within the West Midlands region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited EMC over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bognor Regis Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Cumbria Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Feltham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire London Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Norfolk North East North West Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Penrith Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Sale Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Stockport Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Wells West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Wiltshire Wokingham Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	114	103
Rank change on same period last year	-11
Matching contract IT job ads	8	25
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.671 %	1.574 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£400
Average daily rate	-	£500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£600
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£418
% change on same period last year	-9.11 %
Hourly rates quoted	4	17
Average minimum hourly rate	£34.25	£43.94
Average hourly rate	£35.00	£48.44
% change on same period last year	-27.74 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£35.75	£52.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.43	£34.29
% change on same period last year	-11.24 %
Vendors West Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1193	1588
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.588 %	1.610 %
Daily rates quoted	275	349
Average minimum daily rate	£330	£322
Average daily rate	£350	£341
% change on same period last year	+2.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£370	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£358
% change on same period last year	-0.23 %
Hourly rates quoted	133	245
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.22	£25.90
Average hourly rate	£21.64	£28.48
% change on same period last year	-24.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.07	£31.06
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.26	£24.93
% change on same period last year	-6.69 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the EMC Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing EMC across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section 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 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Coventry	-12	4	-	-
Shropshire	-	1	-	-
Warwickshire	-8	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 11 (61.11 %) Security Cleared 2 9 (50.00 %) SAN 3 7 (38.89 %) UNIX 3 7 (38.89 %) Windows 3 7 (38.89 %) DNS 3 7 (38.89 %) Active Directory 3 7 (38.89 %) HP 4 6 (33.33 %) Cisco 4 6 (33.33 %) Solaris 4 6 (33.33 %) Linux 4 6 (33.33 %) Windows NT 4 6 (33.33 %) Red Hat 4 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 4 6 (33.33 %) Fedora 5 5 (27.78 %) Subversion

5 5 (27.78 %) 3Com 5 5 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 5 5 (27.78 %) Configuration Management 5 5 (27.78 %) Tru64 5 5 (27.78 %) Dell 6 4 (22.22 %) C 6 4 (22.22 %) Ethernet 6 4 (22.22 %) Electronics 6 4 (22.22 %) Mentor Graphics 6 4 (22.22 %) Military 6 4 (22.22 %) Government 6 4 (22.22 %) Altiris 7 3 (16.67 %) EMC NetWorker 7 3 (16.67 %) Aerospace 7 3 (16.67 %) Legato

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, 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 Platforms 1 1 (5.556 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (5.556 %) Site Server 1 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2000 1 1 (5.556 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 9 (50.00 %) SAN 2 7 (38.89 %) DNS 3 4 (22.22 %) Ethernet 4 1 (5.556 %) TCP/IP 4 1 (5.556 %) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 1 1 (5.556 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 5 (27.78 %) Subversion
General 1 4 (22.22 %) Electronics 1 4 (22.22 %) Government 1 4 (22.22 %) Military 2 3 (16.67 %) Aerospace 3 2 (11.11 %) Automotive 3 2 (11.11 %) Legal 3 2 (11.11 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 4 (22.22 %) Electronics Engineer 2 3 (16.67 %) Administrator 2 3 (16.67 %) Design Engineer 2 3 (16.67 %) Test Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) Server Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) EMC Engineer 3 2 (11.11 %) Systems Administrator 4 1 (5.556 %) SAN Administrator 4 1 (5.556 %) UNIX Team Leader 4 1 (5.556 %) SAN Consultant 4 1 (5.556 %) Technical Team Leader 4 1 (5.556 %) UNIX Engineer 4 1 (5.556 %) Architect 4 1 (5.556 %) Consultant 4 1 (5.556 %) Team Leader
Miscellaneous 1 1 (5.556 %) Device Driver	Operating Systems 1 7 (38.89 %) UNIX 1 7 (38.89 %) Windows 2 6 (33.33 %) Solaris 2 6 (33.33 %) Linux 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows NT 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (33.33 %) Fedora 3 5 (27.78 %) Tru64 4 1 (5.556 %) NetWare 4 1 (5.556 %) AIX 4 1 (5.556 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (61.11 %) Security Cleared 2 5 (27.78 %) SC Cleared 2 5 (27.78 %) Configuration Management 3 2 (11.11 %) Validation 4 1 (5.556 %) Migration 4 1 (5.556 %) Network Load Balancing 4 1 (5.556 %) Disaster Recovery	Programming Languages 1 4 (22.22 %) C
System Software 1 7 (38.89 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 3 (16.67 %) Legato 1 3 (16.67 %) EMC NetWorker
Vendors 1 7 (38.89 %) HP 2 6 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 6 (33.33 %) Red Hat 3 5 (27.78 %) 3Com 3 5 (27.78 %) Dell 4 4 (22.22 %) Altiris 4 4 (22.22 %) Mentor Graphics 5 2 (11.11 %) Microsoft 6 1 (5.556 %) Novell 6 1 (5.556 %) IBM