The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Veritas products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Veritas over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Berkshire 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 Veritas Software.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas
Rank 114 129 107
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -22
Contract jobs citing Veritas 7 9 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.299% 0.284% 0.763%
As % of the Vendors category 0.607% 0.591% 1.470%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 8
Average daily rate - £240 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -42.85%
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £350 £363
% change year-on-year
+17.85% -3.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Average hourly rate - - £26.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £25.75
% change year-on-year
-45.71% +35.92%
All Vendors
Berkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1153 1524 1565
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Berkshire 49.25% 48.08% 51.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 450 532 552
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £140 £225 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £495 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 90
Average hourly rate £23.50 £27.00 £26.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.96% +1.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £11.75 £10.95
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Veritas
South East

Veritas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Veritas Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Veritas Daily Rate Trend

Veritas
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Berkshire Veritas Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Reading +10 7 - - 2
Bracknell - - - - 1
Veritas
South East

Veritas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Veritas 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 Veritas.

1 10 (90.91%) SAN
1 10 (90.91%) NAS
2 8 (72.73%) Veritas File System
2 8 (72.73%) Solaris
3 7 (63.64%) Oracle
3 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
3 7 (63.64%) Migration
3 7 (63.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 7 (63.64%) Data Migration
3 7 (63.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
4 5 (45.45%) UNIX
5 4 (36.36%) NFS
5 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
6 3 (27.27%) Windows
6 3 (27.27%) HP
6 3 (27.27%) Legato
6 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (27.27%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 3 (27.27%) QA
6 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
6 3 (27.27%) System Testing
6 3 (27.27%) Product Management
6 3 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
8 1 (9.091%) Subversion
8 1 (9.091%) VLAN
8 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
8 1 (9.091%) Remedy
8 1 (9.091%) Linux
8 1 (9.091%) ClearCase

Veritas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Berkshire region citing Veritas 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 Veritas. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 10 (90.91%) SAN
1 10 (90.91%) NAS
2 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
3 1 (9.091%) VLAN
3 1 (9.091%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) Subversion
1 1 (9.091%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 2 (18.18%) Build Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Implementation Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Storage Engineer
1 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Senior Tester
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Server Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) QA Tester
2 1 (9.091%) QA Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Tester
2 1 (9.091%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (9.091%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (9.091%) Solaris Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Tester
2 1 (9.091%) Consultant
2 1 (9.091%) Systems Administrator
2 1 (9.091%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
Operating Systems
1 8 (72.73%) Solaris
2 5 (45.45%) UNIX
3 3 (27.27%) Windows
4 1 (9.091%) Linux
4 1 (9.091%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Migration
1 7 (63.64%) Data Migration
2 3 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) System Testing
2 3 (27.27%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Shell Script
2 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (72.73%) Veritas File System
2 7 (63.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 7 (63.64%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (36.36%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Legato
1 3 (27.27%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (63.64%) Oracle
2 3 (27.27%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) Red Hat
3 1 (9.091%) Remedy
3 1 (9.091%) Sun
Reading, Berkshire
Should be well versed with Veritas Cluster(VCS) and storage software VxVM... Should have knowledge of SAN and NAS technologies concepts... Should have knowledge on Data Migration tools.
Avance Consulting
Posted: 13 June 2013