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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Riverbed
Rank 34 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.608% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.282% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £225 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £238 £450 £225
% change year-on-year
-47.22% +100.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.50 - -
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
156 176 87
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 47.42% 41.51% 33.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 89 37
Average daily rate £325 £315 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £425 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 18 14
Average hourly rate £20.00 £40.00 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-50.00% +220.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £47.50 £30.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Riverbed
Cambridgeshire

Riverbed
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Riverbed Jobs Demand Trend

Riverbed
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Riverbed 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 Riverbed.

1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (50.00%) Lync
3 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) Migration
3 2 (50.00%) Altiris
3 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) HP
3 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (50.00%) Intranet
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery

Riverbed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Riverbed 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 Riverbed. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) Lync
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) Wireless
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Intranet
2 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IPT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 2 (50.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Network Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Incident Management
2 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (25.00%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNA
2 1 (25.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) GAMP
1 1 (25.00%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Altiris
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) Polycom
2 2 (50.00%) Exinda