The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec 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 Symantec over the 3 months to 21 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 the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 37 48 31
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -17
Contract jobs citing Symantec 2 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.595% 0.482% 0.826%
As % of the Vendors category 1.290% 1.163% 2.353%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 2
Average daily rate - - £331
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £275
% change year-on-year
-15.62% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% -7.50%
All Vendors
Cambridge
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
155 172 85
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridge 46.13% 41.45% 35.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 81 38
Average daily rate £300 £303 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.82% -6.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £200 £200
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 20 19 15
Average hourly rate £24.95 £40.00 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.62% +196.29%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.88 £10.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £47.50 £31.80
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Symantec
Cambridgeshire

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Symantec Jobs Demand Trend

Symantec
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Symantec Daily Rate Trend

Symantec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Cambridge Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Symantec 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 Symantec.

1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 7 (100.00%) SCOM
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
1 7 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (85.71%) WSUS
2 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2007
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
2 6 (85.71%) Blackberry
2 6 (85.71%) PKI
2 6 (85.71%) DHCP
2 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 6 (85.71%) Linux
3 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridge region citing Symantec 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 Symantec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 7 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 6 (85.71%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 7 (100.00%) Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Blackberry
1 6 (85.71%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (85.71%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) ITIL
2 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
System Software
1 7 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 7 (100.00%) Backup Exec
1 7 (100.00%) SCOM
1 7 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 6 (85.71%) WSUS
3 1 (14.29%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) Oracle
2 6 (85.71%) Red Hat
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix