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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LANDesk
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing LANDesk 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £300 £90
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +233.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.63 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-2.34% -15.78%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
363 463 489
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 50.28% 57.30% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 141 230 262
Average daily rate £373 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.92% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £285 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £493 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 11 12
Average hourly rate £37.50 £15.75 £12.46
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+138.09% +26.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £14.00 £8.75
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £30.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
LANDesk
North West

LANDesk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire LANDesk Jobs Demand Trend

LANDesk
Daily Rate Trend

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

Cheshire LANDesk Daily Rate Trend

LANDesk
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire region citing LANDesk 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 LANDesk.

1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7

LANDesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Windows 7
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (100.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) VMware