The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec 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 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 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 the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 58 65 53
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -12
Contract jobs citing Symantec 5 1 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 0.680% 0.124% 2.364%
As % of the Vendors category 1.359% 0.220% 4.792%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 13
Average daily rate £325 - £265
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £275
% change year-on-year
-15.62% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Average hourly rate £37.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% -7.50%
All Vendors
Cheshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
368 455 480
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cheshire 50.07% 56.52% 49.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 223 254
Average daily rate £370 £355 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.22% +1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £285 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £415
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 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 £11.78 £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 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Symantec
North West

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Symantec across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Cheshire Symantec Hourly Rate Histogram

Symantec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symantec within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Chester - 2 - -
Symantec
North West

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
3 5 (71.43%) SCCM
3 5 (71.43%) XenApp
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft App-V
3 5 (71.43%) AppSense
3 5 (71.43%) Citrix
4 4 (57.14%) ITIL
4 4 (57.14%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 4 (57.14%) Local Government
5 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
5 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
5 3 (42.86%) McAfee
6 2 (28.57%) Service Management
6 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
7 1 (14.29%) Postfix
7 1 (14.29%) NAS
7 1 (14.29%) IronPort
7 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
7 1 (14.29%) MCTS
7 1 (14.29%) MCITP
7 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
7 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
7 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
7 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
7 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
7 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
7 1 (14.29%) Symantec Enterprise Vault

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 Development
1 1 (14.29%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (14.29%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 1 (14.29%) IIS
1 1 (14.29%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) NAS
1 1 (14.29%) SAN
1 1 (14.29%) SMTP
1 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
1 1 (14.29%) DNS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) AdminStudio
General
1 4 (57.14%) Local Government
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
1 2 (28.57%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (14.29%) Messaging Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Installations Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Specialist
2 1 (14.29%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Clustering
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
1 1 (14.29%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) Windows XP
2 6 (85.71%) Windows 7
3 3 (42.86%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Migration
2 4 (57.14%) ITIL
3 3 (42.86%) PRINCE2
4 2 (28.57%) Service Management
5 1 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
5 1 (14.29%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) MCTS
1 1 (14.29%) MCITP
1 1 (14.29%) MCSE
1 1 (14.29%) MCSA
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) XenApp
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (57.14%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (14.29%) Postfix
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
2 1 (14.29%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 1 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) AppSense
1 5 (71.43%) Citrix
2 3 (42.86%) McAfee
3 1 (14.29%) IronPort
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
Cheshire, North West
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Posted: 16 May 2013