Cheshire VERITAS Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VERITAS products and/or services in IT contracts within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VERITAS over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barking Barnsley Basildon Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chichester City of London County Antrim Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hayes Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rickmansworth Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	45	59
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching contract IT job ads	15	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	3.759 %	0.815 %
Daily rates quoted	5	0
Average minimum daily rate	£430	-
Average daily rate	£505	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£580	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£365	£384
% change on same period last year	-4.88 %
Hourly rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.00	-
Average hourly rate	£25.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.00	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.55	£30.00
% change on same period last year	-8.16 %
Vendors Cheshire
Matching contract IT job ads	399	368
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.527 %	0.367 %
Daily rates quoted	117	91
Average minimum daily rate	£336	£309
Average daily rate	£352	£321
% change on same period last year	+9.56 %
Average maximum daily rate	£368	£334
UK excluding London average daily rate	£358	£358
% change on same period last year	+0.06 %
Hourly rates quoted	56	30
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.67	£23.59
Average hourly rate	£24.75	£24.78
% change on same period last year	-0.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.82	£25.96
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£24.82
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
VERITAS North West

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the VERITAS Software Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VERITAS across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

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

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VERITAS across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VERITAS across the Cheshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VERITAS within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Chester	-	5	-	-
Knutsford	-	1	£425	-
Warrington	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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 32 (96.97 %) UNIX 2 28 (84.85 %) Solaris 2 28 (84.85 %) AIX 3 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli 3 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 3 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli Storage Manager 4 25 (75.76 %) HACMP 4 25 (75.76 %) Middleware 4 25 (75.76 %) HPUX 4 25 (75.76 %) TCP/IP 4 25 (75.76 %) SNA 4 25 (75.76 %) Perl 4 25 (75.76 %) Korn 5 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 5 4 (12.12 %) SAN

5 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 5 4 (12.12 %) Linux 5 4 (12.12 %) HP 6 3 (9.091 %) EMC 6 3 (9.091 %) Sun 6 3 (9.091 %) Red Hat 6 3 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 6 3 (9.091 %) Software Engineering 6 3 (9.091 %) Red Hat Linux 7 2 (6.061 %) NetBackup 8 1 (3.030 %) Finance 8 1 (3.030 %) Clustering 8 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003 8 1 (3.030 %) Mainframe 8 1 (3.030 %) Active Directory

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cheshire 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.

Application Development 1 25 (75.76 %) Middleware 2 1 (3.030 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (3.030 %) MS Exchange 1 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Server 2003
Communications & Networking 1 25 (75.76 %) TCP/IP 1 25 (75.76 %) SNA 2 4 (12.12 %) SAN 3 1 (3.030 %) SSH	General 1 3 (9.091 %) Pharmaceutical 2 1 (3.030 %) Finance 2 1 (3.030 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 26 (78.79 %) Administrator 2 20 (60.61 %) Systems Administrator 3 19 (57.58 %) AIX Administrator 4 4 (12.12 %) UNIX Administrator 5 3 (9.091 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Support 6 1 (3.030 %) Support Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Exchange Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Solaris Administrator 6 1 (3.030 %) VERITAS Engineer 6 1 (3.030 %) Systems Support Analyst 6 1 (3.030 %) Solaris Systems Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 25 (75.76 %) HACMP 2 1 (3.030 %) Clustering 2 1 (3.030 %) Mainframe 2 1 (3.030 %) Computer Science
Operating Systems 1 32 (96.97 %) UNIX 2 28 (84.85 %) Solaris 2 28 (84.85 %) AIX 3 25 (75.76 %) HPUX 4 4 (12.12 %) Linux 5 3 (9.091 %) Red Hat Linux 6 1 (3.030 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (3.030 %) VMS 6 1 (3.030 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (12.12 %) Disaster Recovery 2 3 (9.091 %) Software Engineering
Programming Languages 1 25 (75.76 %) Perl 1 25 (75.76 %) Korn	Qualifications 1 1 (3.030 %) Degree
System Software 1 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 2 2 (6.061 %) NetBackup 3 1 (3.030 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli 1 27 (81.82 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 4 (12.12 %) Oracle 1 4 (12.12 %) HP 2 3 (9.091 %) EMC 2 3 (9.091 %) Sun 2 3 (9.091 %) Red Hat 3 1 (3.030 %) IBM