The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Veritas products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Chester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Veritas over the 3 months to 22 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 Chester 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 Veritas Software.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas
Rank 24 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Veritas 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 0.714% - -
As % of the Vendors category 1.389% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £346
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-45.71% +75.00%
All Vendors
Chester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
72 57 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Chester 51.43% 49.14% 45.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 16 23
Average daily rate £300 £338 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -6.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £169 £150 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £490 £430
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 3
Average hourly rate £44.90 £14.00 £45.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+220.71% -68.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.35 £14.00 £13.80
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.11 £21.20 £47.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Veritas
Cheshire

Veritas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Chester Veritas Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Trend

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

Chester Veritas Daily Rate Trend

Veritas
Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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 1 (100.00%) MS Office
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure

Veritas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Chester 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.

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Office
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Systems Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Administrator
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Systems Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) UNIX
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) AIX
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (100.00%) VMware