The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of LANDesk products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the City of London 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 City of London 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 190 178 241
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +63
Contract jobs citing LANDesk 11 35 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.175% 0.450% 0.051%
As % of the Vendors category 0.388% 1.064% 0.122%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 1 0
Average daily rate £363 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+45.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £300 £90
% change year-on-year
-21.66% +233.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £115.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.63 £16.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-2.34% -15.78%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2834 3288 4112
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.02% 42.26% 41.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 2006 2250 2837
Average daily rate £430 £425 £488
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.17% -12.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £588 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 97 125
Average hourly rate £23.75 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.75% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £38.60 £41.85
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
LANDesk
London

LANDesk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London LANDesk Daily Rate Trend

LANDesk
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing LANDesk across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London LANDesk Daily Rate Histogram

LANDesk
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing LANDesk across the City of London region.

City of London LANDesk Hourly Rate Trend

LANDesk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Windows 7
3 14 (56.00%) XenDesktop
3 14 (56.00%) Finance
4 13 (52.00%) Banking
4 13 (52.00%) AppSense
4 13 (52.00%) XenApp
5 12 (48.00%) MS Office
6 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
7 10 (40.00%) Citrix
8 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
9 8 (32.00%) SCCM
9 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
9 8 (32.00%) Sysprep
10 7 (28.00%) Windows XP
11 5 (20.00%) VBScript
11 5 (20.00%) Lotus
11 5 (20.00%) Reuters
11 5 (20.00%) Bloomberg
11 5 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
12 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
13 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
13 3 (12.00%) ITIL
14 2 (8.000%) JD Edwards
14 2 (8.000%) Sage
14 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
15 1 (4.000%) Software Distribution
15 1 (4.000%) vSphere
15 1 (4.000%) Altiris
15 1 (4.000%) VMware

LANDesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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.

Application Development
1 1 (4.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.00%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 12 (48.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.000%) SMS
1 1 (4.000%) DHCP
1 1 (4.000%) DNS
1 1 (4.000%) Internet
Development Applications
1 1 (4.000%) MSI
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
2 13 (52.00%) Banking
3 2 (8.000%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 8 (32.00%) Analyst
2 7 (28.00%) Architect
3 5 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 4 (16.00%) Desktop Support
5 2 (8.000%) Systems Support
5 2 (8.000%) Desktop Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Management Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Consultant
6 1 (4.000%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.000%) Support Engineer
6 1 (4.000%) Applications Support
6 1 (4.000%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support
6 1 (4.000%) Administrator
6 1 (4.000%) Desktop Support Analyst
6 1 (4.000%) Applications Support Analyst
Operating Systems
1 17 (68.00%) Windows
2 16 (64.00%) Windows 7
3 7 (28.00%) Windows XP
4 1 (4.000%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 3 (12.00%) ITIL
2 3 (12.00%) Service Delivery
3 1 (4.000%) Configuration Management
3 1 (4.000%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 8 (32.00%) PowerShell
2 5 (20.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (4.000%) CCA
1 1 (4.000%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (4.000%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (56.00%) XenDesktop
2 13 (52.00%) XenApp
3 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.000%) MetaFrame
4 1 (4.000%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (4.000%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (32.00%) SCCM
1 8 (32.00%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 13 (52.00%) AppSense
2 11 (44.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (40.00%) Citrix
4 5 (20.00%) Lotus
4 5 (20.00%) Reuters
4 5 (20.00%) Bloomberg
5 2 (8.000%) JD Edwards
5 2 (8.000%) Sage
6 1 (4.000%) VMware
6 1 (4.000%) Altiris