The first table below looks at the demand for MAILsweeper skills 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 MAILsweeper over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Systems Management category 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.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clearswift MAILsweeper
Rank 197 216 243
Rank change year-on-year
+19 +27
Contract jobs citing MAILsweeper 6 2 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.094% 0.025% 0.020%
As % of the Systems Management category 1.671% 0.475% 0.423%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £313 £338 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% -
UK excluding London average daily rate - £110 -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £11.50
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
359 421 473
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.628% 5.353% 4.829%
Number of daily rates quoted 259 267 301
Average daily rate £400 £380 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -10.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £264 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £328 £300
% change year-on-year
+0.76% +9.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 11 33
Average hourly rate £36.00 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.88 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.65 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
MAILsweeper
London

MAILsweeper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London MAILsweeper Jobs Demand Trend

MAILsweeper
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing MAILsweeper across the City of London region.

City of London MAILsweeper Daily Rate Trend

MAILsweeper
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London MAILsweeper Hourly Rate Trend

MAILsweeper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MAILsweeper 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 MAILsweeper.

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 10 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
2 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (70.00%) SCOM
3 7 (70.00%) Office Communications Server
3 7 (70.00%) SSL
3 7 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2003
3 7 (70.00%) Migration
3 7 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 7 (70.00%) McAfee
3 7 (70.00%) Norton AntiVirus
3 7 (70.00%) Lotus
3 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
3 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 7 (70.00%) POP3
3 7 (70.00%) Lotus Notes
3 7 (70.00%) Lotus Domino
3 7 (70.00%) LDAP
4 6 (60.00%) C
4 6 (60.00%) MCSE

MAILsweeper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing MAILsweeper 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 MAILsweeper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) COM
Application Platforms
1 10 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 10 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 7 (70.00%) Office Communications Server
2 7 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 7 (70.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 7 (70.00%) Lotus Notes
2 7 (70.00%) Lotus Domino
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) SMTP
2 7 (70.00%) SSL
2 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
2 7 (70.00%) POP3
2 7 (70.00%) LDAP
3 2 (20.00%) DNS
3 2 (20.00%) DHCP
General
1 6 (60.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (70.00%) Consultant
2 6 (60.00%) Exchange Consultant
2 6 (60.00%) Messaging Consultant
3 3 (30.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (30.00%) Support Consultant
4 2 (20.00%) Architect
5 1 (10.00%) Migration Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Migration Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Exchange Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Migration
2 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 3 (30.00%) Project Management
3 2 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) PowerShell
2 6 (60.00%) C
3 3 (30.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) MCSE
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 9 (90.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (20.00%) ISA Server
3 2 (20.00%) vSphere
3 2 (20.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 7 (70.00%) SCOM
2 7 (70.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 7 (70.00%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 10 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 10 (100.00%) Symantec
2 9 (90.00%) VMware
3 7 (70.00%) McAfee
3 7 (70.00%) Lotus
4 3 (30.00%) Open Text
4 3 (30.00%) RightFax
4 3 (30.00%) Clearswift
5 2 (20.00%) Websense
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