The first table below looks at the demand for NetBackup 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 NetBackup 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec NetBackup
Rank 188 190 211
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +21
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 17 25 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.264% 0.313% 0.310%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.722% 5.828% 6.383%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 22 19
Average daily rate £379 £375 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.93% -16.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £264 £270
10% offered a daily rate of more than £430 £475 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £303
% change year-on-year
- +32.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
Average hourly rate - £22.50 £22.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +1.12%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.16%
All Systems Management
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
360 429 470
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 5.600% 5.377% 4.863%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 273 299
Average daily rate £400 £388 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.22% -8.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £265 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 33
Average hourly rate £30.50 £22.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.55% +7.14%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.90 £16.60 £17.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.60 £34.20 £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
NetBackup
London

NetBackup
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London NetBackup Jobs Demand Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London NetBackup Daily Rate Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetBackup across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London NetBackup Daily Rate Histogram

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London NetBackup Hourly Rate Trend

NetBackup
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup.

1 17 (54.84%) SAN
2 16 (51.61%) Windows
3 11 (35.48%) HP
4 10 (32.26%) Veritas
4 10 (32.26%) UNIX
5 9 (29.03%) Legato
5 9 (29.03%) Symantec
5 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
5 9 (29.03%) EMC
5 9 (29.03%) VMware
6 8 (25.81%) Clustering
6 8 (25.81%) VB
7 7 (22.58%) Solaris
7 7 (22.58%) IBM
7 7 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
7 7 (22.58%) Capacity Management
8 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (19.35%) NAS
8 6 (19.35%) Banking
8 6 (19.35%) Backup Exec
8 6 (19.35%) NetApp
8 6 (19.35%) Dell
8 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2003
9 5 (16.13%) Cisco
9 5 (16.13%) BMC
9 5 (16.13%) IIS
9 5 (16.13%) ITIL
9 5 (16.13%) Windows 2000
9 5 (16.13%) Migration
9 5 (16.13%) McAfee

NetBackup
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (9.677%) ASP.NET
1 3 (9.677%) Web Services
1 3 (9.677%) .NET
1 3 (9.677%) ADSI
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.13%) IIS
2 3 (9.677%) Apache
2 3 (9.677%) Oracle Application Server
3 2 (6.452%) Oracle 10gAS
3 2 (6.452%) MS Exchange
4 1 (3.226%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
4 1 (3.226%) MQSeries
4 1 (3.226%) SharePoint
4 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (3.226%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (3.226%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 3 (9.677%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle EBS
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 11i
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (3.226%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 17 (54.84%) SAN
2 6 (19.35%) NAS
3 3 (9.677%) Internet
3 3 (9.677%) FTP
4 2 (6.452%) Firewall
4 2 (6.452%) VPN
5 1 (3.226%) Fibre Channel
5 1 (3.226%) LDAP
5 1 (3.226%) SMS
5 1 (3.226%) DNS
5 1 (3.226%) SNMP
5 1 (3.226%) DHCP
5 1 (3.226%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 11g
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 9i
1 2 (6.452%) Oracle 10g
General
1 6 (19.35%) Banking
2 3 (9.677%) Investment Banking
3 2 (6.452%) Finance
3 2 (6.452%) Retail
4 1 (3.226%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (35.48%) Storage Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Senior Storage Engineer
2 3 (9.677%) Wintel Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Administrator
3 2 (6.452%) DBA
3 2 (6.452%) Oracle DBA
3 2 (6.452%) Oracle Applications DBA
3 2 (6.452%) Backup Engineer
3 2 (6.452%) Windows Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Storage Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Architect
4 1 (3.226%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Linux Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.226%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.226%) Messaging Specialist
4 1 (3.226%) Storage Administrator
4 1 (3.226%) Linux Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Clustering
2 4 (12.90%) CLARiiON
3 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix DMX
3 3 (9.677%) Symmetrix
3 3 (9.677%) Celerra
4 2 (6.452%) Hedge funds
5 1 (3.226%) Blackberry
5 1 (3.226%) Replication
5 1 (3.226%) Computer Science
5 1 (3.226%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 16 (51.61%) Windows
2 10 (32.26%) UNIX
3 7 (22.58%) Solaris
4 6 (19.35%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (16.13%) Windows 2000
6 4 (12.90%) Windows Server 2008
7 3 (9.677%) Windows XP
7 3 (9.677%) Windows NT
8 2 (6.452%) Linux
8 2 (6.452%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (3.226%) Windows 7
9 1 (3.226%) AIX
9 1 (3.226%) VMS
9 1 (3.226%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Capacity Management
2 5 (16.13%) ITIL
2 5 (16.13%) Migration
3 4 (12.90%) Data Migration
3 4 (12.90%) Data Analysis
4 3 (9.677%) Capacity Planning
4 3 (9.677%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (6.452%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (6.452%) Data Management
6 1 (3.226%) Business Transformation
6 1 (3.226%) Configuration Management
6 1 (3.226%) Service Delivery
6 1 (3.226%) Change Management
6 1 (3.226%) Problem Management
6 1 (3.226%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (25.81%) VB
2 4 (12.90%) VBScript
3 3 (9.677%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.226%) Bash shell
4 1 (3.226%) C
4 1 (3.226%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.226%) NCDA
1 1 (3.226%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (3.226%) RHCE
1 1 (3.226%) EMC Certification
1 1 (3.226%) Degree
1 1 (3.226%) DV Cleared
1 1 (3.226%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (19.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.90%) XenApp
2 4 (12.90%) vSphere
3 3 (9.677%) VMware ESX
3 3 (9.677%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (3.226%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 1 (3.226%) vCloud
4 1 (3.226%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.226%) ProxySG
4 1 (3.226%) Veritas File System
4 1 (3.226%) Veritas Cluster Server
Systems Management
1 9 (29.03%) Legato
2 7 (22.58%) EMC NetWorker
3 6 (19.35%) Backup Exec
4 5 (16.13%) SCOM
5 4 (12.90%) Tivoli
5 4 (12.90%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 2 (6.452%) SCCM
6 2 (6.452%) WSUS
6 2 (6.452%) Norton AntiVirus
6 2 (6.452%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 2 (6.452%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (6.452%) HP SIM
7 1 (3.226%) PureDisk
7 1 (3.226%) Red Hat Spacewalk
7 1 (3.226%) Control-M
7 1 (3.226%) Nagios
7 1 (3.226%) ARCserve
7 1 (3.226%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (3.226%) OpenView
7 1 (3.226%) WMI
Vendors
1 11 (35.48%) HP
2 10 (32.26%) Veritas
3 9 (29.03%) Symantec
3 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
3 9 (29.03%) EMC
3 9 (29.03%) VMware
4 7 (22.58%) IBM
5 6 (19.35%) NetApp
5 6 (19.35%) Dell
6 5 (16.13%) Cisco
6 5 (16.13%) BMC
6 5 (16.13%) McAfee
7 4 (12.90%) Brocade
7 4 (12.90%) Citrix
8 3 (9.677%) Leostream
8 3 (9.677%) Sophos
8 3 (9.677%) Red Hat
8 3 (9.677%) Sun
8 3 (9.677%) Oracle
8 3 (9.677%) PlateSpin