The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Polycom 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 Polycom 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 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 Polycom, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Polycom
Rank 201 217 242
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +25
Contract jobs citing Polycom 2 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.031% 0.013% 0.031%
As % of the Vendors category 0.069% 0.030% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
Average daily rate £352 - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £28.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year
- -29.78%
All Vendors
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
2893 3319 4124
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 45.35% 42.20% 42.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 2051 2268 2847
Average daily rate £431 £425 £489
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.47% -13.04%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £285 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 101 131
Average hourly rate £23.00 £20.00 £21.45
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.00% -6.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.70 £12.50 £13.54
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £93.00 £39.00 £43.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Polycom
London

Polycom
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Polycom Jobs Demand Trend

Polycom
Daily Rate Trend

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

City of London Polycom Daily Rate Trend

Polycom
Hourly Rate Trend

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

City of London Polycom Hourly Rate Trend

Polycom
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 6 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
2 5 (83.33%) Aruba
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 5 (83.33%) CCIE
2 5 (83.33%) MPLS
2 5 (83.33%) OSPF
2 5 (83.33%) BGP
2 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 5 (83.33%) Finance
3 4 (66.67%) Firewall
3 4 (66.67%) Juniper
3 4 (66.67%) HP
3 4 (66.67%) LAN
3 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 4 (66.67%) DHCP
3 4 (66.67%) Ethernet
3 4 (66.67%) SNMP
3 4 (66.67%) Network Management
3 4 (66.67%) Junos
3 4 (66.67%) F5
3 4 (66.67%) DNS
3 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (66.67%) FortiGate
3 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
3 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
3 4 (66.67%) VMware
3 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony

Polycom
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) MPLS
1 5 (83.33%) OSPF
1 5 (83.33%) BGP
1 5 (83.33%) Wireless
2 4 (66.67%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) LAN
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
2 4 (66.67%) DHCP
2 4 (66.67%) Ethernet
2 4 (66.67%) SNMP
2 4 (66.67%) Junos
2 4 (66.67%) DNS
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
2 4 (66.67%) IP Telephony
2 4 (66.67%) VLAN
3 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 1 (16.67%) VPN
4 1 (16.67%) VoIP
4 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
General
1 5 (83.33%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Desktop Support
2 1 (16.67%) Network Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows XP
1 1 (16.67%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Network Management
1 4 (66.67%) Network Architecture
1 4 (66.67%) Project Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 5 (83.33%) CCIE
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (66.67%) JNCIE
3 1 (16.67%) MCP
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Aruba
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Juniper
2 4 (66.67%) HP
2 4 (66.67%) F5
2 4 (66.67%) VMware
2 4 (66.67%) Sourcefire
2 4 (66.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) Dell
3 1 (16.67%) Citrix
3 1 (16.67%) Symantec
3 1 (16.67%) Brocade
3 1 (16.67%) Riverbed