The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Crawley region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sophos 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 Crawley 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 Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Sophos 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £250 £335
% change year-on-year
+85.00% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.88 £19.00 £34.00
% change year-on-year
-5.92% -44.11%
All Vendors
Crawley
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
86 96 58
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Crawley 57.33% 36.50% 49.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 55 19
Average daily rate £390 £380 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.63% +8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £293 £223 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £488 £497
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 5
Average hourly rate £26.00 £26.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +23.80%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sophos
West Sussex

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Sophos 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 Sophos.

1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) CommVault
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Crawley region citing Sophos 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 Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Apache
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
1 2 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 2 (100.00%) Zimbra
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) ADSL
1 2 (100.00%) Broadband
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) DHCP
1 2 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) IP Telephony
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MySQL
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) IT Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Mobile Device Management
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
1 2 (100.00%) Postfix
1 2 (100.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Avaya
1 2 (100.00%) Juniper
1 2 (100.00%) CommVault
1 2 (100.00%) VMware