The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Doncaster region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blue Coat 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 Doncaster 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 Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
- +92.63%
All Vendors
Doncaster
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
21 18 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Doncaster 65.63% 78.26% 57.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 2
Average daily rate £403 £310 £204
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+29.83% +52.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £300 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £340 £258
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 3
Average hourly rate £23.50 £23.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.17% +15.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Blue Coat
South Yorkshire

Blue Coat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Doncaster Blue Coat Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Blue Coat across the Doncaster region.

Doncaster Blue Coat Daily Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Blue Coat across the Doncaster region.

Doncaster Blue Coat Hourly Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat.

1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) XenApp
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) IronPort
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) Citrix
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Juniper

Blue Coat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Doncaster region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Technical Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Server Specialist
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Network Design
2 1 (50.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) CCSE
2 1 (50.00%) JNCIS
2 1 (50.00%) CCSP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (50.00%) XenApp
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) VMware
1 1 (50.00%) IronPort
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Citrix
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) NetApp
1 1 (50.00%) Nokia
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Websense