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

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 82 81 76
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -5
Contract jobs citing Symantec 4 5 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 0.317% 0.358% 0.587%
As % of the Vendors category 0.690% 0.850% 1.382%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £315 - £188
90% offered a daily rate of more than £239 - £166
10% offered a daily rate of more than £443 - £210
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £289
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +38.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-10.27% -8.75%
All Vendors
East Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
580 588 579
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East Midlands 45.96% 42.06% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 282 205
Average daily rate £325 £335 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% +3.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £245 £175 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 51 69
Average hourly rate £17.75 £17.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.42% -12.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.14 £8.50 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £57.50 £34.88
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symantec
England

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East Midlands Symantec Jobs Demand Trend

Symantec
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Symantec across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Symantec Daily Rate Trend

Symantec
Daily Rate Histogram

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

East Midlands Symantec Daily Rate Histogram

Symantec
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Symantec across the East Midlands region.

East Midlands Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symantec within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Derbyshire - 2 £315 -
Northamptonshire +13 1 £220 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £475 -
Symantec
England

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Symantec 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 Symantec.

1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (75.00%) XenApp
2 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
2 3 (75.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (50.00%) MobileIron
3 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 2 (50.00%) NFS
3 2 (50.00%) WSUS
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (50.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
3 2 (50.00%) Clustering
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands region citing Symantec 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 Symantec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2010
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (25.00%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) iSCSI
1 2 (50.00%) SAN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (50.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (25.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (25.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) WAN Optimisation
1 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (75.00%) XenApp
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) NFS
2 2 (50.00%) ISA Server
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (25.00%) IAG
3 1 (25.00%) UAG
3 1 (25.00%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (50.00%) WSUS
2 2 (50.00%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
3 1 (25.00%) SCCM
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Citrix
2 3 (75.00%) NetApp
3 2 (50.00%) MobileIron
3 2 (50.00%) Veritas
3 2 (50.00%) Riverbed
3 2 (50.00%) McAfee
4 1 (25.00%) Avaya