The first table below looks at the demand for Backup Exec skills in IT contracts advertised for the East of England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backup Exec over the 3 months to 19 June 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 East of England 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec Backup Exec
Rank 108 104 110
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +6
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 10 32 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.452% 1.060% 0.720%
As % of the Systems Management category 5.747% 13.68% 10.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 28 11
Average daily rate £225 £315 £215
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +46.51%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £258 £115
10% offered a daily rate of more than £234 £340 £270
UK excluding London average daily rate £253 £275 £215
% change year-on-year
-8.18% +27.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 3
Average hourly rate £25.00 £18.50 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+35.13% +27.58%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £18.00 £18.00 £16.50
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
All Systems Management
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
174 234 188
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 7.870% 7.748% 6.770%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 108 79
Average daily rate £298 £315 £220
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.55% +43.18%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £90 £99 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £475 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £340 £325 £314
% change year-on-year
+4.61% +3.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 22 28
Average hourly rate £19.00 £22.88 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.93% +30.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.10 £10.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £35.00 £62.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £22.50 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+28.57% -27.08%
Backup Exec
England

Backup Exec
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Backup Exec across the East of England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

East of England Backup Exec Jobs Demand Trend

Backup Exec
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Backup Exec across the East of England region.

East of England Backup Exec Daily Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Backup Exec across the East of England region.

East of England Backup Exec Hourly Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the East of England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Essex +4 9 £225 -19.64% 3
Suffolk +10 1 - -
Hertfordshire - - - -
Norfolk - - - -
Bedfordshire - - - -
Cambridgeshire - - - - 1
Backup Exec
England

Backup Exec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec.

1 17 (73.91%) MS Exchange
1 17 (73.91%) Exchange Server 2010
2 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
3 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
3 13 (56.52%) Oracle
3 13 (56.52%) Exchange Server 2007
4 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
4 12 (52.17%) MCSE
4 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 11 (47.83%) Exchange Server 2003
6 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
6 9 (39.13%) Symantec
6 9 (39.13%) ITIL
6 9 (39.13%) Windows
7 8 (34.78%) DHCP
8 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
8 7 (30.43%) HP
8 7 (30.43%) Compaq
8 7 (30.43%) Dell
8 7 (30.43%) SQL
8 7 (30.43%) SAN
8 7 (30.43%) ADIC
8 7 (30.43%) CommVault
8 7 (30.43%) Veritas
8 7 (30.43%) Forefront TMG
8 7 (30.43%) ISA Server
8 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (30.43%) Clustering
8 7 (30.43%) PACS
9 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2005

Backup Exec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 17 (73.91%) MS Exchange
1 17 (73.91%) Exchange Server 2010
2 13 (56.52%) Exchange Server 2007
3 11 (47.83%) Exchange Server 2003
4 2 (8.696%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 8 (34.78%) DHCP
2 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
2 7 (30.43%) SAN
3 6 (26.09%) DNS
4 5 (21.74%) WAN
4 5 (21.74%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (52.17%) SQL Server
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2005
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (26.09%) SQL Server 2000
General
1 1 (4.348%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (26.09%) Administrator
1 6 (26.09%) Consultant
1 6 (26.09%) Systems Administrator
2 4 (17.39%) Migration Engineer
3 2 (8.696%) Exchange Engineer
3 2 (8.696%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (8.696%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.696%) Server Engineer
4 1 (4.348%) Server Support
4 1 (4.348%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (4.348%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Clustering
1 7 (30.43%) PACS
2 6 (26.09%) PKI
2 6 (26.09%) Blackberry
3 4 (17.39%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (39.13%) Windows Server 2008
1 9 (39.13%) Windows
2 6 (26.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (26.09%) Linux
3 2 (8.696%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 7 (30.43%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (26.09%) Performance Management
4 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 1 (4.348%) Change Management
5 1 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.348%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 7 (30.43%) SQL
2 6 (26.09%) VBScript
2 6 (26.09%) VB
3 4 (17.39%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 12 (52.17%) MCSE
1 12 (52.17%) Microsoft Certification
2 5 (21.74%) MCITP
3 3 (13.04%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (4.348%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.348%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 13 (56.52%) Active Directory
2 7 (30.43%) Forefront TMG
2 7 (30.43%) ISA Server
3 5 (21.74%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (26.09%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 6 (26.09%) WSUS
1 6 (26.09%) SCOM
2 1 (4.348%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 13 (56.52%) Oracle
3 9 (39.13%) Symantec
4 7 (30.43%) HP
4 7 (30.43%) Compaq
4 7 (30.43%) Dell
4 7 (30.43%) ADIC
4 7 (30.43%) CommVault
4 7 (30.43%) Veritas
5 6 (26.09%) Red Hat
6 5 (21.74%) Cisco
7 4 (17.39%) VMware
8 1 (4.348%) NetApp
8 1 (4.348%) IBM
Basildon, Essex
Active Directory 2008... -Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010. -Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008. -Windows Server 2008 Clustering Technology. -HP EVA and P4000 SAN technologies. -CommVault Simpana...
Skye Group
Rate: £25 per hour
Posted: 14 June 2013
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