The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Crossbeam products and/or services 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 Crossbeam 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Crossbeam Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Crossbeam
Rank - 130 -
Contract jobs citing Crossbeam 0 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England - 0.068% -
As % of the Vendors category - 0.154% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £318 £325 £281
% change year-on-year
-2.30% +15.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
960 1300 1250
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 44.88% 43.99% 47.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 571 487
Average daily rate £340 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.61% +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £185 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 124 181
Average hourly rate £21.50 £27.50 £23.94
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-21.81% +14.88%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £42.50 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Crossbeam
England

Crossbeam
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England Crossbeam Jobs Demand Trend

Crossbeam
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England Crossbeam Daily Rate Trend

Crossbeam
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing Crossbeam 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 Crossbeam.

1 4 (100.00%) SLA
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
2 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) F5
2 3 (75.00%) Change Control
2 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
3 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (50.00%) VPN
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
3 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
3 2 (50.00%) MPLS
3 2 (50.00%) Firewall
3 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (50.00%) UNIX
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) AIX
3 2 (50.00%) Solaris
3 2 (50.00%) Linux
4 1 (25.00%) MCSE

Crossbeam
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) BIG-IP
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
3 1 (25.00%) ATM
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Ethernet
3 1 (25.00%) IPv6
3 1 (25.00%) Frame Relay
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) WAAS
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) FWSM
General
1 1 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Integration Engineer
1 1 (25.00%) Test and Integration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (25.00%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) UNIX
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) AIX
1 2 (50.00%) Solaris
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Programme Office Management
1 3 (75.00%) Service Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Change Control
1 3 (75.00%) Build Automation
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Network Design
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Release Management
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) MCSE
1 1 (25.00%) CCSP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNP
1 1 (25.00%) CCNA
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (25.00%) CCSA
1 1 (25.00%) CCSE
1 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) NFS
2 1 (25.00%) ProxySG
2 1 (25.00%) Snort
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
1 4 (100.00%) CheckPoint
2 3 (75.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) VMware
3 2 (50.00%) EMC
3 2 (50.00%) Citrix
3 2 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) Nokia
3 2 (50.00%) Red Hat
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) SAP
4 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
4 1 (25.00%) Sourcefire
4 1 (25.00%) Huawei