The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of LANDesk 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 LANDesk over the 3 months to 20 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 LANDesk Software, Inc.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
LANDesk
Rank 113 133 120
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -13
Contract jobs citing LANDesk 2 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 0.093% 0.102% 0.194%
As % of the Vendors category 0.207% 0.231% 0.417%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 3
Average daily rate £173 £250 £90
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-31.00% +177.77%
UK excluding London average daily rate £235 £288 £90
% change year-on-year
-18.26% +219.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.63 £16.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year
-6.71% -11.84%
All Vendors
East of England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
964 1299 1199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the East of England 44.65% 44.21% 46.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 439 572 468
Average daily rate £325 £325 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £175 £164
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 136 125 184
Average hourly rate £22.50 £27.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £11.15
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%
LANDesk
England

LANDesk
Jobs Demand Trend

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

East of England LANDesk Jobs Demand Trend

LANDesk
Daily Rate Trend

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

East of England LANDesk Daily Rate Trend

LANDesk
Hourly Rate Trend

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

East of England LANDesk Hourly Rate Trend

LANDesk
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing LANDesk within the East of England region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hertfordshire +9 1 - -
Essex - 1 £173 -
LANDesk
England

LANDesk
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the East of England region citing LANDesk 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 LANDesk.

1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) XenApp
3 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) DNS
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (40.00%) HP
3 2 (40.00%) VMware
4 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
4 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
4 1 (20.00%) WSUS
4 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
4 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
4 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
4 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (20.00%) Dell
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco
4 1 (20.00%) NFS
4 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (20.00%) Windows XP

LANDesk
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) MS Exchange
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
1 1 (20.00%) Lync
1 1 (20.00%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) DHCP
1 2 (40.00%) DNS
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Wireless
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
2 1 (20.00%) iSCSI
2 1 (20.00%) NAS
2 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (20.00%) LAN
2 1 (20.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Implementation Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Systems Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Build Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Wintel Systems Engineer
Operating Systems
1 4 (80.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows 7
3 1 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Vista
3 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) ITIL
1 1 (20.00%) Project Management
1 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (20.00%) Network Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Use Case
1 1 (20.00%) Compatibility Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C
1 1 (20.00%) VB
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
1 1 (20.00%) MCSA
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) XenApp
2 1 (20.00%) XenServer
2 1 (20.00%) XenDesktop
2 1 (20.00%) NFS
2 1 (20.00%) Hyper-V
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) WSUS
1 1 (20.00%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) HP
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco
3 1 (20.00%) Dell
3 1 (20.00%) Juniper
3 1 (20.00%) McAfee