The first table below looks at the demand for ARCserve skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited ARCserve over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Systems Management category for the 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
CA ARCserve
Rank 509 535 554
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +19
Contract jobs citing ARCserve 9 27 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.022% 0.051% 0.033%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.317% 0.819% 0.573%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 5
Average daily rate £210 £238 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.57% +5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £148 £191 £165
10% offered a daily rate of more than £268 £321 £345
UK excluding London average daily rate £210 £238 £210
% change year-on-year
-11.57% +13.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £16.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £15.00
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2838 3295 3316
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.835% 6.170% 5.805%
Number of daily rates quoted 1627 1701 1623
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £488 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 157 224
Average hourly rate £20.50 £19.81 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.47% -15.24%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.68 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £45.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -27.08%
ARCserve
UK

ARCserve
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ARCserve Jobs Demand Trend

ARCserve
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ARCserve Daily Rate Trend

ARCserve
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ARCserve across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England ARCserve Daily Rate Histogram

ARCserve
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ARCserve Hourly Rate Trend

ARCserve
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ARCserve within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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
Yorkshire - 5 £250 -
East of England - 3 - -
South East +12 1 £170 -27.65%
ARCserve
UK

ARCserve
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ARCserve 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 ARCserve.

1 16 (84.21%) VMware
2 15 (78.95%) Windows
3 12 (63.16%) SAN
3 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
4 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
4 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
6 8 (42.11%) Citrix
7 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
8 6 (31.58%) EMC
8 6 (31.58%) Firewall
8 6 (31.58%) Backup Exec
9 5 (26.32%) NetBackup
9 5 (26.32%) Migration
9 5 (26.32%) McAfee
9 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
9 5 (26.32%) NetApp
9 5 (26.32%) DHCP
9 5 (26.32%) VPN
9 5 (26.32%) DNS
9 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
9 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
9 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2003
10 4 (21.05%) Cisco
10 4 (21.05%) LAN
10 4 (21.05%) WAN
10 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
10 4 (21.05%) VMware ESX
11 3 (15.79%) Replication
11 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery

ARCserve
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing ARCserve 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 ARCserve. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.263%) COM
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) MS Exchange
2 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2010
2 5 (26.32%) Exchange Server 2003
3 2 (10.53%) SharePoint 2010
3 2 (10.53%) Lync
3 2 (10.53%) SharePoint
3 2 (10.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) MS Office
2 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) SAN
2 6 (31.58%) Firewall
3 5 (26.32%) DHCP
3 5 (26.32%) VPN
3 5 (26.32%) DNS
4 4 (21.05%) LAN
4 4 (21.05%) WAN
4 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
5 3 (15.79%) HTTP
5 3 (15.79%) NAS
6 2 (10.53%) Fibre Channel
6 2 (10.53%) iSCSI
7 1 (5.263%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (26.32%) SQL Server
2 2 (10.53%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (5.263%) Cognos Impromptu
General
1 2 (10.53%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) Support Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Support
3 3 (15.79%) Systems Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Administrator
3 3 (15.79%) Backup Specialist
4 2 (10.53%) Windows Administrator
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Support Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Technical Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (5.263%) Server Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Windows Support Analyst
5 1 (5.263%) Wintel Support
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.263%) Server Support
5 1 (5.263%) Systems Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Replication
1 3 (15.79%) Thin Client
1 3 (15.79%) Fat Client
2 2 (10.53%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 15 (78.95%) Windows
2 12 (63.16%) Windows Server 2008
3 11 (57.89%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (15.79%) NetWare
4 3 (15.79%) Windows 2000 Server
5 1 (5.263%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Migration
2 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
3 2 (10.53%) Analytics
3 2 (10.53%) Time Management
3 2 (10.53%) Service Management
3 2 (10.53%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (5.263%) Business Continuity
4 1 (5.263%) PRINCE2
4 1 (5.263%) High Availability
4 1 (5.263%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (5.263%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (5.263%) Business Transformation
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.263%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (5.263%) MCSE
2 1 (5.263%) MCSA
System Software
1 11 (57.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
3 4 (21.05%) VMware ESX
4 3 (15.79%) Terminal Services
5 2 (10.53%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (10.53%) vSphere
5 2 (10.53%) Xen
5 2 (10.53%) NFS
6 1 (5.263%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (31.58%) Backup Exec
2 5 (26.32%) NetBackup
3 3 (15.79%) McAfee ePO
4 2 (10.53%) Legato
4 2 (10.53%) Tivoli
5 1 (5.263%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 1 (5.263%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 16 (84.21%) VMware
2 10 (52.63%) Microsoft
3 8 (42.11%) Citrix
4 6 (31.58%) EMC
5 5 (26.32%) McAfee
5 5 (26.32%) NetApp
6 4 (21.05%) Cisco
7 3 (15.79%) Novell
7 3 (15.79%) HP
7 3 (15.79%) Intel
7 3 (15.79%) Blue Coat
7 3 (15.79%) Riverbed
8 2 (10.53%) Sophos
8 2 (10.53%) Symantec
9 1 (5.263%) CheckPoint
9 1 (5.263%) Dell
9 1 (5.263%) IBM
9 1 (5.263%) Cognos
9 1 (5.263%) Veeam
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