The first table below looks at the demand for NetBackup 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 NetBackup over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec NetBackup
Rank 379 337 337
Rank change year-on-year
-42 0
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 134 232 239
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.317% 0.434% 0.431%
As % of the Systems Management category 4.682% 7.058% 7.404%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 137 118
Average daily rate £385 £400 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £285 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
- +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 21
Average hourly rate £17.50 £22.75 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-23.07% +1.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.70 £19.25 £20.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £19.50 £33.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.16%
All Systems Management
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
2862 3287 3228
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 6.765% 6.143% 5.827%
Number of daily rates quoted 1641 1695 1572
Average daily rate £375 £353 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.38% -6.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £225 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 160 156 212
Average hourly rate £20.50 £20.00 £23.44
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.50% -14.66%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £13.66 £15.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
NetBackup
UK

NetBackup
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England NetBackup Jobs Demand Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend

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

England NetBackup Daily Rate Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing NetBackup across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England NetBackup Daily Rate Histogram

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England NetBackup Hourly Rate Trend

NetBackup
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NetBackup within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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
London -19 69 £385 +9.92%
South West +10 21 £450 +12.50%
South East -6 20 £401 +18.22%
North West +9 9 £388 +72.22%
Yorkshire +6 6 £219 -32.69%
East of England +4 4 £188 -47.36%
West Midlands +12 3 £300 -20.00%
East Midlands 0 2 £315 -
NetBackup
UK

NetBackup
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup.

1 176 (62.19%) Windows
2 168 (59.36%) SAN
3 113 (39.93%) VMware
4 105 (37.10%) Symantec
5 103 (36.40%) HP
6 102 (36.04%) UNIX
7 100 (35.34%) NetApp
8 89 (31.45%) EMC
9 79 (27.92%) Linux
10 72 (25.44%) Windows Server 2003
11 71 (25.09%) VMware Infrastructure
12 69 (24.38%) Microsoft
13 68 (24.03%) Windows Server 2008
14 63 (22.26%) ITIL
15 62 (21.91%) Veritas
16 60 (21.20%) Solaris
17 59 (20.85%) Clustering
18 57 (20.14%) Citrix
19 54 (19.08%) Backup Exec
20 52 (18.37%) Security Cleared
20 52 (18.37%) Migration
20 52 (18.37%) Active Directory
21 49 (17.31%) NAS
22 48 (16.96%) IBM
23 43 (15.19%) VB
23 43 (15.19%) vSphere
24 42 (14.84%) EMC NetWorker
25 37 (13.07%) Red Hat
26 36 (12.72%) Legato
27 35 (12.37%) Cisco

NetBackup
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (5.654%) Web Services
2 15 (5.300%) ADSI
2 15 (5.300%) ASP.NET
2 15 (5.300%) .NET
3 4 (1.413%) LAMP
4 3 (1.060%) Middleware
5 2 (0.707%) Application Packaging
6 1 (0.353%) COM
6 1 (0.353%) XML
6 1 (0.353%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 34 (12.01%) MS Exchange
2 27 (9.541%) Apache
3 25 (8.834%) IIS
4 18 (6.360%) Exchange Server 2007
5 16 (5.654%) Exchange Server 2010
6 12 (4.240%) SharePoint
7 10 (3.534%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
8 9 (3.180%) Tomcat
8 9 (3.180%) Oracle Application Server
9 8 (2.827%) Exchange Server 2003
10 6 (2.120%) SharePoint Server
11 4 (1.413%) SAS
12 3 (1.060%) Lotus Domino
13 2 (0.707%) Oracle 10gAS
13 2 (0.707%) CICS
13 2 (0.707%) MQSeries
14 1 (0.353%) WebLogic
14 1 (0.353%) BizTalk Server
14 1 (0.353%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 11 (3.887%) MS Office
2 8 (2.827%) MS Excel
3 1 (0.353%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.353%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.120%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.707%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (0.707%) Oracle 11i
2 2 (0.707%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.353%) assyst
3 1 (0.353%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.353%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 168 (59.36%) SAN
2 49 (17.31%) NAS
3 35 (12.37%) DNS
3 35 (12.37%) DHCP
4 32 (11.31%) Firewall
5 22 (7.774%) TCP/IP
6 19 (6.714%) VPN
7 17 (6.007%) Internet
8 15 (5.300%) FTP
8 15 (5.300%) WAN
9 13 (4.594%) LAN
10 9 (3.180%) BIG-IP
11 7 (2.473%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (2.120%) Network Security
12 6 (2.120%) iSCSI
12 6 (2.120%) LDAP
12 6 (2.120%) SNMP
13 5 (1.767%) DMZ
13 5 (1.767%) Cisco ASA
14 4 (1.413%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (5.654%) SQL Server
2 10 (3.534%) SQL Server 2008
3 8 (2.827%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (2.827%) MySQL
4 3 (1.060%) Informix
4 3 (1.060%) Oracle 11g
5 2 (0.707%) SQL Server 2000
5 2 (0.707%) OLTP
5 2 (0.707%) VLDB
5 2 (0.707%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (0.707%) Oracle 9i
6 1 (0.353%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.353%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.353%) DTS
6 1 (0.353%) DB2
6 1 (0.353%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.353%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.353%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 3 (1.060%) Hudson
1 3 (1.060%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.353%) ClearCase
2 1 (0.353%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 26 (9.187%) Banking
2 19 (6.714%) Finance
3 12 (4.240%) Back Office
4 10 (3.534%) Investment Banking
5 7 (2.473%) Telecoms
6 3 (1.060%) Local Government
7 2 (0.707%) Marketing
7 2 (0.707%) Law
7 2 (0.707%) Retail
8 1 (0.353%) Electronics
8 1 (0.353%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.353%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.353%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 54 (19.08%) Storage Engineer
2 35 (12.37%) Administrator
3 27 (9.541%) Consultant
4 25 (8.834%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 20 (7.067%) Systems Administrator
5 20 (7.067%) Analyst
6 19 (6.714%) Wintel Engineer
7 17 (6.007%) Support Engineer
8 16 (5.654%) Architect
9 11 (3.887%) Systems Engineer
9 11 (3.887%) Storage Consultant
9 11 (3.887%) Storage Architect
10 10 (3.534%) Storage Specialist
11 9 (3.180%) Linux Administrator
11 9 (3.180%) Windows Administrator
12 8 (2.827%) Linux Systems Administrator
12 8 (2.827%) Senior Analyst
13 7 (2.473%) Desktop Support
13 7 (2.473%) DBA
13 7 (2.473%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 59 (20.85%) Clustering
2 17 (6.007%) CLARiiON
3 11 (3.887%) Replication
4 10 (3.534%) Symmetrix DMX
4 10 (3.534%) Celerra
4 10 (3.534%) Symmetrix
4 10 (3.534%) Blackberry
5 9 (3.180%) Computer Science
6 8 (2.827%) Derivative
6 8 (2.827%) Hedge funds
7 5 (1.767%) Enterprise Storage
8 4 (1.413%) Open Source
8 4 (1.413%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.060%) Client/Server
9 3 (1.060%) NHS
9 3 (1.060%) Thin Client
9 3 (1.060%) Fat Client
10 2 (0.707%) Mathematics
10 2 (0.707%) Mainframe
11 1 (0.353%) EMC Centera
Operating Systems
1 176 (62.19%) Windows
2 102 (36.04%) UNIX
3 79 (27.92%) Linux
4 72 (25.44%) Windows Server 2003
5 68 (24.03%) Windows Server 2008
6 60 (21.20%) Solaris
7 27 (9.541%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (7.067%) Windows 2000
9 16 (5.654%) Windows NT
10 15 (5.300%) Windows XP
11 10 (3.534%) AIX
12 7 (2.473%) Windows 7
13 6 (2.120%) Windows 2000 Server
14 5 (1.767%) HPUX
15 2 (0.707%) CentOS
16 1 (0.353%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.353%) Tru64
16 1 (0.353%) FreeBSD
16 1 (0.353%) VMS
16 1 (0.353%) OS/390
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (22.26%) ITIL
2 52 (18.37%) Migration
3 34 (12.01%) Capacity Management
4 30 (10.60%) Change Management
5 27 (9.541%) Data Migration
6 26 (9.187%) Data Management
6 26 (9.187%) Data Analysis
7 22 (7.774%) Data Protection
8 21 (7.420%) Capacity Planning
9 19 (6.714%) Disaster Recovery
10 13 (4.594%) Change Control
11 11 (3.887%) Root Cause Analysis
12 10 (3.534%) Project Management
13 9 (3.180%) Infrastructure Management
13 9 (3.180%) Problem Management
13 9 (3.180%) Release Management
14 8 (2.827%) Service Delivery
15 7 (2.473%) Service Management
15 7 (2.473%) Business Continuity
16 6 (2.120%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.19%) VB
2 32 (11.31%) SQL
3 19 (6.714%) C
4 16 (5.654%) VBScript
4 16 (5.654%) PowerShell
5 7 (2.473%) Perl
6 4 (1.413%) Bash shell
6 4 (1.413%) PHP
6 4 (1.413%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.060%) Bourne shell
7 3 (1.060%) Korn
8 2 (0.707%) AWK
9 1 (0.353%) Python
9 1 (0.353%) C++
9 1 (0.353%) COBOL
9 1 (0.353%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 52 (18.37%) Security Cleared
2 24 (8.481%) NCDA
3 23 (8.127%) DV Cleared
4 22 (7.774%) SC Cleared
5 12 (4.240%) Microsoft Certification
6 11 (3.887%) MCSE
7 10 (3.534%) Degree
8 6 (2.120%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 6 (2.120%) RHCE
9 5 (1.767%) CCA
9 5 (1.767%) Citrix Certification
9 5 (1.767%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.413%) MCITP
10 4 (1.413%) Cisco Certification
10 4 (1.413%) Sun Certification
10 4 (1.413%) SCSA
11 2 (0.707%) VCP4
11 2 (0.707%) CCNA
11 2 (0.707%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 2 (0.707%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (2.120%) SLA
System Software
1 71 (25.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 52 (18.37%) Active Directory
3 43 (15.19%) vSphere
4 35 (12.37%) XenApp
5 31 (10.95%) VMware ESX
6 19 (6.714%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 18 (6.360%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 14 (4.947%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (3.534%) Veritas Volume Manager
10 9 (3.180%) VMware Workstation
10 9 (3.180%) NFS
10 9 (3.180%) ISA Server
11 7 (2.473%) ProxySG
12 6 (2.120%) UAG
13 5 (1.767%) Veritas File System
13 5 (1.767%) Veritas Cluster Server
13 5 (1.767%) Hyper-V
14 4 (1.413%) Xen
14 4 (1.413%) Forefront TMG
14 4 (1.413%) Oracle RMAN
Systems Management
1 54 (19.08%) Backup Exec
2 42 (14.84%) EMC NetWorker
3 36 (12.72%) Legato
4 32 (11.31%) SCOM
5 25 (8.834%) Tivoli Storage Manager
6 18 (6.360%) Norton AntiVirus
7 17 (6.007%) Tivoli
8 15 (5.300%) SCCM
9 10 (3.534%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 9 (3.180%) HP SIM
11 8 (2.827%) WSUS
12 7 (2.473%) BMC PATROL
13 5 (1.767%) Control-M
13 5 (1.767%) ARCserve
13 5 (1.767%) Puppet
14 4 (1.413%) WhatsUp Gold
15 3 (1.060%) McAfee ePO
15 3 (1.060%) PureDisk
15 3 (1.060%) Red Hat Satellite
15 3 (1.060%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 113 (39.93%) VMware
2 105 (37.10%) Symantec
3 103 (36.40%) HP
4 100 (35.34%) NetApp
5 89 (31.45%) EMC
6 69 (24.38%) Microsoft
7 62 (21.91%) Veritas
8 57 (20.14%) Citrix
9 48 (16.96%) IBM
10 37 (13.07%) Red Hat
11 35 (12.37%) Cisco
12 34 (12.01%) Oracle
13 32 (11.31%) Dell
14 27 (9.541%) Sun
15 25 (8.834%) Sophos
16 22 (7.774%) Brocade
17 21 (7.420%) McAfee
18 20 (7.067%) BMC
19 15 (5.300%) Leostream
19 15 (5.300%) PlateSpin
Oxford, South East
Designing and implementing new infrastructure hosting platforms for customers.*Aiding with projects from Server upgrades from Microsoft Windows 2003 to 2008, Active Directory upgrade and migration from 2003...
Sand Resources
Rate: £150 - £200 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
Expert level Symantec Net Backup experience. * * Strong problem solving, time management and organizational skills... * Hands on Unix/Linux/Windows System Administration Experience. * Hands on experience with VMWare Server...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Portsmouth, Hampshire
This is a fixed term contract starting in May running through to 31st December and will likely to be extended for one year thereafter: Essential Skills: (candidates must...
Polar Recruitment
Rate: Fixed Term contract until Dec 3st intially
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
The successful UNIX SME will be supporting Redhat, Solaris and backups in a mixture of BAU and project-based environments... The UNIX Administrator will need solid experience and...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
Strong Knowledge of EMC Networker concepts. -Should understand the EMC Networker process flow & error codes... - OS Administration: Sun Solaris, Linux,AIX & Windows Responsibilities: -Reviews the existing backup architecture,...
LCS
Posted: 1 May 2013