The first table below looks at the demand for ProxySG 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 ProxySG 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 of the System Software 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat Proxy SG
Rank 480 491 538
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +47
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 23 75 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.055% 0.140% 0.058%
As % of the System Software category 0.581% 1.745% 0.795%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 46 21
Average daily rate £390 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.23% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £292 £425 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £538 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £200 £275
% change year-on-year
+106.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £41.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3958 4299 4025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.490% 8.053% 7.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 1927 2078 1791
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £204 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £463 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £305
% change year-on-year
- +6.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 586 602
Average hourly rate £17.50 £17.50 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.77%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £37.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -3.64%
ProxySG
UK

ProxySG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England ProxySG Jobs Demand Trend

ProxySG
Daily Rate Trend

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

England ProxySG Daily Rate Trend

ProxySG
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing ProxySG across the England region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

England ProxySG Daily Rate Histogram

ProxySG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England ProxySG Hourly Rate Trend

ProxySG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProxySG within the 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
London -30 9 £348 -18.23%
East of England +24 6 £413 -
South East +15 5 £390 +95.00%
Yorkshire - 2 £413 -
South West - 1 - -
ProxySG
UK

ProxySG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 67 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 55 (82.09%) Firewall
3 40 (59.70%) CheckPoint
4 38 (56.72%) Cisco
5 37 (55.22%) F5
6 27 (40.30%) Citrix
7 26 (38.81%) Juniper
7 26 (38.81%) Linux
8 24 (35.82%) BIG-IP
9 22 (32.84%) VPN
9 22 (32.84%) Network Security
10 21 (31.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 21 (31.34%) Red Hat
10 21 (31.34%) E-Commerce
11 20 (29.85%) WAN
12 19 (28.36%) Load Balancing
13 18 (26.87%) Cisco ASA
13 18 (26.87%) LAN
14 17 (25.37%) Cisco Certification
14 17 (25.37%) Internet
15 16 (23.88%) SSL
15 16 (23.88%) UNIX
15 16 (23.88%) Windows
16 15 (22.39%) DNS
16 15 (22.39%) NetScaler
17 14 (20.90%) Web Services
18 13 (19.40%) IIS
18 13 (19.40%) Apache
18 13 (19.40%) TCP/IP
18 13 (19.40%) Microsoft

ProxySG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 14 (20.90%) Web Services
2 7 (10.45%) .NET
2 7 (10.45%) ASP.NET
2 7 (10.45%) ADSI
3 6 (8.955%) WebSphere
3 6 (8.955%) SOAP
3 6 (8.955%) XML
3 6 (8.955%) XSLT
4 4 (5.970%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 13 (19.40%) IIS
1 13 (19.40%) Apache
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle Application Server
3 6 (8.955%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 55 (82.09%) Firewall
2 24 (35.82%) BIG-IP
3 22 (32.84%) Network Security
3 22 (32.84%) VPN
4 20 (29.85%) WAN
5 18 (26.87%) LAN
5 18 (26.87%) Cisco ASA
6 17 (25.37%) Internet
7 16 (23.88%) SSL
8 15 (22.39%) DNS
8 15 (22.39%) NetScaler
9 13 (19.40%) OSPF
9 13 (19.40%) TCP/IP
10 11 (16.42%) IPsec
11 8 (11.94%) BGP
12 7 (10.45%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (10.45%) NAS
12 7 (10.45%) SAN
12 7 (10.45%) DHCP
12 7 (10.45%) FTP
General
1 7 (10.45%) Telecoms
2 6 (8.955%) Finance
3 1 (1.493%) Retail
3 1 (1.493%) Financial Institution
3 1 (1.493%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 15 (22.39%) Network Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Security Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Security Specialist
4 7 (10.45%) Migration Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Wintel Engineer
5 6 (8.955%) Security Consultant
5 6 (8.955%) Consultant
6 5 (7.463%) Network Consultant
6 5 (7.463%) Support Engineer
6 5 (7.463%) Network Specialist
6 5 (7.463%) Network Security Specialist
6 5 (7.463%) Network Security Consultant
6 5 (7.463%) Linux Engineer
6 5 (7.463%) E-Commerce Specialist
7 4 (5.970%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (5.970%) Cisco Engineer
8 3 (4.478%) Architect
8 3 (4.478%) Implementation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.45%) Clustering
2 6 (8.955%) PKI
2 6 (8.955%) Thin Client
2 6 (8.955%) Fat Client
3 4 (5.970%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.985%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 26 (38.81%) Linux
2 21 (31.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 16 (23.88%) UNIX
3 16 (23.88%) Windows
4 7 (10.45%) Windows 2000
4 7 (10.45%) Windows NT
4 7 (10.45%) Windows XP
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2003
4 7 (10.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (31.34%) E-Commerce
2 19 (28.36%) Load Balancing
3 13 (19.40%) Change Control
4 9 (13.43%) Project Management
5 8 (11.94%) Migration
6 7 (10.45%) Information Security
6 7 (10.45%) High Availability
7 5 (7.463%) ITIL
8 3 (4.478%) PRINCE2
8 3 (4.478%) ITSM
8 3 (4.478%) Network Security Management
8 3 (4.478%) Security Management
9 1 (1.493%) Programme Office Management
9 1 (1.493%) Content Management
9 1 (1.493%) Document Management
9 1 (1.493%) Network Design
9 1 (1.493%) ERP
9 1 (1.493%) Service Delivery
9 1 (1.493%) Change Management
9 1 (1.493%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) SQL
2 6 (8.955%) Java
3 5 (7.463%) C
4 4 (5.970%) VBScript
4 4 (5.970%) VB
Qualifications
1 17 (25.37%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (17.91%) CCNP
3 11 (16.42%) CCSA
4 10 (14.93%) CCSE
5 8 (11.94%) CISSP
6 6 (8.955%) CCNA
6 6 (8.955%) CCIE
7 4 (5.970%) Degree
8 3 (4.478%) SC Cleared
8 3 (4.478%) Security Cleared
8 3 (4.478%) CCSP
9 2 (2.985%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (2.985%) JNCIA
10 1 (1.493%) APMP
10 1 (1.493%) CCDA
10 1 (1.493%) MCSE
10 1 (1.493%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (1.493%) Check Point Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.493%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (17.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.45%) XenApp
2 7 (10.45%) vSphere
2 7 (10.45%) VMware ESX
2 7 (10.45%) Citrix Presentation Server
3 1 (1.493%) NFS
3 1 (1.493%) Snort
Systems Management
1 7 (10.45%) Legato
1 7 (10.45%) NetBackup
1 7 (10.45%) Backup Exec
1 7 (10.45%) SCOM
2 5 (7.463%) Cisco UCCX
2 5 (7.463%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (4.478%) SCCM
Vendors
1 67 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 40 (59.70%) CheckPoint
3 38 (56.72%) Cisco
4 37 (55.22%) F5
5 27 (40.30%) Citrix
6 26 (38.81%) Juniper
7 21 (31.34%) Red Hat
8 13 (19.40%) Microsoft
8 13 (19.40%) HP
9 12 (17.91%) Sourcefire
9 12 (17.91%) VMware
9 12 (17.91%) Infoblox
10 9 (13.43%) McAfee
11 8 (11.94%) Oracle
12 7 (10.45%) IBM
12 7 (10.45%) Dell
12 7 (10.45%) BMC
12 7 (10.45%) Veritas
12 7 (10.45%) Sophos
12 7 (10.45%) Leostream
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