The first table below looks at the demand for snoop 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 snoop 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 of the Communications & Networking 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sun Microsystems snoop
Rank 511 - 564
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing snoop 2 0 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.005% - 0.012%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.033% - 0.095%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
Average daily rate £319 - £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 - £340
10% offered a daily rate of more than £324 - £480
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Communications & Networking
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Communications & Networking category
6108 8385 7368
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 14.69% 15.72% 13.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 3064 3932 3397
Average daily rate £350 £365 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% +4.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £315 £338 £325
% change year-on-year
-6.66% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 500 561 752
Average hourly rate £21.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-14.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.81 £12.21
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.50 £45.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.75 £25.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year
-17.00% -9.09%
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UK

snoop
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing snoop across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Communications & Networking category.

England snoop Jobs Demand Trend

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Daily Rate Trend

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

England snoop Daily Rate Trend

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing snoop within the England region over the 3 months to 24 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 - 2 £319 -
snoop
UK

snoop
Top 19 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Certification
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (100.00%) Law
1 2 (100.00%) SUSE
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
General
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Administrator
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Senior UNIX Administrator
2 1 (50.00%) Solaris Administrator
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) SUSE
1 2 (100.00%) UNIX
1 2 (100.00%) AIX
1 2 (100.00%) Solaris
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Sun Certification
1 2 (100.00%) IBM Certification
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) IBM
1 2 (100.00%) Sun
1 2 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle