The first table below looks at the demand for Veritas Cluster Server 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 Veritas Cluster Server 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas Cluster Server (VCS)
Rank 444 497 483
Rank change year-on-year
+53 -14
Contract jobs citing Veritas Cluster Server 74 65 90
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.178% 0.122% 0.158%
As % of the System Software category 1.864% 1.519% 2.198%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 33 53
Average daily rate £425 £400 £438
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.25% -8.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £313 £330
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £438 £356 £316
% change year-on-year
+22.80% +12.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £35.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 -
All System Software
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
3971 4278 4095
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 9.564% 8.011% 7.168%
Number of daily rates quoted 1938 2077 1820
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £200 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 591 625
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 £11.14 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £32.50 £36.69 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
-3.03% -5.71%
Veritas Cluster Server
UK

Veritas Cluster Server
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Veritas Cluster Server Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Cluster Server Daily Rate Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Veritas Cluster Server Daily Rate Histogram

Veritas Cluster Server
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Cluster Server Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas Cluster Server
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas Cluster Server 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
London +54 59 £413 +2.48%
South East +30 13 £438 -
East of England -1 1 - -
South West - 1 £450 -
Veritas Cluster Server
UK

Veritas Cluster Server
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 111 (96.52%) Veritas
2 106 (92.17%) Linux
3 93 (80.87%) Solaris
4 91 (79.13%) UNIX
5 78 (67.83%) SAN
5 78 (67.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
6 66 (57.39%) EMC
7 63 (54.78%) Finance
8 58 (50.43%) AIX
9 54 (46.96%) Banking
10 51 (44.35%) Red Hat
11 50 (43.48%) Shell Script
12 46 (40.00%) Investment Banking
13 45 (39.13%) VMware
13 45 (39.13%) Sun
14 44 (38.26%) Oracle
15 42 (36.52%) Migration
16 41 (35.65%) SUSE
17 39 (33.91%) Perl
17 39 (33.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
18 37 (32.17%) ITIL
19 33 (28.70%) Problem Management
20 32 (27.83%) Korn
20 32 (27.83%) NAS
21 29 (25.22%) Symmetrix DMX
21 29 (25.22%) RDF
22 27 (23.48%) Change Management
23 24 (20.87%) Sybase
24 21 (18.26%) SharePoint
24 21 (18.26%) Wiki

Veritas Cluster Server
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (4.348%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.870%) LAMP
2 1 (0.870%) Gearman
2 1 (0.870%) Memcached
Application Platforms
1 21 (18.26%) SharePoint
2 7 (6.087%) Apache
3 6 (5.217%) Tomcat
4 3 (2.609%) MS Exchange
4 3 (2.609%) MQSeries
5 2 (1.739%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (1.739%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (3.478%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.870%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 78 (67.83%) SAN
2 32 (27.83%) NAS
3 13 (11.30%) TCP/IP
4 10 (8.696%) DHCP
5 8 (6.957%) Gigabit Ethernet
6 7 (6.087%) DNS
7 5 (4.348%) Ethernet
8 3 (2.609%) VoIP
8 3 (2.609%) iSCSI
9 2 (1.739%) LDAP
9 2 (1.739%) Firewall
10 1 (0.870%) SSH
10 1 (0.870%) SNMP
10 1 (0.870%) Internet
10 1 (0.870%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (16.52%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (1.739%) MySQL
3 1 (0.870%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.870%) Oracle 8/8i
3 1 (0.870%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 1 (0.870%) Subversion
General
1 63 (54.78%) Finance
2 54 (46.96%) Banking
3 46 (40.00%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.478%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (3.478%) Financial Institution
5 1 (0.870%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 45 (39.13%) Administrator
2 39 (33.91%) Systems Administrator
3 36 (31.30%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 32 (27.83%) UNIX Administrator
5 17 (14.78%) Linux Systems Administrator
6 13 (11.30%) Linux Engineer
7 12 (10.43%) Linux Administrator
8 8 (6.957%) UNIX Engineer
8 8 (6.957%) Consultant
8 8 (6.957%) UNIX Support
9 7 (6.087%) UNIX Consultant
10 6 (5.217%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 6 (5.217%) UNIX Specialist
11 5 (4.348%) Solaris Systems Administrator
11 5 (4.348%) Technical Consultant
11 5 (4.348%) Solaris Administrator
12 4 (3.478%) Analyst
12 4 (3.478%) Systems Analyst
12 4 (3.478%) Linux Specialist
13 3 (2.609%) Technical Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 29 (25.22%) Symmetrix DMX
2 21 (18.26%) Wiki
3 18 (15.65%) Clustering
4 12 (10.43%) Firmware
5 7 (6.087%) Hedge funds
6 5 (4.348%) HACMP
7 4 (3.478%) Equities
8 3 (2.609%) Enterprise Storage
8 3 (2.609%) EqualLogic
9 1 (0.870%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 106 (92.17%) Linux
2 93 (80.87%) Solaris
3 91 (79.13%) UNIX
4 58 (50.43%) AIX
5 41 (35.65%) SUSE
6 39 (33.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 10 (8.696%) Windows
8 7 (6.087%) HPUX
9 5 (4.348%) VMS
10 3 (2.609%) Windows Server 2008
10 3 (2.609%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (2.609%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.870%) OpenBSD
11 1 (0.870%) FreeBSD
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (36.52%) Migration
2 37 (32.17%) ITIL
3 33 (28.70%) Problem Management
4 29 (25.22%) RDF
5 27 (23.48%) Change Management
6 5 (4.348%) Validation
6 5 (4.348%) Capacity Planning
7 4 (3.478%) Business Transformation
7 4 (3.478%) Wealth Management
7 4 (3.478%) Fund Management
8 2 (1.739%) Network Architecture
8 2 (1.739%) Capacity Management
8 2 (1.739%) Risk Analysis
9 1 (0.870%) Release Management
9 1 (0.870%) Business Analysis
9 1 (0.870%) Operations Management
9 1 (0.870%) Configuration Management
9 1 (0.870%) Project Management
9 1 (0.870%) Database Security
9 1 (0.870%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 50 (43.48%) Shell Script
2 39 (33.91%) Perl
3 32 (27.83%) Korn
4 16 (13.91%) Bash shell
5 11 (9.565%) Python
6 3 (2.609%) PowerShell
7 1 (0.870%) Ruby
7 1 (0.870%) C++
7 1 (0.870%) PHP
7 1 (0.870%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (5.217%) RHCE
2 1 (0.870%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (0.870%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
2 1 (0.870%) SCSA
2 1 (0.870%) Degree
2 1 (0.870%) HPUX Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.696%) SLA
2 1 (0.870%) QA
System Software
1 78 (67.83%) Veritas Volume Manager
2 20 (17.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (16.52%) Veritas File System
4 12 (10.43%) Oracle RAC
5 9 (7.826%) NFS
6 8 (6.957%) Samba
7 7 (6.087%) vSphere
8 5 (4.348%) Active Directory
8 5 (4.348%) SRDF
9 4 (3.478%) PowerHA
9 4 (3.478%) Cronacle
10 3 (2.609%) VMware ESX
11 2 (1.739%) Postfix
11 2 (1.739%) VMware ESXi
12 1 (0.870%) Oracle RMAN
12 1 (0.870%) Xen
12 1 (0.870%) VirtualBox
12 1 (0.870%) Varnish
12 1 (0.870%) Sendmail
Systems Management
1 12 (10.43%) Puppet
2 8 (6.957%) Cobbler
3 7 (6.087%) Veritas Storage Foundation
4 6 (5.217%) NetBackup
5 5 (4.348%) EMC NetWorker
6 3 (2.609%) BMC PATROL
6 3 (2.609%) Cacti
6 3 (2.609%) OpenNMS
7 1 (0.870%) Tivoli
7 1 (0.870%) Nagios
7 1 (0.870%) OpenView
7 1 (0.870%) Red Hat Satellite
7 1 (0.870%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 111 (96.52%) Veritas
2 66 (57.39%) EMC
3 51 (44.35%) Red Hat
4 45 (39.13%) VMware
4 45 (39.13%) Sun
5 44 (38.26%) Oracle
6 24 (20.87%) Sybase
7 13 (11.30%) IBM
8 11 (9.565%) HP
9 8 (6.957%) NetApp
10 7 (6.087%) Microsoft
11 4 (3.478%) Dell
12 3 (2.609%) BMC
12 3 (2.609%) Hitachi
12 3 (2.609%) Symantec
13 1 (0.870%) Egenera
13 1 (0.870%) JBoss
13 1 (0.870%) Remedy
13 1 (0.870%) Intel
13 1 (0.870%) Cisco
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