The first table below looks at the demand for Veritas File System 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 File System 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 File System (VxFS)
Rank 507 549 564
Rank change year-on-year
+42 +15
Contract jobs citing Veritas File System 11 13 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.026% 0.024% 0.016%
As % of the System Software category 0.277% 0.304% 0.220%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 3
Average daily rate £320 £360 £550
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.11% -34.54%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £314 £510
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £458 £590
UK excluding London average daily rate £201 £450 -
% change year-on-year
-55.44% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
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 File System
UK

Veritas File System
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Veritas File System Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas File System
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Veritas File System Daily Rate Trend

Veritas File System
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Veritas File System Daily Rate Histogram

Veritas File System
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Veritas File System Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas File System
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas File System 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 +33 10 £320 -9.85%
South East +18 1 £201 -
Veritas File System
UK

Veritas File System
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 23 (100.00%) UNIX
2 22 (95.65%) Veritas
3 21 (91.30%) Solaris
4 20 (86.96%) Linux
5 19 (82.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 18 (78.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 16 (69.57%) Sun
8 15 (65.22%) Finance
9 14 (60.87%) AIX
10 12 (52.17%) Red Hat
11 11 (47.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 10 (43.48%) ITIL
12 10 (43.48%) EMC
13 9 (39.13%) SAN
13 9 (39.13%) Banking
14 8 (34.78%) Problem Management
14 8 (34.78%) Investment Banking
14 8 (34.78%) Change Management
15 7 (30.43%) Clustering
16 5 (21.74%) NetBackup
16 5 (21.74%) Korn
16 5 (21.74%) BMC PATROL
16 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
16 5 (21.74%) BMC
17 4 (17.39%) Dell
17 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
17 4 (17.39%) Perl
17 4 (17.39%) Cronacle
17 4 (17.39%) Hedge funds
18 3 (13.04%) Migration

Veritas File System
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (4.348%) REST
1 1 (4.348%) SOAP
1 1 (4.348%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 9 (39.13%) SAN
2 2 (8.696%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.348%) DNS
3 1 (4.348%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.696%) OLTP
1 2 (8.696%) VLDB
1 2 (8.696%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.348%) Subversion
1 1 (4.348%) ClearCase
General
1 15 (65.22%) Finance
2 9 (39.13%) Banking
3 8 (34.78%) Investment Banking
4 4 (17.39%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) UNIX Support
1 8 (34.78%) Administrator
2 7 (30.43%) UNIX Administrator
3 5 (21.74%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 4 (17.39%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Design Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) UNIX Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) Technical Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) UNIX Specialist
6 1 (4.348%) UNIX Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Clustering
2 4 (17.39%) Hedge funds
3 2 (8.696%) Mathematics
3 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.696%) HACMP
Operating Systems
1 23 (100.00%) UNIX
2 21 (91.30%) Solaris
3 20 (86.96%) Linux
4 14 (60.87%) AIX
5 11 (47.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (8.696%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (43.48%) ITIL
2 8 (34.78%) Problem Management
2 8 (34.78%) Change Management
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
4 2 (8.696%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (8.696%) Benchmarking
4 2 (8.696%) Business Continuity
4 2 (8.696%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) Capacity Management
5 1 (4.348%) Network Architecture
5 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Korn
1 5 (21.74%) Shell Script
2 4 (17.39%) Perl
3 3 (13.04%) Bash shell
4 2 (8.696%) Python
4 2 (8.696%) Bourne shell
4 2 (8.696%) AWK
Qualifications
1 2 (8.696%) Sun Certification
1 2 (8.696%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.348%) QA
System Software
1 19 (82.61%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 18 (78.26%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 4 (17.39%) Cronacle
4 2 (8.696%) NFS
4 2 (8.696%) PowerHA
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) NetBackup
1 5 (21.74%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (4.348%) BladeLogic
2 1 (4.348%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Veritas
2 16 (69.57%) Sun
3 12 (52.17%) Red Hat
4 10 (43.48%) EMC
5 5 (21.74%) BMC
6 4 (17.39%) Dell
7 3 (13.04%) Oracle
7 3 (13.04%) HP
7 3 (13.04%) Symantec
8 1 (4.348%) Hummingbird
8 1 (4.348%) Remedy