The first table below looks at the demand for Veritas Volume Manager 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 Volume Manager 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 Volume Manager (VxVM)
Rank 447 525 500
Rank change year-on-year
+78 -25
Contract jobs citing Veritas Volume Manager 71 37 73
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.171% 0.069% 0.128%
As % of the System Software category 1.788% 0.865% 1.783%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 25 51
Average daily rate £425 £403 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.59% -10.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £350 £400
10% offered a daily rate of more than £451 £425 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £425 £425 £320
% change year-on-year
- +32.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £35.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +40.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year
- +40.00%
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 Volume Manager
UK

Veritas Volume Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Veritas Volume Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas Volume Manager
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Volume Manager Daily Rate Trend

Veritas Volume Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Veritas Volume Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Veritas Volume Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Volume Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas Volume Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas Volume Manager 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 +60 58 £413 +2.80%
South East +29 11 £425 -
North West +11 1 £375 -16.66%
South West - 1 £450 -
Veritas Volume Manager
UK

Veritas Volume Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 103 (91.96%) Linux
2 101 (90.18%) Solaris
3 94 (83.93%) UNIX
4 89 (79.46%) Veritas
5 87 (77.68%) SAN
6 78 (69.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 61 (54.46%) EMC
8 59 (52.68%) Finance
9 56 (50.00%) Banking
10 53 (47.32%) Shell Script
11 52 (46.43%) SUSE
12 50 (44.64%) Sun
13 47 (41.96%) AIX
13 47 (41.96%) Investment Banking
14 46 (41.07%) Red Hat
15 44 (39.29%) Migration
16 42 (37.50%) Perl
17 38 (33.93%) Oracle
18 31 (27.68%) VMware
19 29 (25.89%) Korn
20 27 (24.11%) ITIL
21 26 (23.21%) RDF
21 26 (23.21%) NFS
21 26 (23.21%) Symmetrix DMX
21 26 (23.21%) Problem Management
22 25 (22.32%) Change Management
23 24 (21.43%) Sybase
24 23 (20.54%) LDAP
24 23 (20.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
25 22 (19.64%) NAS

Veritas Volume Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (0.893%) REST
1 1 (0.893%) SOAP
1 1 (0.893%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 18 (16.07%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.893%) Apache
2 1 (0.893%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (0.893%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 87 (77.68%) SAN
2 23 (20.54%) LDAP
3 22 (19.64%) NAS
4 20 (17.86%) DNS
5 6 (5.357%) TCP/IP
6 3 (2.679%) DHCP
6 3 (2.679%) Firewall
7 1 (0.893%) HTTP
7 1 (0.893%) OSPF
7 1 (0.893%) BGP
7 1 (0.893%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (15.18%) Oracle Exadata
2 2 (1.786%) OLTP
2 2 (1.786%) VLDB
2 2 (1.786%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.893%) Sybase ASE
General
1 59 (52.68%) Finance
2 56 (50.00%) Banking
3 47 (41.96%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.571%) Corporate Banking
4 4 (3.571%) Financial Institution
5 2 (1.786%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 46 (41.07%) Administrator
2 41 (36.61%) Systems Administrator
3 39 (34.82%) UNIX Systems Administrator
4 36 (32.14%) UNIX Administrator
5 20 (17.86%) UNIX Engineer
6 14 (12.50%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 13 (11.61%) Linux Engineer
8 9 (8.036%) Linux Administrator
9 8 (7.143%) UNIX Support
10 7 (6.250%) Analyst
11 6 (5.357%) Solaris Administrator
11 6 (5.357%) Solaris Systems Administrator
12 5 (4.464%) UNIX Specialist
13 4 (3.571%) Systems Analyst
14 3 (2.679%) AIX Engineer
14 3 (2.679%) Linux Specialist
14 3 (2.679%) Consultant
15 2 (1.786%) Technical Specialist
15 2 (1.786%) UNIX Technical Specialist
15 2 (1.786%) UNIX Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 26 (23.21%) Symmetrix DMX
2 18 (16.07%) Wiki
3 14 (12.50%) Equities
4 12 (10.71%) Firmware
5 10 (8.929%) Clustering
6 5 (4.464%) HACMP
7 4 (3.571%) Hedge funds
8 3 (2.679%) Enterprise Storage
9 2 (1.786%) Mathematics
9 2 (1.786%) Computer Science
10 1 (0.893%) Open Source
10 1 (0.893%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 103 (91.96%) Linux
2 101 (90.18%) Solaris
3 94 (83.93%) UNIX
4 52 (46.43%) SUSE
5 47 (41.96%) AIX
6 23 (20.54%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (9.821%) HPUX
8 8 (7.143%) Windows
9 2 (1.786%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (1.786%) Windows 2000 Server
10 1 (0.893%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (39.29%) Migration
2 27 (24.11%) ITIL
3 26 (23.21%) RDF
3 26 (23.21%) Problem Management
4 25 (22.32%) Change Management
5 4 (3.571%) Wealth Management
5 4 (3.571%) Fund Management
5 4 (3.571%) Business Transformation
6 3 (2.679%) Change Control
6 3 (2.679%) BCP
6 3 (2.679%) Electronic Trading
7 2 (1.786%) Business Continuity
7 2 (1.786%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (1.786%) Benchmarking
7 2 (1.786%) Capacity Planning
8 1 (0.893%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (0.893%) Infrastructure Management
8 1 (0.893%) Regression Testing
8 1 (0.893%) Risk Analysis
8 1 (0.893%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (47.32%) Shell Script
2 42 (37.50%) Perl
3 29 (25.89%) Korn
4 10 (8.929%) C
4 10 (8.929%) C++
5 9 (8.036%) Java
6 7 (6.250%) Bash shell
7 4 (3.571%) Python
8 2 (1.786%) AWK
8 2 (1.786%) Ruby
8 2 (1.786%) Bourne shell
Qualifications
1 3 (2.679%) Degree
2 2 (1.786%) Sun Certification
3 1 (0.893%) CCNP
3 1 (0.893%) CCNA
3 1 (0.893%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.571%) SLA
2 1 (0.893%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 1 (0.893%) QA
System Software
1 78 (69.64%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 26 (23.21%) NFS
3 18 (16.07%) Veritas File System
4 16 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
5 5 (4.464%) Active Directory
6 4 (3.571%) Oracle RAC
6 4 (3.571%) Cronacle
6 4 (3.571%) PowerHA
7 3 (2.679%) VMware ESX
8 1 (0.893%) SRDF
Systems Management
1 9 (8.036%) NetBackup
2 2 (1.786%) BMC PATROL
2 2 (1.786%) Puppet
3 1 (0.893%) BladeLogic
3 1 (0.893%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 89 (79.46%) Veritas
2 61 (54.46%) EMC
3 50 (44.64%) Sun
4 46 (41.07%) Red Hat
5 38 (33.93%) Oracle
6 31 (27.68%) VMware
7 24 (21.43%) Sybase
8 13 (11.61%) IBM
9 12 (10.71%) HP
10 5 (4.464%) NetApp
11 4 (3.571%) Symantec
11 4 (3.571%) Dell
11 4 (3.571%) Microsoft
12 3 (2.679%) 3PAR
12 3 (2.679%) Hitachi
13 2 (1.786%) Brocade
13 2 (1.786%) BMC
14 1 (0.893%) Cisco
14 1 (0.893%) Juniper
14 1 (0.893%) Hummingbird
Surrey
UNIX System Administrator - Banking - 450/day - SW London. My client, a Top Tier Leading Investment Bank, seeks to find an experienced UNIX System Administrator to work on a...
Thomson Keene Associates
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
A leading investment bank requires a senior UNIX engineer to work within their infrastructure area. The successful candidate will need: Requirements: * Deep knowledge of Linux and Solaris Operating...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Camberley, Surrey
Knowledge of AIX, HpUX. Ability to deploy and configure Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas Cluster Server... Required skills; Linux, RHEL, Solaris, Shell Scripting, AIX, HpUX, Veritas Volume Manager, Veritas...
iKas International
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
London
Strong Linux and Solaris is required in addition to deep knowledge of Veritas Volume Manager and cluster serve. Strong SAN and NAS migration experience is essential with exposure...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £450 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013