The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Veritas products and/or services 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 over the 3 months to 17 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 Vendors 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Veritas Software.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas
Rank 337 370 317
Rank change year-on-year
+33 -53
Contract jobs citing Veritas 182 192 282
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.438% 0.360% 0.500%
As % of the Vendors category 0.941% 0.778% 1.085%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 108 160
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £320 £275 £312
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £478 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £371 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-1.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 11
Average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-45.71% +55.55%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-45.71% +75.00%
All Vendors
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
19343 24682 25994
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 46.53% 46.26% 46.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 10648 13062 13369
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £238 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1121 1209 1513
Average hourly rate £19.63 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.87% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.25 £11.99 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Veritas
UK

Veritas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Veritas Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Daily Rate Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Veritas across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Veritas Daily Rate Histogram

Veritas
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Veritas Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +51 146 £400 -0.31%
South East +21 17 £425 +21.42%
East of England -3 6 - -
West Midlands +12 5 £340 -
North West +9 2 £375 +25.00%
East Midlands +3 2 £315 -
Midlands - 2 £325 -
South West +12 1 £450 +9.75%
Veritas
UK

Veritas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Veritas 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.

1 196 (61.64%) UNIX
2 188 (59.12%) Linux
3 185 (58.18%) Solaris
4 171 (53.77%) SAN
5 139 (43.71%) EMC
6 136 (42.77%) VMware
7 116 (36.48%) Red Hat
7 116 (36.48%) Windows
8 115 (36.16%) Clustering
9 110 (34.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
10 108 (33.96%) Finance
11 102 (32.08%) Sun
12 99 (31.13%) HP
13 86 (27.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
14 85 (26.73%) Oracle
15 81 (25.47%) AIX
15 81 (25.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 78 (24.53%) ITIL
17 77 (24.21%) Perl
18 76 (23.90%) VMware Infrastructure
19 74 (23.27%) NAS
20 73 (22.96%) Banking
21 69 (21.70%) Migration
22 68 (21.38%) Shell Script
23 66 (20.75%) Microsoft
24 63 (19.81%) NetBackup
25 58 (18.24%) SUSE
25 58 (18.24%) Active Directory
26 52 (16.35%) Windows Server 2003
27 49 (15.41%) Investment Banking

Veritas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Veritas 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. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 19 (5.975%) .NET
2 15 (4.717%) ASP.NET
2 15 (4.717%) Web Services
2 15 (4.717%) ADSI
3 5 (1.572%) WebSphere
4 4 (1.258%) Middleware
5 2 (0.629%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.314%) Memcached
6 1 (0.314%) Gearman
6 1 (0.314%) LAMP
6 1 (0.314%) HTML
6 1 (0.314%) XML
6 1 (0.314%) XSL
6 1 (0.314%) Flash
6 1 (0.314%) COM
6 1 (0.314%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 38 (11.95%) MS Exchange
2 31 (9.748%) IIS
3 28 (8.805%) SharePoint
4 26 (8.176%) Exchange Server 2010
4 26 (8.176%) Apache
5 17 (5.346%) Exchange Server 2003
6 14 (4.403%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (2.201%) Oracle Application Server
8 6 (1.887%) Tomcat
9 4 (1.258%) SAS
9 4 (1.258%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 4 (1.258%) Office Communications Server
9 4 (1.258%) SharePoint 2010
10 2 (0.629%) Exchange Server 2000
10 2 (0.629%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.314%) CMS
11 1 (0.314%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 9 (2.830%) MS Office
2 8 (2.516%) MS Excel
3 2 (0.629%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.629%) MS Project
4 1 (0.314%) AutoCAD
Business Applications
1 1 (0.314%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 171 (53.77%) SAN
2 74 (23.27%) NAS
3 38 (11.95%) TCP/IP
4 26 (8.176%) DNS
5 23 (7.233%) Internet
6 22 (6.918%) DHCP
7 20 (6.289%) Firewall
8 17 (5.346%) VPN
9 16 (5.031%) FTP
10 13 (4.088%) LDAP
11 8 (2.516%) Gigabit Ethernet
11 8 (2.516%) BIG-IP
12 5 (1.572%) Ethernet
13 4 (1.258%) WAN
13 4 (1.258%) NetScreen
14 3 (0.943%) Fibre Channel
14 3 (0.943%) Network Security
14 3 (0.943%) iSCSI
14 3 (0.943%) SMTP
14 3 (0.943%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (7.233%) SQL Server
2 17 (5.346%) Oracle Exadata
3 12 (3.774%) SQL Server 2000
3 12 (3.774%) SQL Server 2008
4 7 (2.201%) SQL Server 2005
5 6 (1.887%) MySQL
6 4 (1.258%) Oracle 11g
6 4 (1.258%) Oracle 10g
6 4 (1.258%) MarkLogic
7 3 (0.943%) Informix
7 3 (0.943%) Oracle 8/8i
8 2 (0.629%) DTS
8 2 (0.629%) OLTP
8 2 (0.629%) VLDB
9 1 (0.314%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.314%) Star Schema
9 1 (0.314%) Oracle 9i
9 1 (0.314%) Data Warehouse
9 1 (0.314%) Oracle Reports
9 1 (0.314%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (0.629%) ClearCase
1 2 (0.629%) Subversion
2 1 (0.314%) Git (software)
2 1 (0.314%) TestDirector
General
1 108 (33.96%) Finance
2 73 (22.96%) Banking
3 49 (15.41%) Investment Banking
4 13 (4.088%) Financial Institution
5 6 (1.887%) Telecoms
6 5 (1.572%) Retail
7 4 (1.258%) Corporate Banking
8 3 (0.943%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.314%) German Language
9 1 (0.314%) Back Office
9 1 (0.314%) Law
9 1 (0.314%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.314%) Advertising
9 1 (0.314%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 90 (28.30%) Administrator
2 78 (24.53%) UNIX Systems Administrator
2 78 (24.53%) Systems Administrator
3 65 (20.44%) UNIX Administrator
4 33 (10.38%) UNIX Engineer
5 32 (10.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (8.805%) Linux Systems Administrator
7 24 (7.547%) Consultant
8 22 (6.918%) Linux Administrator
9 19 (5.975%) Wintel Engineer
10 18 (5.660%) Linux Engineer
11 17 (5.346%) Analyst
12 12 (3.774%) Storage Engineer
13 10 (3.145%) Wintel Analyst
14 9 (2.830%) UNIX Support
15 8 (2.516%) UNIX Consultant
16 7 (2.201%) Solaris Systems Administrator
16 7 (2.201%) 3rd Line Support
16 7 (2.201%) Technical Consultant
16 7 (2.201%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 115 (36.16%) Clustering
2 33 (10.38%) Symmetrix DMX
3 19 (5.975%) Wiki
3 19 (5.975%) CLARiiON
4 12 (3.774%) Hedge funds
5 11 (3.459%) Computer Science
6 10 (3.145%) Replication
6 10 (3.145%) Firmware
7 8 (2.516%) Blackberry
8 7 (2.201%) Open Source
9 6 (1.887%) HACMP
10 5 (1.572%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.572%) Celerra
11 4 (1.258%) Mathematics
11 4 (1.258%) Symmetrix
12 3 (0.943%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (0.943%) Enterprise Storage
12 3 (0.943%) Client/Server
12 3 (0.943%) Equities
12 3 (0.943%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 196 (61.64%) UNIX
2 188 (59.12%) Linux
3 185 (58.18%) Solaris
4 116 (36.48%) Windows
5 81 (25.47%) AIX
5 81 (25.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 58 (18.24%) SUSE
7 52 (16.35%) Windows Server 2003
8 48 (15.09%) Windows Server 2008
9 30 (9.434%) HPUX
10 28 (8.805%) Windows 2000
11 20 (6.289%) Windows XP
12 16 (5.031%) Windows NT
13 9 (2.830%) VMS
14 4 (1.258%) Windows 7
15 2 (0.629%) Windows 2000 Server
16 1 (0.314%) CentOS
16 1 (0.314%) NetWare
16 1 (0.314%) OpenBSD
16 1 (0.314%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (24.53%) ITIL
2 69 (21.70%) Migration
3 44 (13.84%) Change Management
4 39 (12.26%) Problem Management
5 27 (8.491%) RDF
6 23 (7.233%) Capacity Management
7 18 (5.660%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (5.031%) Project Management
8 16 (5.031%) Incident Management
9 15 (4.717%) Data Management
9 15 (4.717%) Load Balancing
9 15 (4.717%) Data Migration
10 14 (4.403%) Data Analysis
11 13 (4.088%) Change Control
12 11 (3.459%) Capacity Planning
12 11 (3.459%) High Availability
13 10 (3.145%) Service Delivery
14 9 (2.830%) Release Management
15 8 (2.516%) Validation
15 8 (2.516%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 77 (24.21%) Perl
2 68 (21.38%) Shell Script
3 37 (11.64%) Korn
4 33 (10.38%) VB
5 31 (9.748%) SQL
6 28 (8.805%) VBScript
7 25 (7.862%) Bash shell
8 16 (5.031%) PowerShell
9 12 (3.774%) Python
10 8 (2.516%) C-shell
11 5 (1.572%) R
12 4 (1.258%) Bourne shell
13 3 (0.943%) AWK
14 2 (0.629%) T-SQL
14 2 (0.629%) PHP
14 2 (0.629%) C
14 2 (0.629%) C++
14 2 (0.629%) Java
15 1 (0.314%) JavaScript
15 1 (0.314%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 16 (5.031%) Microsoft Certification
1 16 (5.031%) Degree
2 14 (4.403%) NCDA
3 12 (3.774%) Security Cleared
3 12 (3.774%) MCSE
4 9 (2.830%) RHCE
5 8 (2.516%) SC Cleared
6 7 (2.201%) Oracle Certification
7 6 (1.887%) OCA
8 4 (1.258%) MCITP
8 4 (1.258%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (1.258%) SCSA
9 3 (0.943%) Sun Certification
9 3 (0.943%) CCNA
9 3 (0.943%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (0.943%) VCP5
9 3 (0.943%) DV Cleared
10 2 (0.629%) MCDST
10 2 (0.629%) MOS
11 1 (0.314%) VERITAS Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.031%) SLA
2 5 (1.572%) QA
3 1 (0.314%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 110 (34.59%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 86 (27.04%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 76 (23.90%) VMware Infrastructure
4 58 (18.24%) Active Directory
5 41 (12.89%) VMware ESX
6 36 (11.32%) vSphere
7 27 (8.491%) XenApp
8 25 (7.862%) NFS
9 22 (6.918%) Veritas File System
10 19 (5.975%) Citrix Presentation Server
11 16 (5.031%) SRDF
11 16 (5.031%) Oracle RAC
12 15 (4.717%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 14 (4.403%) XenServer
14 12 (3.774%) Hyper-V
15 10 (3.145%) Samba
16 9 (2.830%) ISA Server
17 7 (2.201%) ProxySG
18 5 (1.572%) Oracle RMAN
19 4 (1.258%) Cronacle
Systems Management
1 63 (19.81%) NetBackup
2 35 (11.01%) SCOM
3 30 (9.434%) Backup Exec
4 29 (9.119%) EMC NetWorker
4 29 (9.119%) Legato
5 24 (7.547%) SCCM
6 12 (3.774%) Puppet
7 10 (3.145%) Norton AntiVirus
8 9 (2.830%) Veritas Storage Foundation
8 9 (2.830%) Cobbler
9 8 (2.516%) McAfee ePO
10 6 (1.887%) HP SIM
10 6 (1.887%) Tivoli
11 5 (1.572%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
11 5 (1.572%) WSUS
11 5 (1.572%) HP Data Protector
12 4 (1.258%) HP Quality Center
12 4 (1.258%) BMC PATROL
13 3 (0.943%) Netcool
14 2 (0.629%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 139 (43.71%) EMC
2 136 (42.77%) VMware
3 116 (36.48%) Red Hat
4 102 (32.08%) Sun
5 99 (31.13%) HP
6 85 (26.73%) Oracle
7 66 (20.75%) Microsoft
8 48 (15.09%) Citrix
8 48 (15.09%) Dell
9 47 (14.78%) IBM
10 31 (9.748%) Cisco
10 31 (9.748%) NetApp
11 30 (9.434%) Sybase
12 26 (8.176%) McAfee
13 21 (6.604%) F5
14 20 (6.289%) Symantec
14 20 (6.289%) BMC
15 18 (5.660%) Sophos
16 16 (5.031%) PlateSpin
17 15 (4.717%) Altiris
Surrey
Unix Engineer - Unix, Linux, Solaris, SAN, Storage Remediation, Veritas - Surrey My client is looking for an engineer to work on a large scale storage remediation project... Their current...
iKas International
Rate: £400 - £475 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
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
An opportunity has arisen for a skilled UNIX SA to join a global organisation as part of a projects team working closely with the Backup Storage projects for...
Aston Carter
Rate: £450 - £550 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
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
Linux, Unix, System Administrator, TCP/IP, Cluster, Veritas, DNS, Redhat, Operating systems, ITIL, Contract, Hemel Hempstead) Roc Search is currently recruiting for a Linux Systems Administrator on a...
Roc Search
Posted: 14 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
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
Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire
The role will involve moving the platform supporting the end client's key trading websites and will also entail building completely new e-commerce infrastructure and will require...
Roc Search
Posted: 18 May 2013
London
Essential skills Red Hat Linux in a large production environment... Veritas stack including VCS. SAN and NAS solutions, EMC... Advanced shell Scripting (bash, Perl and/or Python) Samba/...
ComputAppoint
Rate: £500 - £600 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
North West England
They are looking for someone with technical skills in the following: *Oracle Database Server Administration at an expert level (including RAC) *Oracle High Availability technologies at an expert...
Computer Futures
Rate: £350 - £425 per day
Posted: 17 May 2013
Basildon, Essex
Active Directory 2008 - PACS system Administration exposure - ISA Server 2006 and ForeFront TMG 2010 - Exchange 2003, 2007 and 2010 - Microsoft SQL Server 2000, 2005 and 2008 - Windows Server...
Skye Group
Rate: £25 per hour
Posted: 16 May 2013