The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symantec 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 Vendors for the Essex 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 the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 45 41 47
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +6
Contract jobs citing Symantec 2 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 0.498% 0.964% 0.765%
As % of the Vendors category 1.010% 1.702% 1.422%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £475 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +26.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
Average hourly rate - £20.00 £14.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +35.59%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -8.75%
All Vendors
Essex
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
198 235 211
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Essex 49.25% 56.63% 53.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 96 102 89
Average daily rate £390 £294 £216
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.76% +35.99%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £173 £110 £75
10% offered a daily rate of more than £413 £475 £454
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 41
Average hourly rate £25.00 £28.32 £30.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.70% -5.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £20.00 £12.45
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symantec
East of England

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Symantec Jobs Demand Trend

Symantec
Daily Rate Trend

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

Essex Symantec Daily Rate Trend

Symantec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Essex Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 25 Related IT Skills

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

1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Lync
2 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
2 2 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (50.00%) iPhone
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
2 2 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 4 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 4 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 2 (50.00%) Lync
2 2 (50.00%) Office Communications Server
2 2 (50.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Unified Communications
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Communications Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 7
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) High Availability
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) PowerShell
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Citrix
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) VMware