The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symantec 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 Vendors for the Gloucestershire 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 26 39 -
Rank change year-on-year
+13 -
Contract jobs citing Symantec 11 32 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 4.044% 4.871% -
As % of the Vendors category 9.244% 10.16% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 32 0
Average daily rate £450 £400 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -8.75%
All Vendors
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
119 315 213
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 43.75% 47.95% 48.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 206 90
Average daily rate £500 £410 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.95% +22.38%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £375 £350 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 15
Average hourly rate £11.00 £25.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-56.86% +21.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.30 £24.10 £16.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £50.00 £39.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Symantec
South West

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 18 (85.71%) Windows
2 18 (85.71%) HP
2 18 (85.71%) DV Cleared
2 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 17 (80.95%) NetBackup
3 17 (80.95%) Data Protection
3 17 (80.95%) C
3 17 (80.95%) SAN
3 17 (80.95%) NetApp
3 17 (80.95%) UNIX
4 4 (19.05%) vSphere
4 4 (19.05%) Backup Exec
4 4 (19.05%) VMware
5 3 (14.29%) MCITP
5 3 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
5 3 (14.29%) Sophos
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
5 3 (14.29%) Lotus
5 3 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
5 3 (14.29%) Lotus Domino
5 3 (14.29%) MCSE
5 3 (14.29%) MCSA
6 2 (9.524%) Cisco
6 2 (9.524%) WhatsUp Gold
7 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (4.762%) WSUS
7 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 Development
1 1 (4.762%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) Lotus Notes
1 3 (14.29%) Lotus Domino
2 1 (4.762%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (4.762%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 17 (80.95%) SAN
2 1 (4.762%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (4.762%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (4.762%) MySQL
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (4.762%) Git (software)
1 1 (4.762%) ClearQuest
1 1 (4.762%) ClearCase
Job Titles
1 17 (80.95%) Storage Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Storage Support Engineer
3 2 (9.524%) Analyst
3 2 (9.524%) Wintel Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Wintel Consultant
4 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.762%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.762%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 19 (90.48%) Linux
2 18 (85.71%) Windows
3 17 (80.95%) UNIX
4 1 (4.762%) Ubuntu
4 1 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (4.762%) CentOS
4 1 (4.762%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (4.762%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (80.95%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 17 (80.95%) C
2 1 (4.762%) Java
2 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) DV Cleared
1 18 (85.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) MCITP
2 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (14.29%) MCSE
2 3 (14.29%) MCSA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) vSphere
2 1 (4.762%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (4.762%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (80.95%) NetBackup
2 4 (19.05%) Backup Exec
3 3 (14.29%) Norton AntiVirus
3 3 (14.29%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (9.524%) WhatsUp Gold
5 1 (4.762%) WSUS
Vendors
1 18 (85.71%) HP
2 17 (80.95%) NetApp
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 3 (14.29%) Sophos
4 3 (14.29%) Lotus
5 2 (9.524%) Cisco
6 1 (4.762%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.762%) Perforce
6 1 (4.762%) Red Hat
6 1 (4.762%) IBM
6 1 (4.762%) Microsoft
6 1 (4.762%) Dell
6 1 (4.762%) Citrix
6 1 (4.762%) Oracle
6 1 (4.762%) JBoss