The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symantec over the 3 months to 21 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 Guildford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 31 - 16
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Symantec 1 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 0.455% - 1.613%
As % of the Vendors category 0.901% - 4.082%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £400 £275
% change year-on-year
-15.62% +45.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £34.75 - £14.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% -7.50%
All Vendors
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
111 40 49
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 50.45% 35.40% 39.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 20 15
Average daily rate £325 £335 £255
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.98% +31.37%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £275 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £425 £398
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 5 3
Average hourly rate £34.75 £24.75 £14.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+40.40% +70.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £20.50 £17.50 £11.73
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £43.50 £37.50 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Symantec
Surrey

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 2 (100.00%) MS Office
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Dell
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (50.00%) Altiris
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
2 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) MCP

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 1 (50.00%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Office
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (50.00%) LAN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Support Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (50.00%) Deployment Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows XP
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 7
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Vista
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) MCSE
2 1 (50.00%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 1 (50.00%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) McAfee
1 1 (50.00%) Altiris
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft