Hampshire Backup Exec Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec skills within the Hampshire region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Backup Exec over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Berkshire Bracknell Bridgend Bristol Cambridgeshire Cardiff Chatham Cheltenham Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Crawley Devon East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucestershire Grays Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Lancashire Leeds London Maidenhead Maidstone Manchester Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staines Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thurrock Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wales West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	92	115
Rank change on same period last year	+23
Matching contract IT job ads	14	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.019 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	7.368 %	6.471 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£240
Average daily rate	-	£240
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£240
UK excluding London average daily rate	£288	£319
% change on same period last year	-9.81 %
Hourly rates quoted	8	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£24.25	£30.00
Average hourly rate	£27.19	£30.80
% change on same period last year	-11.72 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£30.13	£31.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.02	£24.16
% change on same period last year	-4.73 %
System Software Hampshire
Matching contract IT job ads	190	170
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.253 %	0.172 %
Daily rates quoted	22	45
Average minimum daily rate	£283	£322
Average daily rate	£312	£337
% change on same period last year	-7.32 %
Average maximum daily rate	£341	£352
UK excluding London average daily rate	£323	£327
% change on same period last year	-1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	59	37
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.89	£18.98
Average hourly rate	£22.64	£20.34
% change on same period last year	+11.35 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.40	£21.69
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.00	£22.17
% change on same period last year	-5.27 %
Backup Exec South East

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Backup Exec across the Hampshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Backup Exec across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Backup Exec across the Hampshire region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Backup Exec across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Backup Exec within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Portsmouth	-	3	-	-
Basingstoke	-	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec.

1 12 (66.67 %) Windows 2 11 (61.11 %) Citrix 3 10 (55.56 %) Active Directory 3 10 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 9 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 4 9 (50.00 %) VERITAS 5 8 (44.44 %) VPN 6 7 (38.89 %) SAP 7 6 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000 7 6 (33.33 %) EMC NetWorker 7 6 (33.33 %) MS Office 7 6 (33.33 %) Windows NT 7 6 (33.33 %) Symantec 7 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 7 6 (33.33 %) Configuration Management

8 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 8 5 (27.78 %) MS Project 8 5 (27.78 %) Auditing 8 5 (27.78 %) Hummingbird 9 4 (22.22 %) Adobe 9 4 (22.22 %) McAfee Security 10 3 (16.67 %) Norton AntiVirus 10 3 (16.67 %) Blackberry 10 3 (16.67 %) Quark 10 3 (16.67 %) QuarkXPress 10 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 10 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 10 3 (16.67 %) MCSE 10 3 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 10 3 (16.67 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 10 (55.56 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 9 (50.00 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (33.33 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 6 (33.33 %) MS Office 2 5 (27.78 %) MS Project 3 3 (16.67 %) QuarkXPress 4 2 (11.11 %) Acrobat
Communications & Networking 1 8 (44.44 %) VPN 2 2 (11.11 %) LAN 2 2 (11.11 %) WAN 2 2 (11.11 %) Internet 3 1 (5.556 %) SAN	General 1 5 (27.78 %) Auditing 2 1 (5.556 %) Government
Job Titles 1 7 (38.89 %) Systems Administrator 1 7 (38.89 %) Administrator 2 6 (33.33 %) IT Administrator 3 3 (16.67 %) 3rd Line Support 3 3 (16.67 %) Server Support 3 3 (16.67 %) Systems Support 4 2 (11.11 %) Support Technician 4 2 (11.11 %) Analyst 4 2 (11.11 %) Integration Engineer 5 1 (5.556 %) Integration Consultant 5 1 (5.556 %) Integration Analyst 5 1 (5.556 %) 2nd Line Support 5 1 (5.556 %) Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Systems Analyst 5 1 (5.556 %) Consultant 5 1 (5.556 %) Applications Specialist 5 1 (5.556 %) Applications Developer 5 1 (5.556 %) Technical Support 5 1 (5.556 %) Applications Consultant	Miscellaneous 1 3 (16.67 %) Blackberry
Operating Systems 1 12 (66.67 %) Windows 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows NT 2 6 (33.33 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (16.67 %) Windows 2000 4 1 (5.556 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (33.33 %) Configuration Management 2 3 (16.67 %) SC Cleared 2 3 (16.67 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (11.11 %) Migration
Programming Languages 1 1 (5.556 %) C	Qualifications 1 3 (16.67 %) MCSE 1 3 (16.67 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (11.11 %) MCP 2 2 (11.11 %) MCSA
System Software 1 10 (55.56 %) Active Directory 2 1 (5.556 %) MetaFrame	Systems Management 1 6 (33.33 %) EMC NetWorker 2 3 (16.67 %) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors 1 11 (61.11 %) Citrix 2 9 (50.00 %) VERITAS 3 7 (38.89 %) SAP 4 6 (33.33 %) Symantec 5 5 (27.78 %) Hummingbird 5 5 (27.78 %) Microsoft 6 4 (22.22 %) Adobe 6 4 (22.22 %) McAfee Security 7 3 (16.67 %) Quark 8 1 (5.556 %) VMware