The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blue Coat over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Hampshire 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 Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat
Rank 95 93 88
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -5
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 6 5 16
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.375% 0.322% 0.850%
As % of the Vendors category 0.664% 0.579% 1.667%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 10
Average daily rate £225 £375 £301
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-40.00% +24.48%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £360 £365
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Average hourly rate - - £33.31
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £33.31
% change year-on-year
- +35.11%
All Vendors
Hampshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
903 863 960
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hampshire 56.37% 55.50% 51.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 407 373
Average daily rate £375 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £245 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 102 132
Average hourly rate £25.00 £26.00 £27.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -3.70%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.00 £12.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Blue Coat
South East

Blue Coat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire Blue Coat Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Blue Coat Daily Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hampshire Blue Coat Hourly Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Basingstoke -8 1 £225 -52.63% 4
Blue Coat
South East

Blue Coat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat.

1 7 (77.78%) McAfee
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (66.67%) Internet
3 5 (55.56%) GIAC
3 5 (55.56%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) IronPort
3 5 (55.56%) GCIA
3 5 (55.56%) Sourcefire
3 5 (55.56%) Degree
3 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
3 5 (55.56%) ArcSight
3 5 (55.56%) SIEM
4 4 (44.44%) Windows
4 4 (44.44%) Firewall
5 3 (33.33%) Cisco
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 2 (22.22%) SNMP
6 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
6 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
6 2 (22.22%) HP
6 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
6 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
6 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
6 2 (22.22%) C
6 2 (22.22%) SQL
6 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
6 2 (22.22%) FDDI
6 2 (22.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
6 2 (22.22%) SAN

Blue Coat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hampshire region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) MS Exchange
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2007
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2010
1 2 (22.22%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Internet
2 4 (44.44%) Firewall
3 2 (22.22%) SNMP
3 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
3 2 (22.22%) Ethernet
3 2 (22.22%) FDDI
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
3 2 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (11.11%) tcpdump
4 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
4 1 (11.11%) HTTP
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
4 1 (11.11%) DHCP
4 1 (11.11%) DNS
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Analyst
2 3 (33.33%) Security Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Infrastructure Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Architect
3 2 (22.22%) Operations Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Security Operations Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Network Support
4 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 2 (22.22%) Windows XP
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (22.22%) Windows 8
2 2 (22.22%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) DV Cleared
1 7 (77.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) GIAC
2 5 (55.56%) CISSP
2 5 (55.56%) GCIA
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (22.22%) SCCM
1 2 (22.22%) SCOM
1 2 (22.22%) McAfee ePO
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) McAfee
2 5 (55.56%) IronPort
2 5 (55.56%) Sourcefire
2 5 (55.56%) ArcSight
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco
4 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 2 (22.22%) HP
4 2 (22.22%) Lumension
4 2 (22.22%) 3PAR
4 2 (22.22%) Brocade
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