The first table below looks at the demand for NetBackup skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetBackup over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Systems Management category for the Hertfordshire 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.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec NetBackup
Rank - 65 61
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 0 3 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire - 0.310% 0.576%
As % of the Systems Management category - 6.250% 7.463%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 2
Average daily rate - £356 £291
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +22.31%
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £303
% change year-on-year
+0.06% +32.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.16%
All Systems Management
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
37 48 67
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 5.754% 4.959% 7.719%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 19 22
Average daily rate £300 £300 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -14.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £172 £223 £240
10% offered a daily rate of more than £330 £508 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 8 17
Average hourly rate £15.25 £16.25 £23.38
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-6.15% -30.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £10.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £31.50 £35.00 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
NetBackup
East of England

NetBackup
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing NetBackup across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Systems Management category.

Hertfordshire NetBackup Jobs Demand Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire NetBackup Daily Rate Trend

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire NetBackup Hourly Rate Trend

NetBackup
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup.

1 8 (80.00%) Change Control
2 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
2 7 (70.00%) Symantec
3 6 (60.00%) Change Management
3 6 (60.00%) Backup Exec
3 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (50.00%) IBM
5 4 (40.00%) Citrix
5 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (40.00%) VMware
6 3 (30.00%) Programme Office Management
6 3 (30.00%) Network Security
6 3 (30.00%) Build Automation
6 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
6 3 (30.00%) SAN
6 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 3 (30.00%) EMC
6 3 (30.00%) SLA
6 3 (30.00%) Windows
6 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
7 2 (20.00%) UNIX
7 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
7 2 (20.00%) Nokia
7 2 (20.00%) Veritas
7 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (20.00%) AIX
7 2 (20.00%) Solaris
7 2 (20.00%) Linux

NetBackup
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (10.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (10.00%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SAN
1 3 (30.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) BIG-IP
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) Firewall
3 1 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (10.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 4 (40.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 1 (10.00%) Operations Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Senior Operations Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Thin Client
1 1 (10.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (10.00%) Clustering
1 1 (10.00%) Fat Client
1 1 (10.00%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
1 3 (30.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) AIX
2 2 (20.00%) Solaris
2 2 (20.00%) Linux
3 1 (10.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Change Control
2 7 (70.00%) Capacity Planning
3 6 (60.00%) Change Management
4 3 (30.00%) Service Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Programme Office Management
4 3 (30.00%) Build Automation
5 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 1 (10.00%) ITIL
6 1 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 1 (10.00%) Problem Management
6 1 (10.00%) Release Management
Qualifications
1 6 (60.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (10.00%) XenApp
3 1 (10.00%) vSphere
3 1 (10.00%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) Backup Exec
2 1 (10.00%) EMC NetWorker
2 1 (10.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Symantec
2 5 (50.00%) IBM
3 4 (40.00%) Citrix
3 4 (40.00%) VMware
4 3 (30.00%) EMC
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco
5 2 (20.00%) Nokia
5 2 (20.00%) Veritas
5 2 (20.00%) Red Hat
5 2 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 2 (20.00%) Crossbeam
5 2 (20.00%) F5
6 1 (10.00%) Acronis
6 1 (10.00%) Brocade
6 1 (10.00%) NetApp
6 1 (10.00%) Sophos
6 1 (10.00%) Microsoft