The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Sophos 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 Kent 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 Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Sophos 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £250 £335
% change year-on-year
+85.00% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.89% -45.71%
All Vendors
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
162 125 146
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 56.64% 47.35% 47.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 62 96
Average daily rate £300 £290 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £135 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £450 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 7 4
Average hourly rate £16.00 £27.50 £40.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-41.81% -31.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £9.94 £27.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £90.00 £67.50 £105.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sophos
South East

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Sophos Jobs Demand Trend

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Sophos Daily Rate Trend

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Sophos 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 Sophos.

1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
1 2 (100.00%) Acronis
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Sophos 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 Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 2 (100.00%) IIS
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Replication
1 2 (100.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows 2000
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Disaster Recovery
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware ESX
1 2 (100.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Citrix
1 2 (100.00%) Veritas
1 2 (100.00%) Symantec
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
1 2 (100.00%) Acronis