The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec 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 Symantec over the 3 months to 22 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 the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank - 36 36
Contract jobs citing Symantec 0 1 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 0.373% 2.318%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.794% 4.828%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 7
Average daily rate - - £300
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £289
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +38.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £27.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-10.27% -8.75%
All Vendors
Kent
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
171 126 145
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent 57.38% 47.01% 48.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 63 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 14 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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symantec
South East

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent 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 Kent region.

Kent Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) MS Office
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent 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 2 (66.67%) MS Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
2 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) MS Office
2 1 (33.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) HTTP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
1 1 (33.33%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Replication
1 2 (66.67%) Clustering
1 2 (66.67%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (33.33%) Windows XP
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
3 1 (33.33%) Terminal Services
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) HP