The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Veritas 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 Veritas 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 Veritas Software.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas
Rank - 34 42
Contract jobs citing Veritas 0 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Kent - 1.119% 0.331%
As % of the Vendors category - 2.381% 0.690%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £346
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-45.71% +75.00%
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%
Veritas
South East

Veritas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Veritas Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Trend

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

Kent Veritas Daily Rate Trend

Veritas
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Kent Veritas Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Veritas 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 Veritas.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) VLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007

Veritas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Kent region citing Veritas 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 Veritas. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) IIS
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
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
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) 3rd Line Support
1 2 (66.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Desktop Support
2 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) Replication
2 2 (66.67%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows 2000
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) vSphere
2 2 (66.67%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Acronis
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Symantec
2 2 (66.67%) Sophos
2 2 (66.67%) VMware