The first table below looks at the demand for Backup Exec skills in IT contracts advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Backup Exec 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 of the Systems Management category for the Lancashire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec Backup Exec
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Backup Exec 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 0.985% - -
As % of the Systems Management category 6.250% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £228 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £258 £208
% change year-on-year
-2.91% +24.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.75 £17.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year
+1.42% -
All Systems Management
Lancashire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
32 29 19
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Lancashire 15.76% 6.808% 8.370%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 7
Average daily rate £240 £383 £268
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-37.25% +42.72%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £328 £235
10% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £456 £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 1 2
Average hourly rate £19.00 £37.50 £34.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-49.33% +9.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.50 £37.50 £32.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £21.15 £37.50 £36.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
Backup Exec
North West

Backup Exec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lancashire Backup Exec Jobs Demand Trend

Backup Exec
Daily Rate Trend

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

Lancashire Backup Exec Daily Rate Trend

Backup Exec
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec.

1 6 (100.00%) SQL
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SAS
1 6 (100.00%) NFS
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
1 6 (100.00%) SCOM
1 6 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
1 6 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp

Backup Exec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 6 (100.00%) IIS
1 6 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 6 (100.00%) SAS
1 6 (100.00%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) iSCSI
1 6 (100.00%) Fibre Channel
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Service Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Engineer
1 3 (50.00%) Infrastructure Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Manager
1 3 (50.00%) Technical Services Manager
Operating Systems
1 6 (100.00%) Windows
1 6 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
Programming Languages
1 6 (100.00%) SQL
System Software
1 6 (100.00%) NFS
1 6 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (100.00%) Hyper-V
1 6 (100.00%) XenDesktop
1 6 (100.00%) vSphere
2 3 (50.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (100.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
1 6 (100.00%) Citrix
1 6 (100.00%) VMware