Leeds Blue Coat Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services in IT contracts within the Leeds region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Blue Coat over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Buckinghamshire City of London East of England England Essex Leeds Liverpool London Merseyside Milton Keynes North West Oxford Oxfordshire Reading South East South West Thames Valley UK West Midlands West Yorkshire Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.212 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£332	£300
% change on same period last year	+10.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£22.50	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors Leeds
Matching contract IT job ads	472	469
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.665 %	0.474 %
Daily rates quoted	93	117
Average minimum daily rate	£334	£325
Average daily rate	£359	£346
% change on same period last year	+3.59 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£367
UK excluding London average daily rate	£359	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.33 %
Hourly rates quoted	35	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.09	£24.46
Average hourly rate	£18.19	£25.59
% change on same period last year	-28.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.29	£26.72
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.44	£24.37
% change on same period last year	+0.26 %
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We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Blue Coat across the Leeds region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat.

1 1 (100.00 %) LAN 1 1 (100.00 %) WAN 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Nokia 1 1 (100.00 %) CheckPoint 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 1 (100.00 %) BT 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco PIX 1 1 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (100.00 %) LAN 1 1 (100.00 %) WAN 1 1 (100.00 %) Internet 1 1 (100.00 %) Firewall 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco PIX	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Network Engineer 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (100.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (100.00 %) Security Cleared	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Nokia 1 1 (100.00 %) CheckPoint 1 1 (100.00 %) BT