London IronPort Contracts

This section looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of IronPort products and/or services in IT contracts within the London region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited IronPort over the 3 months to 8 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location East Anglia East of England England Guildford Hampshire London South East Surrey UK Winchester	3 months to 8 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	474
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	5
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.025 %
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	£323	-
% change on same period last year	-
Hourly rates quoted	0	4
Average minimum hourly rate	-	£15.00
Average hourly rate	-	£17.50
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	£20.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Vendors London
Matching contract IT job ads	14352	20352
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	18.92 %	21.28 %
Daily rates quoted	5553	7245
Average minimum daily rate	£411	£416
Average daily rate	£438	£443
% change on same period last year	-1.12 %
Average maximum daily rate	£464	£469
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£357
% change on same period last year	+1.10 %
Hourly rates quoted	799	1062
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.43	£25.18
Average hourly rate	£25.12	£26.82
% change on same period last year	-6.33 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.82	£28.47
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.01	£25.11
% change on same period last year	-8.37 %
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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 IronPort Systems.

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Demand Trend

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

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing IronPort across the London region.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing IronPort across the London region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IronPort 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 IronPort.

1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 3 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 3 2 (33.33 %) MindAlign 3 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007 3 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 3 2 (33.33 %) VBScript 3 2 (33.33 %) VB 3 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 3 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory 3 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 3 2 (33.33 %) Internet 3 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry 3 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 2 (33.33 %) MAILsweeper 3 2 (33.33 %) Firewall

3 2 (33.33 %) Clustering 3 2 (33.33 %) Banking 3 2 (33.33 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (16.67 %) Live Communications Server 4 1 (16.67 %) Web 2.0 4 1 (16.67 %) Blue Coat 4 1 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 4 1 (16.67 %) Tivoli 4 1 (16.67 %) GroupWise 4 1 (16.67 %) IBM 4 1 (16.67 %) HP 4 1 (16.67 %) Juniper 4 1 (16.67 %) SAN 4 1 (16.67 %) Nokia 4 1 (16.67 %) Novell

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 8 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing IronPort 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 IronPort. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 3 (50.00 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (33.33 %) MindAlign 2 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint Server 2007 2 2 (33.33 %) SharePoint 2 2 (33.33 %) MS Exchange 2 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 3 1 (16.67 %) Live Communications Server 3 1 (16.67 %) GroupWise 3 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Server 2007	Communications & Networking 1 2 (33.33 %) Internet 1 2 (33.33 %) Firewall 2 1 (16.67 %) SAN 2 1 (16.67 %) LAN 2 1 (16.67 %) SMTP 2 1 (16.67 %) Ethernet 2 1 (16.67 %) VPN 2 1 (16.67 %) DNS
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Investment Banking	Job Titles 1 1 (16.67 %) Exchange Specialist 1 1 (16.67 %) Messaging Specialist 1 1 (16.67 %) Project Manager 1 1 (16.67 %) Analyst 1 1 (16.67 %) Technical Support 1 1 (16.67 %) Messaging Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 2 (33.33 %) Blackberry 1 2 (33.33 %) Clustering 2 1 (16.67 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 4 (66.67 %) Windows 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 1 (16.67 %) Unix 2 1 (16.67 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (16.67 %) Disaster Recovery 1 1 (16.67 %) Load Balancing	Programming Languages 1 2 (33.33 %) VBScript 1 2 (33.33 %) VB
System Software 1 2 (33.33 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 2 (33.33 %) MAILsweeper 2 1 (16.67 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Cisco 2 1 (16.67 %) Blue Coat 2 1 (16.67 %) IBM 2 1 (16.67 %) HP 2 1 (16.67 %) Juniper 2 1 (16.67 %) Nokia 2 1 (16.67 %) Novell 2 1 (16.67 %) CheckPoint