The first table below looks at the demand for MIMEsweeper skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited MIMEsweeper over the 3 months to 21 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 London 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Clearswift MIMEsweeper
Rank 387 403 421
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +18
Contract jobs citing MIMEsweeper 2 2 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.009% 0.007% 0.029%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.153% 0.132% 0.608%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 6
Average daily rate - £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -18.75%
UK excluding London average daily rate £342 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £27.00 £31.61
% change year-on-year
- -14.58%
All Systems Management
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
1307 1514 1480
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 5.933% 5.611% 4.825%
Number of daily rates quoted 877 854 843
Average daily rate £413 £375 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -7.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £250 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £525 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 38 61
Average hourly rate £22.50 £22.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +9.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.65 £15.40 £15.40
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.25 £33.80 £38.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
MIMEsweeper
England

MIMEsweeper
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London MIMEsweeper Jobs Demand Trend

MIMEsweeper
Daily Rate Trend

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

London MIMEsweeper Daily Rate Trend

MIMEsweeper
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London MIMEsweeper Hourly Rate Trend

MIMEsweeper
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MIMEsweeper 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 MIMEsweeper.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (60.00%) Symantec
3 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) DNS
3 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
3 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
3 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (60.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
4 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 2 (40.00%) NAS
4 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
4 2 (40.00%) UAG
4 2 (40.00%) SCCM
4 2 (40.00%) SCOM
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) BS7799
4 2 (40.00%) Websense
4 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (40.00%) Firewall
4 2 (40.00%) Wireless
4 2 (40.00%) Publishing
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
4 2 (40.00%) VPN

MIMEsweeper
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing MIMEsweeper 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 MIMEsweeper. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 5 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 3 (60.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
2 3 (60.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 2 (40.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (20.00%) Office Communications Server
4 1 (20.00%) Lync
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 2 (40.00%) NAS
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) SAN
2 2 (40.00%) DMZ
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (40.00%) Publishing
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Deployment Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Exchange Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Blackberry
2 1 (20.00%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (60.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (40.00%) Windows 7
3 2 (40.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (40.00%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) BS7799
System Software
1 4 (80.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (40.00%) UAG
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 2 (40.00%) SCCM
2 2 (40.00%) SCOM
2 2 (40.00%) Backup Exec
2 2 (40.00%) MOM
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (60.00%) Symantec
3 2 (40.00%) Websense
3 2 (40.00%) McAfee