The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Polycom products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Polycom 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 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.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are NOT representative of contractor rates within Polycom, Inc.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Polycom
Rank 373 405 425
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +20
Contract jobs citing Polycom 14 13 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.064% 0.048% 0.026%
As % of the Vendors category 0.141% 0.107% 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 4
Average daily rate £390 £150 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+160.00% -50.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £150 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £411 £445 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
Average hourly rate £28.50 £20.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+42.50% -20.00%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £16.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year
- -29.78%
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9944 12176 13868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.21% 44.54% 45.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 6264 7379 8380
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £270 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 294 302 402
Average hourly rate £21.34 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.67% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Polycom
England

Polycom
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Polycom Jobs Demand Trend

Polycom
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Polycom Daily Rate Trend

Polycom
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Polycom Hourly Rate Trend

Polycom
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Polycom within the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +11 3 £352 -19.54%
Polycom
England

Polycom
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (95.45%) Cisco
2 17 (77.27%) Video Conferencing
3 12 (54.55%) MPLS
4 8 (36.36%) OSPF
4 8 (36.36%) BGP
4 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (36.36%) CCIE
5 7 (31.82%) DNS
5 7 (31.82%) WAN
5 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
5 7 (31.82%) LAN
5 7 (31.82%) Firewall
5 7 (31.82%) Wireless
5 7 (31.82%) Finance
5 7 (31.82%) Lync
6 6 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (27.27%) Juniper
6 6 (27.27%) DHCP
6 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
7 5 (22.73%) HP
7 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
7 5 (22.73%) VLAN
7 5 (22.73%) VMware
7 5 (22.73%) IP Telephony
7 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (22.73%) Aruba
7 5 (22.73%) Network Management
7 5 (22.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 4 (18.18%) WAN Optimisation
8 4 (18.18%) F5

Polycom
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 7 (31.82%) Lync
2 1 (4.545%) IIS
2 1 (4.545%) Apache
2 1 (4.545%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.545%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.545%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.545%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 3 (13.64%) MS Office
2 1 (4.545%) MS Project
2 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.545%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.545%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) MPLS
2 8 (36.36%) OSPF
2 8 (36.36%) BGP
3 7 (31.82%) DNS
3 7 (31.82%) WAN
3 7 (31.82%) TCP/IP
3 7 (31.82%) LAN
3 7 (31.82%) Firewall
3 7 (31.82%) Wireless
4 6 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (27.27%) DHCP
5 5 (22.73%) VLAN
5 5 (22.73%) IP Telephony
6 4 (18.18%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (18.18%) Junos
6 4 (18.18%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (18.18%) Ethernet
6 4 (18.18%) SNMP
6 4 (18.18%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.545%) MySQL
1 1 (4.545%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Firewall Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Network Consultant
3 2 (9.091%) IT Support
3 2 (9.091%) Project Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Desktop Support
4 1 (4.545%) Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Support Technician
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Support
4 1 (4.545%) Support Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Architect
4 1 (4.545%) Solutions Consultant
4 1 (4.545%) Senior Technical Support
4 1 (4.545%) Network Analyst
4 1 (4.545%) Technical Manager
4 1 (4.545%) Network Support
Miscellaneous
1 17 (77.27%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 2 (9.091%) iPad
2 2 (9.091%) iPhone
2 2 (9.091%) Streaming Video
3 1 (4.545%) Blackberry
3 1 (4.545%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.545%) Clustering
3 1 (4.545%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (9.091%) Android
2 2 (9.091%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.545%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) Network Management
2 4 (18.18%) WAN Optimisation
2 4 (18.18%) Network Architecture
2 4 (18.18%) Project Planning
2 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
3 3 (13.64%) Migration
4 2 (9.091%) ITIL
4 2 (9.091%) PRINCE2
5 1 (4.545%) BCP
5 1 (4.545%) Project Management
5 1 (4.545%) WFM
5 1 (4.545%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.545%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
1 8 (36.36%) CCIE
2 4 (18.18%) JNCIE
3 2 (9.091%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (4.545%) MCP
4 1 (4.545%) MCSA
4 1 (4.545%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (4.545%) Degree
4 1 (4.545%) MCITP
4 1 (4.545%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (18.18%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.545%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (22.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.545%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.545%) XenApp
3 1 (4.545%) XenServer
3 1 (4.545%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.545%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.545%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.545%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (18.18%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.545%) Plesk
3 1 (4.545%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 21 (95.45%) Cisco
2 6 (27.27%) Juniper
2 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
3 5 (22.73%) HP
3 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 5 (22.73%) Aruba
4 4 (18.18%) F5
4 4 (18.18%) Sourcefire
4 4 (18.18%) Fortinet
5 3 (13.64%) Citrix
5 3 (13.64%) Riverbed
6 2 (9.091%) Tandberg
6 2 (9.091%) Mercator
7 1 (4.545%) Dell
7 1 (4.545%) EMC
7 1 (4.545%) Siemens
7 1 (4.545%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.545%) Symantec
7 1 (4.545%) Brocade
7 1 (4.545%) Ensim