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 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Polycom
Rank 371 396 429
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +33
Contract jobs citing Polycom 14 10 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.065% 0.037% 0.026%
As % of the Vendors category 0.144% 0.084% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 4
Average daily rate £390 £294 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+32.76% -2.08%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £351 £150 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £411 £446 £343
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £350 -
% change year-on-year
-20.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 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
9746 11913 14109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 45.14% 44.48% 45.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6153 7231 8518
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £268 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £580 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 288 288 409
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 £35.25 £40.25
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 17 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 +14 3 £352 -19.54%
Polycom
England

Polycom
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 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 22 (95.65%) Cisco
2 18 (78.26%) Video Conferencing
3 13 (56.52%) MPLS
4 8 (34.78%) OSPF
4 8 (34.78%) BGP
4 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (34.78%) CCIE
5 7 (30.43%) WAN
5 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
5 7 (30.43%) DNS
5 7 (30.43%) LAN
5 7 (30.43%) Firewall
5 7 (30.43%) Wireless
5 7 (30.43%) Finance
5 7 (30.43%) Lync
6 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
6 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
6 6 (26.09%) Juniper
6 6 (26.09%) DHCP
6 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
7 5 (21.74%) HP
7 5 (21.74%) VPN
7 5 (21.74%) VMware
7 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
7 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
7 5 (21.74%) IP Telephony
7 5 (21.74%) VLAN
7 5 (21.74%) Network Management
7 5 (21.74%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (21.74%) Aruba

Polycom
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 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 (30.43%) Lync
2 1 (4.348%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (4.348%) IIS
2 1 (4.348%) Apache
2 1 (4.348%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.348%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.348%) Office Communications Server
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Office
2 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
2 1 (4.348%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.348%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (4.348%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) MPLS
2 8 (34.78%) OSPF
2 8 (34.78%) BGP
3 7 (30.43%) Firewall
3 7 (30.43%) TCP/IP
3 7 (30.43%) DNS
3 7 (30.43%) LAN
3 7 (30.43%) WAN
3 7 (30.43%) Wireless
4 6 (26.09%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (26.09%) DHCP
5 5 (21.74%) VPN
5 5 (21.74%) IP Telephony
5 5 (21.74%) VLAN
6 4 (17.39%) Junos
6 4 (17.39%) Cisco IOS
6 4 (17.39%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (17.39%) Ethernet
6 4 (17.39%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.348%) MySQL
1 1 (4.348%) SQL Server
General
1 7 (30.43%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (30.43%) Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Network Engineer
2 4 (17.39%) Network Consultant
2 4 (17.39%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Project Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Technical Manager
4 2 (8.696%) IT Support
5 1 (4.348%) Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Network Support
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Technical Support
5 1 (4.348%) Solutions Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Support Technician
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.348%) Support Consultant
5 1 (4.348%) Network Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.348%) Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Technical Architect
Miscellaneous
1 18 (78.26%) Video Conferencing
2 2 (8.696%) iPhone
2 2 (8.696%) iPad
2 2 (8.696%) Mobile App
2 2 (8.696%) Streaming Video
3 1 (4.348%) Clustering
3 1 (4.348%) IVR
3 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Mac OS X
2 2 (8.696%) Android
3 1 (4.348%) Windows 8
3 1 (4.348%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (4.348%) Linux
3 1 (4.348%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Service Delivery
1 5 (21.74%) Network Management
2 4 (17.39%) WAN Optimisation
2 4 (17.39%) Project Planning
2 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
2 4 (17.39%) Network Architecture
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) ITIL
3 3 (13.04%) PRINCE2
4 2 (8.696%) Project Management
5 1 (4.348%) Business Transformation
5 1 (4.348%) BCP
5 1 (4.348%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.348%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) CCIE
1 8 (34.78%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (17.39%) JNCIE
3 2 (8.696%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 1 (4.348%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
4 1 (4.348%) MCITP
4 1 (4.348%) Degree
4 1 (4.348%) MCP
4 1 (4.348%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.348%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (21.74%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (13.04%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.348%) VMware ESX
3 1 (4.348%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (4.348%) Hyper-V
3 1 (4.348%) XenApp
3 1 (4.348%) XenServer
3 1 (4.348%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.348%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) Cisco CUCM
2 4 (17.39%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.348%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (4.348%) Plesk
Vendors
1 22 (95.65%) Cisco
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 6 (26.09%) Juniper
3 5 (21.74%) HP
3 5 (21.74%) VMware
3 5 (21.74%) Aruba
4 4 (17.39%) F5
4 4 (17.39%) Sourcefire
4 4 (17.39%) Fortinet
5 3 (13.04%) Citrix
5 3 (13.04%) Riverbed
6 2 (8.696%) Tandberg
6 2 (8.696%) Mercator
7 1 (4.348%) Symantec
7 1 (4.348%) Siemens
7 1 (4.348%) Red Hat
7 1 (4.348%) Dell
7 1 (4.348%) EMC
7 1 (4.348%) Brocade
7 1 (4.348%) Ensim