The first table below looks at the demand for ProxySG 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 ProxySG over the 3 months to 24 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 System Software 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat Proxy SG
Rank 366 364 421
Rank change year-on-year
-2 +57
Contract jobs citing ProxySG 11 51 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.051% 0.189% 0.068%
As % of the System Software category 0.667% 2.434% 1.124%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 36 13
Average daily rate £300 £425 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.41% +6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £274 £425 £375
10% offered a daily rate of more than £380 £488 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £413 £200 £275
% change year-on-year
+106.25% -27.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
Average hourly rate - - £40.63
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All System Software
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
System Software category
1648 2095 1868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 7.610% 7.777% 6.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 973 1198 968
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £215 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £488 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £308
% change year-on-year
- +5.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 180 204
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £20.00
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £12.50 £13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £36.70 £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.00 £16.79 £17.13
% change year-on-year
-4.67% -1.98%
ProxySG
England

ProxySG
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London ProxySG Jobs Demand Trend

ProxySG
Daily Rate Trend

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

London ProxySG Daily Rate Trend

ProxySG
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London ProxySG Hourly Rate Trend

ProxySG
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ProxySG within the London region over the 3 months to 24 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 -2 4 £274 -35.52%
ProxySG
England

ProxySG
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ProxySG 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 ProxySG.

1 35 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 29 (82.86%) Firewall
3 21 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 21 (60.00%) Linux
3 21 (60.00%) Citrix
3 21 (60.00%) Red Hat
4 18 (51.43%) F5
5 16 (45.71%) Internet
6 14 (40.00%) UNIX
6 14 (40.00%) Windows
6 14 (40.00%) Web Services
6 14 (40.00%) E-Commerce
6 14 (40.00%) VPN
6 14 (40.00%) Load Balancing
6 14 (40.00%) NetScaler
7 13 (37.14%) BIG-IP
7 13 (37.14%) Apache
7 13 (37.14%) WAN
7 13 (37.14%) IIS
7 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
8 12 (34.29%) LAN
8 12 (34.29%) Change Control
9 10 (28.57%) Cisco
9 10 (28.57%) HP
9 10 (28.57%) Juniper
10 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
10 9 (25.71%) VMware
11 8 (22.86%) Migration
11 8 (22.86%) CheckPoint
11 8 (22.86%) DNS

ProxySG
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing ProxySG 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 ProxySG. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (40.00%) Web Services
2 7 (20.00%) ADSI
2 7 (20.00%) ASP.NET
2 7 (20.00%) .NET
3 6 (17.14%) WebSphere
3 6 (17.14%) XML
3 6 (17.14%) XSLT
3 6 (17.14%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 13 (37.14%) Apache
1 13 (37.14%) IIS
2 7 (20.00%) Oracle Application Server
3 6 (17.14%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (5.714%) MS Office
1 2 (5.714%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 29 (82.86%) Firewall
2 16 (45.71%) Internet
3 14 (40.00%) VPN
3 14 (40.00%) NetScaler
4 13 (37.14%) BIG-IP
4 13 (37.14%) WAN
5 12 (34.29%) LAN
6 8 (22.86%) DNS
6 8 (22.86%) SSL
7 7 (20.00%) FTP
7 7 (20.00%) OSPF
7 7 (20.00%) BGP
7 7 (20.00%) SAN
7 7 (20.00%) NAS
8 6 (17.14%) LDAP
8 6 (17.14%) TCP/IP
9 4 (11.43%) IPsec
10 3 (8.571%) Network Security
11 2 (5.714%) iSCSI
11 2 (5.714%) HTTPS
General
1 1 (2.857%) Financial Institution
1 1 (2.857%) Telecoms
1 1 (2.857%) Finance
1 1 (2.857%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (37.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Migration Engineer
2 7 (20.00%) Wintel Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Network Engineer
3 5 (14.29%) Linux Engineer
4 3 (8.571%) Network Support
5 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) Security Specialist
5 2 (5.714%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.714%) 3rd Line Support
5 2 (5.714%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.857%) Developer
6 1 (2.857%) Network Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.857%) Security Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Security Manager
6 1 (2.857%) Implementation Specialist
6 1 (2.857%) Network Security Consultant
6 1 (2.857%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Clustering
2 6 (17.14%) PKI
3 4 (11.43%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.714%) Streaming Media
Operating Systems
1 21 (60.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 21 (60.00%) Linux
2 14 (40.00%) UNIX
2 14 (40.00%) Windows
3 7 (20.00%) Windows XP
3 7 (20.00%) Windows NT
3 7 (20.00%) Windows 2000
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 7 (20.00%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (40.00%) E-Commerce
1 14 (40.00%) Load Balancing
2 12 (34.29%) Change Control
3 8 (22.86%) Migration
4 7 (20.00%) Information Security
4 7 (20.00%) High Availability
5 3 (8.571%) ITIL
5 3 (8.571%) Change Management
6 1 (2.857%) PRINCE2
6 1 (2.857%) Project Management
6 1 (2.857%) Content Management
6 1 (2.857%) Document Management
6 1 (2.857%) Problem Management
6 1 (2.857%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) SQL
2 6 (17.14%) Java
3 4 (11.43%) VBScript
3 4 (11.43%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
2 4 (11.43%) CCNA
3 3 (8.571%) CISSP
3 3 (8.571%) CCSA
4 2 (5.714%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (5.714%) CCNP
5 1 (2.857%) CCSP
5 1 (2.857%) Check Point Certification
5 1 (2.857%) APMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.714%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (25.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 7 (20.00%) XenApp
2 7 (20.00%) vSphere
2 7 (20.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Legato
1 7 (20.00%) NetBackup
1 7 (20.00%) Backup Exec
1 7 (20.00%) SCOM
2 3 (8.571%) SCCM
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) Blue Coat
2 21 (60.00%) Citrix
2 21 (60.00%) Red Hat
3 18 (51.43%) F5
4 13 (37.14%) Microsoft
5 10 (28.57%) Cisco
5 10 (28.57%) HP
5 10 (28.57%) Juniper
6 9 (25.71%) VMware
7 8 (22.86%) CheckPoint
8 7 (20.00%) Oracle
8 7 (20.00%) McAfee
8 7 (20.00%) Sophos
8 7 (20.00%) BMC
8 7 (20.00%) Veritas
8 7 (20.00%) Dell
8 7 (20.00%) IBM
8 7 (20.00%) Infoblox
8 7 (20.00%) Leostream
8 7 (20.00%) PlateSpin