The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos 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 Sophos 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 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 Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank 355 396 422
Rank change year-on-year
+41 +26
Contract jobs citing Sophos 22 19 20
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.102% 0.071% 0.064%
As % of the Vendors category 0.226% 0.158% 0.142%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 15 11
Average daily rate £360 £275 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.90% -8.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £95 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £382 £333 £375
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £250 £335
% change year-on-year
+85.00% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Average hourly rate £11.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.58% -2.50%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.89% -45.71%
All Vendors
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
9744 12013 14055
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 44.99% 44.59% 45.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 6123 7282 8491
Average daily rate £425 £425 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.55%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £267 £265 £285
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 287 296 406
Average hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £35.95 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Sophos
England

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Sophos Jobs Demand Trend

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend

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

London Sophos Daily Rate Trend

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sophos across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Sophos Daily Rate Histogram

Sophos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

London Sophos Hourly Rate Trend

Sophos
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos 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 +19 6 £350 +40.00%
Sophos
England

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 36 (72.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 35 (70.00%) VMware
4 32 (64.00%) SCOM
5 30 (60.00%) HP
5 30 (60.00%) vSphere
6 29 (58.00%) Windows Server 2008
7 28 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
7 28 (56.00%) Microsoft
8 26 (52.00%) DHCP
9 25 (50.00%) DNS
10 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
10 24 (48.00%) SCCM
11 23 (46.00%) Windows XP
11 23 (46.00%) VMware ESX
12 22 (44.00%) McAfee
13 21 (42.00%) Citrix
13 21 (42.00%) NetBackup
14 18 (36.00%) SAN
14 18 (36.00%) XenApp
15 17 (34.00%) NAS
15 17 (34.00%) BMC
15 17 (34.00%) ADSI
15 17 (34.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
16 16 (32.00%) Backup Exec
16 16 (32.00%) SharePoint
16 16 (32.00%) FTP
16 16 (32.00%) Windows 2000
16 16 (32.00%) .NET
17 15 (30.00%) IIS

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 17 (34.00%) ADSI
2 16 (32.00%) .NET
3 15 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 15 (30.00%) Web Services
4 1 (2.000%) ASP
4 1 (2.000%) XML
4 1 (2.000%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 16 (32.00%) SharePoint
2 15 (30.00%) IIS
2 15 (30.00%) Apache
3 14 (28.00%) SharePoint Server
4 13 (26.00%) MS Exchange
4 13 (26.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 11 (22.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 9 (18.00%) Exchange Server 2007
7 7 (14.00%) Oracle Application Server
8 4 (8.000%) Exchange Server 2003
9 2 (4.000%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (2.000%) Lotus Notes
Applications
1 11 (22.00%) MS Office
2 4 (8.000%) MS Excel
3 1 (2.000%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 6 (12.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 26 (52.00%) DHCP
2 25 (50.00%) DNS
3 18 (36.00%) SAN
4 17 (34.00%) NAS
5 16 (32.00%) FTP
6 15 (30.00%) Internet
7 12 (24.00%) TCP/IP
8 10 (20.00%) VPN
8 10 (20.00%) Firewall
9 7 (14.00%) BIG-IP
10 5 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
11 1 (2.000%) Fibre Channel
11 1 (2.000%) MPLS
11 1 (2.000%) BGP
11 1 (2.000%) VoIP
11 1 (2.000%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 10 (20.00%) SQL Server 2008
2 2 (4.000%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (2.000%) MSI
General
1 12 (24.00%) Banking
2 6 (12.00%) Finance
3 2 (4.000%) Law
3 2 (4.000%) Legal
3 2 (4.000%) Advertising
4 1 (2.000%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.000%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (32.00%) Wintel Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) 3rd Line Support
3 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Wintel Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Systems Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Windows Administrator
4 5 (10.00%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 3 (6.000%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (4.000%) Analyst
6 2 (4.000%) DBA
6 2 (4.000%) SQL DBA
6 2 (4.000%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 2 (4.000%) SCCM Engineer
7 1 (2.000%) 3rd Line Support Technician
7 1 (2.000%) Wintel Support Engineer
7 1 (2.000%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
7 1 (2.000%) Windows Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (30.00%) Clustering
2 11 (22.00%) Blackberry
3 6 (12.00%) Hedge funds
4 5 (10.00%) Computer Science
5 3 (6.000%) NHS
6 1 (2.000%) Mobile App
6 1 (2.000%) iPhone
6 1 (2.000%) iPad
6 1 (2.000%) PKI
6 1 (2.000%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (96.00%) Windows
2 36 (72.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 29 (58.00%) Windows Server 2008
4 23 (46.00%) Windows XP
5 16 (32.00%) Windows 2000
6 15 (30.00%) Windows NT
7 14 (28.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 14 (28.00%) Linux
8 7 (14.00%) Windows 7
9 2 (4.000%) Mac OS X
10 1 (2.000%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.00%) ITIL
2 7 (14.00%) Asset Management
3 6 (12.00%) CRM
4 2 (4.000%) Change Management
4 2 (4.000%) Migration
5 1 (2.000%) Project Planning
5 1 (2.000%) Business Continuity
5 1 (2.000%) Validation
5 1 (2.000%) Configuration Management
5 1 (2.000%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) VBScript
2 10 (20.00%) VB
2 10 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (8.000%) PowerShell
4 1 (2.000%) C
4 1 (2.000%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (18.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (14.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.000%) MCITP
4 1 (2.000%) MCDST
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.000%) Solvency II
1 3 (6.000%) SLA
System Software
1 30 (60.00%) vSphere
2 28 (56.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 24 (48.00%) Active Directory
4 23 (46.00%) VMware ESX
5 18 (36.00%) XenApp
6 17 (34.00%) Citrix Presentation Server
7 9 (18.00%) VMware Workstation
8 7 (14.00%) ProxySG
9 6 (12.00%) ISA Server
9 6 (12.00%) UAG
10 3 (6.000%) NDS
11 1 (2.000%) Hyper-V
11 1 (2.000%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 32 (64.00%) SCOM
2 24 (48.00%) SCCM
3 21 (42.00%) NetBackup
4 16 (32.00%) Backup Exec
5 15 (30.00%) Legato
6 9 (18.00%) HP SIM
6 9 (18.00%) Norton AntiVirus
7 7 (14.00%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
8 2 (4.000%) HP Data Protector
8 2 (4.000%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (2.000%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
9 1 (2.000%) OpenView
Vendors
1 35 (70.00%) VMware
2 30 (60.00%) HP
3 28 (56.00%) Microsoft
4 22 (44.00%) McAfee
5 21 (42.00%) Citrix
6 17 (34.00%) BMC
7 15 (30.00%) Veritas
7 15 (30.00%) Dell
7 15 (30.00%) IBM
7 15 (30.00%) PlateSpin
7 15 (30.00%) Leostream
8 14 (28.00%) Red Hat
8 14 (28.00%) Cisco
9 9 (18.00%) Symantec
10 7 (14.00%) F5
10 7 (14.00%) EMC
10 7 (14.00%) NetApp
10 7 (14.00%) Oracle
10 7 (14.00%) Blue Coat
11 6 (12.00%) CA
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Posted: 21 May 2013