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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Kaspersky
Rank - - -
Contract jobs citing Kaspersky 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - - -
As % of the Vendors category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £113 - £400
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £10.00 - £11.50
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
381 657 434
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.84% 50.85% 41.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 293 177
Average daily rate £313 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.84% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £520
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 35 45
Average hourly rate £16.00 £17.50 £13.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% +27.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.40 £25.00 £22.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Kaspersky
North West

Kaspersky
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Kaspersky Jobs Demand Trend

Kaspersky
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Kaspersky Daily Rate Trend

Kaspersky
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Kaspersky Hourly Rate Trend

Kaspersky
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (80.00%) SSL
2 8 (80.00%) Clearswift
2 8 (80.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) SurfControl
2 8 (80.00%) CheckPoint
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
3 6 (60.00%) Local Government
4 2 (20.00%) Release Management
4 2 (20.00%) SCCM
4 2 (20.00%) Change Management
4 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (20.00%) NetScreen
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
4 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
4 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
4 2 (20.00%) VMS
4 2 (20.00%) Internet
4 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (20.00%) Symantec
4 2 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
4 2 (20.00%) Citrix

Kaspersky
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) COM
1 1 (10.00%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) SharePoint
1 2 (20.00%) MS Exchange
Communications & Networking
1 10 (100.00%) VPN
2 8 (80.00%) SSL
2 8 (80.00%) Firewall
3 2 (20.00%) NetScreen
3 2 (20.00%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (60.00%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Analyst
2 6 (60.00%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Security Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Server Technician
4 1 (10.00%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
1 10 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (80.00%) Windows 7
2 8 (80.00%) Linux
2 8 (80.00%) UNIX
3 2 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Release Management
2 2 (20.00%) Change Management
2 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (10.00%) Migration
3 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 10 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (20.00%) XenServer
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) SCCM
1 2 (20.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 2 (20.00%) Norton AntiVirus
Vendors
1 8 (80.00%) Clearswift
1 8 (80.00%) SurfControl
1 8 (80.00%) CheckPoint
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Symantec
2 2 (20.00%) Citrix
2 2 (20.00%) Veritas