The first table below looks at the demand for NetBackup skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited NetBackup over the 3 months to 21 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 Systems Management category 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.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec NetBackup
Rank - 84 73
Contract jobs citing NetBackup 0 5 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.385% 0.099%
As % of the Systems Management category - 5.747% 3.333%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 0
Average daily rate - £190 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £400 £310
% change year-on-year
- +29.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £17.50 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £25.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-30.00% +4.16%
All Systems Management
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Systems Management category
55 87 30
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 5.826% 6.692% 2.973%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 24 17
Average daily rate £280 £345 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-18.84% +6.15%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £190 £150
10% offered a daily rate of more than £400 £435 £540
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £325 £300
% change year-on-year
+1.53% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 14 3
Average hourly rate £23.50 £17.00 £16.25
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+38.23% +4.61%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £22.30 £14.45 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.70 £20.00 £54.55
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £17.50 £24.40
% change year-on-year
+14.28% -28.27%
NetBackup
North West

NetBackup
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester NetBackup Jobs Demand Trend

NetBackup
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester NetBackup Daily Rate Trend

NetBackup
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester NetBackup Hourly Rate Trend

NetBackup
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup.

1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (33.33%) vSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
3 1 (33.33%) Clustering
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) VSAM
3 1 (33.33%) PKI
3 1 (33.33%) Brocade
3 1 (33.33%) WMI
3 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) SCOM
3 1 (33.33%) CICS
3 1 (33.33%) CA
3 1 (33.33%) zOS
3 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) Tivoli

NetBackup
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing NetBackup 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 NetBackup. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WebSphere
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2010
1 1 (33.33%) CICS
1 1 (33.33%) MS Exchange
1 1 (33.33%) WebLogic
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Technical Design Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Backup Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Support Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Clustering
1 1 (33.33%) VSAM
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
1 1 (33.33%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Vista
3 1 (33.33%) zOS
3 1 (33.33%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (33.33%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Management
1 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 1 (33.33%) Service Management
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) COBOL
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory
1 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
2 1 (33.33%) vSphere
2 1 (33.33%) Tivoli Workload Scheduler
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) WMI
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
1 1 (33.33%) SCOM
1 1 (33.33%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 1 (33.33%) Brocade
2 1 (33.33%) CA
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) HP
2 1 (33.33%) Dell
2 1 (33.33%) EMC
2 1 (33.33%) Citrix
2 1 (33.33%) IBM
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Sun
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle