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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
SurfControl
Rank 71 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing SurfControl 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.212% - -
As % of the Vendors category 0.529% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £125 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £125 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
378 655 408
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.04% 50.38% 40.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 297 167
Average daily rate £320 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £175 £200 £195
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 37 45
Average hourly rate £16.50 £17.50 £13.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-5.71% +29.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.77 £12.50 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £33.50 £25.00 £18.95
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
SurfControl
North West

SurfControl
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester SurfControl Jobs Demand Trend

SurfControl
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester SurfControl Daily Rate Trend

SurfControl
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) VPN
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) Kaspersky
2 8 (88.89%) Windows 7
2 8 (88.89%) SSL
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
2 8 (88.89%) Clearswift
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 8 (88.89%) UNIX
2 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (88.89%) CheckPoint
3 6 (66.67%) Local Government
4 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
4 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
4 1 (11.11%) Websense
4 1 (11.11%) Dell
4 1 (11.11%) EMC
4 1 (11.11%) Intel
4 1 (11.11%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) VBScript
4 1 (11.11%) VB

SurfControl
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) Application Packaging
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Exchange Server 2003
1 1 (11.11%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (100.00%) VPN
2 8 (88.89%) SSL
2 8 (88.89%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) SAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet
General
1 6 (66.67%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 8 (88.89%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Security Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Windows Server Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Server Support
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Blackberry
1 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (88.89%) Windows 7
2 8 (88.89%) Linux
2 8 (88.89%) UNIX
3 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) ITIL
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
2 1 (11.11%) Asset Management
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) VBScript
1 1 (11.11%) VB
System Software
1 8 (88.89%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Kaspersky
1 8 (88.89%) Clearswift
1 8 (88.89%) CheckPoint
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Websense
2 1 (11.11%) Dell
2 1 (11.11%) EMC
2 1 (11.11%) Intel