The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec 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 Symantec over the 3 months to 22 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 the Symantec Corporation.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank - 84 67
Contract jobs citing Symantec 0 4 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester - 0.305% 0.195%
As % of the Vendors category - 0.605% 0.476%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 2 1
Average daily rate - £313 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -37.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £400 £289
% change year-on-year
-12.50% +38.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Average hourly rate - £32.50 £70.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -53.57%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-10.27% -8.75%
All Vendors
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
383 661 420
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 40.66% 50.34% 41.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 161 295 172
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 £467 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 38 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 £12.10 £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 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symantec
North West

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Symantec Jobs Demand Trend

Symantec
Daily Rate Trend

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

Manchester Symantec Daily Rate Trend

Symantec
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Manchester Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Symantec 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 Symantec.

1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Release Management
2 2 (66.67%) Kaspersky
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) XenServer
2 2 (66.67%) Change Management
2 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (66.67%) NetScreen
2 2 (66.67%) VMS
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) COM
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) NHS
3 1 (33.33%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) VMware
3 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester region citing Symantec 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 Symantec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) COM
1 1 (33.33%) Software Packaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (100.00%) MS Exchange
2 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
3 1 (33.33%) Exchange Server 2007
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Internet
1 2 (66.67%) NetScreen
1 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support
1 1 (33.33%) Server Technician
1 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Support Technician
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (66.67%) VMS
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Release Management
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) XenServer
3 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (100.00%) SCCM
2 2 (66.67%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 2 (66.67%) Norton AntiVirus
3 1 (33.33%) Backup Exec
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) Kaspersky
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) Veritas
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco
3 1 (33.33%) VMware