The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Blue Coat products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Blue Coat over the 3 months to 23 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 Midlands 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 Blue Coat Systems, Inc.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat
Rank - - 35
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands - - 0.286%
As % of the Vendors category - - 0.472%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £353 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
-6.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £23.36
% change year-on-year
- +92.63%
All Vendors
Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
85 161 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the Midlands 49.42% 59.85% 60.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 32 41
Average daily rate £375 £400 £445
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -10.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £570 £575 £578
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 9 40
Average hourly rate £32.00 £32.50 £24.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.53% +35.41%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Blue Coat
England

Blue Coat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Midlands Blue Coat Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Midlands Blue Coat Daily Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat.

1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcefire
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM

Blue Coat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Midlands region citing Blue Coat 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 Blue Coat. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (100.00%) SSL
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) FWSM
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Security Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Implementation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Network Implementation Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security Management
1 1 (100.00%) Security Management
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) ProxySG
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Juniper
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) Sourcefire