Norfolk VERITAS Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of VERITAS products and/or services in IT contracts within the Norfolk region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited VERITAS over the 3 months to 6 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barking Barnsley Basildon Berkshire Birmingham Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Midlands Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Norwich Oxford Oxfordshire Pudsey Reading Rochdale Rotherham Salford Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stevenage Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 6 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	38	33
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching contract IT job ads	8	10
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	4.908 %	7.353 %
Daily rates quoted	5	1
Average minimum daily rate	£470	£300
Average daily rate	£525	£319
% change on same period last year	+64.70 %
Average maximum daily rate	£580	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£355
% change on same period last year	-0.65 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£27.52	£28.64
% change on same period last year	-3.92 %
Vendors Norfolk
Matching contract IT job ads	163	136
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.228 %	0.137 %
Daily rates quoted	46	33
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£338
Average daily rate	£377	£358
% change on same period last year	+5.33 %
Average maximum daily rate	£401	£378
UK excluding London average daily rate	£360	£354
% change on same period last year	+1.60 %
Hourly rates quoted	40	16
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.23	£18.92
Average hourly rate	£19.22	£20.25
% change on same period last year	-5.04 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.22	£21.57
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.36	£24.43
% change on same period last year	-0.31 %
VERITAS East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

These figures represent the IT job market and are NOT representative of employment within the VERITAS Software Corporation.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing VERITAS across the Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing VERITAS across the Norfolk region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing VERITAS across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing VERITAS across the Norfolk region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing VERITAS within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 6 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norwich	-4	4	£488	-

VERITAS East of England

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Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing VERITAS 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 VERITAS.

1 16 (100.00 %) AIX 1 16 (100.00 %) IBM 2 10 (62.50 %) LDAP 3 9 (56.25 %) Clustering 3 9 (56.25 %) Symantec 4 7 (43.75 %) Oracle 4 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 4 7 (43.75 %) NetBackup 5 6 (37.50 %) Korn 5 6 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC 5 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli 5 6 (37.50 %) Shell Script 5 6 (37.50 %) Change Management 6 4 (25.00 %) Finance 7 3 (18.75 %) Insurance

8 1 (6.250 %) assyst 8 1 (6.250 %) Perl 8 1 (6.250 %) DB2 8 1 (6.250 %) IBM Certification 8 1 (6.250 %) SAN 8 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 8 1 (6.250 %) Solaris

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 6 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Norfolk region citing VERITAS 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 VERITAS. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications 1 1 (6.250 %) assyst	Communications & Networking 1 10 (62.50 %) LDAP 2 1 (6.250 %) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (6.250 %) DB2	General 1 4 (25.00 %) Finance 2 3 (18.75 %) Insurance
Job Titles 1 6 (37.50 %) Consultant 1 6 (37.50 %) Administrator 2 4 (25.00 %) UNIX Administrator 3 3 (18.75 %) AIX Administrator 4 2 (12.50 %) Senior UNIX Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Infrastructure Designer 5 1 (6.250 %) Senior Systems Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) UNIX Systems Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Systems Administrator 5 1 (6.250 %) Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 9 (56.25 %) Clustering
Operating Systems 1 16 (100.00 %) AIX 2 7 (43.75 %) UNIX 3 1 (6.250 %) HPUX 3 1 (6.250 %) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (37.50 %) Change Management
Programming Languages 1 6 (37.50 %) Shell Script 1 6 (37.50 %) Korn 2 1 (6.250 %) Perl	Qualifications 1 1 (6.250 %) IBM Certification
System Software 1 7 (43.75 %) NetBackup 2 6 (37.50 %) Oracle RAC	Systems Management 1 6 (37.50 %) Tivoli
Vendors 1 16 (100.00 %) IBM 2 9 (56.25 %) Symantec 3 7 (43.75 %) Oracle