North East Sophos Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos products and/or services in IT contracts within the North East region with a comparison to our Vendors category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Sophos over the 3 months to 14 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Cheltenham City of London East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire London Manchester Middlesex North East North West Oxfordshire Scotland Shropshire South East South Wales South West Southampton Swindon Telford Trowbridge UK Wales West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 14 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£290	£323
% change on same period last year	-10.02 %
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	£24.85	£17.97
% change on same period last year	+38.29 %
Vendors North East
Matching contract IT job ads	305	440
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.439 %	0.448 %
Daily rates quoted	55	126
Average minimum daily rate	£305	£331
Average daily rate	£324	£340
% change on same period last year	-4.93 %
Average maximum daily rate	£342	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£353
% change on same period last year	+2.14 %
Hourly rates quoted	39	36
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.50	£20.68
Average hourly rate	£20.44	£22.49
% change on same period last year	-9.12 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.37	£24.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£24.41	£24.18
% change on same period last year	+0.96 %
Sophos 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 Sophos PLC.

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Demand Trend

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

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Hourly Rate Trend

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

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Top 5 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Sophos 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 Sophos.

1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory 1 1 (100.00 %) Novell 1 1 (100.00 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 14 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the North East region citing Sophos 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 Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (100.00 %) SQL Server	Job Titles 1 1 (100.00 %) Support Engineer 1 1 (100.00 %) 3rd Line Support 1 1 (100.00 %) 3rd Line Support Engineer
System Software 1 1 (100.00 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 1 (100.00 %) Cisco 1 1 (100.00 %) Novell 1 1 (100.00 %) VMware