The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Northern Ireland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symantec over the 3 months to 20 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 Northern Ireland 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank - - 37
Contract jobs citing Symantec 0 0 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland - - 2.793%
As % of the Vendors category - - 5.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 6
Average daily rate - - £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £336 £400 £281
% change year-on-year
-15.93% +42.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £12.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £16.38 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-11.48% -7.50%
All Vendors
Northern Ireland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
81 106 199
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Northern Ireland 32.27% 54.92% 55.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 23 73
Average daily rate £375 £265 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+41.50% -20.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £260 £265
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £425 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 12
Average hourly rate - - £15.94
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Symantec
UK

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland 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 Northern Ireland region.

Northern Ireland Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) Dell
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix
2 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 2 (66.67%) CommVault
2 2 (66.67%) NetApp
2 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Telecoms

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Northern Ireland 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.

Applications
1 2 (66.67%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) SAN
2 1 (33.33%) TCP/IP
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Consultant
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix Technical Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Rollout Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (66.67%) Xen
2 2 (66.67%) Citrix Presentation Server
2 2 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (66.67%) Hyper-V
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 2 (66.67%) HP
1 2 (66.67%) Dell
1 2 (66.67%) Citrix
1 2 (66.67%) CommVault
1 2 (66.67%) NetApp
1 2 (66.67%) VMware