Portsmouth Backup Exec Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec skills within the Portsmouth region with a comparison to our System Software category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Backup Exec over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec
Location Aberdeen Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Cambridgeshire Chelmsford Cheshire Chichester City of London Coventry Devon Dorset East of England England Essex Exeter Glasgow Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Huntingdon Kent Leeds London Manchester Middlesex Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne North East North West Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Salford Scotland Sittingbourne South East South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Sussex Swindon Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	26	23
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching contract IT job ads	6	3
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	18.75 %	13.64 %
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	£239	£280
% change on same period last year	-14.54 %
Hourly rates quoted	6	3
Average minimum hourly rate	£13.50	£16.88
Average hourly rate	£15.50	£19.09
% change on same period last year	-18.80 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£17.50	£21.30
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.47	£18.79
% change on same period last year	+8.91 %
System Software Portsmouth
Matching contract IT job ads	32	22
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.022 %
Daily rates quoted	6	2
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£293
Average daily rate	£382	£300
% change on same period last year	+27.38 %
Average maximum daily rate	£394	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£319	£323
% change on same period last year	-1.40 %
Hourly rates quoted	10	11
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.93	£18.31
Average hourly rate	£21.17	£19.82
% change on same period last year	+6.77 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.40	£21.34
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.22	£21.42
% change on same period last year	-0.93 %
Backup Exec Hampshire

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.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Backup Exec across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software 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 Backup Exec across the Portsmouth region.

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Hourly Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Backup Exec across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec.

1 9 (100.00 %) EMC NetWorker 2 6 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 6 (66.67 %) Active Directory 2 6 (66.67 %) Citrix 2 6 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003 2 6 (66.67 %) Windows 2 6 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 3 3 (33.33 %) WAN 3 3 (33.33 %) Tivoli 3 3 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Portsmouth region citing Backup Exec 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 Backup Exec. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 6 (66.67 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (66.67 %) Exchange Server 2003	Communications & Networking 1 3 (33.33 %) WAN
Job Titles 1 6 (66.67 %) Systems Administrator 1 6 (66.67 %) Administrator 1 6 (66.67 %) IT Administrator 2 5 (55.56 %) Server Support 2 5 (55.56 %) Systems Support 3 3 (33.33 %) Junior 3 3 (33.33 %) Analyst 3 3 (33.33 %) Operations Analyst 3 3 (33.33 %) Junior Analyst	Operating Systems 1 6 (66.67 %) Windows 1 6 (66.67 %) Windows Server 2003
System Software 1 6 (66.67 %) Active Directory	Systems Management 1 9 (100.00 %) EMC NetWorker 2 3 (33.33 %) Tivoli 2 3 (33.33 %) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors 1 6 (66.67 %) Citrix