Scotland Backup Exec Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec skills within the Scotland 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Symantec (formerly VERITAS) Backup Exec
Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bristol Cheshire City of London Coventry East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Kent London Manchester Middlesex New Malden Newcastle North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Reading Rotherham Runcorn Scotland Sittingbourne South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Witham Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	86	107
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching contract IT job ads	7	17
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.011 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	4.142 %	6.464 %
Daily rates quoted	1	2
Average minimum daily rate	£250	£350
Average daily rate	£275	£355
% change on same period last year	-22.53 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£360
UK excluding London average daily rate	£228	£365
% change on same period last year	-37.67 %
Hourly rates quoted	2	2
Average minimum hourly rate	£8.50	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£9.25	£17.25
% change on same period last year	-46.37 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£10.00	£17.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£21.05	£21.66
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
System Software Scotland
Matching contract IT job ads	169	263
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.272 %	0.282 %
Daily rates quoted	26	33
Average minimum daily rate	£313	£277
Average daily rate	£341	£293
% change on same period last year	+16.50 %
Average maximum daily rate	£369	£308
UK excluding London average daily rate	£317	£318
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Hourly rates quoted	37	51
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.21	£14.75
Average hourly rate	£18.05	£15.70
% change on same period last year	+14.93 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£18.88	£16.65
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£20.99	£21.09
% change on same period last year	-0.46 %
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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 Scotland region as a proportion of the total demand within the System Software 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 Backup Exec across the Scotland region.

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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 Scotland 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 Backup Exec within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Glasgow	+18	4	£275	-31.25 %
Aberdeen	0	2	-	-
Edinburgh	+13	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 6 (54.55 %) VERITAS 3 6 (54.55 %) HP 3 6 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 3 6 (54.55 %) Exchange Server 2003 4 4 (36.36 %) WSUS 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 4 (36.36 %) SMS 4 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 4 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 4 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 4 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 4 4 (36.36 %) MOM

5 3 (27.27 %) SAN 5 3 (27.27 %) IBM 6 2 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 6 2 (18.18 %) Insurance 6 2 (18.18 %) PDA 6 2 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2000 6 2 (18.18 %) Banking 6 2 (18.18 %) Asset Management 6 2 (18.18 %) MS Access 6 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 6 2 (18.18 %) MS Project 6 2 (18.18 %) MS Office 6 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 6 2 (18.18 %) MCP 6 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 (54.55 %) MS Exchange 1 6 (54.55 %) Exchange Server 2003 2 2 (18.18 %) Exchange Server 2000	Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Project 1 2 (18.18 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 4 (36.36 %) SMS 2 3 (27.27 %) SAN 3 2 (18.18 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 4 (36.36 %) SQL Server 2 2 (18.18 %) MS Access
General 1 2 (18.18 %) Pharmaceutical 1 2 (18.18 %) Telecoms 1 2 (18.18 %) Health 1 2 (18.18 %) Banking 1 2 (18.18 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 3 (27.27 %) Server Support 2 2 (18.18 %) Support Analyst 2 2 (18.18 %) Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Desktop Engineer 2 2 (18.18 %) Windows Administrator 2 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) IT Support Technician 3 1 (9.091 %) Server Support Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) Windows Support Analyst 3 1 (9.091 %) 2nd Line Support 3 1 (9.091 %) Support Technician
Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Blackberry 1 2 (18.18 %) PDA 1 2 (18.18 %) Video Conferencing 2 1 (9.091 %) NHS	Operating Systems 1 10 (90.91 %) Windows 2 8 (72.73 %) Windows Server 2003 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 4 (36.36 %) Windows XP 4 2 (18.18 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (9.091 %) UNIX 5 1 (9.091 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (18.18 %) ITIL 1 2 (18.18 %) Asset Management 2 1 (9.091 %) Time Management	Qualifications 1 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft Certification 2 2 (18.18 %) MCP 2 2 (18.18 %) MCSE 3 1 (9.091 %) MCSA
System Software 1 8 (72.73 %) Active Directory 2 1 (9.091 %) NetBackup	Systems Management 1 4 (36.36 %) MOM 1 4 (36.36 %) WSUS
Vendors 1 6 (54.55 %) HP 1 6 (54.55 %) VERITAS 2 4 (36.36 %) Microsoft 3 3 (27.27 %) IBM 4 2 (18.18 %) Cisco 4 2 (18.18 %) Adobe 4 2 (18.18 %) Symantec 5 1 (9.091 %) VMware 5 1 (9.091 %) Kronos