The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Symantec products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Symantec over the 3 months to 23 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 Scotland 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Symantec
Rank 114 87 106
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +19
Contract jobs citing Symantec 6 21 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.246% 0.796% 0.355%
As % of the Vendors category 0.544% 2.031% 0.822%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 9 6
Average daily rate £444 £375 £210
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.33% +78.57%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £415 £250 £208
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £425 £273
UK excluding London average daily rate £354 £400 £288
% change year-on-year
-11.56% +39.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Average hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £23.75 £18.25 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+30.13% -8.75%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1103 1034 1217
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.19% 39.18% 43.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 512 464 521
Average daily rate £370 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.71% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £212 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 51 56
Average hourly rate £14.00 £25.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-44.00% +47.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.70 £10.00 £10.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.00 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Symantec
UK

Symantec
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Symantec Hourly Rate Trend

Symantec
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Symantec within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Renfrewshire -5 3 £463 -
Glasgow -31 2 £425 +68.31%
Edinburgh +2 1 - -
Symantec
UK

Symantec
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 12 (66.67%) VMware
3 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
4 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
5 9 (50.00%) IBM
5 9 (50.00%) SAN
6 8 (44.44%) Windows XP
7 7 (38.89%) MS Exchange
7 7 (38.89%) Citrix
7 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
7 7 (38.89%) McAfee
7 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
8 6 (33.33%) SCCM
8 6 (33.33%) Finance
8 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
8 6 (33.33%) Oracle
8 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
9 5 (27.78%) AIX
9 5 (27.78%) Solaris
9 5 (27.78%) DHCP
9 5 (27.78%) DNS
9 5 (27.78%) Cisco
9 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
9 5 (27.78%) EMC
9 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
10 4 (22.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
10 4 (22.22%) Dell
10 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (22.22%) UNIX
10 4 (22.22%) MS Excel

Symantec
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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.

Application Development
1 3 (16.67%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (38.89%) MS Exchange
2 6 (33.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (27.78%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (16.67%) WebSphere MQ
4 3 (16.67%) MQSeries
4 3 (16.67%) WebSphere Application Server
4 3 (16.67%) IIS
4 3 (16.67%) Exchange Server 2010
5 1 (5.556%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 1 (5.556%) Lotus Notes
5 1 (5.556%) Exchange Server 2003
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) MS Excel
2 1 (5.556%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) SAN
2 5 (27.78%) DHCP
2 5 (27.78%) DNS
3 2 (11.11%) NAS
3 2 (11.11%) Connectrix
4 1 (5.556%) HTTP
4 1 (5.556%) SMS
4 1 (5.556%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (16.67%) Technical Specialist
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Architect
1 3 (16.67%) Server Engineer
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Specialist
1 3 (16.67%) Architect
1 3 (16.67%) Designer
1 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Designer
2 2 (11.11%) Exchange Engineer
2 2 (11.11%) 3rd Line Support
2 2 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (5.556%) Desktop Support Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Desktop Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Enterprise Consultant
3 1 (5.556%) Wintel Support
3 1 (5.556%) Server Support
3 1 (5.556%) Support Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Support Engineer
3 1 (5.556%) Desktop Support
3 1 (5.556%) Analyst
3 1 (5.556%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 3 (16.67%) Thin Client
1 3 (16.67%) Fat Client
2 2 (11.11%) Celerra
2 2 (11.11%) Hedge funds
2 2 (11.11%) Symmetrix
2 2 (11.11%) EMC Centera
2 2 (11.11%) Replication
3 1 (5.556%) Clustering
3 1 (5.556%) Blackberry
3 1 (5.556%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 14 (77.78%) Windows
2 11 (61.11%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (44.44%) Windows XP
4 7 (38.89%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (27.78%) AIX
5 5 (27.78%) Solaris
6 4 (22.22%) UNIX
7 3 (16.67%) Linux
7 3 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (16.67%) Windows Vista
8 2 (11.11%) HPUX
9 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (16.67%) Incident Management
1 3 (16.67%) Time Management
2 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (5.556%) Project Management
3 1 (5.556%) Service Delivery
3 1 (5.556%) Analytics
Qualifications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 3 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.556%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
3 3 (16.67%) VMware ESX
3 3 (16.67%) XenDesktop
4 2 (11.11%) SRDF
4 2 (11.11%) NFS
5 1 (5.556%) ISA Server
5 1 (5.556%) Forefront TMG
5 1 (5.556%) XenApp
5 1 (5.556%) Hyper-V
5 1 (5.556%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 6 (33.33%) SCCM
2 4 (22.22%) Symantec Enterprise Vault
2 4 (22.22%) NetBackup
3 3 (16.67%) OpenView Configuration Management
4 2 (11.11%) EMC NetWorker
4 2 (11.11%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 2 (11.11%) EMC TimeFinder
5 1 (5.556%) Backup Exec
5 1 (5.556%) MOM
5 1 (5.556%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) VMware
2 10 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 9 (50.00%) IBM
4 7 (38.89%) Citrix
4 7 (38.89%) McAfee
5 6 (33.33%) Oracle
6 5 (27.78%) Cisco
6 5 (27.78%) EMC
7 4 (22.22%) Dell
8 3 (16.67%) Wyse
8 3 (16.67%) Sophos
8 3 (16.67%) NetApp
8 3 (16.67%) Red Hat
8 3 (16.67%) HP
8 3 (16.67%) Lumension
9 2 (11.11%) Brocade
9 2 (11.11%) Altiris
10 1 (5.556%) Lotus