The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Veritas 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 Veritas over the 3 months to 22 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 Veritas Software.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Veritas
Rank 101 96 99
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +3
Contract jobs citing Veritas 20 9 11
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.807% 0.336% 0.402%
As % of the Vendors category 1.783% 0.859% 0.930%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 7
Average daily rate £370 £368 £320
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+0.68% +14.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £349 £325 £211
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £405 £385
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £375 £346
% change year-on-year
+6.66% +8.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £15.77 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-45.71% +75.00%
All Vendors
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
1122 1048 1183
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 45.28% 39.16% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 470 511
Average daily rate £365 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+4.28% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £211 £214
10% offered a daily rate of more than £463 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 51 55
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 £9.85 £10.00 £10.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £34.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
- -5.00%
Veritas
UK

Veritas
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Veritas Jobs Demand Trend

Veritas
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Veritas across the Scotland region.

Scotland Veritas Daily Rate Trend

Veritas
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Veritas across the Scotland region.

Scotland Veritas Hourly Rate Trend

Veritas
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Veritas within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 22 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 +2 13 £371 -1.00%
Glasgow -14 5 £358 -3.37%
Aberdeen +2 2 - -
Veritas
UK

Veritas
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Veritas 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 Veritas.

1 25 (83.33%) Windows
2 23 (76.67%) Security Cleared
3 19 (63.33%) Clustering
4 17 (56.67%) Netcool
5 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2008
6 15 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
7 14 (46.67%) SAN
7 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared
8 12 (40.00%) Citrix
8 12 (40.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
9 11 (36.67%) AIX
10 10 (33.33%) Windows XP
10 10 (33.33%) HP
11 8 (26.67%) Solaris
11 8 (26.67%) Linux
11 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
12 7 (23.33%) VMware
12 7 (23.33%) DHCP
12 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
12 7 (23.33%) DNS
12 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
13 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
13 6 (20.00%) XML
13 6 (20.00%) XSL
13 6 (20.00%) HTML
13 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
13 6 (20.00%) Tivoli
13 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
13 6 (20.00%) VMware ESX
13 6 (20.00%) XPath

Veritas
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Veritas 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 Veritas. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (20.00%) XML
1 6 (20.00%) XSL
1 6 (20.00%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (6.667%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) SAN
2 7 (23.33%) DHCP
2 7 (23.33%) TCP/IP
2 7 (23.33%) DNS
3 6 (20.00%) NAS
4 1 (3.333%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.333%) SQL Server
1 1 (3.333%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) WinRunner
1 5 (16.67%) TestDirector
1 5 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 4 (13.33%) Finance
2 2 (6.667%) Advertising
3 1 (3.333%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (23.33%) Consultant
2 4 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (6.667%) Desktop Support Engineer
3 2 (6.667%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (6.667%) Desktop Engineer
3 2 (6.667%) Desktop Support
3 2 (6.667%) Analyst
3 2 (6.667%) Support Engineer
3 2 (6.667%) Technical Consultant
3 2 (6.667%) Architect
4 1 (3.333%) Tester
4 1 (3.333%) Administrator
4 1 (3.333%) Security Consultant
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Architect
4 1 (3.333%) Systems Administrator
4 1 (3.333%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.333%) UNIX Administrator
4 1 (3.333%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (3.333%) Server Engineer
4 1 (3.333%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 19 (63.33%) Clustering
2 4 (13.33%) PDA
3 2 (6.667%) Management Information System
3 2 (6.667%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.333%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.333%) Fat Client
Operating Systems
1 25 (83.33%) Windows
2 16 (53.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 15 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
4 11 (36.67%) AIX
5 10 (33.33%) Windows XP
6 8 (26.67%) Solaris
6 8 (26.67%) Linux
7 2 (6.667%) Windows 7
7 2 (6.667%) UNIX
8 1 (3.333%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 6 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 6 (20.00%) Software Distribution
3 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 5 (16.67%) Information Assurance
4 2 (6.667%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.00%) JavaScript
1 6 (20.00%) XPath
2 5 (16.67%) SQL
3 2 (6.667%) C
4 1 (3.333%) Korn
4 1 (3.333%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 23 (76.67%) Security Cleared
2 14 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (3.333%) MCSE
3 1 (3.333%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 6 (20.00%) VMware ESX
2 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 3 (10.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 1 (3.333%) ISA Server
3 1 (3.333%) Veritas Volume Manager
3 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (56.67%) Netcool
2 12 (40.00%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 6 (20.00%) Tivoli
3 6 (20.00%) HP Operations Orchestration
4 5 (16.67%) McAfee ePO
4 5 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (6.667%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (40.00%) Citrix
2 10 (33.33%) HP
3 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (16.67%) McAfee
4 5 (16.67%) EMC
5 3 (10.00%) Brocade
6 2 (6.667%) Avaya
7 1 (3.333%) Oracle
7 1 (3.333%) JBoss