The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Lumension products and/or services in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Lumension over the 3 months to 21 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 South East 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 Lumension Security, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lumension
Rank 212 242 252
Rank change year-on-year
+30 +10
Contract jobs citing Lumension 8 3 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.101% 0.030% 0.010%
As % of the Vendors category 0.201% 0.059% 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Average daily rate £238 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £440 £400 £175
% change year-on-year
+10.00% +128.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.02 £15.50 -
% change year-on-year
+22.70% -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3976 5051 5025
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.19% 49.72% 48.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1929 2203 1982
Average daily rate £350 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £220 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £500 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 320 387 407
Average hourly rate £19.63 £18.00 £22.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.02% -20.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.48 £11.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £45.00 £40.40
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%
Lumension
England

Lumension
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Lumension Jobs Demand Trend

Lumension
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Lumension Daily Rate Trend

Lumension
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Lumension across the South East region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

South East Lumension Daily Rate Histogram

Lumension
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Lumension within the South East region over the 3 months to 21 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
Buckinghamshire - 3 £238 -
Hampshire -9 2 £365 -
East Sussex - 2 £150 -
Middlesex - 1 - -
Lumension
England

Lumension
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Lumension 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 Lumension.

1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
3 12 (70.59%) Citrix
4 10 (58.82%) Microsoft App-V
4 10 (58.82%) AppSense
5 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
6 8 (47.06%) XenDesktop
7 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
7 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
7 7 (41.18%) XenApp
7 7 (41.18%) XenServer
7 7 (41.18%) CloudStack
7 7 (41.18%) Windows 8
8 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
9 5 (29.41%) SCCM
9 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
10 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2003
10 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
10 4 (23.53%) Cisco
10 4 (23.53%) Windows XP
10 4 (23.53%) ITIL
10 4 (23.53%) SCOM
10 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
10 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
11 3 (17.65%) ITIL V3
11 3 (17.65%) Time Management
11 3 (17.65%) Windows Vista
11 3 (17.65%) WSUS
11 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
11 3 (17.65%) CA

Lumension
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Lumension 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 Lumension. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (5.882%) XML
Application Platforms
1 7 (41.18%) CloudStack
2 2 (11.76%) MS Exchange
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2007
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2003
2 2 (11.76%) Exchange Server 2010
3 1 (5.882%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.76%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) SAN
1 2 (11.76%) Ethernet
1 2 (11.76%) SNMP
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
1 2 (11.76%) FDDI
1 2 (11.76%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (5.882%) DNS
2 1 (5.882%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 1 (5.882%) Marketing
1 1 (5.882%) Banking
1 1 (5.882%) Military
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Technical Specialist
2 5 (29.41%) Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Citrix Specialist
3 3 (17.65%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (17.65%) Architect
4 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Citrix Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 1 (5.882%) IT Support
5 1 (5.882%) Citrix Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Technical Support
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Technical Specialist
5 1 (5.882%) Integration Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.882%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Blackberry
2 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 15 (88.24%) Windows
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
2 7 (41.18%) Windows 8
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2003
3 4 (23.53%) Windows XP
3 4 (23.53%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (17.65%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (23.53%) ITIL
2 3 (17.65%) ITIL V3
2 3 (17.65%) Time Management
3 2 (11.76%) TQM
3 2 (11.76%) Software Deployment
3 2 (11.76%) Process Architecture
4 1 (5.882%) System Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Unit Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) C
1 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 1 (5.882%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.882%) Perl
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) Security Cleared
2 6 (35.29%) DV Cleared
3 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft App-V
2 8 (47.06%) XenDesktop
3 7 (41.18%) Hyper-V
3 7 (41.18%) XenApp
3 7 (41.18%) XenServer
4 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
5 1 (5.882%) vSphere
5 1 (5.882%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCCM
2 4 (23.53%) SCOM
3 3 (17.65%) WSUS
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
4 2 (11.76%) McAfee ePO
5 1 (5.882%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 14 (82.35%) Microsoft
2 12 (70.59%) Citrix
3 10 (58.82%) AppSense
4 4 (23.53%) Cisco
5 3 (17.65%) CA
6 2 (11.76%) McAfee
6 2 (11.76%) HP
6 2 (11.76%) Brocade
6 2 (11.76%) Blue Coat
6 2 (11.76%) 3PAR
7 1 (5.882%) VMware
7 1 (5.882%) NetApp
7 1 (5.882%) Symantec