The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Riverbed 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 Riverbed over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Riverbed Technology.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Riverbed
Rank 209 237 237
Rank change year-on-year
+28 0
Contract jobs citing Riverbed 11 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.137% 0.100% 0.085%
As % of the Vendors category 0.272% 0.207% 0.174%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 2
Average daily rate £340 £253 £323
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+34.65% -21.70%
UK excluding London average daily rate £263 £413 £225
% change year-on-year
-36.36% +83.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Average hourly rate £32.50 £31.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.17% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £15.25 £31.50 -
% change year-on-year
-51.58% -
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
4039 4827 5179
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.44% 48.29% 48.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1972 2078 2083
Average daily rate £360 £360 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +2.85%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £513 £500 £479
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 337 354 449
Average hourly rate £19.63 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+9.02% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.38 £11.00 £11.02
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%
Riverbed
England

Riverbed
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Riverbed Jobs Demand Trend

Riverbed
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Riverbed Daily Rate Trend

Riverbed
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Riverbed across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Riverbed Daily Rate Histogram

Riverbed
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Riverbed Hourly Rate Trend

Riverbed
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Riverbed within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +17 3 £125 - 1
Buckinghamshire - 3 - -
Hampshire - - - -
Kent - - - - 2
Middlesex - - - - 2
Surrey - - - -
Riverbed
England

Riverbed
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Riverbed 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 Riverbed.

1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 11 (68.75%) WAN
3 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 10 (62.50%) Juniper
4 9 (56.25%) LAN
5 8 (50.00%) MPLS
6 7 (43.75%) Firewall
7 6 (37.50%) Windows
7 6 (37.50%) Citrix
8 5 (31.25%) VPN
8 5 (31.25%) DHCP
8 5 (31.25%) VoIP
8 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
8 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
8 5 (31.25%) VLAN
8 5 (31.25%) WAN Optimisation
9 4 (25.00%) F5
9 4 (25.00%) XenApp
9 4 (25.00%) Wireless
9 4 (25.00%) ITIL
9 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
10 3 (18.75%) DNS
10 3 (18.75%) WLAN
10 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
10 3 (18.75%) Service Management
10 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
10 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
10 3 (18.75%) Project Management
10 3 (18.75%) OSPF
10 3 (18.75%) BGP

Riverbed
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Riverbed 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 Riverbed. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) MAPI
1 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (12.50%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (6.250%) MS Office
1 1 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) WAN
2 10 (62.50%) TCP/IP
3 9 (56.25%) LAN
4 8 (50.00%) MPLS
5 7 (43.75%) Firewall
6 5 (31.25%) VPN
6 5 (31.25%) DHCP
6 5 (31.25%) VoIP
6 5 (31.25%) VLAN
7 4 (25.00%) Wireless
8 3 (18.75%) DNS
8 3 (18.75%) WLAN
8 3 (18.75%) OSPF
8 3 (18.75%) BGP
8 3 (18.75%) Network Security
9 2 (12.50%) Junos
9 2 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
9 2 (12.50%) IP Telephony
9 2 (12.50%) H.323
9 2 (12.50%) Internet
General
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 1 (6.250%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Back Office
2 1 (6.250%) French Language
2 1 (6.250%) German Language
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Project Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 4 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Service Delivery Coordinator
3 2 (12.50%) Network Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Telecoms Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Coordinator
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Senior Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Support
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (6.250%) IT Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) IT Manager
4 1 (6.250%) Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Help Desk Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Consultant
4 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 6 (37.50%) Windows
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2003
2 3 (18.75%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (12.50%) Windows Vista
3 2 (12.50%) Windows XP
4 1 (6.250%) UNIX
4 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (31.25%) Service Delivery
1 5 (31.25%) WAN Optimisation
2 4 (25.00%) ITIL
3 3 (18.75%) PRINCE2
3 3 (18.75%) Service Management
3 3 (18.75%) Project Management
4 2 (12.50%) Analytics
4 2 (12.50%) Security Management
4 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
4 2 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 2 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (6.250%) ITSM
5 1 (6.250%) Change Management
5 1 (6.250%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.250%) Incident Management
5 1 (6.250%) Network Management
5 1 (6.250%) Performance Improvement
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.250%) C#
1 1 (6.250%) JavaScript
1 1 (6.250%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) CCNP
1 2 (12.50%) CCNA
1 2 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (6.250%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (6.250%) PMP
2 1 (6.250%) PMI Certification
2 1 (6.250%) MCP
2 1 (6.250%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (25.00%) XenApp
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (12.50%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 1 (6.250%) Active Directory
4 1 (6.250%) NFS
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco
2 10 (62.50%) Juniper
3 6 (37.50%) Citrix
4 4 (25.00%) F5
4 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
5 3 (18.75%) CheckPoint
5 3 (18.75%) VMware
5 3 (18.75%) AppSense
6 2 (12.50%) PlateSpin
6 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
6 2 (12.50%) Blue Coat
6 2 (12.50%) Dell
7 1 (6.250%) HP
7 1 (6.250%) Veeam
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