The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Sophos 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 Sophos 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 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 Sophos PLC.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Sophos
Rank 215 240 245
Rank change year-on-year
+25 +5
Contract jobs citing Sophos 8 2 14
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.103% 0.020% 0.133%
As % of the Vendors category 0.203% 0.040% 0.271%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
Average daily rate £275 £210 £260
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+30.95% -19.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £463 £250 £335
% change year-on-year
+85.00% -25.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Average hourly rate £20.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.50 £19.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.89% -45.71%
All Vendors
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
3939 5017 5160
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 50.61% 49.34% 48.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1935 2193 2036
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 313 383 429
Average hourly rate £19.63 £17.50 £21.79
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+12.14% -19.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £11.35 £11.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £45.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.25
% change year-on-year
- -6.17%
Sophos
England

Sophos
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Sophos Jobs Demand Trend

Sophos
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Sophos Daily Rate Trend

Sophos
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Sophos across the South East region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

South East Sophos Daily Rate Histogram

Sophos
Hourly Rate Trend

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

South East Sophos Hourly Rate Trend

Sophos
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Sophos within the South East 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
Berkshire +19 3 - -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £120 -
Oxfordshire +9 1 £500 +207.69%
West Sussex - 1 £275 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
Sophos
England

Sophos
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Sophos 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 Sophos.

1 16 (94.12%) Windows
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 12 (70.59%) MS Exchange
4 11 (64.71%) Firewall
5 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
6 9 (52.94%) VPN
6 9 (52.94%) DNS
6 9 (52.94%) DHCP
6 9 (52.94%) Exchange Server 2003
7 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
7 8 (47.06%) Symantec
8 7 (41.18%) Norton AntiVirus
8 7 (41.18%) VMware
8 7 (41.18%) MS Office
8 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
8 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
9 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
9 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2008
9 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2007
9 6 (35.29%) Citrix
9 6 (35.29%) HP
9 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000
9 6 (35.29%) VMware ESX
9 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2000
10 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
10 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
10 5 (29.41%) IIS
11 4 (23.53%) MySQL
11 4 (23.53%) Linux

Sophos
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region citing Sophos 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 Sophos. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (11.76%) Web Services
1 2 (11.76%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 12 (70.59%) MS Exchange
2 9 (52.94%) Exchange Server 2003
3 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2010
3 6 (35.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 5 (29.41%) IIS
5 4 (23.53%) Apache
5 4 (23.53%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
6 2 (11.76%) Zimbra
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) MS Office
2 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (64.71%) Firewall
2 9 (52.94%) VPN
2 9 (52.94%) DNS
2 9 (52.94%) DHCP
3 7 (41.18%) TCP/IP
4 4 (23.53%) SSL
4 4 (23.53%) Internet
5 3 (17.65%) SAN
5 3 (17.65%) WAN
5 3 (17.65%) LAN
6 2 (11.76%) ADSL
6 2 (11.76%) Broadband
6 2 (11.76%) IP Telephony
7 1 (5.882%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.882%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (47.06%) SQL Server
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2008
2 6 (35.29%) SQL Server 2000
3 4 (23.53%) MySQL
3 4 (23.53%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 1 (5.882%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Service Desk Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) 3rd Line Support
2 4 (23.53%) Service Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) IT Manager
4 2 (11.76%) Systems Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Support Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Administrator
4 2 (11.76%) Technical Leader
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) IT Support
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Windows Systems Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Architect
5 1 (5.882%) IT Support Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) IT Administrator
5 1 (5.882%) Support Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Clustering
2 2 (11.76%) Blackberry
2 2 (11.76%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 16 (94.12%) Windows
2 14 (82.35%) Windows Server 2008
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 7
4 6 (35.29%) Windows 2000
5 5 (29.41%) Windows Server 2003
5 5 (29.41%) Windows XP
6 4 (23.53%) Linux
7 1 (5.882%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (11.76%) Performance Management
2 2 (11.76%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (5.882%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (5.882%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.882%) Network Load Balancing
3 1 (5.882%) Migration
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.882%) MCDST
2 1 (5.882%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.882%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 16 (94.12%) Active Directory
2 6 (35.29%) VMware ESX
3 4 (23.53%) Postfix
3 4 (23.53%) XenApp
3 4 (23.53%) Citrix Presentation Server
4 2 (11.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (41.18%) Norton AntiVirus
2 3 (17.65%) WSUS
3 2 (11.76%) Backup Exec
3 2 (11.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.882%) HP SIM
4 1 (5.882%) SCCM
4 1 (5.882%) SCOM
4 1 (5.882%) Tivoli
4 1 (5.882%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 1 (5.882%) MOM
4 1 (5.882%) ARCserve
4 1 (5.882%) Legato
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) Microsoft
2 8 (47.06%) Symantec
3 7 (41.18%) VMware
4 6 (35.29%) Citrix
4 6 (35.29%) HP
5 4 (23.53%) Juniper
6 3 (17.65%) Cisco
7 2 (11.76%) Dell
7 2 (11.76%) CommVault
7 2 (11.76%) Veritas
7 2 (11.76%) Apple
7 2 (11.76%) CheckPoint
7 2 (11.76%) Avaya
7 2 (11.76%) Acronis
8 1 (5.882%) ProCurve
8 1 (5.882%) SonicWALL
8 1 (5.882%) Altiris
8 1 (5.882%) Qualys
8 1 (5.882%) McAfee
8 1 (5.882%) EMC