The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of 3Com products and/or services in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited 3Com 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 currently tracked.

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 3Com Corporation.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
3Com
Rank 530 566 594
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +28
Contract jobs citing 3Com 11 4 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.023% 0.007% 0.011%
As % of the Vendors category 0.049% 0.015% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
Average daily rate £400 £250 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £250 £175 -
% change year-on-year
+42.85% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
Average hourly rate £26.88 £22.50 £15.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.44% +45.16%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 - £15.50
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22661 27024 29251
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 47.10% 46.57% 46.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 12046 13666 14795
Average daily rate £396 £388 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.19% -4.32%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £248
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £598
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1322 1627
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -4.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.20 £11.11
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £40.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.26 £19.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -5.00%

3Com
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing 3Com within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Vendors category.

3Com Jobs Demand Trend

3Com
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing 3Com within the UK.

3Com Daily Rate Trend

3Com
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing 3Com within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

3Com Daily Rate Histogram

3Com
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing 3Com within the UK.

3Com Hourly Rate Trend

3Com
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing 3Com within the UK 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
England +20 11 £400 +60.00% 2
London +29 6 £400 +23.07% 1
City of London +2 1 - -
Hampshire - 1 - -
South East - 1 - - 1
South Wales - - - -
Wales - - - -
West Midlands - - - -
North West - - - -
Manchester - - - -
Northwich - - - -
Portsmouth - - - -
Cheshire - - - -
East Sussex - - - -
Altrincham - - - -
Basingstoke - - - -
Birmingham - - - -
Brighton - - - -
Caerphilly - - - -
Fareham - - - -

3Com
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing 3Com 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 3Com.

1 19 (90.48%) Cisco
2 15 (71.43%) Firewall
3 12 (57.14%) HP
3 12 (57.14%) LAN
4 11 (52.38%) WAN
4 11 (52.38%) Cisco Certification
4 11 (52.38%) Juniper
5 10 (47.62%) CCNA
5 10 (47.62%) VPN
5 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
6 8 (38.10%) Wireless
7 7 (33.33%) OpenView
7 7 (33.33%) Nokia
7 7 (33.33%) SNMP
7 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
8 6 (28.57%) Nortel
8 6 (28.57%) Windows
8 6 (28.57%) MPLS
9 5 (23.81%) OSPF
9 5 (23.81%) BGP
9 5 (23.81%) DSL
9 5 (23.81%) RSVP
9 5 (23.81%) IPsec
9 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
9 5 (23.81%) ITIL
9 5 (23.81%) Ethernet
9 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
9 5 (23.81%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
9 5 (23.81%) HP APS

3Com
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing 3Com 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 3Com. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (9.524%) CSS
2 1 (4.762%) Windows SharePoint Services
Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) SharePoint
1 3 (14.29%) Lync
2 1 (4.762%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.762%) IIS
2 1 (4.762%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (4.762%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 2 (9.524%) MS Office
1 2 (9.524%) AutoCAD
2 1 (4.762%) Office 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 12 (57.14%) LAN
3 11 (52.38%) WAN
4 10 (47.62%) VPN
5 8 (38.10%) Wireless
6 7 (33.33%) SNMP
7 6 (28.57%) MPLS
8 5 (23.81%) OSPF
8 5 (23.81%) BGP
8 5 (23.81%) DSL
8 5 (23.81%) RSVP
8 5 (23.81%) IPsec
8 5 (23.81%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (23.81%) Ethernet
8 5 (23.81%) Gigabit Ethernet
9 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 3 (14.29%) VLAN
9 3 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
10 2 (9.524%) DNS
10 2 (9.524%) NetScreen
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.762%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Network Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (38.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (23.81%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Network Design Engineer
5 4 (19.05%) Design Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) IP Network Engineer
6 3 (14.29%) IP Engineer
7 2 (9.524%) Network Specialist
7 2 (9.524%) Consultant
7 2 (9.524%) Support Engineer
8 1 (4.762%) Technical Consultant
8 1 (4.762%) Support Consultant
8 1 (4.762%) Support Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Network Support Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Network Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Network Technician
8 1 (4.762%) Analyst
8 1 (4.762%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.524%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
4 2 (9.524%) Windows 7
4 2 (9.524%) Windows XP
5 1 (4.762%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) ITIL
1 5 (23.81%) Incident Management
2 4 (19.05%) Network Design
3 2 (9.524%) Mobile Device Management
3 2 (9.524%) Test Scripting
3 2 (9.524%) Service Management
3 2 (9.524%) ITSM
4 1 (4.762%) Project Management
4 1 (4.762%) ERP
4 1 (4.762%) Time Management
4 1 (4.762%) High Availability
4 1 (4.762%) Capacity Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.762%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (52.38%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (47.62%) CCNA
2 10 (47.62%) Security Cleared
3 7 (33.33%) SC Cleared
4 5 (23.81%) HP APS
5 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (14.29%) MCP
6 2 (9.524%) Degree
6 2 (9.524%) HNC
7 1 (4.762%) CCNP
7 1 (4.762%) MCSE
7 1 (4.762%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (4.762%) VCP5
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) ProxySG
3 2 (9.524%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (9.524%) vSphere
4 1 (4.762%) VMware ESX
4 1 (4.762%) ISA Server
4 1 (4.762%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (33.33%) OpenView
2 2 (9.524%) SCOM
2 2 (9.524%) McAfee ePO
2 2 (9.524%) Tivoli
2 2 (9.524%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (4.762%) SCCM
Vendors
1 19 (90.48%) Cisco
2 12 (57.14%) HP
3 11 (52.38%) Juniper
4 7 (33.33%) Nokia
5 6 (28.57%) Nortel
6 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
6 4 (19.05%) VMware
7 3 (14.29%) CheckPoint
7 3 (14.29%) Blue Coat
8 2 (9.524%) Riverbed
8 2 (9.524%) Aruba
8 2 (9.524%) Crossbeam
8 2 (9.524%) Avaya
8 2 (9.524%) IBM
8 2 (9.524%) Apple
8 2 (9.524%) McAfee
9 1 (4.762%) Motorola
9 1 (4.762%) Citrix
9 1 (4.762%) Dell
9 1 (4.762%) Mitel
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