The first table below looks at the demand for knowledge and experience of Acronis 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 Acronis 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 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 Acronis, Inc.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Acronis
Rank 539 565 577
Rank change year-on-year
+26 +12
Contract jobs citing Acronis 1 16 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.002% 0.027% 0.005%
As % of the Vendors category 0.005% 0.059% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 1
Average daily rate £225 £315 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-28.57% +40.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Average hourly rate - £15.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Vendors
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Vendors category
22181 27194 27998
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 46.98% 46.52% 46.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11810 13898 14021
Average daily rate £400 £400 £408
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £235 £235 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 1218 1319 1577
Average hourly rate £19.50 £20.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.50% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.23 £11.50 £11.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £41.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.50
% change year-on-year
- -7.31%

Acronis
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Acronis Jobs Demand Trend

Acronis
Daily Rate Trend

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

Acronis Daily Rate Trend

Acronis
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Acronis Hourly Rate Trend

Acronis
Top 3 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Acronis within the UK 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
England +30 1 £225 -28.57%
London +1 1 £225 -28.57%
City of London - 1 £225 -

Acronis
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Acronis 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 Acronis.

1 8 (100.00%) Windows
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 7 (87.50%) Blackberry
2 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 7 (87.50%) VMware ESX
3 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 5 (62.50%) Symantec
4 5 (62.50%) Norton AntiVirus
4 5 (62.50%) Sophos
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2000
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
4 5 (62.50%) IIS
4 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000
4 5 (62.50%) Citrix
4 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
4 5 (62.50%) vSphere
4 5 (62.50%) Clustering
5 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
5 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
6 3 (37.50%) DHCP
6 3 (37.50%) DNS
6 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
6 3 (37.50%) Veritas

Acronis
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Acronis 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 Acronis. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 7 (87.50%) MS Exchange
2 6 (75.00%) Exchange Server 2007
3 5 (62.50%) IIS
4 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (50.00%) Exchange Server 2003
5 2 (25.00%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
5 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (37.50%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) DHCP
2 3 (37.50%) DNS
3 2 (25.00%) NetScreen
3 2 (25.00%) SMTP
3 2 (25.00%) SNMP
3 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (25.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2000
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server
1 5 (62.50%) SQL Server 2008
General
1 3 (37.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) 3rd Line Support
2 5 (62.50%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Rollout Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Deployment Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Blackberry
2 5 (62.50%) Clustering
3 2 (25.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 8 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Windows Server 2008
3 5 (62.50%) Windows 2000
4 2 (25.00%) Windows Server 2003
5 1 (12.50%) Windows 7
5 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 8 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (87.50%) VMware ESX
3 5 (62.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) Norton AntiVirus
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli
2 2 (25.00%) Tivoli Storage Manager
3 1 (12.50%) NetBackup
3 1 (12.50%) Backup Exec
3 1 (12.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) VMware
2 6 (75.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) Symantec
3 5 (62.50%) Sophos
3 5 (62.50%) Citrix
4 3 (37.50%) Veritas
5 2 (25.00%) Clearswift
5 2 (25.00%) Juniper
5 2 (25.00%) HP
5 2 (25.00%) EMC
5 2 (25.00%) SolarWinds