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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Blue Coat
Rank 442 459 394
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -65
Contract jobs citing Blue Coat 99 111 212
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.206% 0.191% 0.341%
As % of the Vendors category 0.437% 0.411% 0.725%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 65 125
Average daily rate £375 £425 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.76% +13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £285 £281
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £483 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £360 £365
% change year-on-year
+4.16% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 11
Average hourly rate - £45.00 £31.61
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +42.36%
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £45.00 £33.31
% change year-on-year
- +35.11%
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%

Blue Coat
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Blue Coat Jobs Demand Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Trend

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

Blue Coat Daily Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Blue Coat Daily Rate Histogram

Blue Coat
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Blue Coat Hourly Rate Trend

Blue Coat
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Blue Coat 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 -3 92 £375 -11.76% 35
London +3 38 £380 -10.58% 13
South East +24 24 £358 +5.92% 13
City of London +9 20 £368 -13.52% 5
Berkshire +17 12 £375 +11.11% 4
East of England +22 11 £413 +3.12%
Colchester +21 10 £413 +3.12%
Essex +2 10 £413 +3.12%
Yorkshire - 9 £288 - 3
Reading +14 8 £400 - 1
Leeds - 7 £275 - 1
West Yorkshire - 7 £275 - 3
Hampshire -2 6 £225 -40.00% 4
Scotland -7 5 £350 -15.66%
South West +30 4 £300 -16.66%
East Midlands +2 4 £263 - 3
Lincolnshire - 4 £263 - 3
Surrey +15 3 £450 +80.00% 1
Bristol +19 2 - -
North Yorkshire - 2 £413 -
York - 2 £413 -
North West +13 1 £425 - 1
Edinburgh +1 1 £300 -27.71%
Kent -1 1 £338 -
Basingstoke -8 1 £225 -52.63% 4
Bournemouth - 1 £300 -
Slough - 1 £375 -
Newbury - 1 £375 - 1
Cheshire - 1 £425 -
Dorset - 1 £300 -

Blue Coat
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 118 (73.75%) Firewall
2 99 (61.88%) Cisco
3 93 (58.13%) CheckPoint
4 70 (43.75%) ProxySG
5 61 (38.13%) Juniper
6 58 (36.25%) Cisco Certification
7 51 (31.88%) F5
8 49 (30.63%) Cisco ASA
9 41 (25.63%) VPN
10 40 (25.00%) Windows
10 40 (25.00%) CCNP
10 40 (25.00%) Network Security
11 37 (23.13%) DNS
12 36 (22.50%) TCP/IP
13 34 (21.25%) Citrix
13 34 (21.25%) Internet
14 33 (20.63%) Linux
15 31 (19.38%) BIG-IP
16 29 (18.13%) Telecoms
17 28 (17.50%) WAN
17 28 (17.50%) Security Cleared
18 27 (16.88%) DHCP
18 27 (16.88%) OSPF
18 27 (16.88%) McAfee
18 27 (16.88%) Microsoft
19 26 (16.25%) LAN
19 26 (16.25%) Load Balancing
20 24 (15.00%) E-Commerce
20 24 (15.00%) HP
20 24 (15.00%) Nokia

Blue Coat
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 12 (7.500%) Web Services
2 9 (5.625%) .NET
3 7 (4.375%) CSS
4 6 (3.750%) WebSphere
4 6 (3.750%) ASP.NET
4 6 (3.750%) SOAP
4 6 (3.750%) XML
4 6 (3.750%) XSLT
5 5 (3.125%) HTML
5 5 (3.125%) CGI
6 4 (2.500%) ADSI
7 3 (1.875%) JSP
7 3 (1.875%) ASP
7 3 (1.875%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 13 (8.125%) IIS
1 13 (8.125%) Apache
2 6 (3.750%) WebSphere Application Server
3 5 (3.125%) MS Exchange
3 5 (3.125%) SharePoint
4 4 (2.500%) Exchange Server 2010
4 4 (2.500%) Oracle Application Server
5 3 (1.875%) WebLogic
5 3 (1.875%) WebLogic Portal
5 3 (1.875%) Exchange Server 2007
6 2 (1.250%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (1.250%) Exchange Server 2003
6 2 (1.250%) SAS
7 1 (0.625%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 4 (2.500%) MS Excel
2 3 (1.875%) MS Office
2 3 (1.875%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.625%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.875%) Remedy AR System
2 2 (1.250%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 118 (73.75%) Firewall
2 49 (30.63%) Cisco ASA
3 41 (25.63%) VPN
4 40 (25.00%) Network Security
5 37 (23.13%) DNS
6 36 (22.50%) TCP/IP
7 34 (21.25%) Internet
8 31 (19.38%) BIG-IP
9 28 (17.50%) WAN
10 27 (16.88%) DHCP
10 27 (16.88%) OSPF
11 26 (16.25%) LAN
12 23 (14.38%) VoIP
13 21 (13.13%) NetScreen
14 19 (11.88%) SSL
15 18 (11.25%) BGP
16 16 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
17 15 (9.375%) FWSM
18 13 (8.125%) NetScaler
18 13 (8.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.250%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (0.625%) SQL Server
General
1 29 (18.13%) Telecoms
2 21 (13.13%) Finance
3 10 (6.250%) Banking
4 4 (2.500%) Back Office
4 4 (2.500%) Retail
5 3 (1.875%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.250%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.250%) Billing
6 2 (1.250%) French Language
7 1 (0.625%) German Language
7 1 (0.625%) Italian Language
7 1 (0.625%) Financial Institution
7 1 (0.625%) Legal
Job Titles
1 37 (23.13%) Network Engineer
2 23 (14.38%) Security Engineer
3 17 (10.63%) Consultant
4 16 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 15 (9.375%) Analyst
5 15 (9.375%) Security Specialist
6 13 (8.125%) Network Support
6 13 (8.125%) Network Specialist
7 10 (6.250%) Network Security Specialist
8 9 (5.625%) E-Commerce Specialist
8 9 (5.625%) Architect
8 9 (5.625%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (5.000%) IP Engineer
9 8 (5.000%) Web Engineer
9 8 (5.000%) Security Consultant
10 7 (4.375%) Firewall Consultant
10 7 (4.375%) Cisco Engineer
10 7 (4.375%) Network Analyst
11 6 (3.750%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.750%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 9 (5.625%) Thin Client
1 9 (5.625%) Fat Client
2 8 (5.000%) Computer Science
3 7 (4.375%) Clustering
4 6 (3.750%) PKI
5 4 (2.500%) Replication
6 3 (1.875%) Open Source
7 2 (1.250%) SaaS
7 2 (1.250%) Handset
7 2 (1.250%) SecurID
7 2 (1.250%) Streaming Media
7 2 (1.250%) NHS
8 1 (0.625%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.625%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 40 (25.00%) Windows
2 33 (20.63%) Linux
3 21 (13.13%) UNIX
4 16 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 14 (8.750%) Windows Server 2008
6 13 (8.125%) Windows Server 2003
7 10 (6.250%) Solaris
8 7 (4.375%) Windows XP
9 5 (3.125%) NetWare
9 5 (3.125%) Windows 2000 Server
10 4 (2.500%) Windows NT
10 4 (2.500%) Windows 2000
11 2 (1.250%) Windows 7
11 2 (1.250%) Windows 8
12 1 (0.625%) AIX
12 1 (0.625%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (16.25%) Load Balancing
2 24 (15.00%) E-Commerce
3 23 (14.38%) Project Management
4 16 (10.00%) ITIL
5 15 (9.375%) Change Management
6 14 (8.750%) Change Control
7 11 (6.875%) Information Security
8 8 (5.000%) Network Management
8 8 (5.000%) Migration
8 8 (5.000%) Configuration Management
9 6 (3.750%) Network Architecture
10 5 (3.125%) SIEM
10 5 (3.125%) High Availability
11 4 (2.500%) Security Management
11 4 (2.500%) CRM
12 3 (1.875%) PRINCE2
12 3 (1.875%) ERP
12 3 (1.875%) Project Planning
12 3 (1.875%) Network Load Balancing
12 3 (1.875%) Network Security Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.750%) Java
2 11 (6.875%) C
3 10 (6.250%) Perl
4 8 (5.000%) SQL
5 6 (3.750%) VB
6 5 (3.125%) Python
7 3 (1.875%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 58 (36.25%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (25.00%) CCNP
3 28 (17.50%) Security Cleared
4 22 (13.75%) CCNA
5 18 (11.25%) CCSE
6 17 (10.63%) SC Cleared
7 14 (8.750%) Degree
8 10 (6.250%) CCIE
9 8 (5.000%) DV Cleared
9 8 (5.000%) CCSA
10 7 (4.375%) CISSP
11 6 (3.750%) CCSP
12 5 (3.125%) Check Point Certification
12 5 (3.125%) GCIA
12 5 (3.125%) GIAC
13 3 (1.875%) ITIL Certification
14 2 (1.250%) BC Cleared
14 2 (1.250%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 2 (1.250%) CCIP
14 2 (1.250%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (6.875%) SLA
2 1 (0.625%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 70 (43.75%) ProxySG
2 18 (11.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.750%) vSphere
4 5 (3.125%) ISA Server
4 5 (3.125%) XenApp
5 4 (2.500%) Citrix Presentation Server
5 4 (2.500%) VMware ESX
6 3 (1.875%) Forefront TMG
7 2 (1.250%) Active Directory
8 1 (0.625%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.625%) Sendmail
8 1 (0.625%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 9 (5.625%) Cisco CUCM
1 9 (5.625%) Cisco UCCX
2 7 (4.375%) SCCM
2 7 (4.375%) McAfee ePO
3 6 (3.750%) SCOM
4 5 (3.125%) NetBackup
5 4 (2.500%) Backup Exec
5 4 (2.500%) CiscoWorks
5 4 (2.500%) ARCserve
5 4 (2.500%) Legato
6 2 (1.250%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 99 (61.88%) Cisco
2 93 (58.13%) CheckPoint
3 61 (38.13%) Juniper
4 51 (31.88%) F5
5 34 (21.25%) Citrix
6 27 (16.88%) McAfee
6 27 (16.88%) Microsoft
7 24 (15.00%) HP
7 24 (15.00%) Nokia
8 22 (13.75%) VMware
9 15 (9.375%) IronPort
9 15 (9.375%) Red Hat
10 14 (8.750%) Infoblox
11 13 (8.125%) NetApp
12 12 (7.500%) Sourcefire
13 11 (6.875%) Oracle
13 11 (6.875%) JBoss
13 11 (6.875%) Riverbed
14 10 (6.250%) Websense
15 9 (5.625%) Imperva
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